16 June 2014
Fragmented photo print industry undergoing concentration through acquisitions
FotoInsight takes over smaller rival website www.printing-1.co.uk
Cambridge. 16 June 2014. - In 2007, IITM LLP started a service for the creation and print of personalized photo books, canvas prints and photographic wall calendars under the name ‘Printing-1’. This web presence expanded into a number of European countries in seven languages. The business has now been taken over by FotoInsight Ltd. for an undisclosed sum and the www.printing-1.co.uk websites redirect to http://fotoinsight.co.uk.
For IITM LLP Designated Partner CM states: ‘The online photo printing industry is experiencing rapid concentration. We are confident that printing-1 customer’s will like the award winning software and print quality that FotoInsight offers, which has won top awards in review by consumer magazines, the photographic press across the UK and Europe, as well as by the Gadget Show.’
Welcome Voucher
Celebrating the successful acquisition of Printing-1 FotoInsight is issuing welcome vouchers. Photo enthusiasts who now download the FotoInsight Designer software and order their first real photo book from FotoInsight before 30 September 2014 get £9 off by using the voucher code PRINT1UK (minimum order value £25).
Labels: FotoInsight, mergers and acquisitions, photo printing, photographic industry, print, Printing-1, takeover
26 October 2012
Best photo calendar print service in Germany
Cambridge Company FotoInsight Ltd is the best online photo print service in Germany according to Europe’s largest consumer advice magazine “test”.
Cambridge. 26 Oct 2012. - Europe’s largest consumer test and advice magazine “test”, issued by the product testing foundation “Stiftung Warentest” has tested glossy photo calendars from 12 online photographic print services in its October 2012 edition and FotoInsight Ltd of Cambridge came out on top.
FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “FotoInsight’s export sales have consistently risen from 70% in 2008 and 2009 to 83% of revenues the current year. Our entire growths is due to increased sales to the more dynamic economies in Scandinavia and in the Eurozone.”
FotoInsight Ltd prints with CEWE COLOR AG in Germany and CEWE COLOR LTD in the UK. Generally photo services printing with CEWE COLOR were recognised by the testing foundation to offer a bigger choice and a higher and more consistent print quality than other photo services tested [source: www.test.de/Fotokalender-Zwoelf-Fotodienste-im-Test-4446633-0/].
Mr Brumann adds: “The photo printing business is very sensitive to the consumer’s willingness to holiday and spend. It lags the economic cycle by about six months. FotoInsight is unable to rely on its UK and Irish business alone, needing growth in markets where the economy is still growing. Companies, regardless of their size, should treat the Common Market as what it says in its name. Though this may require hiring staff able to speak other European languages, which the British school system is increasingly failing to provide.”
Export driven businesses tend to be run by more flexible business people, which often allows them to thrive in recessions; but Brumann warns: “Only try to sell in Europe if your quality is top-notch.”
Note:
FotoInsight offers British and European consumers easy to use, online photographic printing services and innovative photo print products like photo books, photographic paper albums, personalised Advent calendars, individual calendar prints and many photo gift ideas.
FotoInsight offers British and European consumers easy to use, online photographic printing services and innovative photo print products like photo books, photographic paper albums, personalised Advent calendars, individual calendar prints and many photo gift ideas.
Labels: awards, business, e-commerce, Euro, Europe, FotoInsight, photo printing, success, test
26 August 2005
US giant knocks Cambridge Photo firm off ‘inside’ track
US giant Intel Corp has forced Cambridge online photo service FotoInside Ltd to change its name to avoid a potentially crippling trademark dispute. Intel Europe’s representative, the law firm “Howrey Simon Arnold & White” states in a letter to “FotoInside Ltd” the word “INSIDE” format is ungrammatical and was coined by our client in 1991 when it began using the INTEL INSIDE mark” and requests from FotoInside to change its name.
Would you mind to pay a brief visit to http://fotoinsight.co.uk (please note that the “inside” has recently been replaced by “insight” and to http://www.intel.com
As effected by this dispute, my question is: Would you associate the name “FotoInside” with “Intel inside”?
While there is no doubt that Intel has protected the word combination “Intel inside” for a whole range of product categories (it added Photography recently), this, according to my interpretation does not mean that the word “inside” should be banned from all other trademarks. Does anybody in this network have a deeper understanding of the use of common words and their protection in trademarks? What do you think?
Some background:
The Register: “Your insides belong to us, Intel tells FotoInside”
Computeractive: “Inside job for Intel”
The Inquirer: “Intel legal muscle forces photo firm name change”
Red Herring: “Soft on the Inside”
Wiltshire Times: “INTEL has flexed its legal muscle”
techdirt: “Intel's Itchy Legal Trigger Finger... Inside?”
ZDNET: “Intel mahnt Fotoinside ab”
For (now) FotoInsight Ltd it has been difficult to assess the potential legal implications of Intel’s claim across the 21 jurisdictions we are supplying to. Therefore we preferred to change our name to FotoInsight Limited. Should we have fought it out?
Klaas Brumann
http://fotoinsight.ie
US giant Intel Corp has forced Cambridge online photo service FotoInside Ltd to change its name to avoid a potentially crippling trademark dispute. Intel Europe’s representative, the law firm “Howrey Simon Arnold & White” states in a letter to “FotoInside Ltd” the word “INSIDE” format is ungrammatical and was coined by our client in 1991 when it began using the INTEL INSIDE mark” and requests from FotoInside to change its name.
Would you mind to pay a brief visit to http://fotoinsight.co.uk (please note that the “inside” has recently been replaced by “insight” and to http://www.intel.com
As effected by this dispute, my question is: Would you associate the name “FotoInside” with “Intel inside”?
While there is no doubt that Intel has protected the word combination “Intel inside” for a whole range of product categories (it added Photography recently), this, according to my interpretation does not mean that the word “inside” should be banned from all other trademarks. Does anybody in this network have a deeper understanding of the use of common words and their protection in trademarks? What do you think?
Some background:
The Register: “Your insides belong to us, Intel tells FotoInside”
Computeractive: “Inside job for Intel”
The Inquirer: “Intel legal muscle forces photo firm name change”
Red Herring: “Soft on the Inside”
Wiltshire Times: “INTEL has flexed its legal muscle”
techdirt: “Intel's Itchy Legal Trigger Finger... Inside?”
ZDNET: “Intel mahnt Fotoinside ab”
For (now) FotoInsight Ltd it has been difficult to assess the potential legal implications of Intel’s claim across the 21 jurisdictions we are supplying to. Therefore we preferred to change our name to FotoInsight Limited. Should we have fought it out?
Klaas Brumann
http://fotoinsight.ie
Labels: fotoinside, FotoInsight, Intel, legal dispute
