Getty Images adquiere Rex Features

Getty Images  (www.gettyimages.es), socio de Aeapaf (www.aeapaf.es), acaba de anunciar que ha llegado a un acuerdo para  adquirir Rex Features (www.rexfeatures.com). Comunicado oficial debajo,  en inglés.

[fuente: photoarchivenews.org  y gettyimages.com]

Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rex Features, which includes Los Angeles-based Berliner Photography. The acquisition will benefit existing and potential customers by making even more celebrity content easily accessible.

«Celebrity and entertainment content is a growing and vital part of the editorial imagery industry and this acquisition positions us to meet and exceed the demand for nearly instantaneous material,» said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. «Growing our entertainment imagery business continues to be a key strategic focus. The real winners will be our customers, who can now expect to see greater choice and more easily accessible imagery.»

Getty Images intends to maintain Rex Features’ brand and with the combined resources of Getty Images and Rex Features, Getty Images will continue to generate new imagery for their respective celebrity and entertainment collections.  Additionally, Getty Images’ global distribution channels will increase international customers’ access to Rex Features’ products and services.

The acquisition of Rex Features was driving by the continually evolving celebrity imagery business and gives Getty Images more coverage capabilities for events and portraiture and will expand the entertainment and celebrity imagery segment.

«Over more than five decades, Rex Features has built a strong heritage and reputation that Getty Images will build upon to the benefit of customers worldwide,» added Klein.  «Getty Images has always been dedicated to making strategic investments that will provide long-term value to our customers.»

Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music.  Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content.  Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers provide inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites.  Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.