Интересная информация нашлась на «Креативных обзорах». Вот материал из guardian.co.uk:
Getty Images 'up for sale'
Jemima Kiss
guardian.co.uk,
Monday January 21 2008
Надорвались на покупках и сомнееваются, что вернут деньги? Предвидят полный упадок бизнеса из-за демпинга в виде «Фотография за доллар» и пытаются успеть продать сервис, пока возможно (планируется приличная прибыль в 2008-м)?
Что-то еще?
См. текст заметки:
The stock photography and video giant Getty Images is up for sale and could be bought by private equity firms for as much as $1.5bn (£769m), according to reports.
Final bids could be received by the end of the month, with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital said to be be in the running, according to today's New York Times.
A sale is not definite, because uncertainty in the world's financial markets means it may be hard for a potential buyer to secure funding.
However, potential bidders will have been watching closely as Getty's share price fell from a peak of $93.66 (£43.04) in Dec 2005 to $21.94 (£11.25) at Friday's close.
Getty's revenues reached $209m (£107m) for the third quarter of 2007, with net income $25.7m (£13.2m). The company predicts that revenues for the whole of 2008 will reach $900m (£462m).
Getty Images dominates the stock photography market and has been aggressively acquiring rivals both on and offline.
The company paid $202m (£103m) to acquire MediaVast last year, $51m (£26m) for Photonica in 2005 and $50m (£26m) for iStockPhoto.com in 2006.
Acknowledging the trend for user-generated content, Getty bought Scoopt, a UK citizen journalism agency, in March last year for an undisclosed sum.
Getty has also moved into audio rights, paying $42.5m (£21.8m) for music licensing company Pump Audio in June.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/ja ... publishing
Там же, попутно:
The Best of Cosmopolitan (9 pictures):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery ... smopolitan
Getty Images 'up for sale'
Jemima Kiss
guardian.co.uk,
Monday January 21 2008
Надорвались на покупках и сомнееваются, что вернут деньги? Предвидят полный упадок бизнеса из-за демпинга в виде «Фотография за доллар» и пытаются успеть продать сервис, пока возможно (планируется приличная прибыль в 2008-м)?
Что-то еще?
См. текст заметки:
The stock photography and video giant Getty Images is up for sale and could be bought by private equity firms for as much as $1.5bn (£769m), according to reports.
Final bids could be received by the end of the month, with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital said to be be in the running, according to today's New York Times.
A sale is not definite, because uncertainty in the world's financial markets means it may be hard for a potential buyer to secure funding.
However, potential bidders will have been watching closely as Getty's share price fell from a peak of $93.66 (£43.04) in Dec 2005 to $21.94 (£11.25) at Friday's close.
Getty's revenues reached $209m (£107m) for the third quarter of 2007, with net income $25.7m (£13.2m). The company predicts that revenues for the whole of 2008 will reach $900m (£462m).
Getty Images dominates the stock photography market and has been aggressively acquiring rivals both on and offline.
The company paid $202m (£103m) to acquire MediaVast last year, $51m (£26m) for Photonica in 2005 and $50m (£26m) for iStockPhoto.com in 2006.
Acknowledging the trend for user-generated content, Getty bought Scoopt, a UK citizen journalism agency, in March last year for an undisclosed sum.
Getty has also moved into audio rights, paying $42.5m (£21.8m) for music licensing company Pump Audio in June.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/ja ... publishing
Там же, попутно:
The Best of Cosmopolitan (9 pictures):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery ... smopolitan