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Kodak sells two businesses to its own UK pension plan, in $650m deal

Kodak's president, Laura Quatela, speaks with BJP after the iconic photography company announced plans to sell its personalised imaging and document imaging divisions to its UK Kodak Pension Plan

Business 29 Apr 2013

A Letter from the editor

As of today, British Journal of Photography has a new owner.... Introducing Apptitude Media

Business 05 Feb 2013

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Administrators shuts down all Jessops stores

Jessops is dead. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the camera retain chain's administrators, has announced that Jessops cannot continue to trade and has, since, made the decision to close all 187 UK stores effective...

Business 12 Jan 2013

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As Jessops crumbles, Nikon moves to reassure customers

Nikon has pledged to honour all camera repairs submitted by Jessops customers as the UK's largest camera retail chain flounders

Business 11 Jan 2013

Camera retail chain Jessops goes into administration

Jessops, the UK's largest high-street camera retailer, has gone into administration, with the future of more than 190 stores and 2000 employees now uncertain

Business 09 Jan 2013

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Cool & Noteworthy 2012: Business deals that shook the industry

Getty Images was sold for $3.3bn, Facebook snatched Instagram for $700m, while Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection as it restructured its entire business model to avoid falling into the abyss

Business 31 Dec 2012

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Apple and Google said to pursue Kodak's imaging patents

Apple and Google have reportedly joined forces to bid for Kodak's imaging patents, according to Bloomberg

Business 10 Dec 2012

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Pioneer photo agency Sipa Press files for bankruptcy protection

Photojournalist Gökşin Sipahioğlu founded Sipa Press in 1973. Forty years later, the future of the legendary agency appears uncertain as president Olivier Mégean has asked for the agency to be placed...

Business 27 Nov 2012

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Three Leica cameras sell at auction for record high

A Leica M3D, owned by Life photographer David Douglas Duncan, is the most expensive camera from a serial production ever sold at the latest WestLicht Photographic Auction

Business 26 Nov 2012

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Corbis acquires Demotix [updated]

Corbis has acquired Demotix, the image and video agency built around communities of amateur and freelance journalists

Business 14 Nov 2012

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Kodak secures $793m loan as it continues to streamline its business

Kodak has secured close to £500m in liquidity from a group of lending consortia in an effort to escape bankruptcy

Business 14 Nov 2012

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Science Museum's new photography gallery officially unveiled

The Science Museum, in collaboration with the National Media Museum, has presented, for the first time, its plans for its new London-based photography gallery - Media Space

Business 01 Nov 2012

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Carlyle Group completes Getty Images acquisition

Getty Images has announced that it has successfully been acquired by The Carlyle Group for $3.3bn

Business 19 Oct 2012

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Kodak plans to exit consumer inkjet market

Kodak plans to "wind down sales of consumer inkjet printers" from 2013 in a bid to improve cashflow

Business 29 Sep 2012

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Kodak in discussions to sell film business

Kodak is already talking with potential buyers, less than a month after it announced it would sell its film and paper businesses, as well as its retail imaging and event imaging divisions, Kodak's Dennis...

Business 18 Sep 2012

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Panasonic, Canon suspend production at Chinese factories

Panasonic and Canon have been forced to stop production at some of their Chinese factories after a wave of anti-Japan protests in China, the BBC reports

Business 17 Sep 2012

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