Press Release: Founder of Imagestate buys back company
The founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Imagestate, Sheldon Marshall has acquired the assets and brand of Imagestate, the International online rights managed and royal free content provider. Sheldon is the Executive Chairman of the Heritage Partners, which has content collections such as www.heritage-images.com and www.impactphotos.com.
Sheldon has considerable expertise and experience in the media sector and Internet trading, which has been acknowledged by two Queens' awards for Export. From 1984 - 2000 he was the CEO of Visual Communications Group (United News and Media plc) that was acquired by Getty Images plc in 2000 for $220 million. In 2001 he founded and established Imagestate plc, before acquiring and developing Heritage Partners.
Sheldon said, "Imagestate adds an additional dimension to the content collections of Heritage, it has great photographers and we are excited about the challenges moving forward and the development of Imagestate as an international image production and sales company.
Imagestate will be expanding its Rights Managed and Royalty Free content offerings as well as increasing its worldwide agency network.
Over the coming months Imagestate will be focused on the development and distribution of content and especially the formation of strategic partnerships worldwide.
Imagestate will be present at CEPIC in June this year.
www.imagestate.com
If you require further information please contact:
Anand Balsekar Director of Operations
Rose Marie Araya-Farias Director of Sales and Content Development
Shauna Scott Creative Manager
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