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| Head office: | Masterfile Corporation 3 Concorde Gate Fourth Floor Toronto, Ontario Canada M3C 3N7 Telephone: 416-929-3000 E-mail: info@masterfile.com URL: www.masterfile.com |
| Executives: | Steve Pigeon, President (founder) (1973) Geoff Cannon, Executive Vice-President / General Manager (2000) Cheong Chiu, Chief Financial Officer (2003) John McDonald, Vice-President – Product Development & Marketing (1999) Susan Morissette, Vice-President Content Management (1984) Tomas Speight, Senior Vice-President – International (2005) |
| Employees: | 90 in Canada, 30 in Europe. |
| Shareholders: | Privately owned by managers and individual investors. |
| Global growth: | Since 1973, Masterfile and its predecessors grew through solid business practices that earned it recognition as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Private Companies. Originally limited to Canada, today sales are 10% Canada, 40% USA and 50% overseas. |
| Clients: | Business-to-business: advertising agencies, graphic designers, publishers of books, magazines and websites, corporate art departments, website designers. Masterfile has licensed photos for users ranging from the Catholic Church to the CIA. |
| Artists: | Worldwide, the majority located in North America and Europe |
| Market position: | #4 globally by revenue among hundreds of privately-owned competitors. |
| Products: | Rights-managed stock images (clients pay for limited rights on a per-usage basis) Royalty-free stock images (clients pay a one-time fee for unlimited non-exclusive usage with exclusivity available). |
| Collection: | Nearly 2,000,000 high-resolution images available on-line. |
| History: |
Starting in 1973, Steve Pigeon developed the business through a succession of corporate owners, forming Masterfile in 1981 as a subsidiary of a major Toronto publishing company, which sold Masterfile to the current owners in a management-led buyout in 1984.
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| Offices / Exclusive Licensees in: | Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, U.K., U.S.A. |
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