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Boots UK teams up with Photobox
Published 18th September 2008
London – 15/09/2008: Boots, the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer, has teamed up with Photobox, the UK’s number one online community for photo printing and personal publishing, to provide online photographic services to Boots customers for the first time. With this move, Boots and Photobox together aim to lead both the on and offline photographic space by bringing innovative digital services such as printing digital images, personalised photobooks and greeting cards to Boots’ nationwide audience.
www.bootsphoto.com provides photo editing and personalised product creation. All Photobox products including the latest exclusive photobooks, canvases, home accessories and gifts will be available directly from the Boots.com website.
Boots, the original pioneer of in store photo printing, has brought convenience and trust to the high street photographic arena for more than three decades. Boots now has around 2,600 stores from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores across the UK.
Ross Crombie, photo category manager, Boots said: “This is the first time that Boots has teamed up with a specialist online retailer in this way. The move will provide our customers with the very best service and products that the web has to offer in the photographic market.”
Commenting on the new partnership, Mark Chapman, MD of Photobox, said: “It is gratifying to be working with one of the most established and respected retail brands in the UK. Boots’ commitment to its customers has earned it a much-deserved reputation as on of the most trusted brands in retail. By teaming up with Photobox, Boots customers will now be able to enjoy a fantastic online photographic service. The possibilities for future collaboration and development are boundless.”
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For further information on Boots, please contact Clare Stafford
clare.stafford@boots.co.uk 0115 959 5995
For further information on Photobox, please contact Custard PR
Rupert Walker, rupert@custardpr.com 020 7494 6596
About Boots
Boots is a member of Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. We've now brought together the very best from Alliance Pharmacy and Boots to create a new Boots business.
We're committed to providing exceptional customer and patient care, be the first choice for pharmacy and healthcare, offer innovative products 'only at Boots', with great value our customers love.
About Photobox
Photobox is the leading online photo service in the UK where it pioneered online printing, storing, sharing, community and publishing services for digital photos before extending its range to innovative products such as photo books, calendars, and greeting cards.
The company merged with Photoways, the leading French service, in April 2006 thereby creating the European market leader with over 5 million members and nearly 200 million photo prints in 2007. The group is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Index Ventures, Highland Capital and HarbourVest. Stan Laurent, formerly Chief Operating Officer at AOL Europe, is President and C.E.O. and Mark Chapman, co-founder of Photobox, is Managing Director of the UK business.