PHTM.L Regulatory News (PHTM)

24 Feb 2005 07:00

Photo-Me International PLC24 February 2005 PHOTO-ME INTERNATIONAL plc DKS 15 series minilabs awarded imaging industry's top prize for an unprecedented third successive year PMI's DKS 15 series minilabs, which benefit from PMI's patented MSB TM(microlens sharpened beam) exposure system, have won, for an unprecedented thirdsuccessive year, the most prestigious accolade of the imaging industry. This is the DIMA (Digital Imaging Marketing Association) Digital PrinterShoot-Out in the digital minilab category at the imaging industry's maingathering, the 2005 PMA (Photo Marketing Association) Convention and Trade Showin Orlando, Florida this week. In the 10 years of the DIMA awards, no other firm has won awards in even twosuccessive years. PMI's DKS 1510 minilab won the award for 8 inch prints, whilst PMI's System 89minilab (manufactured for Kodak to market and including Kodak software) won theaward for 10 inch prints - the only two categories for which PMI's equipment wasentered. The awards are a result of votes by trade attendees - photographers,professionals in the field of photographic printing, and journalists - on theoverall quality and colour accuracy of digital prints submitted anonymously totheir judgement. PMI beat competition from major imaging companies, such asFuji, Noritsu and AGFA. Serge Crasnianski, CEO of PMI, said "Winning the top industry award for qualityand colour accuracy in an unprecedented three successive years is a massiveaccolade for PMI's minilabs, all the more so as they are so competitivelypriced." Notes for Editors: PMI is a specialist digital imaging company focused on professional laboratoriesand end-consumer vending solutions. PMI has developed a unique range of digitalprofessional processing laboratories (minilabs and central labs) and a suite ofconsumer vending digital imaging solutions. PMI's minilabs have been developedby PMI's R&D department in Grenoble, France. With around 27,000 locations worldwide, PMI is also the world's leading operatorof photobooths and kiosks which enable end-consumers to fulfil their instantimaging needs in a convenient and competitively priced fashion. PMI is a constituent of the FTSE-250 index and trades under the ticker PHTM.L.At yesterday's closing share price of 102p, PMI's market capitalisation stood at£371m. On 13 December 2004, PMI announced its results for the half year ended 31October 2004. These showed an EBITDA of £31.2m and a pre-tax profit of £18.0m(up an underlying 22.0%) on a turnover of £117.7m. Enquiries: Photo-Me International plc Vernon Sankey (Chairman) 01372-455 544 Serge Crasnianski (Chief Executive Officer) (in the USA) 00 33 6-11 95 63 63Website: www.photo-me.co.uk----------------------------- Bankside Consultants Limited Charles Ponsonby 020-7444 4166 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange