Photo economy one calls

1. the whole to the photographic industry associated enterprises and Dienstleister as well as
2. 1950 a justified, appearing monthly technical periodical (photo economy - the restaurant magazine for the photo business) from the year Top Special publishing house with a sold edition of 3.634 copies (IVW II/03).

In the photo economy classically distinctive between

• photo-chemical industry - production of photographic copy material, paper, developer etc.; and
• photo-technical industry - production of photographic apparatuses, objectives, projectors, measuring instruments etc.

Today still the range of the Imaging, in particular digitally Imaging, is added and parts of the video industry.

Economic characteristic numbers

2003 was sold world-wide as many cameras, as never before in one year: over 100 million pieces. Approximately 46 per cent of all sold cameras are digital, 54 per cent similar models. Besides 420 million one-way cameras were sold; after other computations the portion of the sold digital cameras already lay with over 70 per cent with a altogether growing market.

2002 was sold approximately 5.4 million cameras in the value of approximately 1.25 billion euro, about three quarters of the sum been allotted to digital cameras; this corresponds to approximately 2.4 millions sold digital cameras. Altogether amateur photo products for approximately 4.2 billion euro were sold.

Increasingly the trade with accessories and service achievements forms a cornerstone of the photo economy; with films, treatment of photos and accessories already 2.4 billion euro were converted. 2.2 million digital storage media were sold, this correspond to an increase by 160 per cent in the comparison to the previous year.

The quantity of the digitally manufactured photos rose from 157 million in the year 2001 to 400 million in the year 2002. Against it the conversion with roll films is declining; it decreased/went back by 17 per cent on 530 million euro.

Starting from approximately 2001 the sales of similar camera models decreases/goes back; both the numbers of items (- 10%) and the conversion (- 13%) decreased/went back significantly. Until approximately 1999 there was one approximately equal distributed coexistence of digital and similar photography.

End of the 70's had approximately 77 per cent of all German households a camera. The production value of the photo-chemical industry was 1978 in the BR Germany with 1,41 billion DM, that the photo-technical industry about 2,04 billion DM. The value of world-wide production becomes estimated on 40-45 billion DM, of it was allotted about 80 per cent to the USA, Japan and Germany.

Resuming one statistic market informations supplies the BV photo under.

Purchase co-operation

In the photo economy of the German Federal Republic there are four important purchase co-operation:

• Ring photo GmbH & CO. ALFO marketing kg,
• European photo GmbH, group of European photo specialist dealers,
• Imaging photo Group GbR (IPG) and
• Porst AG.

Federations and organizations

The protection of interests of the photo and Imagingindustrie in Germany is the 1948 created photo trade association registered association (PIV) with seat in Frankfurt/Main; the different sections of the photo economy (precision mechanics and optics, photo chemistry, photo electronics, digitally Imaging, video technology and accessories) are represented and are Mitveranstalter of the Photokina.

The photo retail trade will represent registered association (BV photo) with seat in Cologne in Germany by the Federal association of the German photo specialized trade; it closed 2001 together with the Federal association technology of the retail trade (BVT), whose emphasis forms retail businesses from the industries consumer electronics, telecommunications, PC/Multimedia, domestic electric appliances, kitchens and lighting. Both federations are attached the federation of the German retail trade (HDE).

Fairs and exhibitions

• International radio exhibition, Berlin;
• Photokina - world fair of the picture, Cologne.

See also

• Index of the photo offerers
• Portal: Photography
• Photographic organizations
• Photo Finishing

Related links

• Photo industry federation registered association,
• Federal association of the German photo specialized trade registered association (BV photo),
• Federal association technology of the retail trade (BVT),
• Photo economy - the photo homepage for industry and trade

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