CeWe Color

CeWe Color is identified in the supplied evidence as a Czech company and as the German company operating the Fotolab business in the Czech Republic. The Fotolab operation combines an online shop with more than 40 physical stores, according to the Czech Wikipedia entry supplied for this dossier. Its current website presents CEWE photo products and photographic equipment, and invites customers to explore products commonly selected for capturing, preserving and displaying memories. Fotolab’s product range includes photographic prints, photo books, calendars and photo-based gift items, as well as cameras and accessories. The cited description says photographs are produced using traditional wet processing on photographic paper, followed by chemical development and fixing. The source also describes a large modern photo-processing facility built in Prague-Chodov in 2000. The Fotolab name originated with a Czech company established in 1990. After three years of operation it became a joint-stock company, and after 1995 the German company CeWe Color gradually acquired all of its shares. The source says Fotolab subsequently became a trade name rather than the company name. It also notes that the current official name used by CeWe for its online shop and physical stores is CEWE. The supplied evidence does not establish a founding date, founder, headquarters, or current corporate ownership structure for CeWe Color itself.

Fotolab began as the name of a Czech company established in 1990. The supplied Czech-language account says that after three years of operation the company changed its legal form to a joint-stock company. After 1995, the German company CeWe Color gradually acquired all of its shares. The account describes the result as a change in the role of the Fotolab name: it became a trade name rather than the name of the company. A major operational development followed in 2000, when a large modern photo-processing facility was built in Prague-Chodov. The source describes Fotolab as an online shop with more than 40 physical locations in the Czech Republic and lists both photo-processing products and photographic equipment among its offerings. It says the photographic prints were made using a wet process: exposure onto traditional photographic paper followed by processing in chemical baths using developer and fixer. The source states that, because “fotolab” had become a general term for various businesses and facilities producing photographs, CeWe now uses the official name CEWE for its online shop and physical stores. The current supplied website is branded Fotolab.cz and presents CEWE photo products and photographic equipment. The available evidence does not supply a precise founding date for CeWe Color itself, its founder, headquarters, or a fuller account of subsequent corporate or product developments.

• 2000

  Photo-processing facility built in Prague-Chodov

• 1995

  CeWe Color begins acquiring Fotolab shares

• 1990

  Fotolab company established in the Czech Republic

• Fotolab company becomes a joint-stock company

• CEWE adopted as the official retail name

A Czech-market photo-products and photographic-equipment retailer and service provider, operating online and through physical stores.

• Photographic prints

  The supplied account describes prints made through wet processing on photographic paper, followed by chemical development and fixing.

• Photo books, calendars and photo gifts

  The Fotolab range includes photo books, calendars and various gifts featuring photographs.

• Cameras and accessories

  The cited account lists cameras and their accessories; the current website also features photographic equipment.

1. 1Fotky a fototechnika na jednom místě | CEWE Fotolabfotolab.cz
2. 2CeWe Colorwikidata.org
3. 3FOTOLAB.czcs.wikipedia.org