06/23/2004 - ONE MODEL PLACE ACQUIRES FINEARTFOLIOS.COM

Today (June 23rd 2004), One Model Place Inc. (a Florida corporation), acquired FineArtFolios.com in an undisclosed cash only transaction.
Ft. Lauderdale June 23, 2004--Onemodelplace is pleased to announce the acquisition of FineArtFolios.com. Fineartfolios.com is expected to become one of many ancillary and complimentary vertical ventures for Onemodelplace in the broad field of modeling, talent, photographic and fine art.
Brett Cramer, CEO and Founding partner of Onemodelplace announced ?With the addition of FineArtFolios to the Onemodelplace family we are continuing our expansion and our commitment to the tens of thousands of current Onemodelplace.com users and customers who are career artists and fine art photographers and models, and we intend to provide them with the best tools available to present and market their work.? Onemodelplace.com founding partner and Chief Technology Officer Stuart Burden said ?Today we are the worlds largest online community for Models, Photographers, Agents and Talent, and this new acquisition signals the expansion of the Onemodelplace core business and tools, into other business ventures?.
Cramer said ?FineArtFolios has established a reputation for the presentation of fine art images, and we will now build upon that to expand and to use many of the ?backend? technologies already built for Onemodelplace.com.? Burden said ?We are leveraging, and intend to leverage through further acquisition, the substantial Onemodelplace technology investment we have made, while also providing new ways to enable clients to present and to market their work.?
Cramer also announced the intention to pursue other acquisitions ?We are actively looking to expand the depth and breadth of our offerings in this market space, through both acquisition as well as developing our own expanded toolset.?
FineArtFolios.com is expected to re-launch in 3rd quarter of 2004.
ABOUT ONE MODEL PLACE CORPORATION: Onemodelplace Inc. is a privately held corporation, and is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Onemodelplace.com was launched in 1996 and rapidly gained a following due to its open community structure and advanced user tools, and its growing global database of talent. Today, Onemodelplace.com is the world?s largest community of its kind with members from all over the world, ranking in the top 1500 websites on the internet today*, with over 140,000 visitors per day and hosting over 1.5 million images. With over 150,000 registered models, actors, photographers, agencies, clients, publishers, and media outlets, OneModelplace.com has become the de facto standard for portfolio presentation on the web and the main destination for photographers, event coordinators, agencies, publishers, and media outlets to source new and up and coming talent on the web.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
DAN BEYER
MARKETING OFFICER
954-771-9035 EXT 121
dan@onemodelplace.com
URL: www.onemodelplace.com
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