Foto Quelle is one of the leading providers in the field of photo services and, classic development of analogue and digital pictures aside, also offers photo albums, gift articles, cameras and accessories.

Quelle first featured cameras in its catalogue in 1957. In 1961, “Quelle Photo- und Filmdienst GmbH“ was established and two years later renamed “Foto Quelle“. As a subsidiary of Quelle GmbH it is part of the KarstadtQuelle Group. Currently, Foto Quelle supplies about 1,1000 franchise partners, which it also supports and advises from the planning stage and the launch to day-to-day business.

 

 

At www.fotoquelle.de there is also an innovative end customer service for all a photographer might desire. Customers can send pictures to the lab via the website or by means of the free Foto Quelle software. The finished products are sent back by mail or can be retrieved from the nearest Foto Quelle Shop.

The company has been realigned in the overall declining photo market, both in sales and with its products. By directly supplying end customers in the classic mail-order segment the opportunities provided by the afore-mentioned development have been used to the full.

The main business segments, franchising and the service-orientated webshop, aside, there is thus an additional pillar. Here, Foto Quelle has become market leader through the acquisition of new partners among major customers in particular and in 2006 saw much growth in both digital and analogue end consumer supplies.

 

Foto Quelle is the only photo brand in Germany that offers all the segments online, offline (mail-order) and shop. As one of the largest franchisers in Germany, Foto Quelle provides its partners with a full photo assortment, a competent field service and an extensive marketing concept. Broad market research results and customer surveys have shown that the “Foto Quelle“ brand enjoys huge confidence among amateur photographers in Germany.

Foto Quelle ended 2007 with a real highlight. The company got an entry in the Guinness Book of records. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and the large charity campaign “Kinder lachen für Kinder” (children smile for children) in Nuremberg, Foto Quelle used 94,392 pictures to form the world’s largest photo mosaic ever.
The highlights in H1/2008 will include canvas pictures to be designed and ordered online with the twist of a wrist and a new photo book software for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The company continues its growth strategy in a consistent fashion and relies on an expansion in Europe. In Holland, it has its own subsidiary, in Switzerland and Austria, it offers photo services in end-consumer supplies. In Turkey, online photo book supplies are currently being tested.