27.05.02
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Worldwide Americas appoints Sales Director, Library Sales
Larry
Aubrey has been appointed to the new position of Sales Director,
East Coast and Latin America, Library Sales, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide Americas.
Reporting
to Mark Fricker, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide's Director of Library Sales, Larry
will head up the company's footage sales business on the East Coast
of America and throughout Latin America.
Based
at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide Americas in New York, Larry will maximise business
opportunities by developing and marketing all archive services.
He will also manage customer accounts and will oversee third party
representation such as the recently negotiated CBS News Archive
agreement.
With
extensive experience in stock footage sales and management including
operations, archiving, e-commerce and research, Larry joins from
the National Geographic Film Library where he was responsible for
new business and sales development. Prior to this he was Vice President
of Sales for Getty Images' Energy Film Library (1997 to 2000), Director
of Sales at the Energy Stock Footage Library (1993 to 1997) and
Director of Sales and Operations for Dreamlight Images (1980 to
1993).
Mark
Fricker, commenting on the new appointment, said, "Larry's
track record in the archive footage industry will be invaluable
to our business. He joins at an exciting time when the business
is going from strength to strength on both sides of the Atlantic
and I am looking forward to working with him to further increase
our foothold in the US market."
Larry
is a graduate in film production, direction and writing as well
as in psychology and business. He has written several screenplays
and documentary films and is co-author of the "Footage Resource
Book".
Notes
to Editors:
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm, and a wholly owned
subsidiary, of the British Broadcasting Corporation (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½). The company
was formed in 1994 to develop a co-ordinated approach to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s
commercial activities: television, publishing, product licensing,
internet and interactive. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide exists to maximise the value
of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s programme and publishing assets for the benefit of
the licence payer, and re-invest in public service programming.
In the last financial year (2000/2001) its turnover reached almost
£600m and returned £96m to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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