An enchanting image of a terrier running through a field of poppies has won the coveted Dog Photographer of the Year Award 2010. 16 year old Jennie Shelton from Shropshire beat off stiff competition from people of all ages and from around the world to win the competition:

Tim Flach, guest judge of the Kennel Club Dog Photographer of the year competition said: “Jennie has presented us with a real sense of the decisive moment; this picture has vitality in colour as well as spirit.” Jennie will now spend a day out with professional dog photographer Marc Henrie as part of her prize and her winning image will be on the front cover of the December issue of the Kennel Gazette.

Pixum sponsored a 12″ photo enlargement for all entrants of the photo competition as well as an 12″x16″ Acrylic Print for the overall winner. The other category winners also received Photo Books and Photo Mugs from Pixum.

The other category winners are:

Category: Portraits

Category: Man’s Best Friend

Category: Dogs at Work

Category: Dogs at Play

This photo competition is a yearly competition presented by The Kennel Club, and Pixum will again sponsor prizes in 2011.

Pixum has been accredited the Trusted Shops certification offering a money-back guarantee for all online purchases with Pixum.

Pixum’s online shop offers a wide range of photo products and photo books, allows you to store and share images online and has been reviewed & tested by various independent magazines & consumer services.

Not only does Pixum provide multiple upload methods, fantastic quality products and fast delivery, it’s now even safer to order your photo prints and other photo products. Order processing is reliable, customer queries are quickly answered, personal customer data is protected and the handling of payments is secure. Because of this Pixum has been accredited the Trusted Shops certification, with which online customers can opt for a money-back guarantee backed by one of the leading industrial insurers worldwide. The Trusted Shops Buyer Protection insures the buyer against non-refund in the event non-delivery or contract withdrawal – irrelevant of the order payment type – according to the Trusted Shops Buyer Protection Conditions.

About Trusted Shops
Founded in 1999, the Cologne company is Europe’s market leader for the accreditation of online shops. Trusted Shops checks retailers against a catalogue of over 100 individual criteria such as creditworthiness, price transparency, customer service and data protection and then grants its coveted seal of approval. Furthermore, Trusted Shops offers the consumer a unique money-back guarantee for all purchases made online in the member shops.

More product information, better overview, order easier and faster.

Cologne, October 2009
Pixum customers will be surprised when they visit Pixum; with a new shop design, many new photo gifts and a totally restructured new shopping basket. Pixum now offers a better overview and makes placing an order even easier.

New shop design
Pixum now also offers more information about resolutions and printing quality, all so that you get the best from your photos! In the new shop customers can easily find all necessary info about the products of interest. It is also a lot easier to select a different photo, format, colour or design for your product.

New products
With the new shop design it was time for some refreshing products. Pixum now has aluminium & acrylic prints for your absolute best photos. Aluminium and acrylic prints are really stylish and will look good on any wall! As an introductory offer, the wall mounting worth £4.99 is delivered with your order for free. Available from 8”x12” up to 20”x30” we only provide the absolute best!

New shopping basket
With a new shop and new products a redesigned shopping basket was long overdue! The new shopping basket offers a better overview and makes it a lot easier to change the format of your prints or to place other products in your shopping basket. With each product there is a coloured smiley, informing you if the resolution of your picture is good enough for each particular product. It just couldn’t be easier!

With all these improvements Pixum is perfectly set for Christmas offering you everything you need and making your order as easy as possible.

Great new creative tools – new sizes – the premier of photo books on photo paper – now also available for Mac and Linux-users

Cologne, April 2009

An evolution for photo books: Pixum has just launched its new EasyBook 4.5 software which includes a host of great new features. There are new sizes including the impressive EasyBook XXL in 28x36cm portrait, plus a whole new range of photo books printed on real photo paper. New tools are also available within the 4.5 version, including the ever handy spellchecker. Available now at www.pixum.co.uk/photobook – for PC, Mac and Linux.

Unlimited creativity
Our new 4.5 software not only offers many more layouts and backgrounds, but also gives you all the tools to easily create your own. You can now even add funny, themed ClipArt to your photo book and easily number the photo book pages.

To really make your pictures stand out you can use the built in frames and even add shadows. New alignment functions make it possible to align your photos to the left, right or centre and to rotate and crop your images in no time at all. Another practical feature is the spell checker which makes sure there are no typos in your text.

Photo Books on photo paper
Pixum photo book sizes EasyBook Large (A4), Square (21×21 cm) and XL
(30×30 cm) are now available on real high-quality photo paper. Also new is the Pixum EasyBook XXL with a picture hard cover at a massive 36×28 cm (portrait) as well as the long awaited EasyBook Large (A4) in landscape (28×21 cm).
To ensure the optimal printing quality for these big formats, we automatically resize your images to 360 dpi. Last but not least, the new EasyBook software has an improved assistant tool with more options to help you create your perfect photo book.

Photo book test vouchers for journalists can be requested at presse@pixum.com.

Cologne, 27th February 2009

Claire Jouot and Christophe Bovet, both students at the French “Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan”, are taking off in a manually reconstructed Renault 4 in Pixum colours for the 12th edition of the legendary 4L Trophy™ from 19th February until 1st March 2009.

In total there are 1000 teams, so 2000 students from all over Europe are taking part in this extraordinary event. The starting signal was to be heard on February 19th at 12.30PM in Stade de France in Paris. The goal is to take school materials and sporting gear to Marrakech, to help thousands of Moroccan children get a better future. The record from 2008 with 58 tons of school materials has to be beaten!
“It is the mix of adventure and a good cause that motivated us and that also convinced our sponsor Pixum”, Claire says. “It’s not about rapidity but much more about the skill of orientation”, Christophe explains. The young adventurers will only have a compass, a road book and a map to help them navigate their way to Marrakech! To become a winner of the days the team has to deal with the most difficult parts the best and have driven the least amount of kilometres.
Dirk Schmitz, Head of Marketing & Operations at Pixum: “We are proud to take part in the success of the Rally, by helping Claire and Christophe get through these 6000 km in their R4. We sincerely hope that the two of them and their car will make it unharmed to the finish line and are looking forward to the first photos of the Rally!”

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Cologne, 28th October 2008

Pixum has forged an European agreement with AOL to offer a new co-branded Picture Service. Beginning today all European AOL Pictures users have access to Pixum’s award winning online photo services and will also be able to access their current pictures. Current AOL Pictures users as well as new AOL Users can take advantage of Pixum’s storage capabilities and full range of features and services.

Pixum and AOL agreed to cooperate in the segment of online photo services in Europe and will offer a complete set of features and services based on Pixum’s award winning photo service: free storage, a complete set of photo-sharing tools and high-quality photo printing solutions on professional photographic paper as well as on T-shirts, mugs, puzzles, greeting cards, photo calendars & photo books. Pixum has earned a number of international awards from independent magazines for providing outstanding print quality, user-friendly Web design and fast and friendly customer service. With a few easy clicks, AOL Pictures users will be able to set up a free, personal Pixum-Account, and with this access all personal pictures via the new co-branded AOL/Pixum Picture Service and receive up to 100 free prints as a welcome-gift from Pixum.

Pixum and AOL will offer its new services in English, French, Dutch and German, with more European languages to be added in the near future.
“We are delighted about this exclusive partnership with AOL and we are proud to welcome AOL Pictures users to our service. As a leading online photo service we offer our users a highly qualified, powerful and appealing package of free services and various products. For Pixum this partnership also is a confirmation of our position as a leading Internet photo service in Europe,” comments Daniel Attallah, founder and CEO at Pixum the European agreement.

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(http://www.pixum.co.uk/developing-photos.html)

About Pixum
Pixum (www.pixum.co.uk) is one of the leading independent online photo service providers in both the United Kingdom and Europe. We offer high-quality photo printing on professional photographic paper as well as on photographic gift products such as T-shirts, mugs, puzzles and greeting cards. Pixum prints and exposes only on high-quality materials using up-to-date and environmentally sound technology. Other free services are online photo albums and photo sharing via the Internet as well as offers for camera mobile phone users. In over 40 tests by special interest magazines and consumer protection organisations, Pixum scores the overall top position. On www.pixum.com Pixums services are available in the languages English, French, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Delivery is possible within the whole of Europe. Pixum is a certified member of Trusted Shops and received the “Fast 50 EMEA Award” in October 2007 as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany, offered by Deloitte Technology, the magazine Capital, the German stock market and the DVFA.

Cologne, April 2008

“Pit stop for your photos!” is the motto with which Pixum combines motor sports and digital photography.

On Sunday, 13 April 2008, the 2008 season began for Deutsche Tourenwagen-Masters (DTM), one of the most popular and top-class touring car race series. With the slogan “The pit stop for your photos!”, Pixum, one of the leading online photo service providers within Europe, is brand-new main sponsor of the new Pixum AMG Mercedes Team. The vehicle, the racing edition of the Mercedes C-Class, is driven by Mathias Lauda, the son of the triple Formula 1 World Champion Niki Lauda.

The DTM race car will take off in the Pixum colours cyan and orange and the team clothing and team trucks will represent Pixum’s Corporate Design throughout Germany and Europe as well.

The DTM starter field 2008 consists of 19 vehicles. The eleven races will take place on six German and five European race courses, in England, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. Start of this season is 13 April, the final is on 26 October, both at Hockenheim Race Course.

“We are happy to have found Pixum as a young and successful company from the Internet business as a sponsoring partner” says Norbert Haug, Head of Motorsport at Mercedes.

“Speed, dynamics and quality are the most important variables at DTM. All of which are values that our customers also appreciate at Pixum. Our photo products are delivered fast and in high quality and the Internet is one of the most dynamic marketplaces existing: The DTM and Pixum are simply a perfect match” is the comment by Pixum founder and CEO Daniel Attallah on the commitment.

More information about Pixum and this topic are available on www.pixum.co.uk. Feel free to contact us if you have further questions.

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About Pixum
Pixum (www.pixum.com) is one of the leading, independent providers of online photo services in Europe. In over 35 tests by special interest magazines and consumer protection organisations, Pixum scores the overall top position. The range of products comprises the professional printing of digital images as photos or posters (up to 20x30inch), creation of individual photo gift ideas such as mugs, jigsaw puzzles, T-shirts, soft toys etc., the printing of individual invitation cards and photo calendars as well as the printing and binding of high-quality photo books. Other free services are online photo albums and photo sharing via the Internet as well as offers for camera mobile phone users. On www.pixum.com, Pixum’s services are available in the languages English, French, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Delivery is possible within the whole of Europe. Pixum is a certified member of Trusted Shops and received the “Fast 50 Award” of Deloitte Technology, the magazine Capital, the German Stock Exchange Deutsche Börse and the DVFA (Investment Professionals Company) for the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany in October 2007.