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[[File:Data Base Factory logo.png|right|360px|Data Base Factory]]
[[File:Data Base Factory logo.png|right|360px|Data Base Factory]]
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'''Data Base Factory''' is a French company which provides services to companies and corporations who desire to branch out
in
markets where they themselves do not operate a subsidiary
other than the home markets of said companies or corporations, usually, for them, foreign language markets
. The
services this
company
provides,
typically
entails
"back-office" activities
,
such as
customer
services and contacts
,
promotion and
marketing, distribution, editorial services
such
as
translation of print material
in
the language of the target market
, subscription management, and the like
.
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'''Data Base Factory'''
(DBF)
is a French company which provides services to companies and corporations who desire to branch out
into
markets where they themselves do not operate a subsidiary. The company typically
provides
"back-office" activities
including
customer
service
, marketing, distribution,
and
editorial services
.
This
work includes the
translation of print material
into
the language of the target market.
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The
company
was founded in 1999 in Paris
, France,
by a group of French entrepreneurs who realized that language and local legalities
played
a significant role
as
barriers for small and middle-sized non-French companies
–
not
able
or
willing
to set up subsidiaries in
such
other language territories
–
to
'''''not'''''
expand their
business
into
other language
markets.
Having stumbled upon a real market need and niche in the business community, the company has since then rapidly expanded. By 2015 the company had grown to fourteen subsidiaries, the first of which opened in London, UK as early as 2000, spread all over Europe and the French speaking part of northern Africa, covering over a dozen countries and eight languages. [http://www.dbfactory.com/fr/Nos-implantations]
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Data
Base Factory
was founded in 1999 in Paris by a group of French entrepreneurs who realized that language and local legalities
proved
to
be
barriers for small and middle-sized non-French companies
.
These
companies
had been unable
or
unwilling
to set up subsidiaries in other language territories
but still wished
to expand their
businesses
into
these
markets.
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==The
''Star
Trek''
license==
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Having
stumbled
upon
an unfulfilled need and niche in the business community, the company has rapidly expanded since then. By 2015 the company had grown to fourteen subsidiaries with offices spread across Europe and the French-speaking part of northern Africa. It works in more than a dozen countries and eight languages.
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Data Base Factory has never been granted a direct license to publish ''Star Trek'' material in any format whatsoever. However, as it turned out, one of their very first and fairly large accounts they acquired was [[GE Fabbri]], who subcontracted the company for the handling of their ''[[Star Trek Fact Files]]'' publication for the French-speaking parts of Europe, in the process becoming the main reason why Data Base Factory's very first subsidiary was opened in London. Released as the 1999-2003 ''Star Trek Les Dossiers Officiels'', Data Base Factory also saw to Fabbri's follow-up publications in these markets, the 2004-2007 ''[[Star Trek: The Collector's Edition|Star Trek: Les Nouveaux Dossiers Officiels]]'' and the 2007-2008 ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series - The Collector's Edition| Star Trek: La Série Classique - L'Édition Collector]]''. While strictly speaking, and to the letter of their own business definition, Data Base Factory could not be considered as being a genuine publisher, under French copy right law the company was, and as such is considered the "official" publisher for the three Fabbri French-language publications, even if they did so on behalf of their consigner.
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Fabbri's
successor
,
[[Eaglemoss Collections]], continued to make use of the services of
Data Base Factory
and
has
subcontracted their customer and subscription services to them, as well as the distribution and editorial services for non-English language countries, which included their
''
[[Star
Trek:
The Official Starships Collection]]
''
. [http://www.dbfactory.co.uk/casestudies-eaglemoss.asp] Incidentally
,
Eaglemoss
and
Data
Base
Factory
are
sister
companies,
as
they
are
both
subsidiaries
of
the
Financière
Aurénis
Group. [http://aurenis.com/about
.
php]
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In
2015
, Data Base Factory
was
acquired
by
''
'CCA
International
Inc.'
'',
a
French
publicly-held
company
with
a
similar
business
model.
It
is
no
longer
marketed
as
an
independent
company
.
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==''Star Trek'' association==
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Data Base Factory has never been directly granted a license to publish ''Star Trek'' material in any format whatsoever. Nonetheless, one of the first large accounts the company acquired was [[GE Fabbri]], who subcontracted the handling of their ''[[Star Trek Fact Files]]'' publication for the French-speaking parts of Europe to the company, in the process becoming the principal reason Data Base Factory's first subsidiary was opened in London.
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Released as the ''Star Trek Les Dossiers Officiels'' between 1999 and 2003, Data Base Factory also worked on Fabbri's follow-up publications in these markets, including the ''[[Star Trek: The Collector's Edition|Star Trek: Les Nouveaux Dossiers Officiels]]'' between 2004 and 2007 and the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series - The Collector's Edition| Star Trek: La Série Classique - L'Édition Collector]]'' in 2007 and 2008.
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Data Base Factory is not considered to be a "genuine" publisher, though under French copyright law, the company was considered the "official" publisher for the three Fabbri French-language publications, even though it did so on behalf of its consigner.
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[[Eaglemoss Collections]] was formerly a "sister company" of Data Base Factory when both were subsidiaries of the Financière Aurénis Group.
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Presently, Data Base Factory (as CCA International) still provides distribution and editorial services for non-English language countries for Eaglemoss' ''[[Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection]]'' and the ''[[Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection]]''.
==External links==
==External links==
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* [
http
://
aurenis
.com/
index.php
Financière
Aurénis
] – official
holding group
site
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* [
https
://
www.ccainternational
.com/
?lang=en
CCA
International
] – official site
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* [http://www.dbfactory.co.uk/ Data Base Factory] – current UK official web site
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* [http://www.dbfactory.com/ Data Base Factory] – current French official web site
[[fr:Data Base Factory]]
[[fr:Data Base Factory]]