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Albion Associates opens satellite studio in Vietnam

By Staff
Publication: Furniture Today
Date: Monday, May 19 2008

High Point— Albion Associates, a photography and graphics studio here serving the home furnishings industry, has opened a satellite studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The studio can photograph products on-site at showrooms and factories or in its Vietnam studio. Images can be delivered

four to 12 weeks faster than if the finished product had to be shipped to a U.S. studio for photography, according to Albion.

"The satellite studio will eliminate much of the cost and damage associated with conventional studio shoots," said Miles Barefoot, Albion's president. "This will allow a manufacturer's new product to get to the market faster, but still maintain the caliber and color management previously available only in High Point."

The company plans to open a satellite office later this year in southern China, in the Dongguan area that is a center of furniture production.