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Article: Crossover culture: British Columbia-based Photo Express Foto Source seeks to serve photo and scrapbooking customers.(Business & Marketing)(dialogue with Michele Correa)(Interview)
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- PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities
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- December 1, 2008
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Michele Correa sure talks fast. Whether it's caffeine or simply the knowledge she has a lot of work to get done, she crams 90 minutes of talk into 60. Pushing her is a passion for a business owned by her father, Marcel Comeau, and managed by her father, her brother Ron and herself: Photo Express Foto Source in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
The 25-year-old company has a split personality; it's both a photo store and a scrapbooking shop. There's no conflict between the two, rather a synergy. To understand that synergy, we have to go back to Day 1.
Photo Express started as a one-hour photofinishing store, which Marcel purchased in 1983. He also ...