Corel and Mattel Sign Graphics Deal: GraphicCorp, a division of Corel, will provide Mattel's Broderbund unit with the online rights to over 1,000,000 images.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. (Nasdaq:CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COR) and the Broderbund unit of The Learning Company, a division of Mattel, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MAT), have signed a strategic licensing agreement in which Corel, through its GraphicCorp division, will provide Broderbund with the online rights to over 1,000,000 clipart, photo and Web images. "This is the perfect example of the type of business relationship we had in mind when we acquired GraphicCorp back in April," said Carey Stanton, executive vice president of business development at Corel. "With the GraphicCorp acquisition, Corel became the leading supplier of clipart, photographs and Web images to software publishers and hardware manufacturers. We are pleased to be licensing this content to Broderbund." GraphicCorp works with over 100 graphic designers around the world, and these relationships enable GraphicCorp to continually update and add new content to its collection. "We are delighted to have reached an agreement with Corel to license these images," said Gordon Landies, general manager for the Broderbund unit of The Learning Company. "The addition of Corel's content to our vast library of images further strengthens our position as the leading provider of print creativity products." Along with superior images, GraphicCorp offers a private-label Web site that allows companies to supply digital content to their customers. GraphicCorp currently has over two million clipart images, photographs, Web images, Web animations and downloadable applications in its collection and is acknowledged in the industry as the world's leading supplier of such digital content to software publishers and hardware manufacturers. The GraphicCorp collection, together with Corel's vast collection of clipart and electronic images, puts Corel firmly in the top tier of digital content suppliers. Images from both collections can be found in Corel products and will be available at clipartcity.com July 9th. Corel Corporation Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications. Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW(r) line of graphics applications and the Corel(r) WordPerfect(r) Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to performance, compatibility, value and open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , Corel develops products for the Windows(r), Macintosh(r), UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (r), Linux(r) and Java(tm) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (sm) under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol COR. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com or GraphicCorp's Web site at www.graphiccorp.com. About Broderbund The Broderbund unit of The Learning Company, a division of Mattel (NYSE:MAT) is one of the country's leading developers of consumer software for the entire family. The company publishes some of the best-known education, reference, personal productivity, and family entertainment brands in the U.S., including American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic , National Geographic, The Print Shop, PrintMaster, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover, Mavis Beacon, Reader Rabbit, The Oregon Trail, Sesame Street, Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Sandiego, and Myst. The company's products are sold in more than 23,000 retail stores in North America and through multiple distribution channels including school sales, online, direct marketing, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and . Mattel also develops, publishes, and distributes products internationally through subsidiaries in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Holland, Japan, and Australia, and with distributors throughout Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. The Web site is located at www.broderbund.com Mattel is a registered trademark of Mattel, Inc. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW and the Go Further logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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