Data Base Factory

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Data Base Factory
Data Base Factory

Data Base Factory (DBF) was a French company which provided services to companies and corporations who desired to branch out into markets where they themselves did not operate a subsidiary. The services the company provided, typically encompassed "back-office" activities such as customer, subscription, marketing, distribution, and editorial services, including the translation of print material into the language of the target market.

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 to set up shop in Francophone Europe. These companies had been unable or unwilling to set up subsidiaries in French language territories, but still wished to expand their businesses into these markets.

Having stumbled upon a real unfulfilled need and market niche in the business community, the company has rapidly expanded since then, in the process adding other language areas as well. By 2015 the company had grown to fourteen subsidiaries with offices spread across Europe and the French-speaking part of northern Africa. It worked in more than a dozen countries and eight languages.

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.

Star Trek association

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 happened to be GE Fabbri, who subcontracted the handling of their Star Trek Fact Files as well as their other, non-Star Trek, partwork publications for Francophone Europe to the company, in the process becoming the principal reason for Data Base Factory's first subsidiary to be opened in London.

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: Les Nouveaux Dossiers Officiels between 2004 and 2007 and the Star Trek: La Série Classique - L'Édition Collector in 2007 and 2008.

Data Base Factory has never been considered 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 had done so on behalf of its consigner.

Eaglemoss Collections – the successor of GE Fabbri – was formerly a "sister company" of Data Base Factory when both were subsidiaries of the Financière Aurénis Group, a French investment holding company. [1](X)

Presently, Data Base Factory (as CCA International since 2015) 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.

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