Camera & Optical Goods Retail Industry Competitors

Whether you prefer everyone to say traditional "cheese" or digital "cheese," Jessops has the right camera for you. With some 315 stores, The Jessop Group (known as Jessops) is the largest photography and related equipment and services retailer in the UK. Founded in 1935 by the Jessop family, the stores (and Web site) offer some 20,000 items such cameras, camcorders, camera phones, film, and equipment including scanners, printers, scopes, studio lighting, and darkroom products....

Red Peacock International distributes consumer electronics and digital photography products to retailers worldwide. The company's offerings include still and video cameras; GPS systems and accessories; and two-way radios. It works with vendors such as Canon, Cobra Electronics, Garmin, Konica Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Olympus, and Samsung....

Ritz Interactive is all over the Web. The company, a network of e-commerce Web sites, sells digital cameras and photographic products, as well as marine, boating, and fishing gear, through e-retailers, including RitzCamera.com, WolfCamera.com, and BoatersWorld.com....

You shoot, they score. MOTO Franchise Corp. (formerly Moto Photo) franchises about 90 photo development stores in nearly 20 US states and the District of Columbia offering one-hour processing and other services such as enlargements and digital reproductions....

Ritz Camera Centers, begun as a one-man portrait studio in 1918, has become the largest photographic chain in the US. Its nearly 1,200 stores nationwide offer one-hour photofinishing, cameras, film, and photographic and optical products and services. Stores operate under names such as Ritz Camera, Wolf Camera, Kits Camera, Inkley's, and The Camera Shop; the company also sells online....