Press Release: Pixami Acquired by Nationwide Studios

Pixami Acquired by Nationwide Studios

November 24th, 2024

Nationwide Studios Inc., parent company to Legacy Studios, Legacy Yearbooks and Teddy Bear Portraits
is proud to announce the acquisition of Pixami, Inc., the leading provider of online yearbook software in
the US, Canada, and the UK.

Pixami will join the Nationwide family of companies, playing a key role in the development of building
new software that supports the volume business of school traditions with collegiate and secondary
yearbooks. This collaboration will also create opportunities, using Pixami’s technology, to integrate
personalized photo products into other markets, and across all Nationwide companies as well as provide
new solutions for independent companies across the globe.

Tom Hodgens, Pixami’s CEO, said “Everyone at Pixami is excited about the transition into the Nationwide
Studios family. From the first meeting with NWS leadership team, we realized the opportunity of
combining Pixami’s yearbook technology and print relationships with Nationwide’s brand, marketing
reach and scalability which will expedite growth and capabilities. Pixami now has the resources,
experience, marketing, and support to truly serve as we have always dreamed to do.”

Nationwide Studios Inc., is investing in multiple new verticals and continuing to build on its customer
service focus throughout all companies and all divisions. Together, the infusion of capital, resources and
expertise will enable Pixami to not just grow its software business but enable it to be a turnkey yearbook
solution for photographers and wholesale yearbook brokers across the United States. In addition,
Pixami is close to launching two new verticals that will provide a brand-new service and program in
Canada, Europe, Australia, and the UK that would not have been possible without the experience and
collaboration with Nationwide Studios Inc.

Lou Esposito, Nationwide Studios CEO said “NWS continues its mission of smart growth within our
market space creating exciting opportunity and innovation for Nationwide Studios. We believe the
Yearbook Printing Industry is ripe for disruption, and we will provide to existing Pixami School Volume
Photographers and Studios a software platform and service model that will allow them to convert each
Photography customer to also a yearbook customer. Further, we will create and foster an environment
for Yearbook Service Professionals to continue to build relationships and allow them to grow their
businesses. We believe in our market space, our employees, core values and our 80/20 business
philosophy envelopes all aspects of how we approach and grow the business understanding that PEOPLE
is our strongest asset. Pixami is a natural fit for NWS.”

Pixami will continue to operate as a separate business unit serving the independent school photography
industry and yearbook brokering industry. The only change that Nationwide Studios Inc. is making to
the Pixami team is adding to personnel both in development and in marketing and sales. As a separate
business unit, Pixami will fall under the leadership of David Crandall, the former executive director of
the national trade association for the school photography and yearbook industry. David Crandall said “I
have known the Pixami team for years and could not be more excited about this opportunity and what
we can all do together. The collaboration between all of divisions and the Pixami team is
invigorating. The pure number of opportunities for new services and programs in the school traditions
space with this collaboration, not just here in the US but, globally, is incredible. I look forward to
supporting our existing divisions with this new business unit, along with bringing new options and
offerings to the entire industry. The most exciting part is our new strategic partnership with The Volume
Printing Group and the new offerings and cost savings it will bring to independents, brokers, regional
and national companies throughout the industry.”

In the coming months, Pixami Inc. and its strategic partner, The Volume Printing Group, will be launching
brand new offerings for US and international partners that will provide a new solution in the yearbook
market that will generate new channels for their business to grow and compete at levels they have
never been able to. The Volume Printing Group partnership bundled with their full “Go to market” from
customer service, a fully developed ERP to world class printing will for sure provide many independents,
brokers and organizations with solutions that will forever reshape their business.