Mediafax

1991 – Mediafax news agency is founded.

1994 – Mediafax launches its first business-oriented service, the Executive Package, structured on categories of economic information.

1995 - Mediafax becomes the leading information provider on the Romanian market, and has kept this position ever since.

- The agency develops the Mediafax Foto service, providing real-time photographs from all major events in politics, economics and society.

1997 – Mediafax launches Business Focus, the real-time information service for the business sector, offering online access to Mediafax stories and archives.

– Mediafax launches www.mediafax.ro.

– Mediafax newswires are delivered via internet.

– Launch of Mediafax Online News. The service offers the Romanian media real-time access to Mediafax stories. Some 250 real-time new stories daily reach Mediafax media clients.

1998 – Mediafax creates the first professional media monitoring service in Romania.

1999 – Mediafax launches the specialized Media&Advertising newsletter.

2000 – Mediafax launches Mediafax Business News, a complete range of business information services, grouped by industries. The first specialized wire, Media & Advertising, is followed by another nine business information services on: agriculture, automotive, constructions, energy, finance, IT&C, legal, pharmaceuticals and tourism.

– The second version of Mediafax Online News allows selective accessing of fields and is available to modem-connected customers.

– First edition of Mediafax Annual Report Media&Advertising. Over the years, the Mediafax Annual Report line expanded and currently includes four other fields: automotive, constructions, finance and retail.

2001 – A new business product is launched: Info Leasing.

2002 – Mediafax launches Mediafax Comunicate, a professional service that facilitates the transmission of press releases from companies towards Romanian media.

2003 – Mediafax starts providing WAP content for Romania’s main mobile operators. Content currently ranges from text to videostreaming of TV shows, TV series and feature films.

2005 – Mediafax launches the audio news service, providing Romanian media with exclusive interviews and statements of public figures, businesspersons and spokespersons, delivered online, in mp3 format.  

2006 – Mediafax organizes the first editions of Romania Retail Forum and Romania Construct Forum, which pave the way for Mediafax Talks business events.

2007 - Mediafax transcends the classic news agency model: it becomes the largest provider of general and business information in Romania.

            - Facelift of www.mediafax.ro, which now allows readers easier access to the daily news stories.

- Launch of Mediafax Foto Premium, the photo-story service created by the best Romanian professional photographers.

            - Mediafax Foto launches Publicity: the revolutionary service that allows companies and institutions to create virtual photo portfolios available for free download by all the photo editors, on www.mediafaxfoto.ro.

            - Mediafax expands its professional media monitoring network, covering local print media in all Romanian counties, alongside national media.

2008 – The www.news.mediafax.biz website is launched and becomes the sole platform for transmitting Mediafax information to the mass-media. www.news.mediafax.biz wins Best news website title at the 2008 Internetics awards.

- Mediafax Foto becomes the distributor of vario images stock photographs to magazines and the commercial segment (publishing houses, companies, PR and advertising agencies etc.). It also becomes the distributor of the Associated Press international photography service and  photo archive for magazines, publishing houses, companies, advertising agencies, institutions and NGOs.

- Mediafax becomes the first Romanian press agency to export its business model by launching the Mediafax agency in the Czech Republic. It provides news and photographs to the media through www.mediafaxbiz.cz and www.mediafaxfoto.cz, but also information addressed directly to the end users on www.mediafax.cz.

- A new product, Company Directory, which includes general and financial information about the main companies in Romania, is available on www.mediafax.biz

- Mediafax launches www.comunicate.mediafax.biz, a website dedicated to the distribution of multimedia press releases (text, photo, audio and video), which allows the interaction between clients and the users of this platform

- Mediafax Foto launches Multimedia, a service consisting of multimedia reportages (photo and audio) addressed to the online publications

2009 – English Wire, a new service for the mass-media, in English, consisting of the most important information of the day, is available on www.news.mediafax.biz.

- Mediafax Business News launches BSE Live, a product which offers www.mediafax.biz clients

real-time quotes from Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)

- Mediafax integrates the press monitoring website in the www.mediafax.biz business-to-business platform. The new web address for the service is www.monitorizare.mediafax.biz.

 - Mediafax Business News offers its users stock quotes and indices in real-time, provided by X-Trade Brokers.

- Mediafax Foto becomes distributor of New York Times and age fotostock images in Romania.