Per’s IT company struggles with cash flow
Written by suburber on March 10, 2003 to Per Gessle.
STOCKHOLM - 
Swedish tabloid Expressen reports that Per Gessle’s, Björn Ulvaeus’, Tomas Ledin’s, Peter Jöback’s and Meja’s IT company, Fame Studios, continues to have financial problems. Per and the others are partners in that company, which still has to pay taxes and is fighting with sinking income.
Fame Studios is responsible for websites such as ABBA, Chess, Tomas Ledin, and Roxette. The companies subsidiary, Fame Development, has tax debts amounting to 15,000 SEK.
Neither Ledin nor Jöback wanted to comment on the situation according to Expressen’s article.
Other articles with the same topic
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- Per tells TDR that he and Marie are "thrilled" with what's to come in 2011 (January 3, 2011)
- Radio Halland’s annual interview with Per Gessle today (December 28, 2010)
- Macca at the Apollo (December 14, 2010)
- Per Gessle one of Sweden's most played songwriters (October 8, 2010)
27 comments
Sascha said on March 11, 2003 07:18:
No wonder if the majority of their work is as bad as roxette.se :-/
Kiwein1 said on March 11, 2003 07:24:
Exactly Sascha!
Have a look at www.roxette.se and you know WHY they have such financial problems..no updates, not a really tough design..NO WONDER IMHO!
animalkingdom said on March 11, 2003 09:58:
Yea, roxette.se is really crappy! I can’t believe they still keep it online!
pietROxette said on March 11, 2003 11:52:
It’d be better to take down the whole roxette.se site. What’s online now is simply ridiculous. It’s such a shame that the official website of Roxette looks like this...
animalkingdom said on March 11, 2003 12:24:
How about letting the professionals do the job for roxette.se? And just let the “fame” studios go...
steven said on March 11, 2003 12:51:
It’s always been a source of confusion for me why someone as conscientious with his image as Per could allow himself to be represented by such a poor site.
Aside from the music, Roxette’s livelihood is greatly dependent upon their image and how they are perceived publicly, yet they seem content to be officially represented by such a poor and unimaginative website.
The design is woeful, the content is sparse and the updates almost non-existent. Its Incredible when you consider they partly own the company that produces this work.
If it’s inspiration you’re after then pay a visit to Madonna’s official website. It’s vibrant, fresh, exciting, with streaming downloads and specific content tailored for the type of connection you have. I bet every Madonna fan has this site permanently stored in their browser settings. And that’s the way it should be.
I personally don’t visit roxette.se very often anymore because I have learnt from experience that there’s simply nothing there to warrant a visit. There’s nothing remotely interesting to compel me to come back time and again.
Roxette’s official website should be THE starting point of every fans web browser and yet, didn’t Per recently say that The Daily Roxette was set as his browser’s homepage?
Ask yourself why Per.
Jud (moderator) said on March 11, 2003 12:54:
Fame studios has designed other sites besides Roxette.se (which as all of you said, is a horrible site), and those others are nice: www.tomasledin.com
www.peterjoback.com
www.abbasite.com
Tomas Ledin, Peter Jöback and Björn also own Fame studios.... and their sites are nice.. so I wonder who is the one to blame behind Roxette.se?
From_a_heart_to... said on March 11, 2003 14:14:
I agree with the others. The most of the Roxette Fan pages made by fans in their leisure time are more interesting as the official website made by professionals!!!
Per is definitivly able to compensate this negative cash flow. May be they should have employ better book keepers. I think 15000SEK less tax payment is only a thing of balancing out.
@Judith:
You are right! the other sides look pretty fine.
GTiG said on March 11, 2003 20:27:
Okey... so I have some kind of idea. Dunno if it’s a good one though. But anyway:
We all seem to agree on that the www.roxette.se site are kind of poorly updated. Right? And yes, there are quite a few fanmade sites that are a lot better. SO, why don’t we get together with EMI Sweden or something, and make a official roxette roxette site, which, I suppose, could be called www.roxette.se? I don’t quite know how to explain my thoughts... but I hope you get my point??
Just my 2 SEK.
//GTiG
tevensso (moderator) said on March 11, 2003 20:52:
It’s not possible to order CDs from roxette.se, are you sure you remember it correctly?
PeterGm said on March 11, 2003 22:55:
maybe roxette.se is that bad cos they KNOW there are too many better sites around that know Roxette better than they do themselves!! xD
Maybe I would ask some fan to webmaster it.... or even better, some fanS.... a team or something... On the other hand... on the news side, it is difficult to shadow TDR and FC sites...
Shane said on March 12, 2003 03:48:
@ GTiG
I think your idea is great - having an official site that is maintained by a fan or small group of fans is common and really efficient. Plus, fans know what kind of information other fans would be interested in, so the content tends to be more appealing and inviting.
Count me in on this idea. Web sites are so important for keeping die-hard existing fans and attracting new fans. Being from Canada, it is very difficult to keep up to date on Roxette and Per and Marie’s solo work, so I really rely on the Internet for updates and contact with other fans.
coyboyusa said on March 13, 2003 11:17:
roxette se wasn’t designated as their ffical hoe page if youremember it was set up to promote RS and the tour thats why it hasn’t been updated int heir cd’s the offical hompage is noted as www.roxette.nl
zeeshan said on March 13, 2003 19:22:
I am a web designer! I will work for such a project! Plus I will assure we keep on updating the whole thing.
vivien said on March 14, 2003 09:46:
According to Dagens industri he owns 10 % of the company.
The total investment was 1,5 millions kr, and the loss in 2000 was 6 m kr.
-Gee- said on March 17, 2003 20:38:
LLLLLOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL
told ya, bunny, told ya..... ;)))
thats why i prefer to earn my money with erotic sites....
phreaky: cash flow goin’ “woohooo” cuz a wars comin up....(note that sex sells especially in critical times)
misteryman00 said on March 11, 2003 03:49:
Im sure Per and the others can pay that....if they do another GH album!!
or release a gt album too!!