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Home![]() Alan B Malelo
June 16, 1928 - November 21, 2013
Chicago, Illinois Alan B. Malelo, 85, an entrepreneur, pioneer and legend in the professional photographic and video tape distribution markets, passed away Thursday, November 21, 2013. Alan founded Malelo Camera Company in 1950 and developed the business into one of the nation’s leading distributors for Kodak and Polaroid professional film products. In 1968 he was a trailblazer and one of the first distributors for pro video tape products, at the time a new and emerging market. In the 1970's he again took the company forward and became one of the country's first major distributors of computer diskettes and media. Today the company continues to thrive providing media-based products to over 10,000 customers in the video production and computer storage markets. Malelo entrepreneurs have been a fixture in Chicago's Bridgeport community for nearly 100 . . .
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