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Ashford Colour Press specialises in the quality production of books, manuals, catalogues and brochures in black & white and full colour.
Formed in 1980, Ashford Colour Press rapidly established a reputation for quality and efficiency. Its success is built on understanding customers' needs and delivering each job on time, on budget and to the highest standards. Ashford's customer base represents a broad spectrum of commerce, including advertising agencies, finance houses and publishers from educational, professional and games sectors.
Breeze Tech are global leaders in wireless proximity marketing solutions - enabling brands to engage consumers by delivering rich digital content such as ringtones, mp3s, wallpapers and videos direct to consumers' mobile phones.
Bridgefilms, created in 2000, owns the intellectual property rights to the famous children’s characters, Sooty, Mumfie and others. Gullane PLC, formerly Britt Allcroft Company PLC, manages these rights worldwide under contract for a fee based on revenues generated, During 2000, an animated series featuring Sooty was shown on Channel 3 in the UK, which obtained excellent viewing ratings. A licensing and merchandising program has been developed to exploit the value being created in this brand. In the US, the Mumfie television series is continuing to attract good ratings, and a range of merchandise has been launched in its support.
Campden Media is a London-based publisher providing essential information in two core markets - financial and healthcare, via the combined media of print, electronic publications, conferences and exhibitions.
They provide relevant, timely and expert information of practical business use to target audiences. To this end, the company works closely with business leaders, policy makers, professional associations and technical specialists.
Centurion Electronics is one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies. Established in 1993, Centurion originally supplied products to the automotive market, concentrating on vehicle security systems.
In 1999, through research and relationship development with manufacturers across the globe, the company launched a new range of products - in-car entertainments products. Specializing in TFT LCD screen technology and mobile multi-media products, the new products were introduced to the market under the brands Centurion Professional, Plug & Play and necvox. These products were aimed at motor manufacturers, motor dealers, mainstream retailers and specialist independent retailers throughout the UK.
Proven and ProVen Growth & Income VCT exited their investment in Centurion in April 2004.
Chorion is an intellectual property owning brand creation and management business. The company’s strategy is to acquire classic literary estates and then to re-invigorate them through a brand creation process in order to build their value in publishing and in other avenues of exploitation such as television, audio and licensing.
Its principal properties and brands are the literary works and character brands of Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple), Enid Blyton (Noddy, Famous Five) and Georges Simenon (Inspector Maigret). Chorion also recently acquired all rights to Mr. Men and Little Miss, created by Roger Hargreaves.
Global Rights Fund II exited its investment in Chorion in May 2006.
Coolabi specializes in the ownership, production and creative management of high quality children's and family intellectual property assets. It also controls global exploitation of these assets through licensing, merchandising and distribution.
The group owns or controls the intellectual property rights to international brands including King Arthur's Disasters, as well as selected rights to properties such as the Hammer House of Horror. Assets are managed through one or both of Coolabi's two principal divisions, Coolabi Productions Limited and Coolabi Licensing Limited.
Dianomi is a digital marketing services company delivering advertising solutions to over 120 companies across a distribution network of over 50 online publishers.
Dianomi was founded in 2003 and promotes advertisers’ brands and products via a specialized pay-per-lead service. The company boasts publishing partners such as The Times, The FT, The Telegraph, The Guardian, MSN, AOL, Tiscali, the London Stock Exchange and the Investors Chronicle.
The Dotcast Digital Network creates a new, low-cost distribution channel that avoids congestion on the Internet by delivering rich media wirelessly to a variety of devices, including television set-top boxes, PCs, mobile devices, and handheld digital media players.
Dotcast provides broadband media delivery and management services so premiere entertainment, media and information companies can deliver movies, music and other rich media directly to their customers at a fraction of the cost of other approaches.
Eagle Rock is a producer, publisher and worldwide distributor of music programming and documentaries for TV and DVD. Key properties include live concert performances from artists including The Bee Gees, Janet Jackson, The Who and Eric Clapton. Eagle Rock's catalog also contains the 'Classic Album' series, including releases from Pink Floyd, Nirvana and Queen.
Eagle Rock operates from its corporate headquarters in London and at other sites in Aldershot, Hamburg, Paris, and New York.
Echo360 provides students the opportunity to be freed from traditional barriers to learning with an on-demand education experience. Full-time, part-time, distance, continuing, and online all describe today's student living in a 24/7 world.
By converging on-demand media and education, Echo360 helps colleges and universities engage students on the students' terms with full and unbounded access to classroom-based content via multiplatform replay.
Developed in partnership with the University of Western Australia, Echo360 offers scalable and affordable lecture capture solutions that can provide institutions of all sizes with universal availability of lecture content.
Espotting Media (renamed MIVA) was Europe’s leading performance-based advertising medium. In 2004, Espotting Media was acquired by the FindWhat.com Group in a merger and acquisition strategy that brought together numerous companies from around the globe. The new entity was renamed MIVA (NASDAQ: MIVA) and currently serves more than 100,000 companies across three continents grow their businesses through performance marketing services.
Established in 1997, Espresso Group is the UK market leader in the provision of broadband, video and multi-media educational resources. These resources are delivered via platform independent distribution systems tailored to customers' needs. The Company's services are imaginative, fully indexed and searchable resources featuring video clips, newspaper reports and specially filmed video produced by Espresso. The Espresso for Primary Schools and Secondary Service are all linked and cross referenced to National Curriculum attainment targets.
The service has been designed to meet two objectives. First to stimulate children and teach them skills relevant to their Key Stage and second to provide a rich resource that makes planning and researching lessons enjoyable and stress-free for teachers. Pupils also benefit from access to Espresso's use of contemporary TV programmes and news footage, are re-dubbed for greater relevance to the National Curriculum and which bring current affairs from around the world into the classroom.
eMotion, based in Vienna, Virginia, is the global leader in digital media management software and services, with a wide range of customers that include blue-chip companies, advertising agencies, entertainment and broadcast companies and government agencies.
eMotion positions itself as the optimum solution for brand management organizations to log, catalogue, and reconfigure their rich media assets. They offer Global 2000 companies, such as McDonald’s, M & M Mars, Ford Motor Company, Coors Brewing Company and the BBC, tools and services for content cataloging, archiving, retrieval, analysis, collaboration, rights management, distribution and e-commerce.
Global Rights Fund II exited its investment in e-motion in September 2005.
Fjord is a leading digital design innovation consultancy in the mobile convergence space, with offices in London, Helsinki, Berlin and New York. The Fjord mission is to help customers innovate better. Fjord creates transforming services and interfaces that create greater profit through elegant simplicity, and has been doing so for seven years.
Fjord is the only service design company set up specifically to offer expert understanding of the business and design issues involved in delivering fluently across multiple channels. Fjord was recently instrumental in helping the BBC devise and create the award winning BBC iPlayer for mobile. Key clients include: BBC, Nokia, Orange, Swisscom and Yahoo!
Based in Los Angeles, GetBack Media is a broadband entertainment community, and pop culture marketplace that provides social networking around premium media content. Populated with media from years past paired with a strong editorial treatment, Get Back guides users through a rich and deep media archive experience to create a “feel good” environment of content, interactivity, community, and commerce connected to happy memories. GetBack Media was created by the founders of Rhino Records, Shout Factory!, Beringea and digital media veterans from IFILM, and MTV Networks.
Formed by the merger of Anystream and Voxant, Grab Networks™ is powering multi-platform video syndication for content on three screens. The company’s award-winning suite of solutions – including grabMediaOS™, Anystream Agility and Anystream Velocity – allow media companies to efficiently re-purpose and index their content for multiple outlets and devices, syndicate their content across their own properties and 3rd party destinations, and better capitalize on the $20 billion online advertising market.
Gyro Group PLC is the UK's leading integrated, B2B brand communications agency. The company provides an integrated suite of marketing services including brand strategy, direct marketing, on and off-line advertising, media planning, web marketing and event management.
Gyro's single focus is the technology and financial services sectors and it is known for providing innovative solutions for clients, who benefit from high returns on investment. Gyro's clients include Adobe Systems, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Iomega, MCI, Deutsche Bank, American Express, Orange and, most recently, they have won Symantec's business in EMEA.
Gyro was founded in 1991 and has established offices in London, Geneva, Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco and Dublin.
Beringea exited its investment in Gyro Group in February 2008.
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i-level (renamed iLG Digital) launched in April 1999 and grew to become Europe's largest independent online media buyer. It is a digital marketing company, specialising in media planning and buying on the internet, email and mobile devices. Beringea exited its investment in ilG in April 2008.
JVTV operates SUBtv, a plasma screen broadcast network located in 55 Student Union Bars across the UK. The network currently reaches more than 1 million students. SUBtv has secured 10-year exclusive contracts for each location and expanded its network by another 25 student union bars in 2004. SUBtv works by providing advertising spots and sponsorship positions via a digital TV network, which distributes music, lifestyle and local university content programs to plasma screens. Its platform presents advertisers with a captive audience in an environment where students spend a significant amount of their leisure time: the Student Union Bar.
Imagestate offers royalty free and rights managed stock photography images and other custom image services to a range of clients world-wide. Imagestate catalogs include more than one million digitally available stock images and specialist image collections, which are offered through the company’s website and its global network of agents, spanning 70 countries.
Immedia are the world leaders in providing "live" tailored radio stations to retail - specialists in audience engagement for both staff and consumers. The company installs and operates radio stations for nearly 7000 stores in the UK and Ireland, to HSBC, IKEA, Lloyds Pharmacy, Spar and others.
Each radio station is tailored specifically to the brand owner, featuring key presenters and music to match mood and inspiration. Each station is interactive, using phones or text, web links and podcasts.
Immedia has expanded its services to design stations for corporate workforces and transportation.
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isango!, launched in October 2006, offers consumers and travel professionals an authoritative source for exciting and colorful travel experiences - holiday tours, sightseeing, attractions, activities and the best things to do in 60 countries across the world.
Mergermarket, based in London, England, provides a business development tool for advisors and corporate executives active in mergers and acquisitions. The mergermarket service covers a range of intelligence products spanning predictive intelligence, analysis, historical data, shareholder documentation, and streamed video content presentations to analysts, and shareholder documentation. Mergermarket delivers this information directly to subscribers' desktop, PDA, or mobile phone. Since the service was launched in July of 2000, the company has built up a client base of over 130 blue chip advisors in Europe.
Mergermarket was sold in 2006 to Pearson plc, the global media company for approximately £140 million. Global Rights Fund II, Proven and ProVen Growth & Income VCTs exited their investment in mergermarket in September 2006.
Optima is a data management and business generation company specializing in providing data intelligence services to media owners and their client companies. Optima uses web-based technology platforms providing circulation and subscription management services, audience research, verification, data cleaning, telemarketing, lead management, web and email services, marketing support, direct mail and custom services. The company recently acquired leading data intelligence company WDIS Limited from Wilmington Media Limited.
Pilat Media develops, markets and supports operations and business management software for the global multi-channel broadcasting market. The company's key solution is Integrated Broadcast Management System (IBMS), which supports broadcasters and content providers in efficiently managing programme content and television channel administration from content acquisition to transmission. The company has approximately 260 staff worldwide. Its target sectors include IPTV, free-to-air or pay television services, broadcasting via terrestrial, cable or satellite, based on digital or analogue technology, offering single, multi-demand or on-demand services.
Saffron Media Group is the parent company of Filmnight Digital and Saffron Digital. Saffron Digital has developed a converged content delivery platform that enables content owners, brand owners and mobile operators to deliver a rich experience for their consumers across mobile and web.
The state-of-the art platform includes market-leading video services, such as a video-on-demand solutions, allowing consumers to access video files via mobile and online portals. Current clients include Disney Mobile, IPC media, Zone Media, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone.
Filmnight Digital is the leading provider of digital film publishing solutions with a growing client list including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Trinity Mirror and EMAP.
Over the last four years Filmnight Digital has forged commercial relationships with international film studios to provide clients with a ‘one-stop-shop’ for film-related content and services. Filmnight's various sites attract over 1 million unique visitors per month.
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders — Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos — share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and “best of” collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory’s catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest — and most eccentric — artists of our time.
Sports Holdings is a UK based sports management business that manages, represents and provides services for over 80 football players in the UK and Europe, as well as for several major football clubs including Arsenal, Leeds and Celtic.
Starbridge Media Group is a Washington, DC-area based TV producer, publisher, rights owner, licensor, and sports marketing consultancy that is focused on the convergence of entertainment and sports - bridging stars and star sports brands with new and traditional forms of media.
Starbridge provides athletes, teams, and rights owners opportunities to drive incremental revenues, extend brand awareness and build fan loyalty via the creation of unique programming platforms and the maximization of core property assets.
Steak Media is one of the UK’s leading digital marketing communication agencies, specializing in search engine marketing (SEM), media planning and buying, creative/design and other integrated online marketing strategies. Launched in February 2005, the company has been publicly recognized for the results it delivers for its clients. It ranked as the 2nd largest independent search agency in the NMA Marketing Services Guide (2007).
TMI (renamed Chiaros) offers consulting & learning solutions that transform organizational culture and achieve long-term business success, which have been refined and developed for over 25 years. At the heart of TMI is the desire to excel in helping people acquire new skills, new motivation and new confidence that help to transform and develop an organisation.
ProVen and ProVen Growth and Income VCTs exited their investment in Chiaros in December 2005.
UBC Media is a leading supplier of content to radio broadcasters and is the UK's largest independent radio producer. UBC Media produces 10% of the BBC's total content by volume, as well as supplying programmes to several other broadcasters.
UBC produces a rich mix of audio programmes across a full range of music, news and speech-based formats and continually strives to extend the range and depth of its programming operations. The majority of the production division's output is for commissioned programmes under long-term contracts, and has historically benefited from both forward visibility and a high level of repeat business.