- Filmnight.com
Filmnight.com is a company operating in the
United Kingdom . The company has a chain of high street stores under a variety of brand names, a DVD retail website and a set of mobile services.tores
Filmnight.com (or Filmnight as it was then branded) opened its first store in 2003 in
Waterloo station renting DVDs to commuters. The filmnight.com website supported these activities by allowing customers to reserve DVDs in advance, making the pick-up a quick process. A second store opened in Reading station operating on the same model. Filmnight acquired Apollo Home Video in December 2004 [cite news
first = Rosie
last = Murray-West
url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/12/30/cnfilm30.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/12/30/ixcity.html
title = Video group goes for bigger picture
publisher = The Daily Telegraph
date =2004-12-30 ] . Apollo, had itself grown through Acquisitions and thus some stores still carry the Vid Biz brand. The operations of both sets of stores were merged. Online booking is no longer available on the website.A year later Filmnight.com acquired Primetime video stores [cite news
url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24889-1919960,00.html
title = Video group goes for bigger picture
publisher = The Times
date =2005-12-11 ] . Following this acquisition, Filmnight.com has 99 fully owned stores and a further 120 franchises, making it the 4th largest video rental chain in the UK and the largest in theGreater London area.The stores are expected to rebrand as Filmnight.com and will diversify into net-cafés as well as selling DVDs and mobile phones.
Website
The filmnight.com website expanded from a pre-ordering system for the stores to a DVD retail site after the company purchased the dvd section of the online retailer pricestorm.com [ [http://www.pricestorm.com/film_night_dvd.asp PriceStorm.com: PC Consumables, Ink Cartridges, Memory Cards, Data Storage, Photo Paper ] ] . The site, operates out of Guernsey in order take advantage of a provision in the British tax code that states that
VAT import duty is not payable on items sent from the Channel Islands on items under £18. As many DVD titles fall into this category, many DVD and CD retailers have taken advantage of this in order to cut costs and remain competitive in price. (seeValue Added Tax-free Exports from the Channel Islands for more details)The website also offers film soundtracks for sale,
video on demand , trailers and cinema listings.Mobile services
Filmnight.com entered the mobile services market by becoming the exclusive film content provider for
Vodafone live! in the UK in 2004 [cite newsurl = http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=134996
title = Vodafone UK Selects Filmnight as Exclusive Provider of Film Related Content to its Customers
publisher = PR Newswire
date =2004-11-24 ] . As part of this service, they provide film trailers and clips for download onto3G and GPRS phones. They joined the O2 network, providing similar services on thei-mode platform.On both platforms, users can buy DVDs using their filmnight.com login details.
Additionally filmnight.com provides official mobile phone downloads services for various films eg Goal! and King Kong.
References
External links
* [http://www.filmnight.com www.filmnight.com]
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