Tinopolis

Tinopolis

Type	Privately held company
Industry	Television production
Founded	1990
Headquarters	Llanelli, Wales
Key people	Ron Jones, Executive Chairman Arwel Rees, CEO Angharad Mair, Chairman Wales Jeff Foulser, Chairman Sunset + Vine John Willis, CEO Mentorn Toby Wyles Ben Johnson
Revenue	£66 million (2007)
Operating income	£5.67 million (2007)
Net income	£2.18 million (2007)
Employees	404 (2007)
Website	www.tinopolis.com

Tinopolis plc is a Welsh independent television production company, owned by its senior management and private equity company Vitruvian Partners. Tinopolis produces over 2,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters.^[1]

History

The parent company, Tinopolis, was established in Llanelli, Wales, in 1990.^[2] It was one of the few television production companies to be publicly listed and its acquisition of major UK competitors contributed to its growth in the early 21st century.

Tinopolis purchased The Television Corporation, the parent company of Sunset + Vine and Mentorn, in 2006.^[3]

The Tinopolis division, based in Llanelli has been a mainstay of Welsh language television for many years and specialises in live programmes.

The sport division, Sunset + Vine, was founded in 1983, and won several BAFTA awards for its horse racing coverage and its cricket coverage for Channel 4. They also provide a large amount of coverage of American sports for Five including MLB coverage from launch in 1997 until 2008.

Mentorn and Folio, the main factual brands, are amongst the longest established and respected independent producers in the UK.

Video Arts, the training media company, was founded in 1972 by comic John Cleese, and since trained about 100,000 organisations in approximately 50 countries.^[2] Video Arts was purchased by Tinoplis in 2007.^[2]

In 1988, writer and director Ed Thomas founded Fiction Factory, a company now part of Tinopolis.

Shares of Tinopolis plc were listed on London's Alternative Investment Market in 2005.^[3] It was widely held by major institutions and purchased in 2008 for £44.7  million by management and private equity company Vitruvian Partners, taking the company private again.^[3][4][5]

In late 2009 Tinopolis acquired Pioneer Productions, the leading factual producer. ^[6]

During 2011 Tinopolis expanded its operations overseas through the acquisition of A Smith & Co Productions in June 2011 and BASE Productions in August 2011. ^{[7] [8]}

Operations

Tinopolis has production centres in Llanelli, London, Glasgow and Cardiff.

Operating subsidiaries

Company	Genre	Annual output (h)	Major titles	Notes
Tinopolis	Welsh language programmes		Wedi 7 and Wedi 3
Daybreak Pictures	Drama			David Aukin and Hal Vogel
DEEM	Animation			animator Dave Edwards
Fiction Factory	Drama		Caerdydd Y Pris	Ed Thomas
Folio	Documentary		Traffic Cops
Mentorn	Miscellaneous		Question Time
POP 1	Documentary Sport Children
Sunset + Vine	Sport	2000	MLB on Five NFL on Five NBA on Five NHL on Five FIFA World Cup Dubai World Cup Volvo Ocean Race European Poker Tour Cricket on Five Gillette World Sport Eurovision Dance Contest The Grand National Steeplechase	[9]
Tinopolis Interactive	Combined media and internet for corporate clients
Video Arts	Training

See also

• Media in Wales

References

1. ^ "The Group". http://www.tinopolis.com/WhoAreWe/?pid=2. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "About". Video Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-06-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20080629210707/http://www.videoarts.com/about.jsp. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Blake, Aled (2008-07-01). "Tinopolis profits surge in last results before delisting". Western Mail (Media Wales). http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2008/07/01/tinopolis-profits-surge-in-last-results-before-delisting-91466-21205296/. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 
4. ^ Barry, Sion (2008-05-09). "Tinopolis in £44m acquisition deal". Media Wales. http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2008/05/09/tinopolis-in-44m-acquisition-deal-91466-20885625/. Retrieved 2008-05-09. 
5. ^ Thomson Financial (2008-06-30). "Tinopolis FY pretax profit 1.9 mln pounds vs 0.96 mln". Hemscott. http://www.hemscott.com/news/static/tfn/item.do?newsId=65116000573015. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 
6. ^ http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=101949
7. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/06/29/tinopolis-buys-us-maker-of-gordon-ramsay-s-kitchen-nightmares-91466-28959964/. 
8. ^ [www.baseproductions.com "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}"]. www.baseproductions.com. 
9. ^ "Profile". Sunset + Vine. http://www.sunsetvine.co.uk/sunsetvineweb/. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 

External links

• Tinopolis – group website
• Daybreak Pictures
• Sunset + Vine

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