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Ten Alps Plc
Executive Summary
Ten Alps Plc (AIM:TAL) is a UK based multiplatform factual media company producing TV, online and print. With around £75m in UK turnover it has now targeted further growth through major online expansion, and through growth in Asia.
Ten Alps operates through two divisions, with a major crossover area between them where traditional media margins can be improved.
1) The Content division produces high-value TV and online output for broadcast and public sector clients. In TV it is one of the UK’s leading independent factual producers, through ownership of documentary production companies Brook Lapping, Blakeway, Below the Radar and Films of Record. Online it specialises in large public sector websites and its own business to business sites, plus major cross platform projects like Teachers TV.
2) The Communications division produces and manages online, print and events products for trade and public sector clients. In print, Ten Alps is a top UK contract publishing company - with around 600 specialist titles, plus 200 associated websites, e-books, video production and online TV services, plus specialist conferences and events across the public and private sector. Ten Alps owns media sales agency Ten Alps Media, corporate responsibility content specialist DBDA, and corporate communications agencies Ten Alps Creative and Ten Alps Vision.
The two divisions collaborate on crossover media products such as owned portals, online video channels and public sector media tenders - targeting the rapidly increasing customer demand for multimedia services.
Ten Alps was formed in 1999 by media entrepreneurs Alex Connock and Bob Geldof. Other key directors include Nitil Patel (finance director and CEO of the Content division) and Adrian Dunleavy, CEO of the Communications division, who joined the group in 2006 via the acquisition of publisher McMillan Scott.) Chairman is Brian Walden. Key creative staff include Dawn Boyfield MBE, Fiona Stourton, Roger Graef OBE, Brian Lapping MBE, Norma Percy and Denys Blakeway.
Ten Alps was launched on AiM in 2001, has completed 20 acquisitions, and achieved strong annual EPS growth in results from 2002-9. Broker is Canaccord Adams. Investor news is published on the stock market news service RNS, and on the investor relations section of Ten Alps' website.
History
Ten Alps was founded in 1999 by a team led by Alex Connock and Bob Geldof.
For £1 they bought Planet 24 Radio, a subsidiary of Geldof’s previous TV production company Planet 24, producer of The Big Breakfast and The Word, on the day Planet 24 TV was sold to ITV subsidiary Carlton Television. The name Ten Alps derives from Planet, spelled backwards.
Ten Alps has had strong growth since then listing on AiM in 2001, with turnover rising from under £2m to over £75m. Profits and earnings per share grew consistently every year from 2002-9.
The company now has 500 staff, with main offices in London and Manchester, plus Macclesfield, Belfast, Edinburgh, Fareham and Gateshead. Its output spans clients from the BBC and UK government to 60,000 customers around the UK and internationally.
During that period, the company has made twenty acquisitions: in factual TV, online content production and contract publishing. Two equity fundings have been achieved since 2001 – in 2006 and 2009.
Current Events
Ten Alps has declared 2010 as a key opportunity to roll out and grow its multiplatform factual media model in the UK and beyond.
The "all-media" economy (as News International executive James Murdoch has defined it) allows media companies to reach audiences in print, on TV and online at the same time.
Ten Alps is launching a number of new online channels in the UK and internationally, such as trade media aggregator Link2, and producing an increasing volume of material in online formats, including over half its published output. It is expanding in Asia, and also bidding for a major UK government contract in regional TV news, in partnership with Trinity Mirror Plc and the Press Association.
Investor news is published on the stock market news service RNS, and on the investor relations section of Ten Alps' website.
Ten Alps produces up to 100 factual TV programmes per year, and over 500 magazines and their associated e-books and events. All of the newsflow is covered and archived on Ten Alps' website News section.To subscribe for Ten Alps' email news service, email Moira@tenalps.com.
Ten Alps also publishes its extensive programming news on its Facebook site. Finally Ten Alps directors and creative staff frequently speak and blog on media industry and academic issues. Blogs are aggregated here.
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