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The Tinopolis Group
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelevision production
Founded1990; 35 years ago (1990)
HeadquartersLlanelli, Wales
Number of locations
5 (2018)
Key people
Ron Jones (executive chairman)
Arwel Rees (CEO)
Angharad Mair (chairman, Wales)
Jeff Foulser (chairman, Sunset + Vine)
John Willis (CEO, Mentorn)
Revenue£236 million (2022)
£16.23 million (2022)
£3.46 million (2022)
Number of employees
529 (2022)
Websitewww.tinopolis.com

The Tinopolis Group is an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. It produces over 4,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters.[1]

History

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In October 2005, Tinopolis announced its potential takeover approach to acquire London-based television production company Mentorn Media including its Scottish production office Mentorn Scotland and its international distribution arm Mentorn International alongside its parent production group Television Corporation (including its production offices in both Oxford and Glasgow) and its fellow production subsidiaries Folio Productions, Sunset+Vine and Redback Films in a deal that would expand Tinopolis' sports production activities and boost its operations into London.[2]

In June 2011, Tinopolis announced it had entered the American production market by acquiring Los Angeles-based American unscripted reality production company A. Smith & Co. Productions, the acquisition of American unscripted production outfit A. Smith & Co. Productions had gained Tinopolis its own American production subsidiary with Tinopolis merging its American production operations into the acquired American studio as A. Smith & Co. Productions would collaborate with Tinopolis' fellow subsidiaries such as Sunset+Vine to co-produce content and adapt Tinopolis' formats into America as A. Smith & Co.'s co-founders Arthur Smith and Kent Weed had continued to lead the acquired Los Angeles-based American unscripted production company under Tinopolis with its founders had joined Tinopolis' board of directors[3][4]

In August 2011 following Tinopolis' entry into the United States and the acquisition of A. Smith & Co Productions, Tinopolis announced it had brought Los-Angeles-based American unscripted production company BASE Productions with its production offices based in both Burbank and Washington. The acquisition of Los Angeles-based American production company BASE Productions marked Tinopolis' second American production studio acquisition and it boosted its American operations in that country whilst BASE Productions' founders John Brenkus and Mickey Stern continued operating the production studio within Tinopolis as the former joined Tinopolis' board.[5][6]

In December 2012, Tinopolis had expanded its distribution activities and its international production operations with the acquisition of London-based British global media international distribution company that distributes content from Passion Distribution, giving Tinopolis its own international distribution division as Passion Distribution's founder Sally Miles had continued leading Tinopolis' newly acquired international distribution arm Passion Distribution with Tinopolis had merged its fellow international distribution subsidiary and former distribution division of Tinopolis' subsidiary Mentorn Media, Mentorn International (MINT) and its programming catalogue into the acquired London-based distribution unit Passion Distribution with Passion started distributing future programmes from Tinopolis' unit Mentorn and the former's own production units worldwide.[7][8][9] Three days later in that same month, Tinopolis had acquired Firecracker Films.[10][11]

Operations

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Company Founded Acquired Ref.
A. Smith & Co. 2000 2011 [3]
Daybreak Pictures 2006 — [12]
fFatti fFilms 2013 — [13]
Fiction Factory Films 2002 — [14]
Firecracker Films 2002 2012 [10]
Magical Elves 2001 2014 [15]
Mentorn 1985 2006 [16]
MSV Post — —
Passion Distribution 2008 2012 [7]
Pioneer Productions 1988 2009 [17]
Sunset+Vine 1976 2006 [16]
Thunderclap Media 2017 — [18]
Tinint 1999 —
Tinopolis Cymru — —
Tinopolis Factual Group Scotland 2002 —
Video Arts 1972 2007 [19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Group". Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. ^ Tryhorn, Chris (13 October 2005). "Television Corp receives takeover approach". The Guardian.
  3. ^ a b Finke, Nikki (28 June 2011). "A. Smith & Co Prods Merges With UK-Based Tinopolis Group For $100M Deal Creating Reality TV Powerhouse". Deadline. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Tinopolis snaps up A Smith & Co". Variety. 28 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Tinopolis Acquires BASE Productions". World Screen. 8 August 2011.
  6. ^ Smitherman, Gary (8 August 2011). "Tinopolis touches Base with $75m buy-out". C21Media.
  7. ^ a b "Tinopolis buys Passion Distribution". Variety. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  8. ^ Evans, Rhodri (26 March 2013). "Tinopolis acquires Passion to extend its global reach". Wales Online.
  9. ^ "Tinopolis buys out Passion". C21Media. 3 December 2012.
  10. ^ a b Budden, Robert (6 December 2012). "Tinopolis snaps up Firecracker Films". Financial Times. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  11. ^ Whittingham, Clive (6 December 2012). "Tinopolis snaps up Firecracker". C21Media.
  12. ^ Kemp, Stuart (8 December 2006). "Daybreak on horizon for Mentorn". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 December 2006.
  13. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (20 March 2014). "Rhys Ifans to star in Under Milk Wood film". Screen Daily. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  14. ^ "Book of Projects - Rome 2017" (PDF). www.miamarket.it.
  15. ^ Anderson, Kelly (3 February 2014). "Tinopolis Group acquires Magical Elves". Realscreen. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  16. ^ a b Brown, Maggie (16 January 2006). "A new test for Tinopolis". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2006.
  17. ^ Gibb, Lindsay (29 October 2009). "Tinopolis Group acquires Pioneer Productions". Realscreen. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
  18. ^ Media, Thunderclap (17 January 2018). "THUNDERCLAP MEDIA EXPANDS TEAM WITH FIRST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER HIRE". Tinopolis. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  19. ^ Dowell, Ben (4 May 2007). "Tinopolis makes £2.4m acquisition". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
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