Executive Summary
Ten Alps Plc (AIM:TAL) is a UK based multimediacompany founded in 1999.
Ten Alps has two complementary divisions - Content and Communications - each producing and commercialising factual media. The Content Division produces TV and online TV. The Communications Division provides three services: contract publishing, media sales and creative services.
Content division
The division produces agenda-setting documentary output for BBC, Channel 4 and many other broadcasters, as well as globally-recognised online education channel Teachers TV. It includes TV production companies Brook Lapping, Films of Record, Below the Radar and Blakeway. Ten Alps Asia opened in August 2009 catering to Far Eastern clients from Singapore. Key staff include Nitil Patel, Fiona Stourton, Roger Graef and Norma Percy.
Communications division
The division provides three services: contract publishing, media sales and creative services. Businesses include Ten Alps Media, Ten Alps Publishing, design and web design business Ten Alps Creative, corporate video and communications company Ten Alps Vision and ground-breaking corporate responsibility content production company DBDA. The division is run by Adrian Dunleavy.
The two divisions collaborate on crossover media products such as owned portals, online video channels and public sector media tenders - targetting the rapidly increasing customer demand for multimedia services.
Ten Alps was formed in 1999 by media entrepreneurs Alex Connock and Bob Geldof.
Ten Alps was launched on AiM in 2001, has completed 22 acquisition. 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.
Company 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 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 every year from…
