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RNS Number : 6141N  Facilities by ADF plc  24 January 2023

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24 January 2023

 

Facilities by ADF plc

("Facilities by ADF", the "Company" or the "Group")

Location One joins ADF at Pioneer Film Studios in Scotland

 

Facilities by ADF, the leading provider of premium serviced production
facilities to the UK film and high-end television (HETV) industry, today
announces that Location One, the UK's largest integrated TV
and film location service and equipment hire company, which was acquired by
ADF in December 2022, will be opening a branch at Pioneer Film Studios
(Pioneer) in Scotland, the country's newest and largest film studio.

 

Pioneer Film Studios stands at over 1.2 million square feet, providing studio
space, workshop areas, backlot/yards, and training facilities which includes
editing suites and production office space. ADF recently opened a new office
at Pioneer in response to the growth in the film and HETV market in Scotland
and now Location One is joining alongside. Scotland has witnessed extensive
studio space expansion and inward investment in recent years as global
productions increasingly choose the country's natural landscape and strong
creative sector.

 

Location One's new branch will offer generators, water bowsers, lighting
equipment, environmentally friendly battery-stores/other renewable solutions
and other capital light consumables. It leads its market with the ECOPOD
recycling solution - enabling full reporting for food, composting, recycling,
and general waste streams for productions embracing albert and similar
schemes. Like Facilities by ADF, Location One is an approved Albert supplier.

 

Pioneer is in the heart of Glasgow and will enable Location One to provide
local support in the region and provide the enlarged Group with direct access
to the range of productions scheduled to be filmed at Pioneer. The new base
will strengthen the newly enlarged Group's regional presence alongside global
production companies, and by working with Pioneer Films Studios, the Group
will be capable of bringing its joint offering to one of the largest emerging
markets within the UK Film and TV industry.

 

Marsden Proctor, Chief Executive of Facilities by ADF, commented:

"We are excited to be joined by Location One at Pioneer's state of the art
studios to bring our compelling and expanded offering to the growing Film and
HETV market in Scotland. Location One's new branch moves us closer to
achieving our vision of becoming a One-Stop-Shop for Film and high-end TV
production across the UK. We are already expanding our community in the region
following the opening of our own office at Pioneer in October and look forward
to the future opportunities this new partnership will bring."

 

Crispin Hardy, founder and CEO of Location One, commented:

"Opening a branch in Scotland is the next step in our expansion plans and with
a site like Pioneer's, we now have the ability to service one of the few
remaining emerging markets as well as help to establish a community for the
industry in the region. We are excited to be joining ADF in Scotland, and in
partnership with Pioneer, we look forward to the future prospects available to
us."

 

Jamie McCoy, Digital Director & Co-Founder of Pioneer Film Studios, added:

"We are excited to welcome Location One to our campus as Scotland increasingly
becomes a hub for high-end productions. Our mission is to bring the industry
and whole supply chain together on site and now with Location One's new branch
offering its high-quality services and equipment, we are one step closer to
achieving this goal."

 

 

For further enquiries:

 

 Facilities by ADF plc                                        via Alma PR

 Marsden Proctor, Chief Executive Officer

 Neil Evans, Chief Financial Officer

 John Richards, Chairman

 Cenkos (Nominated Adviser and Broker)                        Tel: +44 (0)20 7397 8900

 Ben Jeynes / Max Gould / George Lawson - Corporate Finance

 Alex Pollen - Sales

 Alma PR (Financial PR)                                       Tel: +44 (0)20 3405 0205

 Josh Royston                                                 facilitiesbyadf@almapr.co.uk

 Hannah Campbell

 

OVERVIEW OF FACILITIES BY ADF

 

ADF's production fleet is made up of premium mobile make-up, costume and
artiste trailers, production offices, mobile bathrooms (known as honey
wagons), diners, school rooms and technical vehicles. The Group provides these
production facilities and additional services after a planning process with
the customer held well in advance of filming. In servicing productions, ADF
staff are available on site and each production is allocated an account
manager who acts as a single lead point of contact during filming.

 

The Group serves customers in an industry that has experienced significant
growth in recent years, with additional demand driven by a material rise in
the consumption of film and HETV content via streaming platforms such as
Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime. The UK film and TV industry has directly
benefited during this growth due to the quality of its production facilities
and studios, highly skilled domestic workforce, geography, accessibility to
Europe, English language environment and strong governmental support. Major US
streaming companies have now set up permanent bases in the UK, with the UK now
Netflix's third largest operation after the USA and Canada.

 

In December 2022, ADF acquired Location One Limited, the UK's largest
integrated TV and film location service and equipment hire company, bringing
highly complementary services to the business, and bringing cross selling
opportunities to the enlarged Group, as well as delivering efficiencies
through central services.

 

Overview of Pioneer Studios

Pioneer Film Studios is Scotland's newest and largest film and HETV studio
campus. Once home to the popular Black and White whisky, Pioneer's campus
stands at over 1.2million square feet with a strong balance of Office, Studio,
Workshop, Ancillary and Yard space. Pioneer have added several industry
suppliers to the site with a view to continuing to support and grow the
industry in Scotland working with Screen Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and
groups like Screen Facilities Scotland to become the home of Scottish
Filmmakers.

Pioneer Film Studios is part of a management group which also includes Pioneer
Creative, a Community Interest Company established to support the grassroots
of the industry in Scotland and create supported pathways into the industry
and Pioneer Accountancy, an Industry specific Accountancy Practice for
freelancers and industry companies to access a series of industry aware
accountancy support services. The team behind Pioneer have a simple mantra;
Pioneer Film Studios is the champion of productions large and small. Designed
to be one of the easiest places for productions to base, from the immediate
accommodation options, transport links & facilities to the design of the
studio infrastructure and strong relationships with supporting service
suppliers, whatever a production needs - Pioneer can help you achieve it.

 

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