Village Roadshow commenced operating in 1954, owning and managing one of the first drive-in cinemas in Australia in the Melbourne suburb of Croydon. From these modest beginnings, the Company gradually expanded its drive-in cinema circuit with the addition of more traditional or "hardtop" cinemas in major population centres. To strengthen its position through business diversification, Village Roadshow entered the vertically related businesses of film distribution in the 1960’s and film production in the 1970’s.In the eighties Village Roadshow was a pioneer in the development of state of the art multiplex cinema complexes. The Group’s developments raised cinema exhibition standards to new levels by utilising stadium seating, the latest sound systems and advanced projection technologies. These cinemas were the forerunners to the high quality multiplexes that operate in Village Roadshow’s cinemas today In the late eighties Village Roadshow’s growth strategy required greater access to capital. This was achieved through a "back door" stock market listing and additional capital raising through the takeover of De Laurentis Entertainment Limited in 1988, which then changed its name to Village Roadshow Limited, still under the majority ownership of the Kirby and Burke families' holding company, Village Roadshow Corporation. In the nineties, Village Roadshow sought to further strengthen its position by diversifying into complementary media and entertainment businesses. This included the purchase and development of theme parks: initially Wet’n’Wild (originally Cades County) in 1989, then Warner Bros. Movie World which opened in 1992, the acquisition of Sea World followed later in 1992 and then the more recent opening of Australian Outback Spectacular in 2006. Also in the nineties Village Roadshow purchased the Triple M radio network and subsequently integrated it to create the Austereo Group. This is a separately ASX listed company in which Village Roadshow has a majority shareholding. More recently Village Roadshow has scaled back its international cinema exhibition circuit whilst expanding its luxury premier cinema experience, Gold Class, into the United States market. In addition, the company has merged its Village Roadshow Pictures arm with Concord Music Group to form a new Los Angeles based diversified entertainment division, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.

EMI's business is keeping music fans entertained. The #4 record company in terms of market share (behind Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group) houses recorded music segment EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing. EMI Music distributes CDs, videos, and other formats primarily through imprints and divisions such as Capitol Records and Virgin, and sports a roster of artists such as The Beastie Boys, Norah Jones, and Lenny Kravitz. EMI Music Publishing, the world's largest music publisher, handles the rights to more than a million songs. EMI Music operates through regional divisions (EMI Music North America, International, and UK & Ireland). Private equity firm Terra Firma owns EMI.

Film Roman was founded in 1984 by Phil Roman, a former animator at Walt Disney. Film Roman company is part of Starz Media, which has announced it's selling the studio to a group of investors lead by Scott Greenberg, a former Film Roman president. Film Roman (dba DPS Film Roman) puts the blue in Marge Simpson's hair and keeps Hank Hill supplied with plenty of propane and propane accessories. The company develops and distributes animated programs, including "The Simpsons", "King of the Hill", and Super Hero Squad. Film Roman has branched into other areas, such as Internet broadcasting, live-action TV, digital animation, and advertising (the company produces commercials for Pepsi and other firms).

Gyro International (doing business as GyroHSR) provides marketing communications services for business-to-business clients offering strategy development, digital advertising, media research and planning, interactive marketing, and public relations services. It has particular expertise within the health care sector and has provided its integrated marketing services to build such big-name brands as American Express, Google, and GE. In addition to offices across Europe, the company has offices in Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, New York, and San Francisco. GyroHSR was formed in April 2009 through the merger of Cincinnati based-HSR Business to Business, Inc and Gyro International, headquartered in London.

SayOne Media (formerly Conquest Business Media) publishes The Manufacturer (with both US and UK editions), which digests the problems and challenges of the manufacturing industry. Other titles include environmental magazine Green Business and The Boardroom, a magazine for business executives and directors. SayOne Media company also operates Manufacturer LIVE, one of the UK's biggest manufacturing conference and exhibitor events. Its Manufacturing Alliance is a network for senior management in manufacturing.

KIT digital, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides Internet Protocol (IP)-based video asset management solutions. The company's end-to-end software platform KIT VX enables enterprise clients to acquire, manage, and distribute video assets across the personal computer, mobile device, and IPTV-enabled television set. Its KIT VX application ranges from commercial video distribution to internal corporate deployments, including corporate communications, human resources, training, security, and surveillance. KIT digital, Inc. also provides content provision, content management system, integration services, and marketing services. KIT digital company primarily serves a range of industries, including media and entertainment, telecommunications, retail, consumer/packaged goods, shipping/logistics, automotive, and financial services. KIT digital, Inc. operates principally in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. KIT digital company was formerly known as ROO Group, Inc. and changed its name to KIT digital, Inc. in May 2008. KIT digital company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Atlanta, Cairo, Cologne, Dubai, Melbourne, London, New York, Stockholm, and Toronto.

Boston Herald Inc. publishes the Boston Herald newspaper, which competes for readers with The Boston Globe (owned by The New York Times Company). The paper, which boasts a weekday circulation of more than 160,000, also publishes news online. The Boston Herald traces its roots back to 1846 when the city saw the first copy of The Herald published. After numerous incarnations, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought The Herald American in 1982, changing its name back to the Boston Herald. Publisher Patrick Purcell later acquired the paper in 1994; it operates today as a subsidiary of his Herald Media company.

Canongate Books had a troubled past, going into receivership twice since its 1973 founding; publisher Jamie Byng led a rescue acquisition of the company in 1994. Canongate Books has offices in Scotland and the UK. The Life of Pi helped breathe new life into Canongate Books. The small independent publisher scored big with Yann Martel's fantastical tale of a shipwreck survivor, which won the Booker Prize in 2002. Canongate Books has racked up several successes since then, including publishing 2003 Booker Prize winner Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre, and winning the UK Publisher of the Year title in 2003 and the Queen's Award for enterprise in 2005.

Dovetail Public Relations loves it when a communication plan comes together. Founded in 1993, Dovetail Public Relations provides a full range of media and analyst relations services, including corporate publicity, press event planning, tradeshow support, and press material creation. Dovetail Public Relations specializes in serving high-tech clientele and meeting the PR needs of venture-backed companies. Clients include HelloSoft, Shareholder.com, and Applied Micro Circuits.

Gener8Xion Entertainment is a family/faith-based genre film and TV production and distribution company. The company's first movie was the 2006 biblical epic One Night with the King, a movie based on the novel Hadassah by Tommy Tenney. Gener8Xion released its second motion picture, Noelle, in 2007. Other activities include distribution rights to the documentary film Lord Save Us from Your Followers, as well as the rights to the script for an animated feature-length project entitled The Prodigal, and the rights to Omega Code and Omega Code 2. In addition, Gener8Xion is engaged in the manufacture, sale, and rental of film and video lighting equipment through its Cinemills division.

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