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.

The Board of ITV plc is committed to business integrity and high ethical values across the Group’s operations. As an essential part of this commitment, the Board supports high standards of corporate governance and has a policy of seeking to comply with the recommendations of the Combined Code and voting guidelines of our major institutional investors where appropriate.

CRT/Tanaka (formerly Carter Ryley Thomas) specializes in a broad range of corporate, consumer, and health science areas of practice. The agency's services include media relations, product launch support, crisis communications, direct marketing, and advertising. Its clients include Air New Zealand, Charles Schwab, Girl Scouts of the USA, HoMedics, and Performance Food Group. Carter Ryley Thomas' 2005 acquisition of Patrice Tanaka & Company bolstered the firm's consumer portfolio and added a New York outpost to the firm's regional offices, located in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as in Los Angeles.

The Sterling-Rice Group was co-founded in 1984 by Rick Sterling and Michael Rice, who had worked together at Celestial Seasonings. The Sterling-Rice Group knows how to build a brand's image. Services include media planning and buying, brand design, and online advertising. The firm serves customers ranging from startups to FORTUNE 500 companies. The Sterling-Rice company has worked with numerous food and beverage clients, including Kraft, Coors, and Starbucks, though it has also had clients in a variety of industries such as telecommunications ( Qwest Communications) and transportation (Frontier Airlines).

Warner Music Group Corp., a music content company, provides recorded music and music publishing services worldwide. The company’s Recorded Music segment involves in the discovery and development of artists; and related marketing, distribution, and licensing of recorded music produced by such artists. This segment also markets its music catalog through compilations and reissuances of previously released music and video titles, as well as licenses recordings to and from third parties for various uses, including film and television soundtracks. In addition, this segment markets, sells, and licenses recorded music in various physical formats, such as compact discs, cassettes, LPs, and digital versatile discs (DVDs); and various digital formats, such as downloads and ringtones. The company’s collection of music record labels include Asylum, Atlantic, Bad Boy, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros., and Word. Its Music Publishing segment owns and acquires rights to musical compositions, markets these compositions, and receives royalties or fees for their use. This segment owns or controls rights to approximately one million musical compositions, including various pop hits, American standards, folk songs, and motion picture and theatrical compositions. In addition, its music catalog includes approximately 65,000 songwriters and composers; and a range of genres, including pop, rock, jazz, country, R&B, hip-hop, rap, reggae, Latin, folk, blues, symphonic, soul, Broadway, techno, alternative, gospel, and other Christian music. Further, this segment administers the music and soundtracks of various third-party television and film producers and studios. Warner Music Group Corp. company markets and sells its music and DVD products to retailers and wholesale distributors. Warner Music Group Corp. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Larson Studios is an audio postproduction firm specializing in digital mixing for television the film, television, and multimedia industries. The company has worked on such programs as Jericho, The Shield, Hannah Montana, Top Chef, Becker, Frasier, and Touched By An Angel. It also handled the post-production audio for Bon Jovi's live concert DVD This Left Feels Right: Live Limited Edition. Larson Studios completes its projects in house at its 10,000 square-foot facilities.

For the last 15 years, Massini Group has enabled Fortune 500 enterprise clients to penetrate the small and medium business market more effectively through analytical process engineering and database marketing. Massini Group has successfully increased sales and decreased cost-of-sales for best-in-class companies in the computer hardware, financial services, telecommunications, deregulated energy, office automation, business travel, and enterprise software industries.Massiniespecially adept at optimizing large scale telemarketing and telesales environments via database development and performance analytics, resulting in leading indicator metrics related to cost and performance. Additionally, Massini Group builds, manages and hosts customer master, comprehensive marketing universe, marketing reference databases and web-enabled response integration and management systems.

Madison Capital Partners owns a controlling stake in Money Mailer, which was founded in 1979. Money Mailer which operates through a network of about 300 franchises in more than 30 states throughout the US, distributes oversized red, white, and blue envelopes filled with coupons promoting local businesses. The goal is to help the businesses reach three main consumer segments: existing customers, people who have moved recently, and shoppers. Overall, the company's franchisees mail about 190 million envelopes annually to about 21 million households.

AudienceScience provides behavioral targeting services that help clients determine prime audiences for specific campaigns. AudienceScience primarily serves Web publishers (such as Dow Jones, FT.com, The Wall Street Journal Online, and Newsweek) that can then offer advertisers and ad agencies with behaviorally targeted audiences. It provides search-based and rules-based targeting and segments audiences based on search terms used or other criteria such as geographic location, or how often they visit a certain portion of the site.

IM Internationalmedia is the result of a merger between film distribution companies Intermedia and Pacifica Entertainment. Internationalmedia offers motion picture development, financing, and distribution through its Intermedia Films and Intermedia Cinema operations in Germany, the UK, and the US. Among the films it has handled are Adaptation, Gangs of New York, Nurse Betty, and Alexander. Intermedia TV develops, finances, produces, and distributes TV formats for the international market. The financially troubled company declared bankruptcy in 2008.

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