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Motive Television plc has been formed to acquire businesses
in the independent television production sector. The management
of Motive Television plc is a team of proven and experienced
industry executives that intends to use its experience of mergers
and acquisitions in the television sector to identify profitable
businesses with growth potential.
Motive Television PLC floated on the Alternative Investment Market
(AIM) in May 2005. It will be an acquirer of target companies in the
independent television production sector. The Directors expect to raise
additional finance either through raising debt and/or through the issue
of further equity to complete any acquisitions the Company may identify.
Michael Pilsworth has worked in the television industry since 1979. From 1993 to 2002
he was CEO of Chrysalis Television, having founded the company from start-up
as a new division of the Chrysalis Group plc. Michael built the company through
both organic growth and a large number of mergers and acquisitions.
Chrysalis withdrew from the television sector in 2003 and sold Chrysalis Television
for £51 million to a management buy-in group backed by Bridgepoint Capital.
At the time of the sale the division’s annual turnover was £87 million with
annual ebitda of £8.4 million.
Prior to joining Chrysalis in 1993, Michael was from 1990 Managing Director
of SelecTV plc, a USM-listed independent television production company that
was sold to Pearson and MAI/UNM in 1996 for £40 million, the company’s shares
having risen from 7p to 34p. He began his career at LWT and in 1986 became
Controller of Corporate Development at TVS, responsible for mergers and acquisitions.
Ian Carysfort Buckley, A.C.A. – Finance Director
Ian Buckley was Finance Director of SelecTV plc and helped bring about its sale to Pearson.
He is a chartered accountant with wide experience of the independent TV production and
distribution sector. Since leaving SelecTV in 1996 he has run his own merger and acquisitions
consultancy, Carysfort, specializing in the independent TV production sector.
Motive Television PLC
21 Spectrum House
32-34 Gordon House Rd
London NW5 1LP
Tel. +44 20 7428 2004
Fax. +44 20 7482 6072
Email motive@motivetelevision.co.uk
Visit our company sites:
Brown Eyed Boy Ltd. www.browneyedboy.com
Luminous Productions Ltd. www.luminoustv.co.uk
Motive Television Ltd (Dublin). www.motive.ie
Scarlet TV Ltd. www.scarlet-tv.co.uk