Contract Wins

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Ten Alps PLC

22 July 2008

 



Press Release                                                                                        22 July 2008

Ten Alps PLC

'Ten Alps' or 'The Company'

Publishing Contract Wins 

Ten Alps, the factual media company, is pleased to announce several contract wins for its publishing subsidiaries Atalink Ltd. and Mongoose Media. 

Atalink Ltd has signed a new contract with Grand Designs Live, to produce a visitor's promotional chequebook for the event. Launched in 2005 following the success of the television show, Grand Designs Live has recently increased the duration of next year's event to ten days following popular demand.

In addition, two of Atalink's leading promotional chequebook contracts have been renewed. The Company will produce the promotional chequebook for the 2009 BBC Summer Festival, which incorporates Gardeners' World Live, The Good Food Show Summer and BBC Good Homes Magazine. Atalink will also produce Cosmopolitan magazine's Christmas chequebook on behalf of The National Magazine Company. The chequebook is circulated with the magazine's December issue. Cosmopolitan is a market leading women's interest magazine with an ABC of 460,276.

Atalink are experts in both trade publishing and the production and management of promotional booklets, known as chequebooks, which contain discount offers and promotions distributed either through high circulation magazines or to visitors at events. 

Mongoose Media has been awarded the contract for advertising sales for the Weekly Telegraph. The publication is targeted primarily at Brits abroad and delivers the best of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, together with specially written features focusing on issues of particular interest to expatriates. It is currently delivered to subscribers in over 180 countries and is available from news stands in over 50 countries, giving it an average weekly readership of 200,000 worldwide. 

Ten Alps publishes, contract publishes or manages advertising sales for around 740 titles and an increasing number of associated websites - through Ten Alps Publishing, Atalink, Mongoose Media and Sovereign.

Media enquiries:

Pelham, Financial PR
Alex Walters/ Hugh Barker	Tel: [phone]
	www.pelhampr.com
Ten Alps Plc
Jo Philips	Tel: [phone]
	www.tenalps.com

About Ten Alps

Ten Alps Plc is a factual media company - on TV, online and in print.  

As a multi-platform producer, it engages with audiences and customers across all media outlets.

Ten Alps has market-leading positions in all its three key areas of output:  

• On TV it produces for Dispatches, Panorama and other key factual programmes for Channel 4, the BBC and international broadcasters. One of its companies is preferred supplier for a major five-year government contract to operate the Teachers TV channel.  

• Online it produces Kent TV, the first fully local authority-funded broadband TV service in the UK, alongside B2B websites and online TV projects, such as the forthcoming Vets TV. It also produces online TV advertising. 

• In Print it is one of the UK's largest contract and specialist publishers, with a growing portfolio of 740 titles across specialist media sectors including finance, environment, public sector and international trade. 

Ten Alps was founded in 1999 by Alex Connock and Bob Geldof.

It has over 650 staff with main offices in London and Manchester, and smaller offices in Dublin, Edinburgh and Gateshead.

Ten Alps has had seven consecutive years of growth since listing on AiM in 2001, with turnover rising from £2m to £81.4m in the financial year to March 31 2008.

During that period, seventeen acquisitions have been made: in factual TV (including leading producers Brook Lapping and Blakeway), online (video advertising producer MMA, CSR specialists DBDA ) and in print (McMillan Scott, Mongoose, Atalink, Camerons, Sovereign - all of which now have substantial online portfolios.) Only one equity funding has been made since 2001.

 

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