Change of Auditor

Zoo Digital Group PLC

24 January 2025

 

24 January 2025

ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

("ZOO", the "Group" or the "Company")

Change of Auditor

ZOO Digital Group plc (LON: ZOO), a world-leading provider of cloud-based localisation and digital distribution services to the global entertainment industry, today announces the appointment of HaysMac LLP ("HaysMac") as the Group's auditor for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.

HaysMac acts for a number of public companies and has a strong presence in the Creative, Media, and Technology sectors. The Group was impressed throughout the recruitment process with the HaysMac account team, their references, and their specific approach to the audit, and intends to confirm the appointment in a vote of shareholders at the Company's next Annual General Meeting.

The appointment of HaysMac on 23 January 2025 follows the resignation of Grant Thornton UK LLP ("GT") on 6 December 2024.

As required by Section 519 of the Companies Act 2006, GT have confirmed to the Company that there are no circumstances connected with their resignation which they consider should be brought to the attention of the members or creditors of the Company.

The Board wishes to take this opportunity to thank GT for its services to the Group in recent years.

For further enquiries, please contact:
ZOO Digital Group plc	[phone]
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Phillip Blundell - Chief Financial Officer
Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Simon Bridges / Harry Gooden / Andrew Potts / George Grainger
Vigo Consulting (Financial PR)	[phone]
Tim McCall / Rozi Morris	[e-mail]

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital supports major Hollywood studios and streaming services to globalise their content and reach audiences everywhere, by providing leading, technology-enabled localisation and media services.

Founded in 2001, ZOO Digital operates from hubs in Los Angeles, London, Dubai, Turkey, South Korea, India, Denmark, Spain, Italy and Germany with a development and production centre in Sheffield, UK.

The Group provides media services through its platforms that include: ZOOsubs, ZOOdubs and ZOOstudio. Its full-service proposition delivers the end-to-end services required to prepare both original and catalogue content for digital distribution; these services include dubbing, subtitling & captioning, metadata creation & localisation, mastering, artwork localisation and media processing. Alongside this offering, ZOO also provides its customers with management platforms and strategic solutions to support their own internal globalisation operations.

ZOO is a go-to service partner for media businesses looking to globalise their content across different territories, languages and distribution platforms. Using its innovative technology-enabled approach, ZOO helps its customers to reduce time to market, lower costs and deliver high quality products to their global audiences. The business has frameworks in place with all major Hollywood studios and streaming services. Its customers include Disney, NBCUniversal, HBO and Paramount Global.

ZOO's competitive advantage arises from three interlinking factors - the leading role it has played in the digital transformation of its sector; the world class proprietary platforms that it develops to enable this transformation; and the global supply chain of thousands of freelancers, working collaboratively in ZOO's platforms, which delivers services that scale easily to meet demand. These factors combine to make ZOO uniquely placed to capitalise on new market opportunities in a fast-paced and constantly evolving industry.

www.zoodigital.com

 

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