Servecast Acquires Tornado Productions Limited
London - October 21, 2003
Servecast Limited, the leading international provider of
webcasting solutions today announced that it had completed
the acquisition of Tornado Productions Ltd, one of the UK's
leading providers of webcasting and streaming media solutions.
The combination of Tornado and Servecast will result in an
enlarged group which will be the clear market leader in the
United Kingdom, Europe's largest market for webcasting solutions.
Set up in 1999, Tornado Productions provides webcasting and
streaming media solutions to a broad range of leading UK corporates
and media companies. Its clients include Shell, Microsoft,
BBC, EMAP, Old Mutual, Cisco, Rolls Royce, HSBC, Royal and
Sun Alliance, Egg and Selfridges. Last year, it won the BTOpenworld
Award for Best Use of Broadband.
Servecast has offices in Dublin and London and provides webcasting
solutions to the corporate, sports and media markets throughout
the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe. Servecast's clients
include BSkyB, Reuters, Deloitte, Investis, Logica CMG, Arsenal
FC, Liverpool FC, Glasgow Celtic FC, Chelsea FC, NTL and Globecast.
Darach Deehan, CEO, Servecast, said "The addition of
the Tornado customer base and highly skilled team results
in a further strengthening of our leading position in the
UK webcasting market. Together, we will be in a position to
offer our combined customer base enhanced products and services
and we will be in a very strong position to continue the strong
growth which we have been experiencing over the last eighteen
months."
John Howkins, Chairman, Tornado Productions, said "When
we started in 1999 we were one of the first webcasting companies
in Britain. Today, the industry's growth is dependent upon
consolidating into a few major players. We are delighted to
be joining forces with Servecast, a well-established and highly
successful company with excellent management. The two companies'
products and clients complement each other very well."
For further information contact:
Darach Deehan, CEO, Servecast
Tel: +353 1 474 8002
About Servecast;
Servecast is the leading provider of webcasting solutions
for the Enterprise, Sports and media sectors. Its enterprise
software solutions enable corporations to harness the power
of webcasting as part of their communications and training
programmes. Its solutions for the sports and media sectors
enable content owners to monetize their content by securely
delivering it to a global broadband audience.
Contact Servecast here.
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