Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One deepens losses days before £3.3bn Hasbro merger vote Peppa Pig swings to loss days before Hasbro merger vote Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One has revealed a £43.9m loss in the first quarter of the year, just days before Hasbro puts a massive takeover offer to a shareholder vote. The media firm posted a £43.9m loss, up from a £6.8m loss this time last year, blaming higher debt and its acquisition of Audio Network. [...]
Best 25 stocks in the last tax year City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. The FTSE 100 outperformed mid-caps last tax year, but the top FTSE 350 performers might surprise you. Take a look at the financial year ended on the 5th April, with the 25 top performing stocks in the FTSE 350 all producing gains of 40 per cent or more over the [...]
Entertainment One share price falls as Marwyn Value Investors sells Peppa Pig slice The investment firm behind the maker of hit kids TV show Peppa Pig has sold off part of its stake in the company. Marwyn Value Investors has sold a nine per cent holding in production company Entertainment One, which is also the distributor of films such as the Hunger Games and 12 Years a Slave, [...]
Entertainment One share price rises as Peppa Pig helps profit grow despite film struggles May 19, 2015 The figures Entertainment One's share price jumped by two per cent in early trading as the group delivered a 13 per cent rise in full year profit before tax to £44m as sales of pre-school Peppa Pig properties hit $1bn (£640m) worldwide. Revenue at the group fell by five per cent from £823m to £785.8m – [...]
Peppa Pig brings home the bacon: Entertainment One share price rises after raising profit expectation January 27, 2015 The figures Full-year earnings are expected ahead of forecast for the Peppa Pig maker sending shares as much as 10 per cent higher in early trading. Entertainment One's TV business grew 36.8 per cent for the nine months to 31 December, offsetting a 13.5 per cent decline in its film business. Peppa Pig, the children’s [...]
Peppa Pig maker Entertainment One splashes cash on US deal as finance boss Giles Willits talks expansion plans January 6, 2015 Giles Willits is sitting in the boardroom of Entertainment One’s offices in west London with a family of Peppa Pig cuddly toys gazing up at him. The British TV phenomenon – Peppa Pig, that is – is one of the production group’s most successful exports. But today pigs are forgotten and the group’s jolly finance [...]
Peppa Pig meets Saving Private Ryan? Entertainment One buys stake in Mark Gordon Co January 6, 2015 Is this the beginning of new mash-up, a la Alien vs Predator? The production company known best for its Peppa Pig TV series has just acquired a majority stake in the company founded by the producer behind, among other things, Saving Private Ryan. Entertainment One (known to its friends as eOne) said this morning it had bought [...]
Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One doubles its profit to £2.4m but revenues fall November 18, 2014 Entertainment One, the company behind Peppa Pig, yesterday said it was confident in producing profit growth in line with full-year expectations as it forecast improvements in film box office performance. Its forecast came despite weaker film revenues offsetting growth in television in its first half. The FTSE 250-listed company posted a pre-tax profit of £2.4m, [...]
Gabriella “Goat” Capra sues Peppa Pig producers for €100,000 after becoming “object of scorn” November 17, 2014 A woman who shares her name with a character in Peppa Pig is suing the maker of the kid’s cartoon after being teased about it. An Italian woman named Gabriella Capra, whose last name means goat, shares her name with a character in the show called Gabriella Goat. Capra is demanding €100,000 (£80,000) in compensation [...]
Peppa is the Pig with the golden touch for Entertainment One July 23, 2014 ENTERTAINMENT One, the FTSE 250-listed film and TV distributor, yesterday said it was on track to deliver full-year profits in line with expectations after reporting that revenues for the quarter to 30 June rose four per cent. The firm said the sales of Peppa Pig merchandise – in the US soft goods sector, including bedding, [...]