Contract wins

12th May 2008 06:00

PRESS RELEASE 9 MAY 2008 TEN ALPS CONTRACT WINS Factual media company Ten Alps announces contract wins for one of its publishing operations Mongoose Media Limited. Acquired in June 2007 Mongoose has now been recruited to run the classified advertising sales for Sainsbury's and Delicious magazines, and has won contracts to represent Yoga magazine and the Country Gentlemen's Association magazine, Country. Overall 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 and Sovereign. Media enquiries: Pelham, Financial PR Alex Walters/ Hugh Barker Tel: +44 (0) 20 7743 6670 www.pelhampr.com Ten Alps Plc Jo Philips Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 2484 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 a forecast 78m in the financial year to March 31 2008. During that period, sixteen 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. ENDNRADKLFBVEBFBBE

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