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GENERAL: VGL: VGL - Movio signs contract with VUE Entertainment
MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT
22 February 2016, Vista Group International Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
MOVIO, a Vista Group International Company, Signs Deal with
Vue Entertainment, the Largest Cinema Exhibition Group in Europe,
for Movio Cinema Platform
Movio, a company of Vista Group International, and Vue Entertainment, part of
Vue International, have entered into a multi-year agreement for Movio's
flagship product Movio Cinema for deployment in 84 theatres throughout the UK
and Ireland.
The signing of the deal is significant for Movio and strategic in terms of
the European market. Vue Entertainment is a leader in the premium
entertainment "big screen" experience. Its parent company, Vue
International, is one of the largest cinema groups outside the United States,
and has led the way in consolidation in the cinema market as one of the
fastest growing cinema groups in Europe. Since 2012, Vue has acquired Apollo
Cinemas (United Kingdom), CinemaxX (Germany), Multikino (Poland), Space
Cinemas (Italy) and JT Bisocopen (Netherlands), spanning ten countries with
209 sites and 1,859 screens.
Movio Cinema makes it faster and more cost-efficient for cinema exhibitors to
analyse their data and execute personalised campaigns to their customers. The
seamless integration with Vista's industry-leading cinema management system -
Vista Cinema, already operational in Vue Entertainment locations, resulted in
the acquisition of the Vista Loyalty module to complement this
implementation.
Brian Cadzow, Director Commercial and Legal
Vista Group International Ltd
Contact: +64 9 984 4570
About Vista Group International:
Vista Group International (Vista Group) is a public company, listed on both
the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges (NZX/ASX: VGL). Vista Group
provides cinema management, film distribution and customer analytics software
to companies across the global film industry. Cinema Management software is
provided by Vista Entertainment Solutions, the core business of the Group.
Movio (data analytics), Veezi (cloud-based SaaS software for the Independent
Circuit Market), MACCS (film distribution software) and Numero (box office
reporting software for film distributors and cinemas) and Cinema Intelligence
(Forecasting, Scheduling, Planning of movies) leverage the success of this
platform into other parts of the film industry, from production and
distribution, to cinema exhibition through to the moviegoer experience. It is
estimated that in excess of a billion cinema tickets are processed every year
through Vista products. Vista Group has over 350 staff across six offices in
New Zealand (Auckland headquarters), Australia, the USA, the UK, the
Netherlands, and China.
Website: www.vistagroup.co
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/vista-group-limited
About Movio:
Movio is the global leader in marketing data analytics and campaign
management software for cinema exhibitors, film distributors and studios. A
company of Vista Group International Ltd (NZX/ASX: VGL), Movio's mission is
to revolutionise the way the film industry interacts with moviegoers. Movio
maintains real-time, authoritative data on the loyalty activity and
transactions for many of the world's biggest cinema chains and captures the
behaviour of over 32 million active cinema loyalty members worldwide. Movio
Cinema, our flagship product, holds comprehensive marketing data covering 52
percent of cinema screens of the Large Cinema Circuit in North America
(17,000 screens) and 25 percent globally (24,700 screens). Movio Media
aggregates data across North America to provide film distributors and studios
comprehensive market data on the behaviour of typical moviegoers, crucial
audience insights and innovative campaign solutions. The Movio Media
technology offers the most powerful and most accurate real-time film market
research platform in the United States. Movio operates in North America,
Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, China, and South
East Asia.
Website: www.movio.co
Twitter: @MovioHQ
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/movio
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