The Pinewood Studios Group
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| Private limited company | |
| Industry | Film Television |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Paul Golding (Chairman) Ivan Dunleavy (Chief Executive) |
| Revenue | £64.06 million (2014) |
| £4.88 million (2014) | |
| £5.35 million (2014) | |
| Total assets | £155.57 million (at 31 December 2014) |
| Total equity | £84.71 million (at 31 December 2014) |
| Owner | Picture HoldCo Ltd. (Aermont Capital) (65.19%) Aviva (14.14) Crystal Amber Fund (5.65%) Isle of Man Treasury (3.57%) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | www |
Pinewood Group Limited (formerly Pinewood Shepperton plc) is a British multinational film studio and television studio company headquartered in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England. The group runs Pinewood Studios, Shepperton Studios in the UK and Pinewood Toronto Studios, Pinewood Indomina Studios, Pinewood Studio Berlin, Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Germany and Malaysia, and Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
To date over 1,500 productions have used facilities or services provided by Pinewood Group.
The Pinewood Studios Group was formed by merger of Pinewood and Shepperton Studios at the start of the new millennium. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2004 as Pinewood Shepperton Plc. In 2005, Teddington Studios was purchased by the Group.
A period of rapid international expansion began in 2009 when The Pinewood Studios Group took over sales and marketing of what was then Filmport (now Pinewood Toronto Studios). Then within three months, three new ventures were announced, two being completely new studio complexes. The first was Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios in partnership with Khazanah Nasional Berhad (the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia). Next came the announcement of Pinewood Studio Berlin. Then in February 2011 the company announced that it was planning to open a 35-acre film and television studio in the Dominican Republic.
Later in 2011, The Peel Group acquired a controlling 71% interest in the company for £96 million.
In November 2007, Pinewood announced a £200m expansion plan, known as Project Pinewood. When built the development will see replicas of streetscapes and zones replicating locations from the UK, Europe and the USA. Planned zones include a college campus, Amsterdam, modern European housing, Venice, Lake Como, Paris, an Amphitheatre, Prague, West coast American housing, warehousing and downtown New York sets, Chicago, Vienna, a castle, a UK canal, Chinatown and a London street market built. In addition it will also be used as residential housing, with the proposed creative community, expected to be in the region of 2000 and 2250, being integrated with the film locations. Job creation is also a key part of the plan, helping to boost the economy of both the region and the nation as a whole.
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