So...what else do Zin do?14 Dec 2016 21:13
Zin
3 arms to the business
TV production
Publishing
Digital media
I'm putting nothing in this report about TV Production, general investors should be aware of their BAFTA winning programmes etc and has been extensively covered by @B16_Aln previously.
Publishing arm
Loss making London based publishing business Ten Alps Media wound up, same time
Serial entrepreneur entrepreneur and former Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson joined the board.
They still have publishing business Ten Alps Communications, which has sold all of its unprofitable titles and contracts during the past year – was unaffected and is running profitably.
Main publishing is now LABC Publishing. This is an exclusive contract and no other publishing company has the authority to produce LABC publications. LABC Publications are intended for homeowners and local businesses in the building industry.
These publications provide homeowners with step by step advice and guidance on extensions, conversions, renovations and self build projects (new for 2016/17). They explain the difference between building control and planning, as well as describing how the building regulations can be used to ensure good quality construction. They take typical projects and show how local authority building surveyors work with designers, architects, developers, builders and contractors to deliver a fully certificated job that is finished to a high quality.
These publications are a real money spinner, they sell advertising space within them to local businesses. They produce these for every council in the country. Media sales is run from Macclesfield.
I will contact them at a later date and find out the cost of advertising within the publications and update the group.
Digital Media
Tapping into the large corporations goodwill budgets (that they all have), they create educational websites for amongst others Siemens and Nationwide Building Society.
Anyone with kids at home should have a look at both websites as they are excellent sources of information for any budding scientist, mathematician you may have.
Siemens is particularly impressive and focuses on STEM education, a really core area in education now with world governments introducing this into school curriculums.
STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - its basic remit to teach these subjects as a whole rather than separate entities, so children see how they fit together in the real world. Obamas administration, China and India particularly keen.
These websites need updating constantly which costs money. Educational websites are huge business because they can be adapted, translated for different countries.
(LinkedIn paid $1.5 billion for Lynda.com last year)
The websites are of a quality that you would expect from Zinc Media, if you look at their TV production.
www.siemens.co.uk/education/en/
https://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/
Now compare these to this webs