Business Review
Overview
Vitec is an international group, principally serving customers in the worldwide media sector with products and services designed to facilitate the production of video programmes or still images. Vitec is based on strong, well known, premium brands that professionals rely on. Vitec is organised in three divisions: Photographic, Broadcast Systems and Broadcast Services.
Strategy: ‘Consolidate - Leverage - Grow’
Vitec’s strategy is to grow ever closer to its end customer, providing them with better tools and services to do their job, while at the same time looking for complementary areas into which the Group can expand and utilise its industry-leading expertise. After an initial phase which yielded economies of scale, during which multiple locations and smaller business units were consolidated into a divisional structure, the focus shifted to leveraging our skills to develop new products and exploit our routes to market. This phase of the strategy is now delivering meaningful growth.
Activities
Design and manufacture of high quality equipment principally for photography, video, live events and cinematography professionals. Distribution of in-house and third party photographic accessories.
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Products
Photographic and video camera tripods and heads. Lighting stands, grips and accessories. Lighting and scenery suspension equipment. Camera bags. Live entertainment and exhibition lighting suspension structures. Products distributed include flash units, light meters and filters.
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Locations: France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, USA
Activities
Design and manufacture of high quality equipment used principally by broadcast and live entertainment professionals. Focused on studio and outside broadcast and film production markets with applications in the air traffic control and government markets.
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Products
Manual and remotely controlled camera support pedestals, tripods and heads for demanding TV applications. Camera and equipment bags. Studio and portable lighting. Scenery hoists and pantographs. Microprocessor-controlled batteries and chargers for video cameras. Portable power systems for life support devices. Multi-locational wired and wireless intercom systems.
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Locations: China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Singapore, UK, USA
Activities
Rental services and selected sales of camera, video, wireless communication and audio equipment, including engineering support for the film and TV programme production markets.
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Products
Rental of broadcast video equipment. Rental of audio equipment. Rental of high definition TV production support. Provision of support for major event broadcasting and webcasting. Sales of communications, audio equipment and used video equipment.
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Location: USA
Information correct at 26/04/2006