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Zoo Digital — Shareholder Meeting (September 2009)
20 slides from Zoo Digital's shareholder meeting presentation, Sep 16, 2009
Slide 1: ZOO Digital Group Annual General Meeting 2009
ZOO Digital Group Annual General Meeting 2009 September 09 1
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer This document has been prepared by ZOO Digital Group plc (the “Company”) solely for presentation purposes. It should not be reproduced, redistributed or passed to any other person. The information contained in this document has not been independently verified and no representation or warr
Slide 3: Financial Highlights
Financial Highlights Year to 31 March 2009 • Revenue up 100% to £6.6m (2008: £3.3m) • Maiden full year EBITDA profit of £1.3m (2008: loss of £1.4m), including £1.4m from favourable exchange translation New financial year (first 5 months) • Trading has been strong for the year to date September 09 3
Slide 4: Operational Highlights
Operational Highlights • Strong organic growth within existing customer base • Winning new business from multiple studio divisions • Greater depth in relationships has allowed ZOO to offer a broader spread of revenue enhancing services • Operational efficiencies improved following further investment
Slide 5: Board Appointments
Board Appointments James Livingston has been appointed as Non Executive Director – James is a Portfolio Manager with Foresight Group, a leading UK manager of technical investment funds. He is a non-executive director of two other companies, a board observer of a further six and manages a portfolio o
Slide 6: Planned Change to Reporting in USD
Planned Change to Reporting in USD • Almost all revenues are generated now in USD • The majority of costs are in USD • Therefore we will change our reporting currency and our functional currency to best reflect the underlying business • ZOO’s P&L account will still be affected by currency exchange g
Slide 7: Customers
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Slide 8: New Product: Translation Management System
New Product: Translation Management System • An online collaboration system for development, review and approval of artwork • Designed to support the complex workflow of studio operations • Used by designers, translators, executives, producers and marketing staff • Integrated with ZOO’s software sui
Slide 9: ZOO's Role in the Studio Workflow
ZOO’s Role in the Studio Workflow Film Theatrical Exhibition Release to Pre- Post- production Production production cinemas Home Entertainment Video TV DVD Blu-ray VOD EST Release Pre- Post- Production to retail production production Broadcast Release to TV and Back Catalogue cable networks Septembe
Slide 10: ZOO's Integrated Software Systems
ZOO’s Integrated Software Systems Translators Designers Executives Producers Marketers Administrators Production Production Authors operators operators September 09 10
Slide 11: ZOO's Desktop Software
ZOO’s Desktop Software Templated Authoring Menu Regionalization Premedia Adaptation DVD Production September 09 11
Slide 12: Templated Authoring
Templated Authoring • Automates the workflow for assembling the digital content to create video discs • Used by major film studios to produce worldwide titles • Used by one studio to produce 140 titles during the month of June ‘09 • Blu-ray edition has been used to produce titles since March ‘09 • C
Slide 13: Menu Regionalization
Menu Regionalization • Automates the production of menus for video titles in multiple languages • Works in conjunction with industry- standard tools such as Photoshop • Reduces time to market and production costs • Used by a major studio to create around 50,000 menus per year • Charged on a usage ba
Slide 14: Premedia Adaptation
Premedia Adaptation • Performs automated localisation and adaptation of print documents (posters, packaging, etc.) • Licensed by a major studio where it is used to create artwork for over 60 different territories • Enables significant reductions in production time and cost • Also used for video loca
Slide 15: DVD Production
DVD Production • A proprietary tool enabling the production of advanced DVD titles • Used as the basis of differentiated services to video publishers and toy companies • Customers include major film studios September 09 15
Slide 16: Proven Results
Proven Results • Proven by major Hollywood film studios to save significant costs (millions of dollars annually by each studio division) • Proven to reduce time to market (eg. marketing campaign production now reduced by half) • Winning significant business from incumbent vendors whose services are
Slide 17: Growth Strategy
Growth Strategy • ZOO delivers differentiated products and services based on patent-protected automation and workflow optimisation software • Targeting film studios where market changes have led to an urgency to lower costs of production and shorten time to market • Significant cross-sell opportunit
Slide 18: Industry Trends
Industry Trends • 2009 has been the highest grossing summer ever at the US box office • The industry remains optimistic about the home entertainment market in the fourth quarter • Blu-ray prices are falling as spending rises – penetration in European households expected to reach 20% by 2011 • US Blu
Slide 19: Outlook
Outlook • We are confident that 2009 will be another year of growth for the Company • We are confident that we can continue to increase our business through working with additional studios, as well as increasing the scope of our work with existing clients • We expect the Translation Management Syste
Slide 20: Thank you for your support
ZOO Digital Group Thank you for your support September 09 20
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