AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP SHORTLISTED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘ONES TO RECOGNISE’ LIST
The Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) has been shortlisted in this year’s ‘Ones to Recognise’ feature which is published as part of The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 Ones to Recognise.
The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 League Table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits over three years, was published for the 11th year running yesterday.
For the fifth year The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 also showcased a list of ten ‘Ones to Recognise’ companies, which may not meet the minimum criteria of this year’s Profit Track 100, but have had, or predict, steady profit growth. ATG and the other nine companies on the list were selected on the strength of their management teams, innovation and they overcame challenges.
A judging panel, including Luke Johnson, the serial entrepreneur and chairman of Rick Capital Partners, and Hamish Stevenson, the founder of Fast Track, will select a winner from the ten companies to receive a special award at the national awards dinner in June.
The full findings were published in a special 8-page supplement in yesterday’s business section of The Sunday Times and are also available to view online at www.fasttrack.co.uk.
Rosemary Squire, ATG’s Joint Chief Executive said: “The past few months have been a period of significant change and expansion for ATG following our acquisition last November of the theatres formerly owned by Live Nation and the ongoing integration of the two businesses. We’ve also been faced with the challenges of the global recession, but our industry has remained resilient as a whole and our inclusion in The Sunday Times Ones to Recognise feature is a great achievement and testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at ATG.”
Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, ATG has a total of 38 venues across the UK. When the new Aylesbury Waterside Theatre opens in October 2010, this total will stand at 39. ATG is also one of the country’s foremost theatre producers and has been behind some of the most successful and innovative productions in Britain and internationally.
ATG’s portfolio of West End theatres includes high profile and historic buildings such as the Apollo Victoria, Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York’s, Fortune, Lyceum, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse, Savoy, Trafalgar Studio 1 and Trafalgar Studio 2.
ATG’s regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and the award-winning 6 screen cinema complex, Ambassador Cinemas; Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham; Theatre Royal Brighton; Bristol Hippodrome; Churchill Theatre Bromley; Edinburgh Playhouse; Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone; King’s Theatre and Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Grimsby Auditorium; Liverpool Empire; Palace Theatre and Opera House, Manchester; Milton Keynes Theatre; New Theatre, Oxford; Richmond Theatre; Southport Theatre; Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; Sunderland Empire; Princess Theatre, Torquay; New Wimbledon Theatre and New Wimbledon Studio; Grand Opera House, York.
Current and recent ATG co-productions in London and internationally include The Misanthrope, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Exit the King, Sunset Boulevard, Fat Pig, The Lover/The Collection, Elling, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, Company and The Rocky Horror Show. ATG also has a subsidiary company Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP), whose current and recent productions include Legally Blonde, Jerusalem, Othello, La Cage Aux Folles, Arcadia, Boeing-Boeing, The Norman Conquests, The Seagull, No Man’s Land and Rock ’n’ Roll; and a family entertainment and pantomime company, First Family Entertainment.
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For further information please contact David Bradbury, ATG Group Press Officer on 07884 067 455 or email davidbradbury@theambassadors.com
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