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These excerpts taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Apr 15, 2009. Our Strategy Our vision is to be the world’s preferred content provider of adult entertainment to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name. Develop strategic alliances and joint ventures with businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry to broaden our distribution channels. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators, telecoms and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content.
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To be at the forefront of the adult entertainment industry in adapting new technology and distribution channels such as wireless and IPTV1 distribution of our content. By actively seeking out and utilizing advanced technologies such as broadband Internet, cable and satellite television, IPTV and wireless devices to distribute our content, we expect to increase revenues with minimal incremental cost. To be able to deliver our entire movie library, including metadata, via any new format in order to facilitate distribution and provide unparalleled service. We have developed an extensive library of motion pictures and other pictorial content. Until recently, this library was archived on a master print, which would allow duplication in traditional media. New forms of electronic distribution provide us with an opportunity to use this content by distributing it through new forms of media, such as, Internet broadband, IPTV broadcasting and wireless devices. Continue to increase and strengthen brand awareness. We have developed strong brand awareness within each of our magazines and videos’ targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle. Our Strategy platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators, telecoms and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content.
- 4 - To be at the forefront of the adult To be able to deliver our entire movie library, including metadata, via any new format in order to targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle. Movie Productions and sexual situations, in hardcore and softcore versions. We maintain the ownership and copyrights of every movie we acquire. We expect to release more than 50 movie titles in 2009, with distribution through our worldwide network. As of December 31, 2008, our movie library contained 1,170 movie titles. These products are sold by both traditional and technologically advanced distributors, and wholesalers worldwide. Distributors include national video store and newsstand distribution networks, and Internet, IPTV, cable, satellite, mobile telephone network and hotel television operators. Internet We launched our first Internet website, private.com, in 1997. We now own a number of sites directed at specific customer bases, broadband Internet access and new distribution methods. Private has developed several key product offerings which include video on demand, live sex chat, adult personals and e-commerce. We
- 5 - Magazine Publications publication in the world. Today, we produce two X-rated magazines which are released bi-monthly: Private, and Private Sex. We distribute these magazines through newsstands and other retail outlets. The parent company, Private SIZE="2">On December 19, 1997 Private Media Group, Inc. entered into acquisition agreements with Milcap Media Limited and Cine Craft Limited to acquire all of their outstanding capital stock in exchange for 22,500,000 shares of Common Stock, On In May 2000, SIZE="2">As of January 1, 2001, we acquired Coldfair Holdings Ltd., a company incorporated and organized under the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, for a total consideration of Euro 1.5 million payable in 248,889 shares of common stock. SIZE="2">Effective April 1, 2001, we acquired the inventory and certain contracts of our U.S. distributor, Private USA, in exchange for Euro 1.0 million and the assumption of Private USA’s obligations under some contracts. On April 8, 2001, Peach Entertainment Distribution AB (Sweden), a subsidiary of Private Media Group, Inc., sold its interest in Private Circle,
On May 30, 2003 we acquired certain assets, including governmental film board approvals and On On January 20, 2009 we expanded our - 6 - This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 17, 2008. Our Strategy Our vision is to be the world’s preferred content provider of adult entertainment to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name. Develop strategic alliances and joint ventures with businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry to broaden our distribution channels. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators, telecoms and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content. To be at the forefront of the adult entertainment industry in adapting new technology and distribution channels such as wireless and IPTV1 distribution of our content. By actively seeking out and utilizing advanced technologies such as broadband Internet, cable and satellite television, IPTV and wireless devices to distribute our content, we expect to increase revenues with minimal incremental cost.
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To complete the digitalization of our entire movie library, including metadata, in order to facilitate distribution via new electronic media. We have developed an extensive library of motion pictures and other pictorial content. Until recently, this library was archived on a master print, which would allow duplication in traditional media. New forms of electronic distribution provide us with an opportunity to use this content by distributing it through new forms of media, such as, Internet broadband, IPTV broadcasting and wireless devices. To facilitate electronic distribution of our products, we have converted our entire archive of print images into a digital format. We are currently digitizing our motion picture archive as well, and have now stored most of our existing motion pictures and metadata in digital form. Continue to increase and strengthen brand awareness. We have developed strong brand awareness within each of our magazines and videos’ targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Apr 2, 2007. Our Strategy Our vision is to be the world’s preferred content provider of adult entertainment to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name. Develop strategic alliances and joint ventures with businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry to broaden our distribution channels. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators, telecoms and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content. To be at the forefront of the adult entertainment industry in adapting new technology and distribution channels such as wireless and IPTV1 distribution of our content. By actively seeking out and utilizing advanced technologies such as broadband Internet, cable and satellite television, IPTV and wireless devices to distribute our content, we expect to increase revenues with minimal incremental cost.
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To complete the digitalization of our entire movie library in order to prepare our library for distribution in new electronic media. We have developed an extensive library of motion pictures and other pictorial content. Until recently, this library was archived on a master print, which would allow duplication in traditional media. New forms of electronic distribution provide us with an opportunity to use this content by distributing it through new forms of media, such as, Internet broadband, IPTV broadcasting and wireless devices. To facilitate electronic distribution of our products, we have converted our entire archive of print images into a digital format. We are currently digitizing our motion picture archive as well, and have now stored most of our existing motion pictures in digital form. Continue to increase and strengthen brand awareness. We have developed strong brand awareness within each of our magazines and videos’ targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2006. Our Strategy Our vision is to be the world’s preferred content provider of adult entertainment to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name. Develop strategic alliances and joint ventures with businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry to broaden our distribution channels. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators, telecoms and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content. To be at the forefront of the adult entertainment industry in adapting new technology and distribution channels such as wireless and IPTV1 distribution of our content. By actively seeking out and utilizing advanced technologies to distribute our content such as, broadband, Internet ,cable and satellite television, IPTV and wireless devices we expect to increase revenues with minimal incremental cost.
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Increase market share through strategic acquisitions. The adult entertainment industry is currently fragmented and consolidating. We expect this trend to continue as small, privately owned companies seek to exit from the business. We plan to expand our market presence and increase our market share by acquiring local distributors in the markets in which we compete. In addition, we may seek to acquire existing business enterprises in other related businesses opportunistically. To finance future acquisitions, we expect to use a combination of debt and equity. As one of the few companies in our industry with publicly listed common stock, we believe that we will have a significant advantage over most of our competitors in financing such consolidating acquisitions. To complete the digitalization of our entire movie and photograph library in order to prepare our library for distribution in new electronic media. We have developed an extensive library of motion pictures and other pictorial content. Until recently, this library was archived on a master print, which would allow duplication in traditional media. New forms of electronic distribution provide us with an opportunity to use this content by distributing it through new forms of media, such as, Internet, broadband and wireless devices. To facilitate electronic distribution of our products, we have converted our entire archive of print images into a digital format. We are currently digitizing our motion picture archive as well, and have now stored most of our existing motion pictures in digital form. Continue to increase and strengthen brand awareness. We have developed strong brand awareness within each of our magazines and videos’ targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2005. Our Strategy
Our vision is to be the world’s preferred content provider of adult entertainment to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices. We have developed the strategies described below to increase sales and operating margins while maintaining the quality of our products and services and the integrity of our brand name.
Develop strategic alliances and joint ventures with businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry to broaden our distribution channels. We are entering into strategic alliances and joint ventures with leading media companies outside of the adult entertainment industry to distribute our adult media content for use on popular and newly developing media formats, including revenue sharing relationships with cable and satellite television operators and Internet service providers with significant market positions. We expect these initiatives to widen the scope of our distribution network, enabling us to reach new customers while supplying our partners and licensees with content.
To be at the forefront of the adult entertainment industry in adapting new technology and distribution channels such as broadband distribution of our motion pictures. By actively seeking out and utilizing advanced technologies to distribute our content such as, broadband, Internet ,cable and satellite television and wireless devices we expect to increase revenues with minimal incremental cost.
Increase market share through strategic acquisitions. The adult entertainment industry is currently fragmented and consolidating. We expect this trend to continue as small, privately owned companies seek to exit from the business. We plan to
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expand our market presence and increase our market share by acquiring local distributors in the markets in which we compete. In addition, we may seek to acquire existing business enterprises in other related businesses opportunistically. To finance future acquisitions, we expect to use a combination of debt and equity. As one of the few companies in our industry with publicly listed common stock, we believe that we will have a significant advantage over most of our competitors in financing such consolidating acquisitions.
To complete the digitalization of our entire movie and photograph library in order to prepare our library for distribution in new electronic media. We have developed an extensive library of motion pictures and other pictorial content. Until recently, this library was archived on a master print, which would allow duplication in traditional media. New forms of electronic distribution provide us with an opportunity to use this content by distributing it through new forms of media, such as, Internet ,broadband and wireless devices. To facilitate electronic distribution of our products, we have converted our entire archive of print images into a digital format. We are currently digitizing our motion picture archive as well, and have now stored most of our existing motion pictures in digital form.
Continue to increase and strengthen brand awareness. We have developed strong brand awareness within each of our magazines and videos’ targeted markets. We own the worldwide rights to all of our content. We seek to strengthen awareness of our brand name by consistently featuring the Private label prominently in our product packaging, cross-promoting our own products, selectively sponsoring sports and distributing under the Private label complementary or ancillary non-media products that are consistent with an adult entertainment lifestyle.
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