Ten Alps buys its way into Asia
MEDIA group Ten Alps has launched a Singapore office after buying a TV company with operations in Asia.
The company, which employs more than 200 people in the North West at sites in Macclesfield and Manchester, said it had acquired Uproar Productions for around £562,000.
Ten Alps plans to merge Uproar’s UK base into its own factual TV subsidiary Blakeway Productions and use Uproar’s Singapore operation as the foundation of Ten Alps Asia.
Uproar Asia has a slate of programmes including Vietnamese, Malaysian and US TV coverage. Ten Alps said it aimed to replicate its UK multiplatform factual model in Asian markets.
Uproar was founded in 2006 by BAFTA award winning New Zealand-born Sarah Macdonald who previously worked for BBC’s Newsnight and Channel 4’s Dispatches. She will stay with Ten Alps and head its office in Singapore.
Ten Alps’ chief executive Alex Connock said: “This is a first step in a plan to leverage our content and communications skills into the fast-growing Asian markets, where we believe factual TV production, publishing and communications services in offline and online media are strong opportunities.”
Ten Alps, which was founded by Bob Geldof – who remains a major shareholder in the business,
Its communications business, which is run out of Macclesfield, runs a number of business-related titles and directories, and has shifted its business increasingly online.
The content division makes factual TV programmes for major broadcasters and also operates public-sector funded community online portals such as Kent TV.
