Overview

Carlton Communicaitons Plc is a leading UK media company with businesses in free-to-air television broadcasting and advertising sales, content production and distribution and cinema advertising.

For the year ended 30th September 2001, Carlton reported headline pre-tax profits of £118m, before goodwill amortisation, on sales of £1,026m.

The principal market is in the UK.

There are 3,300 employees.

Carlton is listed on the London Stock Exchange (CCM) and Nasdaq (CCTVY).

Carlton's businesses are divided into two segments - Channels and Content.

Channels

Carlton is a leading free-to-air commercial broadcaster in the UK, accounting for 40% of ITV. We broadcast to 26m people (around 50% of the UK population) and book around £800m of advertising revenue a year.

Carlton leads the fast growing cinema advertising market in the UK, Ireland and North America.

Carlton is a leading producer of interactive content for television programmes and commercials.

Content

Carlton invests over £200m a year in making television programmes including Peak Practice, The Vice and the award winning “… in Colour” factual series.

We are one of Europe’s largest rights distributors with a library of 18,000 hours of television programmes, from Thunderbirds to the Inspector Morse films, and 2,000 movies including classic titles such as Sophie's Choice, Brief Encounter, Richard III, The African Queen, The Eagle Has Landed, Birth Of A Nation and the Carry On … films. We publish these and other titles through our book and video labels.

In the US, Carlton America develops and co-produces made-for-television movies, as well as drama and other forms of television programming.