Private Media Group

Private Media Group
Public company
Traded as OTC Pink: PRVT
Industry SIC 272 - Periodicals Publishing, or Publishing and Printing
Genre Adult Online Movies, DVD, and magazines
Founded 1965 (1965) (as Private Magazine)
Stockholm, Sweden
Founder Berth Milton, Sr.
Headquarters Barcelona, Spain
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Charles Prast
Chairman [ CEO
Products DVDs, Magazines, Licensing, Online dating service, movies & sex toys
Revenue USD $7,938,000 Annual 12 months June(2013)
USD($3,312,000) Annual 12 months June (2013)
Profit USD (1,374,939) Annual 12 months June(2013)
Total assets USD 8,888,000 June (2013)
Total equity USD (11,513,000) June (2013)
Owners Berth Milton Jr. - 6,021,000
Consipio Holdings - 5,600,000
Tisbury Services Inc - 2,781,029
Ilan Bunimovitz -5,627,851
 : total control more than 51% of shares
Outstanding shares: 27,778,894
Number of employees
 38
Website prvt.com
private.com
Footnotes / references
Income information in parenthesis ( ) should be read as negative amounts and considered a loss per SEC Filings

Private Media Group, Inc. is a Swedish production and distribution company that distributes adult entertainment via print publications, DVDs, the internet, and mobile.

Private magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore magazine by Berth Milton, Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton, Jr. took over and moved the company's headquarters to Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, although the company is incorporated in Nevada. Milton also started to produce movies and internet content, taking Private public soon after.[1]

Product lines

The firm provides content through DVD, Video on Demand (VOD), Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), PSP, mobile and magazines. It supplies adult entertainment films to thousands of major hotels around the world through their Hotel Pay Per View services. The company also runs the adult channels Private TV (Europe) and Private Gold (Latin America)

In 1998 the company launched Private Circle,[2] a designer clothing label, at the Cannes Film Festival.[3] The label would later be changed to Private Clothing and a boutique would be opened in Los Angeles.[4]

In August 2008 Private Media Group announced it had established an alliance with Marc Dorcel to collaborate in the home video market. The collaboration started with a three-year DVD distribution agreement for France and it's expected that other territories will be added, explore additional opportunities in other territories. It's also expected that Private and Dorcel will join forces in distribution platforms including Internet and IPTV/VOD in both France and across the EU.[5]

The firm's 2009 acquisitions of video on demand companies Gamelink LLC and Sureflix, and the ecommerce technology firm eLine LLC established it as a leading adult content and distribution company in the digital media sector.[6][7]

In June 2014 the firm announced the released of its full archive of images and (film and video) scenes dating back to the 1960s when Private magazine launched in Sweden. The material is available via a website, PrivateClassics.com.[8]

Movies

Private is known for high-budget, adult movies, such as the two-part series Millionaire, directed by Alessandro del Mar, with a reported budget of $1.9 million.[9] In the last few decades, Private has earned more than 130 adult industry awards.[10] The film Millionaire alone earned 16 Venus Award nominations in 2004.[11] Best-selling releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, Millionaire and Chateau.

Awards

The following is a selection of some of the major awards Private films have won:

References

  1. ↑ Morais, Richard (6 June 1999). "Porn goes public". Forbes. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Veash, Nicola (25 July 1999). "Porn hits the high street as hardcore merchants challenge big-name fashion labels". Guardian News. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Herman-Cohen, Valli (9 February 2001). "For Clothing Line, Sex Doesn't Sell--but It Does Finance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Private Clothing Opens Fashion Boutique in Los Angeles - PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP INC". PRVT. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  5. ↑ "PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP ANNOUNCES LANDMARK STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH MARC DORCEL". Private Media Group Press Releases. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF LEADING U.S. ONLINE DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM GAMELINK AND CREATES GLOBAL DIGITAL POWERHOUSE". Private Media Group Press Releases. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP Completes Acquisition Of Leading Online Distribution Platform SUREFLIX". Private Media Group Press Releases. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  8. ↑ Smithberg, Allen. "Private Releases Full Media Archive on PrivateClassics.com". AVN.com. Adult Video News. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  9. ↑ Private U.S.A. Sets Release Date For Multimillion-Dollar Feature, Millionaire, AVN Media Network, 3 September 2004
  10. ↑ Said, Sammy (13 March 2013). "Top Adult Entertainment Companies in the World". TheRichest.com. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "AVN - Jesse Jane Named Best Actress USA at Venus Awards". Business.avn.com. 2004-10-21. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "AVN AWARDS PAST WINNERS". AVN. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  13. 1 2 "THE 2009 AVN AWARDS WINNERS". AVN. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
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