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Facilities by ADF plc
24 January 2023
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24 January 2023
Facilities by ADF plc
("Facilities by ADF", the "Company" or the "Group")
Location One joins ADF at Pioneer Film Studios in Scotland
Facilities by ADF, the leading provider of premium serviced
production facilities to the UK film and high-end television (HETV)
industry, today announces that Location One, the UK's largest
integrated TV and film location service and equipment hire company,
which was acquired by ADF in December 2022, will be opening a
branch at Pioneer Film Studios (Pioneer) in Scotland, the country's
newest and largest film studio.
Pioneer Film Studios stands at over 1.2 million square feet,
providing studio space, workshop areas, backlot/yards, and training
facilities which includes editing suites and production office
space. ADF recently opened a new office at Pioneer in response to
the growth in the film and HETV market in Scotland and now Location
One is joining alongside. Scotland has witnessed extensive studio
space expansion and inward investment in recent years as global
productions increasingly choose the country's natural landscape and
strong creative sector.
Location One's new branch will offer generators, water bowsers,
lighting equipment, environmentally friendly battery-stores/other
renewable solutions and other capital light consumables. It leads
its market with the ECOPOD recycling solution - enabling full
reporting for food, composting, recycling, and general waste
streams for productions embracing albert and similar schemes. Like
Facilities by ADF, Location One is an approved Albert supplier.
Pioneer is in the heart of Glasgow and will enable Location One
to provide local support in the region and provide the enlarged
Group with direct access to the range of productions scheduled to
be filmed at Pioneer. The new base will strengthen the newly
enlarged Group's regional presence alongside global production
companies, and by working with Pioneer Films Studios, the Group
will be capable of bringing its joint offering to one of the
largest emerging markets within the UK Film and TV industry.
Marsden Proctor, Chief Executive of Facilities by ADF,
commented:
"We are excited to be joined by Location One at Pioneer's state
of the art studios to bring our compelling and expanded offering to
the growing Film and HETV market in Scotland. Location One's new
branch moves us closer to achieving our vision of becoming a
One-Stop-Shop for Film and high-end TV production across the UK. We
are already expanding our community in the region following the
opening of our own office at Pioneer in October and look forward to
the future opportunities this new partnership will bring."
Crispin Hardy, founder and CEO of Location One, commented:
"Opening a branch in Scotland is the next step in our expansion
plans and with a site like Pioneer's, we now have the ability to
service one of the few remaining emerging markets as well as help
to establish a community for the industry in the region. We are
excited to be joining ADF in Scotland, and in partnership with
Pioneer, we look forward to the future prospects available to
us."
Jamie McCoy, Digital Director & Co-Founder of Pioneer Film
Studios, added:
"We are excited to welcome Location One to our campus as
Scotland increasingly becomes a hub for high-end productions. Our
mission is to bring the industry and whole supply chain together on
site and now with Location One's new branch offering its
high-quality services and equipment, we are one step closer to
achieving this goal."
For further enquiries:
Facilities by ADF plc via Alma PR
Marsden Proctor, Chief Executive Officer
Neil Evans, Chief Financial Officer
John Richards, Chairman
Cenkos (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Tel: +44 (0)20 7397
Ben Jeynes / Max Gould / George Lawson - 8900
Corporate Finance
Alex Pollen - Sales
Alma PR (Financial PR) Tel: +44 (0)20 3405
Josh Royston 0205
Hannah Campbell facilitiesbyadf@almapr.co.uk
OVERVIEW OF FACILITIES BY ADF
ADF's production fleet is made up of premium mobile make-up,
costume and artiste trailers, production offices, mobile bathrooms
(known as honey wagons), diners, school rooms and technical
vehicles. The Group provides these production facilities and
additional services after a planning process with the customer held
well in advance of filming. In servicing productions, ADF staff are
available on site and each production is allocated an account
manager who acts as a single lead point of contact during
filming.
The Group serves customers in an industry that has experienced
significant growth in recent years, with additional demand driven
by a material rise in the consumption of film and HETV content via
streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime. The
UK film and TV industry has directly benefited during this growth
due to the quality of its production facilities and studios, highly
skilled domestic workforce, geography, accessibility to Europe,
English language environment and strong governmental support. Major
US streaming companies have now set up permanent bases in the UK,
with the UK now Netflix's third largest operation after the USA and
Canada.
In December 2022, ADF acquired Location One Limited, the UK's
largest integrated TV and film location service and equipment hire
company, bringing highly complementary services to the business,
and bringing cross selling opportunities to the enlarged Group, as
well as delivering efficiencies through central services.
Overview of Pioneer Studios
Pioneer Film Studios is Scotland's newest and largest film and
HETV studio campus. Once home to the popular Black and White
whisky, Pioneer's campus stands at over 1.2million square feet with
a strong balance of Office, Studio, Workshop, Ancillary and Yard
space. Pioneer have added several industry suppliers to the site
with a view to continuing to support and grow the industry in
Scotland working with Screen Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and
groups like Screen Facilities Scotland to become the home of
Scottish Filmmakers.
Pioneer Film Studios is part of a management group which also
includes Pioneer Creative, a Community Interest Company established
to support the grassroots of the industry in Scotland and create
supported pathways into the industry and Pioneer Accountancy, an
Industry specific Accountancy Practice for freelancers and industry
companies to access a series of industry aware accountancy support
services. The team behind Pioneer have a simple mantra; Pioneer
Film Studios is the champion of productions large and small.
Designed to be one of the easiest places for productions to base,
from the immediate accommodation options, transport links &
facilities to the design of the studio infrastructure and strong
relationships with supporting service suppliers, whatever a
production needs - Pioneer can help you achieve it.
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