Tinopolis

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Tinopolis
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryTelevision production
Founded1990
Headquarters Llanelli, Wales
Number of locations
5 Production Bases (2018)
Key people
Ron Jones, Executive chairman
Arwel Rees, CEO
Angharad Mair, Chairman Wales
Jeff Foulser, Chairman Sunset + Vine
John Willis, CEO Mentorn
Revenue £236 million (2022)
£16.23 million (2022)
£3.46 million (2022)
Number of employees
529 (2022)
Website Official website

The Tinopolis Group is an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. It produces over 4,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters. [1]

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Operations

CompanyFoundedAcquiredRef.
A. Smith & Co. 20002011 [2]
Daybreak Pictures 2006 [3]
fFatti fFilms2013 [4]
Fiction Factory Films 2002 [5]
Firecracker Films20022012 [6]
Magical Elves 20012014 [7]
Mentorn 19852006 [8]
MSV Post
Passion Distribution20082012 [9]
Pioneer Productions 19882009 [10]
Sunset+Vine 19762006 [8]
Thunderclap Media2017 [11]
Tinint1999
Tinopolis Cymru
Tinopolis Factual Group Scotland2002
Video Arts 19722007 [12]

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Arthur Smith is a Canadian television producer who is the Chairman of A. Smith & Co. and Chairman of Tinopolis USA. Best known for the multiple Emmy nominated American Ninja Warrior and FOX's longest-running competition show Hell's Kitchen, he was inducted into the Realscreen Hall of Fame in 2021, and was named Producer of the Year 2020 by Broadcasting & Cable. He previously worked for CBC Sports, Dick Clark Productions, MCA Television Group, and Fox Sports Net. He has won multiple NAACP awards for his series Unsung, Rose D'Or Awards for I Survived A Japanese Game Show, a Critics' Choice Real TV Award, a Realscreen Award and multiple Reality Television Awards. In addition, his shows have been nominated for Daytime Emmys, Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards, Producers' Guild Awards and People's Choice Awards.

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