EVS Broadcast Equipment announces a new market-focused strategy and vision
February 21 2013 - 12:31AM
~ Strengthened leadership to
deliver Enriched Live Production
~
Liege,
Belgium, 21 February 2013 - EVS, the leading provider of
live video production systems, today announces a new market-focused
strategy. The announcement responds to a growing worldwide viewer
demand for more engaging live programming, and supports the
increasing desire for content owners to enrich their live content.
The new strategy includes:
- A focus on four key markets:
Sports, Entertainment, News and Media
- A new internal structure led by a
reinforced Executive Committee
- A new brand and visual identity
to support the new vision of the company
This will be publicly unveiled at
NAB 2013 (stand SL2416) under the broad theme Enriched Live Production. During the show, EVS will
highlight new and innovative workflow solutions aimed at optimising
the live broadcasting infrastructure to embrace new connected
operations and 'live everywhere' offerings for the consumer.
A focused strategy
The new strategy, drawing on the
existing strengths of EVS, will be focused around four key markets
- Sports, Entertainment, News
and Media. "It will," says EVS CEO
Joop Janssen, "enable us to better deliver our investments in
R&D and product innovation, help drive the expansion of our
sales network, and continue to improve our user training and
customer support and bring even better products to the market
faster."
He adds: 'Our ambition is to
accelerate the growth of our company and reach a wider range of
customers more quickly through a more focused strategy. Each market
has its own specific challenges and opportunities, so by aligning
our structure with the particular market demands of our customers,
we aim to help them continue to be successful, both now and in the
future.'
EVS' four key markets are:
-
EVS Sports: On
the back of a highly successful Olympic sporting year, EVS is now
firmly on the road to Rio 2016. EVS Sports will enable broadcasters
and rights owners of all sizes and types to make use of extended
remote production and multi-platform distribution to help enrich
their content, maximise their revenues and improve the viewer
experience. It partners with customers to help improve their live
outside broadcast operations, enhance their sports venue and arena
production capabilities and enable their media handling and
transfer workflows.
-
EVS
Entertainment: Production companies look to balance the
need to produce and deliver high-quality, enriched programming as
efficiently as possible. EVS' entertainment solutions deliver
ultra-reliable recording and playback for entertainment production
- spanning concerts, stage shows, reality TV, talk and game shows
and TV series. Its modular solutions enable the reliable and
efficient ingest, editing and enrichment of content in a highly
collaborative, integrated environment.
-
EVS News: In the
competitive world of news, EVS' solutions provide first-to-air news
production workflows to enable broadcasters to capture and keep
viewers' attention by delivering quality, live news content, fast.
Enabling reliable, multi-source ingest and editing of content in a
highly collaborative, integrated environment, EVS' solutions allow
broadcasters to manage news footage from multiple sources so it can
be aired instantly and viewed on multiple platforms.
-
EVS Media: EVS
Media answers the growing needs of content owners - including film
studios, broadcasters, post-production houses, archive libraries
and enterprises - to manage, monetise and repurpose their valuable
media content. EVS' technology and services enable an open and
flexible media asset management lifecycle - from capture and
production to output and archive.
A stronger organisation
To better support the new market
strategy, EVS is strengthening its Executive Committee. Fully
operational from 21 February 2013, it will be headed up by CEO,
Joop Janssen. The Executive Committee comprises the following
people:
· Joop Janssen,
Managing Director & CEO
· Luc Doneux, EVP
Sports division
· Henry Alexander,
SVP Entertainment and News division (as from April 2013)
· Benoît Février,
SVP Media division
· Jacques Galloy,
EVP/CFO, Corporate Services
· Bernard Stas, SVP
Product strategy
· Vincent
Theunissen, SVP Human resources
· Michel De Wolf,
SVP/CTO
· Nicolas Bourdon,
SVP Marketing
A SVP operations and professional services will soon be appointed
to manage manufacturing and supply chain, customer support, project
management and training functions.
The sales organisation has also
been updated with Quentin Grutman as SVP EMEA, Frédéric Garroy as
SVP Americas and Olivier Heurteaux as SVP Asia Pacific. They report
directly to CEO Joop Janssen.
A new brand, a new look
To support its new corporate
strategy and vision, EVS will be rolling out a new brand and visual
identity, as well as a redesigned website, www.evs.com. Janssen
says: 'The dynamic new brand aims to capture the evolving nature of
our business and the way customers see us. It encapsulates all the
essence and hallmarks of EVS - reliability, professionalism and
passion - and combines them with innovative, fresh thinking to
deliver a new market-focused approach to support our customers
today and tomorrow.'
Media
contacts
For more information about this press release, or to set up an
interview with EVS, please contact:
Trade
media contacts:
Nicolas BOURDON, SVP Marketing
Tel: +32 4 361 58 09, Email: marketing@evs.com
or
Sarah Kelley (EMEA) or Kim Willsher (Americas and APAC)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (PR company)
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7403 8878 / +1 310 569 2603
evs@rlyl.com
Corporate
and financial media contacts:
Joop JANSSEN, Managing Director and CEO
Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFO
Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Vice President Investor Relations &
Corporate Communications
Tel: +32 4 361 70 14, Email: corpcom@evs.com
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect
to the business, financial condition, and results of operations of
EVS and its affiliates. These statements are based on the current
expectations or beliefs of EVS's management and are subject to a
number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
or performance of the Company to differ materially from those
contemplated in such forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties relate to changes in technology and market
requirements, the company's concentration on one industry, decline
in demand for the company's products and those of its affiliates,
inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies,
products and applications, and loss of market share and pressure on
pricing resulting from competition which could cause the actual
results or performance of the company to differ materially from
those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. EVS
undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events. |
About EVS
EVS provides its customers with reliable and innovative technology
to enable the production of live, enriched video programming,
allowing them to work more efficiently and boost their revenue
streams. Its industry-leading broadcast and media production
systems are used by broadcasters, production companies,
post-production facilities, film studios, content owners and
archive libraries around the globe. It spans four key markets -
Sports, Entertainment, News and Media.
Founded in 1994, its innovative Live Slow Motion system
revolutionised live broadcasting. Its reliable and integrated
tapeless solutions, based around its market-leading XT server
range, are now widely used to deliver live productions worldwide.
Today, it continues to develop practical innovations, such as its
C-Cast second-screen delivery platform, to help customers maximise
the value of their media content.
The company is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in Europe,
the Middle East, Asia and North America. Approximately 465 EVS
professionals from 20 offices are selling its branded products in
over 100 countries, and provide customer support globally. EVS is a
public company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN:
BE0003820371. For more information, please visit www.evs.com. |
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