24 January 2025
ZOO
DIGITAL GROUP PLC
("ZOO",
the "Group" or the "Company")
Change of
Auditor
ZOO Digital Group plc (LON: ZOO), a
world-leading provider of cloud-based localisation and digital
distribution services to the global entertainment industry,
today announces the appointment of HaysMac LLP
("HaysMac") as the Group's auditor for the financial year ending 31
March 2025.
HaysMac acts for a number of public
companies and has a strong presence in the Creative, Media, and
Technology sectors. The Group was impressed throughout the
recruitment process with the HaysMac account team, their
references, and their specific approach to the audit, and intends
to confirm the appointment in a vote of shareholders at the
Company's next Annual General Meeting.
The appointment of HaysMac on 23
January 2025 follows the resignation of Grant Thornton UK LLP
("GT") on 6 December 2024.
As required by Section 519 of the
Companies Act 2006, GT have confirmed to the Company that there are
no circumstances connected with their resignation which they
consider should be brought to the attention of the members or
creditors of the Company.
The Board wishes to take this
opportunity to thank GT for its services to the Group in
recent years.
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For further
enquiries, please contact:
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ZOO Digital
Group plc
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+44 (0)
114 241 3700
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Stuart Green - Chief Executive
Officer
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Phillip Blundell - Chief Financial
Officer
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Canaccord
Genuity (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
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+44 (0) 20 7523
8000
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Simon Bridges / Harry Gooden / Andrew Potts /
George Grainger
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Vigo Consulting
(Financial PR)
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+44
(0)20 7390 0230
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Tim McCall / Rozi Morris
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zoo@vigoconsulting.com
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About ZOO
Digital Group plc:
ZOO Digital supports major Hollywood
studios and streaming services to globalise their content and reach
audiences everywhere, by providing leading, technology-enabled
localisation and media services.
Founded in 2001, ZOO Digital
operates from hubs in Los Angeles, London, Dubai, Turkey, South
Korea, India, Denmark, Spain, Italy and Germany with a development
and production centre in Sheffield, UK.
The Group provides media services
through its platforms that include: ZOOsubs, ZOOdubs and ZOOstudio.
Its full-service proposition delivers the end-to-end services
required to prepare both original and catalogue content for digital
distribution; these services include dubbing, subtitling &
captioning, metadata creation & localisation, mastering,
artwork localisation and media processing. Alongside this offering,
ZOO also provides its customers with management platforms and
strategic solutions to support their own internal globalisation
operations.
ZOO is a go-to service partner for
media businesses looking to globalise their content across
different territories, languages and distribution platforms. Using
its innovative technology-enabled approach, ZOO helps its customers
to reduce time to market, lower costs and deliver high quality
products to their global audiences. The business has frameworks in
place with all major Hollywood studios and streaming services. Its
customers include Disney, NBCUniversal, HBO and Paramount
Global.
ZOO's competitive advantage arises
from three interlinking factors - the leading role it has played in
the digital transformation of its sector; the world class
proprietary platforms that it develops to enable this
transformation; and the global supply chain of thousands of
freelancers, working collaboratively in ZOO's platforms, which
delivers services that scale easily to meet demand. These factors
combine to make ZOO uniquely placed to capitalise on new market
opportunities in a fast-paced and constantly evolving
industry.
www.zoodigital.com
