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...The series was devised in the late 1990s by British production company Astley Baker Davies and first aired in 2004, on Channel 5 and Nick Jr....
...Through the cartoon’s creator, Astley Baker Davies, Entertainment One owns the global rights to Peppa Pig — an important factor considering the cartoon character’s growing popularity in international markets...
...Last year it paid £140m to raise its stake in Astley Baker Davies, the company that makes Peppa Pig....
...Last year Entertainment One paid £140m to raise its stake in Astley Baker Davies, the company that makes Peppa Pig....
...Astley Baker Davies was set up by Mark Baker, Phil Davies, Neville Astley — three animators who met at Middlesex Polytechnic, before devising Peppa Pig in the late 1990s....
Distribution company says it has ‘firepower’ for further TV acquisitions
...Entertainment One bolstered its TV assets last year when it acquired a majority stake in the Mark Gordon Company, the production outfit behind Grey’s Anatomy, and took control of Astley Baker Davies, the...
...Entertainment One has been under pressure from investors ever since it acquired majority stakes in the Mark Gordon Company, the maker of medical drama Grey’s Anatomy; and Astley Baker Davies, creator of...
...Davies, creator of Peppa Pig, in October....
...That follows the group’s acquisition of majority stakes in the Mark Gordon Company, producer of Grey’s Anatomy, and Astley Baker Davies, producer of Peppa Pig....
...The cash call was in part to pay for a bigger stake in Astley Baker Davies, the joint owner of the Peppa Pig pre-school brand....
...“The other ways are to build on the ruin or over the ruin,” says Michael Davies, of Davies Sutton Architects, which specialises in such projects....
...It also owns half of Peppa Pig, as does Astley Baker Davies, the character’s creator. Its share price has risen 36 per cent so far this year and nearly 16-fold since the lows of the financial crisis....
...Davies, Astley and Baker met at the animation department of Middlesex Poly in the 1980s....
...John Noott, John Davies of Stow, and Astley House, who all once concentrated on 19th century paintings, now have contemporary artists on their books and hold frequent exhibitions of their work....
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