Private Media Group
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | OTC Pink: |
| Industry | SIC 272 - Periodicals Publishing, or Publishing and Printing |
| Genre | Adult Online Movies, DVD, and magazines |
| Founded | 1965 (as Private Magazine) in , Sweden |
| Founder | Berth Milton, Sr. |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Charles Prast Chairman [ CEO |
| Products | DVDs, Magazines, Licensing, Online dating service, movies & sex toys |
| Revenue | USD $7,938,000 Annual 12 months June(2013) |
| USD($3,312,000) Annual 12 months June (2013) | |
| Profit | USD (1,374,939) Annual 12 months June(2013) |
| Total assets | USD 8,888,000 June (2013) |
| Total equity | USD (11,513,000) June (2013) |
| Owners | Berth Milton Jr. - 6,021,000 Consipio Holdings - 5,600,000 Tisbury Services Inc - 2,781,029 Ilan Bunimovitz -5,627,851 : total control more than 51% of shares Outstanding shares: 27,778,894 |
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Number of employees
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38 |
| Website |
prvt private |
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Footnotes / references Income information in parenthesis ( ) should be read as negative amounts and considered a loss per SEC Filings |
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Private Media Group, Inc. is a Swedish production and distribution company that distributes adult entertainment via print publications, DVDs, the internet, and mobile.
Private magazine was established in , Sweden, in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore magazine by Berth Milton, Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton, Jr. took over and moved the company's headquarters to Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, although the company is incorporated in Nevada. Milton also started to produce movies and internet content, taking Private public soon after.
The firm provides content through DVD, Video on Demand (VOD), (IPTV), PSP, mobile and magazines. It supplies adult entertainment films to thousands of major hotels around the world through their Hotel Pay Per View services. The company also runs the adult channels Private TV (Europe) and Private Gold (Latin America)
In 1998 the company launched Private Circle, a designer clothing label, at the Cannes Film Festival. The label would later be changed to Private Clothing and a boutique would be opened in Los Angeles.
In August 2008 Private Media Group announced it had established an alliance with Marc Dorcel to collaborate in the home video market. The collaboration started with a three-year DVD distribution agreement for France and it's expected that other territories will be added, explore additional opportunities in other territories. It's also expected that Private and Dorcel will join forces in distribution platforms including Internet and IPTV/VOD in both France and across the EU.
The firm's 2009 acquisitions of video on demand companies Gamelink LLC and Sureflix, and the ecommerce technology firm eLine LLC established it as a leading adult content and distribution company in the digital media sector.
In June 2014 the firm announced the released of its full archive of images and (film and video) scenes dating back to the 1960s when Private magazine launched in Sweden. The material is available via a website, PrivateClassics.com.
Private is known for high-budget, adult movies, such as the two-part series Millionaire, directed by Alessandro del Mar, with a reported budget of $1.9 million. In the last few decades, Private has earned more than 130 adult industry awards. The film Millionaire alone earned 16 Venus Award nominations in 2004. Best-selling releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, Millionaire and Chateau.
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