The Shine Group produces genre defining television and boasts a network of global production companies led by industry experts, with proven success across all genres. Shine Group is the UK's largest independent production company and No1 in the annual Broadcast Indie Survey 2010. A milestone in the company's history and the result of dynamic international growth. The company's core business spans television production, scripted and unscripted formats, film development and production, digital production and international sales and distribution. Headquartered in London, the company has grown rapidly from revenues of $38 million in 2006 to approximately $400 million in 2009; by a combination of acquisition and organic growth. Founded by Elisabeth Murdoch in 2001, Shine Group has built a strong identity and a targeted acquisitions strategy that brought about its significant growth. The company's global footprint currently consists of 25 companies in 10 countries, spanning three continents. Each high profile production entity is run by a market-leader in their territory and produces content that is both critically acclaimed and commercially successful domestically and internationally. Shine has a very strong sense of identity, with creativity placed at the heart of the business. In both its acquisition and organic growth strategy the company has sought to attract like-minded creative entrepreneurs to spearhead future growth and success. Many of our production entities had strong brand identities before acquisition and they have kept these brands as the companies have integrated into the Shine Group. The Group companies include: Dragonfly, Filmlance, Friday TV, Kudos, Meter, Metronome, Princess, Reveille, Rubicon, Shine TV and STO-CPH. The Shine Group operates production centres in UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia, New Zealand and the US.