SKY
1. Sky is public limited company (which means they can choose to be hidden from the stock market) that is currently owned by 21st Century Fox however the chairman at Sky is James Murdoch who also happens to be the CEO of 21st Century Fox. James’ father Rupert Murdoch was the founder of Sky and also was the chairman and CEO at 21st Century Fox before he died and his son James took his place as CEO of 21st Century Fox.

2. Sky plc has many subsidiaries which it controls such as Sky UK, Sky Italia and Now TV (UK). You can learn who does what job and what the job requires them to do on their website https://corporate.sky.com/about-sky/our-management/our-board. This shows a interesting insight into how the business is structured and maintained. Below is a screenshot of the page and follow the link to read more about these jobs and people.

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3. Sky earns money from the fees in which they charge their customers

4. After 2016 Sky has increased its revenues up by 7% which is equal to £11,965 million and have also increased their operating profit by 12% which is another £1,558 million. Below is the CEO’s statement on the 2016 Annual Report.

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5. Sky are competing with BT and Netflix and Sky have introduced features such as Sky Go, On Demand, Catch Up, Sky Q and they even introduced their own extra service labelled Now TV. Adding these features was a way that Sky have been combating BT’S Sport and news features as well as Netflix exclusive shows (known as Netflix Originals) and also the way in which Netflix allows its customers to stream content at any moment they choose. Sky’s Now TV was a very similar service to Netflix however to overcome Netflix Sky chose to implement the content that a Now TV subscription into Sky’s own TV Box making it so long lasting sky customers can access the same service without needing a different platform or subscription.

6. Sky produce television shows and movies to the homes of customers by using satellite connections. To expand their market they introduced new features and services such as sky go where you can take your sky content with you where ever you go and with Now Tv to combat Netflix.

WARNER BROS

1. The current owner of Warner Bros. is Kevin Tsujihara who joined the company in 1994. He also focused on the business’ online content and became the president of the home entertainment unit in 2005.

2. The Warner Bros. Entertainment’s employee ranges from 5,000-10,000. below is a link to the Warner Bros. website at the section involving the companies visions and reports. https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/about/company-overview This link takes you to the page I have taken a screenshot of below and it shows how the business is currently doing as well as what the business is about.

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There is also links to explanations of what the roles are to the employees within Warner Bros.

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3. Warner Bros. earn its money by distributing merchandise and entertainment services to the public both domestically and internationally. WB has over 3000 licences which give them the rights to certain brand names and production shows such as the DC Universe and the big bang theory.

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5. Warner Bros. competitors are The Walt Disney Company and Universal Studios.

6. WB produce media and entertainment for the general public all over the world.

Warner Bros. Have this pdf document which shows their 2015 annual report

https://studentsprestonac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/crobinson345041_students_preston_ac_uk/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=01f7229659a484c7fba7ff906cbdc859c&authkey=AblJRYIxB6wQS_X_fOGJ1Rg

UBISOFT

1. Yves Guillemot is the current owner and ceo of Ubisoft Entertainment.

2.Below is a link to the Ubisoft website section containing an overview of the company.

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-US/company/overview.aspx

3.Ubisoft turns over a revenue of €2,984.786 million with a Net Income of €561.8 million which pays the wages of 10,000 employees.

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5.Ubisoft top competitors are Electronic Arts Inc. and Activision Inc. Who both have a higher Revenue than Ubisoft.

6. Ubisoft publish video games for home gaming systems so that the general public can enjoy  being a little happier at home.

1.Who owns it?

2. What’s the business structure?

3. How does the business get paid?

4.What profit does it make?

5.Who are they competing against?

6. What content does the business produce?