Argonon
| Limited company | |
| Industry | Television, digital media |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | James Burstall, Joey Attawia |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Number of locations
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London, New York, Glasgow, Canada |
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Key people
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Juliet Borges (Group Director), David Dugan (Group Director), Laura Bessell-Martin (COO) |
| Revenue | £50 million (2014) |
| Website | www |
Argonon is an independent media group founded in 2011 by CEO James Burstall, the CEO of Leopard Films. With offices in London, New York, Vancouver and Glasgow, Argonon was named the fourth biggest UK owner/consolidator in the Broadcast Indie Survey 2015.
The group produces and distributes factual, factual entertainment, documentary, reality, entertainment, arts, drama and children's programming for various television networks and channels worldwide with a core focus on the UK, US and Canadian markets. The company has developed new ventures including Cash in the Attic Ltd to exploit programme content in the digital world and The Bridge, to drive production partnership opportunities between Asia and English-speaking countries.
The group, which includes twelve companies, saw a turnover of over £50m in 2014 (£30m UK) and were named as the fastest growing UK indie group with a year on year growth in revenue of 150% from 2013 to 2014. Argonon are listed in the "1000 Companies To Inspire Britain 2016" report. Argonon is listed in the 2016 Sunday Times HSBC Track 200 as one of the UK's fastest growing private companies.
In 2017 Argonon invested in two new joint ventures - Barefaced TV brings together Rosie Bray and Lucy Golding and Bandicoot sees a new partnership of Derek McLean and Dan Nettleton.
James Burstall is a film and television producer and chief executive officer of Argonon which he founded in 2011, he also founded Leopard Films, Leopard USA & Leopard Drama.
He studied modern languages at the University of Bristol (BA Joint Hons, 1987), studied leadership at the Said Business School, University of Oxford (2011) and Leading Changing at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California (2013)
Founded in 2001, Leopard Films was one of the first companies to join Argonon in 2011 and supplies programmes across the factual, factual entertainment, children's and arts genres for broadcasters across the UK including BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 UK and BSkyB. Key people; Fiona Morris.
The first show produced by the production company was Monstrous Bosses and How to Be One for BBC1. The second was Cash in the Attic for the BBC, which ran for ten years on the BBC and went on to transmit in 167 countries following its launch in 2002. The series was nominated for a Royal Television Society Programme Awards, 2008, for Best Daytime Programme in 2002. An offshoot series Celebrity Cash in the Attic was produced by Leopard Films and a website www.cashintheattic.com launched in 2013 in the UK and 2015 in the US, as a digital brand extension of the show.
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