See Tickets
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| See Tickets | |
| Industry | Live Entertainment |
| Founded | 1991 as Stoll Moss Ticketing Acquired Way Ahead in 2002 2004 rebranded as See 16 October 2007 See Group Ltd incorporated |
| Headquarters | Nottingham, England |
Area served | Live Entertainment and Ticketing Systems |
Key people | Rob Wilmshurst, CEO |
| Products | Ticketing technology, Ticket Sales, Ticketing Services, Marketing, Distribution of event tickets and information |
| Revenue | £22.4 million (2015)[1] |
| £6.6 million (2015)[2] | |
| £5.4 million (2015)[3] | |
| Parent | Vivendi |
| Subsidiaries | See Tickets USA Flavorus |
| Website | www.seetickets.com |
See Tickets is the trading name of an international ticketing services company owned by Vivendi SA. See Tickets head office is on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham It also has offices in London and Los Angeles.
See sells and distributes tickets for West End Theatre, music, festivals, sport, comedy and lifestyle events. Notably See sold all 150,000 tickets for the 2015 Glastonbury Festival in 29 minutes.[4] See Tickets is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi S.A., a Paris-based international integrated media and content group, employing more than 16,000 staff globally with revenues in excess of $12 billion in 2015.
See Tickets serves more than 5,000 clients globally including the world’s biggest event promoters and venues such as Glastonbury Festival, SJM Concerts, Really Useful Theatres, Universal Music Group, Street Food Cinema, Beautycon, The Eiffel Tower, Media 10, Manchester City F.C. and Secret Cinema.[5]
In September 2011, Vivendi announced it had acquired See Tickets UK from Parcom, a Dutch private equity firm.[6]
See also owns Intascape.com Ltd a ticketing software house who provide the SeeThreeSixty ticketing and event management software to football clubs including Manchester City and West Ham United. The buy out took place in 2007.[7]
In December 2014, See opened its first US office in Los Angeles, California.[8] See Tickets expanded its US presence in June 2016, after its parent company Vivendi acquired ticket agency Flavorus from the bankrupted SFX Entertainment for $4 million.[9] [10]
See also
References
- ^ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03554468/filing-history
- ^ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03554468/filing-history
- ^ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03554468/filing-history
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/glastonbury-2015-tickets-150000-festival-tickets-sell-out-in-record-time-9775160.html
- ^ https://c368768.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/product_files/19105/original/CaseStudy-Stingray-SeeTickets_-_UK_sized6e0438c933ce6a3b9825fdb5fa3a3a8.pdf
- ^ "Vivendi press release on acquisition of See Tickets UK" (PDF).
- ^ "See Tickets Buys Intascape". AllBusiness.com. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
- ^ http://www.seeticketsus.com/
- ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/see-tickets-acquires-flavorus-strengthen-140700258.html
- ^ http://www.iq-mag.net/2016/06/vivendi-buys-flavorus-from-sfx/#.V4jR_0srL4Y