Odeon Cinemas Group is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of

AMC Theatres AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas or AMC Multi-Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain fou ...

. The company has three main subsidiaries,

Nordic Cinema Group Nordic Cinema Group is a Swedish company which owns 103 cinemas and 590 cinema saloons in six countries ( Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). It was founded in 2013 through a merger of Filmstaden in Sweden, Odeon Kino in N ...

United Cinemas International UCI Cinemas (''United Cinemas International'') is a brand of cinema, currently operating in Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Brazil, which has been owned since 2004 by Odeon Cinemas Group, whose owner is now AMC Theatres, except for the UCI Cinemas ...

, and

Odeon Cinemas Odeon, stylised as ODEON, is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway, which along with UCI Cinemas and Nordic Cinema Group is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group subsidiary of AMC Theatres. It uses the famous name of ...

. Nordic Cinema Group in turn owns

Finnkino Finnkino Oy is a Finnish film distributor and the biggest cinema chain in Finland. It was established in 1986 as a union of 34 companies working in the film industry. In 1994 Finnkino was acquired by the Rautakirja Group, which became a divisio ...

and its subsidiary Forum Cinemas.

History

The company was incorporated in

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, England, on 22 June 2016, as part of a $1.2 billion takeover of

and

. The deal left Odeon Cinemas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Odeon Cinemas Group. AMC claimed after the acquisition that it was the "largest movie exhibition company in the world". David Anderson was appointed as chief commercial officer on 27 October 2017, replacing Ian Shepherd. When he was appointed, the group managing director was Mark Way and the chief operating officer was Jan Bernhardsson. The company received the 2018 CIPD People Management Awards for " Best international HR initiative". Having won in the "Talent Management" category in 2017. In March 2018,

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reported that AMC was working with

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to potentially float the company on the

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in a $2 billion

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. On March 17, 2020, All of its UK-area theatres temporarily closed due to the

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Position in group

References

{{reflist Cinemas and movie theaters chains AMC Theatres Companies based in the City of Westminster