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Quantel Henry
Quantel was a company based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1973 that designed and manufactured Digital data, digital production equipment for the Broadcasting, broadcast television, video production and motion picture industries. It was headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury, Berkshire. The name Quantel came from ''Quantised Television'', in reference to the process of converting a television picture into a Digital data, digital signal. Quantel acquired Snell Limited in March 2014. Following a period of consolidation the two companies started operating under the Snell name, trading as Snell Advanced Media or SAM, from September 2015, following the staged removal of the Quantel board of directors by incoming CEO Ray Cross. Quantel was purchased by Grass Valley (company), Grass Valley, who were taken over by Cayman Island-registered Black Dragon Capital in2020who decided to close down Newbury factory in 2023, the 50th anniversary year of Quantel. Around 50 legacy Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snell Limited
Snell Limited, branded as Snell Advanced Media or SAM, was a British company that designed and developed solutions for the media production market including applications for central operations, live production, post production, playout and media management. They were headquartered in Newbury, UK. SAM delivers agile technology across Live Production, Production, Editing & Finishing, Playout & Delivery, Infrastructure & Image Processing, all running under enterprise-wide Management & Workflow automation. Snell Limited, owned by bankers LDC, was created from the merger of Snell & Wilcox and Pro-Bel in 2009. In March 2014 Snell was acquired by another company owned by LDC, Quantel Ltd. After LDC's replacement of Snell CEO Simon Derry with Quantel CEO Ray Cross, the process of merging the companies began. LDC had previously in 2006 appointed Cross to replace Quantel CEO Richard Taylor. However within a year LDC then replaced Cross with new CEO Tim Thorsteinson. The company was rebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
