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Eidos Interactive UK - Computer Video Games The integration of CentreGold has led to a prudent approach to inventory sell offs and a revaluation of development costs and royalty advances in preparation for the Company’s planned NASDAQ listing, for which a Registration Statement has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. CentreGold plc was acquired on 22 April 1996. It should be noted that the calculation of goodwill is a provisional figure as the company has until the publication of its first annual accounts after the acquisition to fully assess the fair values of the assets and liabilities acquired. www.eidosinteractive.co.uk /corporate/qr-97-q2.html   (1604 words)

Core Design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The studio is based in Derby, a city in the United Kingdom. It is owned by Eidos Interactive, having been part of distribution company CentreGold when it was acquired by Eidos in 1996. On May 11, 2006 it was announced that Core's assets and staff were sold to indie development group Rebellion. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Core_Design   (850 words)

CentreGold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CentreGold was a three-way partnership between two video game publishers (U.S. Gold and CentreSoft) and a video game developer (Core Design). CentreGold was shortlived, being acquired by Eidos Interactive in April 1996. Eidos chose to sell CentreGold's publishing business, under the name CentreSoft, to Activision, but retained Core Design as an internal development studio. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CentreGold   (106 words)

Rap Sheet - Core Design Ltd. At the end of 1994 Core was acquired by the CentreGold group, comprising the publisher US Gold and distributor CentreSoft. CentreGold agreed however, that Core should be left alone to operate autonomously and all concerned reaped the rewards in 1995 with the release of four new hit games including Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2, a ground-breaking arcade/action title which has clocked up sales of over 200,000 in Europe to date. Once again it was decided that Core should continue to run independently - but this time with the financial and technical backing of a leading edge global software company. www.mobygames.com /company/core-design-ltd/overview   (436 words)

Eidos Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) CentreGold plc - A UK listed publisher/distributor for £17.6m in 1996. Eidos subsequently sold the distribution arm of CentreGold but retained most of its development resource, including Core Design, the creators of Tomb Raider. Core: Core was the key element in the CentreGold purchase and represented Eidos' most succesful wholly-owned development team. www.gamesinvestor.com /Companies/Past_Coverage/Eidos/Eidos_Overview/eidos_overview.html   (914 words)

EIDOS CLOSE TO MAKING AN OFFER FOR CENTREGOLD - Computer Business Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The consensus was that whoever was wooing Birmingham UK-based video games publisher CentreGold Plc, it was going to be one of the foreign majors such as Sony Corp or Broderbund Software Inc, but it turns out that Eidos Plc's ambitions are even bigger. Eidos is at an advanced stage of due diligence and CentreGold chief executive Geoffrey Brown has given Eidos an irrevocable undertaking in respect of his 29.1% of the shares provided any Eidos offer is worth at least 40 pence per share. As neither company has reported for many months, Eidos not since it was transformed, it is not clear what the size of the combination would be, but it looks as if annual sales are likely to be in the #80m range. www.cbronline.com /article_cg_print.asp?guid=CCCE5A0E-ED9D-4C36-84B1-7D9E7CFD6038   (213 words)

[No title] The most important of these was completed in April of last year when Eidos acquired CentreGold, an interactive software company, for a consideration including costs of £17.6m. These were all commissioned by CentreGold prior to its acquisition by Eidos. New Activities Naked Records was formed in 1994 by ex-Curiosity Killed The Cat band members Nick Thorp and Migi Drummond, and was acquired by Eidos in its fledgling state in 1996. www.eidosinteractive.co.uk /corporate/downloads/qr-97-q4.doc   (2308 words)

CiRCLE plc - DVD Games and Entertainment Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Jeremy transitioned Core into a Software Publisher in 1990 and in 1994 sold to CentreGold plc, being appointed to the board of this major UK publisher. In 1996 CentreGold was acquired by Eidos plc. Jeremy was appointed to the main board as an Executive Director whilst remaining MD of Core. www.circle-studio.com /about_management.asp   (711 words)

ComputerBase - Lexikon: Core Design Ende des Jahres 1994 wurde Core Design von der CentreGold plc-Gruppe aufgekauft, die aus dem Publisher US Gold und dem Distributor CentreSoft bestand. CentreGold beschloss, dass Core auch weiterhin als eigenständiger Entwickler selbständig arbeiten sollte. Die Distribution der Spiele wurde von CentreGold übernommen, wodurch man sich nun voll auf die Spieleentwicklung konzentrieren konnte. www.computerbase.de /lexikon/Core_Design   (1288 words)

Home of the Underdogs - Company profile: Eidos Interactive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Best known for Tomb Raider games (which was in fact developed by Core Design, a studio it bought in 1996 as part of Centregold Group). Eidos moved into the entertainment software market in October 1995 with the acquisition of Domark (owners of the rights to Championship Manager) as well as obtaining a full listing on the London Stock Exchange. In April 1996, Eidos strengthened its position in the industry with acquisition of the Centregold Group, which included Core Design and US Gold. www.the-underdogs.info /company.php?name=Eidos+Interactive   (241 words)

Games - CentreGold CentreGold was a three-way partnership between two video game publishers (U.S. Gold CentreGold was shortlived, being acquired by Eidos Interactive Eidos chose to sell CentreGold's publishing business, under the name CentreSoft, to Activision listing-index.ebay.com /games/CentreGold.html   (103 words)

Scott Sellers' Page: Software Houses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Eidos moved into the entertainment software market in October 1995 with the acquisition of Domark, as well as obtaining a full listing on the London Stock Exchange. Then Eidos in April 1996 bought the companies CentreGold plc, which included top names Core Design and US Gold. Since this Eidos’ growth has been based on the Tomb Raider series which when released in November 1996 has sold 25 million games worldwide. scom.hud.ac.uk /scomrlo/cfp2117-02/c0251482/software.htm   (240 words)

Biography - PART 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Domark was not the only British publisher to have suffered because of the decline of the 16-bit market. The only other publicly quoted video games company Centregold (US Gold) was also suffering. Even though Eidos was a much smaller company than Centregold, they made a bold bid to acquire it. www.eidosinteractive.co.uk /ian_livingstone/biography/part7.html   (217 words)

SCi Entertainment Group - Corporate Site of the UK's leading computer games publisher Eidos was founded in 1990 as a video compression RandD company. In 1995 Eidos moved into the entertainment software market and in 1996 acquired CentreGold plc which included Core Design. Later that year Tomb Raider was first released on the Saturn. games.sci.co.uk /corporate/who_we_are/history.aspx   (336 words)

PC ИГРЫ, номер #027, стр. 027-215-3, РЕТРО/DIGEST В марте 1996 года прошли переговоры между двумя английскими компаниями, Eidos Interactive и CentreGold, завершившиеся покупкой последней. CentreGold была недолговечным конгломератом двух издательств (U.S. Gold и CentreSoft) и одной студии-разработчика (Core Design). Впоследствии совет директоров Eidos продал издательскую сеть CentreGold своему конкуренту – Activision, но оставил себе Core Design. www.gameland.ru /magazine/pg/027/215/3.asp   (85 words)

Tomb Raider 7 : Articles In 1995, Eidos produced video compression technology, and was looking to move into games, though it had only one major title - Championship Manager - on its books. Livingstone says: "We had the opportunity to buy the publisher Centregold. As part of the due diligence process, I had to go round their developers. www.funkylydia.com /tombraider/tr7articles2.html?link=guard   (1009 words)

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The BBC Games Archive - Welcome An age old company, started in the early 80's with intentions to release and convert American Games onto the English 8-bit platforms - not surprisingly, the games industry being mainly based in America at that time anyway, it worked. In 1995 the Centregold family was bought out by none other than Eidos UK, a company which has suddenly come to prominence over the last few years. To cut a long story short, Core Design lives on as a subsidiary company of Eidos, and US Gold is no more - the last game bearing the brand being Championship Manager 2 for the PC. www.beebgames.com /games.php?company=297&start=1   (621 words)

EIDOS GEARS FOR GAMES ACTION - Computer Business Review Last October the company acquired the entire issued share capital of three games companies, Domark Group Ltd, Simis Ltd and The Big Red Software Co Ltd, to complement the multimedia hardware side of its business, at a cost of 12.9m British pounds. This was followed by the acquisition of Birmingham-based Centregold Plc for 17.2m pounds in shares, funded by a rights issue (CI No 2,884). The businesses, CentreSoft Ltd and PDQ Distribution Ltd were sold to their management for 7.5m pounds payable in cash on completion (CI No 2,948). www.cbronline.com /article_cg.asp?guid=5AA4F2B5-BCCE-49EF-BE38-93318B1969D4   (681 words)

Tomb Raider Chronicles - EIDOS PLC TO RETAIN CORE DESIGN STUDIO At the time, Eidos also announced the company would be conducting "a thorough evaluation of Core Design studio's on-going direction and contribution as part of the group's overall development capabilities." Eidos strengthened its position within the videogames industry in 1996 with the acquisition of CentreGold plc, which included Core Design and US Gold. Since then, Core Design has been responsible for developing the Tomb Raider franchise, based on an original idea by creator Toby Gard, and other key titles including Project Eden, Herdy Gerdy and Thunderhawk, all pinnacle products for their day. www.tombraiderchronicles.com /headlines1455.html   (408 words)

News Review Service Example   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Rhino jumped 7.5p to 18p in busy trading, ahead of the start of trading in the nil paid rights on Tuesday. CentreGold rose 8p to 77p on renewed bid talk. Mid States dropped 3.5p to 37.5p after a fall in profits. www.news-review.co.uk /wcp211/1031.html   (414 words)

Sony buy-back lifts indie spirits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The returns offer arrived as Centresoft's parent Centregold moved close to being bought by Eidos, the video compression software company which owns Domark. Eidos has made an agreed bid and both companies believe Centregold shareholders will OK the deal. Centresoft sales director David Neal said the buy-back scheme had gone down well with the trade. www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2000054   (112 words)

CV Very quickly established basic Human Resource functions to the satisfaction of our brokers, prior to a launch on NASDAQ in December 1996. Integrated the acquisition of Centregold plc within Eidos plc, which increased headcount from 70 to 670 staff, implementing a redundancy programme for 70 people and taking responsibility for all HR aspects of an MBO involving a further 300 warehouse and distribution staff. Whilst making redundancies, was simultaneously active in attracting the very best staff from competitor companies as Eidos rose from an unknown to become the 5th largest computer games publisher world-wide in 1996/7. www.robgroves.com /html/cv.html   (859 words)

Eidos Eidos, the computer games software concern, is planning to raise up to £45m through a listing on Nasdaq in order to fund new products and invest in development companies. Eidos, the games software concern, plans to acquire CentreGold, the games publisher, in a £17m share swap deal. Eidos is acquiring three games software companies - Domark, The Big Red Software Company, and Simis. www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /eidosaaa.htm   (304 words)

Gamasutra - EuroSpeak Both companies will remain autonomous though, and still offer their services to third parties. Centresoft is based in Birmingham, in the UK, and left the Edios-owned CentreGold group last year through a management buy-out. They are the biggest UK leisure software distributors and handle the products of everyone from SCEE to Hasbro Interactive. www.gamasutra.com /newswire/eurospeak/19971212.htm   (1064 words)

News Review Service Example Since 1990 Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar has gone from jails in Britain and France for his role in the BCCI fraud and now he is to be tried in New York on flmail charges. CentreGold is rumoured to be in takeover talks with larger games groups, including the US's Sierra On Line and Spectrum Hollobyte and French Chargeurs. Shares have jumped 15p to 82p valuing the group at £35m. www.news-review.co.uk /demo/wcp209/1080.html   (581 words)

Bleak future for leisure distributors as CSoft buy looms According to sources, Centresoft put the for sale sign up just one year after it went through a management buyout (MBO). In April 1996, Centresoft's management team, led by managing director Richard Steel, conducted an MBO, following the sale of its former parent company CentreGold to video compression software specialists Eidos, for #17.1 million. The distribution business was sold off to the management for #7.5 million, and Close Investment Management provided the equity. www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2003445   (422 words)

SEC EDGARpro API | View Text REPORTING CURRENCY The Company maintains its accounting records in its local currency, Great Britain pounds sterling. ACQUISITION OF CENTRESOFT LIMITED On June 28, 1996 the Company acquired all the outstanding ordinary shares of CentreSoft Limited ("CentreSoft") for L4,572,000 in cash from Centregold plc ("Centregold") a subsidiary of Eidos plc. The acquisition agreement provides for a contingent payment of a maximum of L500,000 to Eidos if the Company is sold above a certain price which has not been recorded as of April 30, 1997. sec.freeedgar.com /displayText.asp?ID=935900   (3128 words)

Core and US Gold bought by Eidos in CentreGold Group acquision - Timeline Event at SPOnG.com Core and US Gold bought by Eidos in CentreGold Group acquision - Timeline Event at SPOnG.com Core and US Gold bought by Eidos in CentreGold Group acquision Click here to continue to "Core and US Gold bought by Eidos in CentreGold Group acquision" spong.com /article/1002   (104 words)

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