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32-876: The business started as Way Ahead Records in the 1980s, a Nottingham-based record shop which began selling concert tickets in the 1990s. It began trading as See Tickets in 2004 following an acquisition by The Really Useful Group and Bridgepoint Capital . Since 2011, See has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi SA , a Paris-based international integrated media and content group, employing more than 50,000 staff globally with revenues in excess of €29 billion in 2010. (2) In December 2014, See opened its first US office in Los Angeles, California . See expanded its US presence in June 2016, after its parent company Vivendi acquired ticket agency Flavorus from SFX Entertainment for $ 4 million, now rebranded as See Tickets.( 3) In November 2019

64-495: A " corporation , partnership , association, joint-stock company , trust , fund , or organized group of persons , whether incorporated or not, and (in an official capacity) any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or similar official, or liquidating agent , for any of the foregoing". Less common types of companies are: When "Ltd" is placed after the company's name, it signifies a limited company, and "PLC" ( public limited company ) indicates that its shares are widely held. In

96-577: A company is a body corporate or corporation company registered under the Companies Acts or under similar legislation. Common forms include: In the United Kingdom, a partnership is not legally a company, but may sometimes be referred to (informally) as a "company". It may be referred to as a "firm" . In the United States , a company is not necessarily a corporation. For example, a company may be

128-561: A company owned by Broadway producer Max Weitzenhoffer, who previously had been a rival bidder for the Stoll Moss theatres, and Nica Burns, production director of Really Useful Theatres. Lloyd Webber invested £10 million of the proceeds from the sales in October 2005 to buy the interest of his partner Bridgepoint (formerly NatWest Equity Partners), and renamed the group Really Useful Theatres Group . Nimax purchased The Palace in 2012. In 2014,

160-802: A revival of the musical Heathers . Lloyd Webber purchased the Palace Theatre in 1983, followed by the New London (now Gillian Lynne ) and the Adelphi . In 1999, Lloyd Webber and NatWest Equity Partners bought the Stoll Moss group, owner of 10 London theatres, including the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , for £85 million from Australian businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court , and formed Really Useful Theatres. In 2004, operational control of

192-649: A second office opened in the US in Nashville, Tennessee . In April 2018, See again expanded by acquiring LiveStyle 's Netherlands-based online ticketing service, Paylogic. As part of the deal, See Tickets US tickets LiveStyle's US-based events such as; Electric Zoo , Life in Color , Sunset Music Festival, and Spring Awakening . Later in 2019, Paylogic also rebranded as See Tickets. In January 2020, See Tickets further expanded their European presence by acquiring Swiss-based Starticket from

224-486: A standalone scanning point. Really Useful Group The Really Useful Group Ltd. ( RUG ) is an international company set up in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber . It is involved in theatre, film, television, video and concert productions, merchandising , magazine publishing, records and music publishing. The name is inspired by a phrase from the children's book series The Railway Series (which also inspired Webber to create Starlight Express ) in which Thomas

256-444: Is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural , juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity,

288-840: Is a full service ticket agency and services to clients include custom UX and UI development, marketing, customer care, access control and all aspects of ticketing and account management. See Tickets' global client list includes well known event promoters, festivals and venues such as: Universal Music Group , Glastonbury Festival , S.J.M. Concerts , Houses of Parliament , Kew Gardens , Rock in Rio Lisboa , Professional Darts Corporation , The Queen Mary , English Heritage , Society of London Theatre , Louis Vuitton , Tomorrowland , Electric Zoo , and Boardmasters Festival . In 2017, See Tickets launched "Fan to Fan", an ethical secondary ticket re-sale platform that allowed customers to only sell their tickets online via See at face value or less. See Tickets

320-653: The Old French term compagnie (first recorded in 1150), meaning "society, friendship, intimacy; body of soldiers", which came from the Late Latin word companio ("one who eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law ( c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"), related to Old High German galeipo ("companion") and to Gothic gahlaiba ("messmate"). By 1303,

352-647: The Queen's Theatre reverted from Really Useful Theatres back to Cameron Mackintosh 's Delfont Mackintosh Theatres. The transfer of operational control of the adjoining Gielgud Theatre from Really Useful Theatres to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres followed two years later. On 11 July 2005, the company sold four theatres (the Apollo , the Duchess , the Lyric , and the Garrick ) to Nimax Theatres Ltd,

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384-517: The 1980s with Cameron Mackintosh . Among its productions and co-productions are: In 2016, Really Useful partnered with Concord Theatricals to act as representative for licensing its works in North America. In October 2021, the groups extended the partnership through 2025. Really Useful Films is responsible for the production of film versions of Lloyd Webber's catalogue. Initially, these had consisted of lower budget straight-to-video versions of

416-741: The 2001 Masterpiece – Andrew Lloyd Webber in China concert and a musical version of The Gruffalo . The film director Nick Morris is regularly involved with the films division. Really Useful Records produces cast albums of Lloyd Webber musicals. From 1986 until Lloyd Webber regained full control of the company in 1999, Really Useful Records had an exclusive deal with PolyGram to release albums through its Polydor label. Really Useful continues to release its albums and DVDs through Universal, current owners of PolyGram. Aside from cast albums, Lloyd Webber has also produced albums for Marti Webb , Sarah Brightman , Connie Fisher , Andrea Ross and Michael Ball via

448-471: The TX Group, which sells over 5 million tickets annually. In June 2024, See Tickets was wholy acquired by CTS Eventim Today, See Tickets retails and distributes tickets for music, festival, theatre, sport, comedy, exhibition and lifestyle events working with more than 5,000 clients globally. Notably, the business sold all 150,000 tickets for the 2015 Glastonbury Festival in 29 minutes. [ 1] See Tickets

480-478: The Tank Engine and the other locomotives are referred to as "Really Useful Engines". The company was set up in 1977 when Lloyd Webber, frustrated with the terms of his contract with the impresario Robert Stigwood , decided to take greater control over the management of his creative works. All Lloyd Webber compositions and productions created from that point have been owned by the company. The Really Useful Group

512-459: The composer 100% ownership of the group. The Really Useful Theatre Company produces and manages plays and musicals, mainly, but not limited to those written by Lloyd Webber. It is also responsible for licensing its productions worldwide. In the 1990s, RUT mainly produced shows on its own, but more recently has again developed partnerships with other producers and production companies, notably Bill Kenwright , to produce its works, as it had done in

544-621: The double-A side single to raise funds for the BBC 's annual Children in Need charity appeal. LW Theatres owns and manages six West End theatres: The group also included the Off West End venue The Other Palace , formerly known as the St James Theatre which it sold to Bill Kenwright in October 2021. The theatre reopened under its new owner following a closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic with

576-466: The group split into two companies, and the owner of the theatres was named Really Useful Theatres . In 2018, Really Useful Theatres changed its name to LW Theatres to avoid confusion with the other companies owned by Lloyd Webber. The company formed Really Useful Magazines Ltd to distribute Theatregoer magazine, a monthly magazine edited and published on the Really Useful Group's behalf by

608-527: The label. Lee Mead , who won the lead role in 2007's West End revival of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by taking part in BBC One 's Any Dream Will Do! recorded a single of the song " Any Dream Will Do ". The contest's third-placed Lewis Bradley and second-placed Keith Jack joined him on "Close Every Door To Me". Really Useful Records released

640-502: The late 1990s. The name Carpet Records was a play on the acronym RUG, of the Really Useful Group. The group on 27 June 2007 announced that it would donate all receipts from two special performances of a revived West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to the BBC 's Children in Need charity appeal, which would benefit from ticket sales for 16 July's preview and performance of 16 November, on

672-597: The legal context, the owners of a company are normally referred to as the "members". In a company limited or unlimited by shares (formed or incorporated with a share capital), this will be the shareholders . In a company limited by guarantee , this will be the guarantors. Some offshore jurisdictions have created special forms of offshore company in a bid to attract business for their jurisdictions. Examples include segregated portfolio companies and restricted purpose companies. However, there are many sub-categories of company types that can be formed in various jurisdictions in

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704-487: The night of the annual Children in Need telethon. Viewers of a BBC One television show, Any Dream Will Do! had voted 25-year-old West End ensemble player and understudy Lee Mead to take role of Joseph in the production. During the contest's 9 June 2007 final, host Graham Norton said that Children in Need had benefited by more than £500,000 in income from viewer voting on premium-rate telephone lines. Company (law) A company , abbreviated as co. ,

736-629: The publishing agency Axon Publishing. Published beginning in 2000, the magazine was available in conjunction with the programmes in all Really Useful Theatres. Really Useful sold Theatregoer magazine to Bandwidth Communications, the publisher of Whatsonstage.com , in April 2005. The Really Useful Group has, in the past, set up sub-labels to cater for pop and dance acts, such as Carpet Records , featuring Timmy Mallett 's Bombalurina (" Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini ") and Doctor Spin (" Tetris "); and ‘’It Records’’, home to My Life Story in

768-423: The reputation of the exchange or particular market of an exchange. Private companies do not have publicly traded shares, and often contain restrictions on transfers of shares. In some jurisdictions, private companies have maximum numbers of shareholders. A parent company is a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors;

800-434: The resale of tickets at an inflated price on the secondary market, which was used for new tours from Declan McKenna and Bombay Bicycle Club . The digital ticket features a dynamically refreshing barcode which is uniquely tied to a customer's user account, mobile device and See Tickets app. In 2020, See Tickets launched a contactless access control system as a way to provide clients with a safe way to manage event entry using

832-441: The resulting entities are often known as corporate groups . A company can be defined as an "artificial person", invisible, intangible, created by or under law, with a discrete legal capacity (or "personality"), perpetual succession , and a common seal . Except for some senior positions, companies remain unaffected by the death, insanity, or insolvency of an individual member. The English word, " company ", has its origins in

864-592: The shows ( Cats , Joseph , Jesus Christ Superstar, and By Jeeves ), but in 2004 the Really Useful Films completed the film The Phantom of the Opera , directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum , which was nominated for three Academy Awards and three Golden Globes . It has also released DVD and video versions of Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday concert at the Royal Albert Hall ,

896-533: The word company referred to trade guilds . The usage of the term company to mean "business association" was first recorded in 1553, and the abbreviation "co." dates from 1769. According to the Company Law of the People's Republic of China , companies include the limited liability company and joint-stock limited company which founded in the mainland China. In English law and in legal jurisdictions based upon it,

928-406: The world. Companies are also sometimes distinguished for legal and regulatory purposes between public companies and private companies . Public companies are companies whose shares can be publicly traded, often (although not always) on a stock exchange which imposes listing requirements / Listing Rules as to the issued shares, the trading of shares and future issue of shares to help bolster

960-501: Was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies;

992-484: Was floated on the stock market in 1986. Four years later, Lloyd Webber took it back into private ownership, selling 30% to film and music group PolyGram to fund the cost of buying back shares. In 1995, PolyGram was bought by Canadian conglomerate Seagram , with the Really Useful stake being passed to its own film and music subsidiary, Universal . In 1999, Lloyd Webber paid $ US75 million for Universal's 30% stake, giving

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1024-443: Was the first ticket agency to launch its own ethical ticketing platform. In 2019, See Tickets reported that ethical ticket sales through Fan to Fan were up 50% vs the same time in 2018. Again in 2017, See also launched "Fan Share" a peer to peer marketing system to allow customers to earn rewards from event organisers for assisting with the sale of tickets on-line. 2019 saw See Tickets launch their new digital ticket service to combat

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