Gaumont
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upright=1.35|thumb|A Spido reportage at the Fotomuseum Antwerp left|thumb|Léon Gaumont, founder of the group and important inventor in the field of cinema alt=Alice Guy in 1896|left|thumb|Alice Guy, first woman film director, launched by Léon Gaumont and later head of production at Gaumont. Gaumont SA () is a French film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria and the oldest extant film company in the world, establis
Key facts
- Company.name
- Gaumont SA
- Company.logo
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- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 2011
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.traded_as
- CAC All-Share
- Company.founder
- Léon Gaumont
- Company.industry
- Motion pictures
- Company.products
- Motion picturesTelevision programsFilm distribution
- Company.revenue
- €212.2 million (2021)
- Company.net_income
- €1.0 million (2021)
- Company.assets
- €206.4 million (2022)
- Company.equity
- €255.9 million (2011)
- Company.num_employees
- 227 (2021)
- Company.subsid
- Gaumont AnimationGaumont International TelevisionGaumont Production ServicesGaumont TélévisionGaumont VidéoGP ArchivesÉditions La Marguerite
- Company.location_city
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Company.location_country
- France
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.owner
- Sidonie Dumas (89.7%)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Production
- Corporate structure
- Gaumont Television
- Logo
- Financial information
- References
- Sources
- External links
upright=1.35|thumb|A Spido reportage at the Fotomuseum Antwerp left|thumb|Léon Gaumont, founder of the group and important inventor in the field of cinema alt=Alice Guy in 1896|left|thumb|Alice Guy, first woman film director, launched by Léon Gaumont and later head of production at Gaumont. Gaumont SA () is a French film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria and the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).
Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films, and in 2011, 95% of Gaumont's consolidated revenues came from the film division. The company is also a producer of TV series through Gaumont Télévision and animation through Gaumont Animation as well as its existing French production features. Gaumont is run by Nicolas Seydoux (chairman) and Sidonie Dumas (CEO). Iconic for its daisy logo, the company holds a library of over 1,600 films, including hits like Intouchables and The Fifth Element.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaumont” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.