Endemol Restructures Asian Business

September 16, 2009 World Screen
HONG KONG: The Endemol Group is reorganizing its businesses across Asia with all operations in the region reporting directly into Arjen van Mierlo, the CEO of Asian Operations, and Edward Sharples, the managing director of Endemol South East Asia is stepping down.
 
Van Mierlo, will continue to be based at Endemol Asia’s offices in Hong Kong, which will now also become the head office for the group’s South East Asian business, which will no longer operate out of Bangkok. Endemol has also established development and production companies in India and Malaysia, which are involved in several local shows. The company has also licensed a number of its formats in China and Korea with further announcements pending.
 
“This new structure will strongly position us to further leverage our existing operations in Hong Kong, India and Malaysia whilst pursuing further expansion in Asia including Korea, Japan and Greater China,”
van Mierlo commented. “At the same time we are extremely sad to be losing Ed who launched the South East Asian operation from scratch and built it into a leading content provider to the region. He has played a key role in our success in Asia to date and he will be greatly missed.”
 

Edward Sharples added: “Over the last five-and-a-half years I’ve had the privilege of working alongside a truly brilliant team in South East Asia, which has helped build a world class operation here. Now as Endemol looks to move its Asian business into a new chapter I’ve decided with great sadness that the logical step is for me is to move on. Arjen and his team have exciting plans for expansion across Asia and I wish them all the very best for the future.” 

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