Group FMG is a digital asset production company that was formed through multiple acquisitions and now provides services globally. It offers consulting, content production, and technology solutions for commerce, publishing, packaging, advertising, and other industries. Group FMG has offices in New York, London, and Chennai and serves over 75 global clients through various commercial models.

1. Group FMG
Digital Asset Production for Multi Channel Consumption.

3. Company Overview
GROUP FMG buys Pod1
GROUP FMG’s New York office is established
FMG secures major PE funding to capitalize $100m, forms GROUP FMG
FMG’s Ceros platform fuels first e-commerce catalogue
FMG acquires video production company, Guerrilla
FMG’s Asian production & development facility established
FMG crowned PPA Prepress Company of The Year
FMG launches the Ceros interactive marketing platform
 Founded in 2011 by large private equity fund
FMG crowned PPA Prepress Company of The Year
FMG purchases catalogue design company, Vision  Acquired FMG (founded in 1987), a digital asset production
company in London and Pod1, a leading ecommerce creative
FMG launches its Virtual In-House Production system agency in New York
FMG wins PPA award for innovation
FMG pioneers first all-digital magazine production process  Focused on innovative multi-channel commerce, creative
content and consulting services; guiding brands through
FMG is established change caused by the solomoco phenomenon
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4. Company Overview
 Globally balanced enterprise model
 Creative services, proprietary technologies, domain
expertise, process excellence and actionable analytics
offered to provide differentiated solutions
Global HQ
 Broad range of commercial structures offered to
clients – T&M, fixed price, outcome pricing, and
various captive production and outsourcing models
 Serving several channels:
Industry channels
NEW YORK • LONDON • CHENNAI
 Publishing
 Packaging & POS
 Digital
 Advertising pre-media
Serving 75+ leading global clients across North America,
 Broadcast
Europe and Asia-Pacific across industries such as retail,
publishing, technology, hospitality etc. to name a few
Cross platform channels
 Mobile
 Social
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5. Vision
Provide tangible value to the
business of our clients through
high impact marketing
solutions, by
- providing consulting services
- enabling [e/m] commerce and
- producing rich media, local and
social content
- for use across all channels, new
and traditional.
To provide a broad range of solutions that
help marketers
 Imagine: disruptive awareness
 Innovate: differentiated advocacy
 Ideate: desired acceptance
in the context of marketing solutions
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6. Offerings and Commercial Structures
Commercial
Outcomes T&M Fixed Price Outsourcing (LDO, PTO)
Structures
Content
Production
Digital Commerce
Consulting Digital + (Mobile, Social) b2b and b2c
Solutions Publishing [e/m} commerce
Advisory
Advertising Pre-media
Packaging
Broadcast
Gaming
Creative Domain Process
Enablers Technology Analytics
Services Skills Excellence
Editorial Motion
Point Offerings Audio Video Photography
Copy Graphics
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8. Solution: Consulting
 Assessment and/or creation of digital roadmaps
 Technology architecture assessments (digital and
ecommerce)
 Multi-channel brand experience
1.7M
 Operations optimization (pre media production)
 Print and digital production cost reduction
 Commerce, mobile and social strategies
NEW YORK, Nov. 28,2011 /PRNewswire/ -- David J. Pecker, Chairman, President
and CEO of American Media, Inc. (AMI), today announced that the company has
entered into a long-term partnership with Group FMG (FMG), an international
media production agency whose capabilities will allow AMI to engage in cutting
edge automated technologies. This deal, estimated to be north of $10 million, will
reduce costs and help to optimize services and develop solutions.
“Every publisher today is looking to reduce their costs, and
being able to provide them with the production efficiencies
we developed for AMI’s publishing services business unit
allows us to build on this new revenue stream for the our
company”
DAVID PECKER
Chairman, President and CEO
AMERICAN MEDIA
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10. Solution: Content
Photography Video & Audio Copy Motion Graphics
 Interactive  Brand funded  Copywriting  CGI-conceptualization and
3D animation
 Product and  Consumer facing  Product and
editorial editorial  Artwork and storyboard
 Non consumer
facing  Audio
 Editorial  Production
"Waitrose LIVE will be at the heart of our overall
business strategy and a first in the food retail
industry. It presents an excellent opportunity to
reinforce our position as a proactive retailer."
KATE SCALLY
Manager of Marketing Communications Group
WAITROSE FMG
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12. Channels: Commerce
 Front-end
 Shop-fronts, microsites, websites,
creative design
 Catalogs, promotions
 Campaigns, loyalty programs
 Back-end
 Payment gateways
 CMS, CRM and third party systems
integration (B2B and/or B2C solutions)
 Intra–enterprise ERP systems
 Extra–enterprise vendor and customer
systems
 Capability across leading technology
platforms
 Magento
 Hybris
 Demandware
 ATG
 IBM
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14. Channels: Digital
 Interactive content design & production; websites, portals
 Content Management Systems (Adobe CQ, Ceros)
 Interactive catalog design & production
 Information architecture
 IA/UX
 Search engine optimization
 Custom apps on digital
 Loyalty programs
 Self service apps (cleargain.com)
“The guys at FMG understand our
business and consistently exceed
expectations.”
NEIL WARBURTON
CRM Director
BODEN
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15. Channels: Publishing
 Graphics retouching services
 Prototypes & illustrations
 Color management services
 Production readiness services
 Production automation services
 Library management & file conversion
services
 E-book production
 Digital watermarking
“The services provided by FMG are
reliable, accurate and fast. In fact
everything I need!”
Production Capabilities
STEVEN ESSEN Group Publishing
Operations Director  24/7 production
RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING  1.1 million images handled per year
 528,000 page PDFs created per year
 0.0003% reported error rate
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16. Channels: Packaging & POS
 Artwork Creation & Proof-reading
 Graphics design – master creation,
declination, adaptation & re-touching
services
 Mock-ups, prototypes and CGI (computer
generated imagery)
 Repro, color management & pre-flight
services
 Printer management & quality assurance
services
 Trans-creation & other value added services
 Packaging technology, structural &
mechanical design
 Strategic brand management & consulting
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17. Channels: Advertising
We build rich media assets for multi channel
use across:
 Manufacturing
 Banking and capital markets
 Insurance
 Energy
 Telecoms
 Education
 Public sector
 Services
 Advent, our web–enabled,
collaborative pre–flight software,
allows both your team and ours to
perform the full range of quality–
control processes, checking an ad’s
color space, sizing and any other
procedures you add to your pre-flight
profile.
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18. Channels: Mobile
 Digital platform for financial information,
unique economic and financial indices,
investor community
 Data Visualization, mobile applications,
consumer confidence index, games
1.7M
 We own a technology framework called ICE
CAPP ™
 Enables fast creation and deployment of
native mobile apps
“Economic and Financial data in
today’s ‘social’ age needs to be
current, transparent and simple.
BluFin’s CCI and its upcoming
products will be available freely on
the Internet and on mobile apps and
in a visually appealing manner —
truly democratizing financial
information.”
NEERAJ BHARGAVA
Chairman
BLUFIN INDIA
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20. Channels: Social
 Social presence on Facebook, LinkedIn,
Google+
 We also build thematic, private social
containers
 We build Consumer to Brand as opposed
to only Brand to Consumer containers.
 Loyalty programs
 Crowdsourcing apps
 We do social monitoring, reputation
management and social benchmarking
 We embed commerce in social apps
Contained but Social (SM)
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21. Enabler: Technology
 Interactive content marketing platform
 Custom interface
 Design & production
 Proprietary technology
 VIP4 Proprietary publication planning
and production system (vipfour.com)
 Advent Ad pre-flighting system
(adventcheck.com)
 Ceros- interactive digital catalogs with
e-commerce enablement
 Ice Capp ™ for mobile app development
“VIP is a truly innovative product that
has positively revolutionized our
prepress production.”
JOHN HUGHES
Production Director
HACHETTE FILIPACCHI
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22. Enabler: Creative Services
 High end IA/UX design
 Award winning work
 Outstanding user experience
credentials
Gold Award of Excellence:
Salvatore Ferragamo
Gold Award of Excellence:
eloquii by The Limited
Silver Award of Distinction:
Maje USA
Silver Award of Distinction:
Echo
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23. Enabler: Analytical Insights
The Results
Visit the campaign here:
http://cradleandall.sears.com/
70% 6 145,000
Click-through Minutes on site Site referrals
rate
Click-through Dwell times Over 145,000
rate of over 70% in excess of referrals to
six minutes Sears.com
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25. Enabler: Process Excellence
IA £
Since 1987 we have been a
production company working
with brands and other partners
to power their digital output.
1.1 million images
processed, created
over 10,000 ebooks,
produced over 528,000
page PDFs created per
year with a 0.0003%
reported error rate.
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27. Commerce Case Study – Salvatore Ferragamo
 End-to-end digital commerce process
 High-end photography
 Creative design and technology implementation
Winner of ‘Gold Award Of Excellence’ at the 2012 Communicator Awards
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28. Channels: Publishing Case Study – Waitrose
“Beautiful creative work that is perfect in tone
and look for Waitrose in an exciting and
innovative digital form.”
OLLIE RICE
Group Content Editor
WAITROSE
 Interactive content, and cook-along and informative videos
 Video content for YouTube channel and multiple Facebook
and Twitter campaigns.
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29. Commerce Case Study – Harvey Nichols
Awards & Accolades
15th annual webby official official honoree
 Best Visual Design – Aesthetic
 Best Navigation/Structure
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30. Commerce Case Study – Alex and Alexa
UI, UX and e-commerce for a luxury multi-brand children’s boutique
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31. Channels: Publishing Case Study – Reader’s Digest
 Globally scalable technology production platform
 Feasible for all magazines and books across global markets.
"Having worked with FMG for some 16 years, I have
always been impressed with the balance of quality
and innovation they provide – and never more so
during the past 12 months. The Introduction of
ProofPositive on our flagship magazine has greatly
reduced our production costs and turnaround times
without impacting upon quality in any way. I regard
this as an immense achievement not only technically
but also culturally."
CHRIS REYNOLDS
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
READER’S DIGEST
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32. Commerce Case Study – Diptyque Paris
Mixing heritage with ecommerce
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33. Commerce Case Study – Westfield London
Bringing fashion focus to the department store
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34. Commerce Case Study – Stuart Weitzman
Bringing the personality of the brand forward
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35. Commerce Case Study – Tag Heuer
Creating the first ecommerce site for this brand
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36. Commerce Case Study – Belstaff
Designing with a wealth of heritage
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37. Commerce Case Study – NET-A-PORTER
Global advertising strategies and creative solutions
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38. Commerce Case Study
Mobile & Social Commerce Mobile & Social Commerce extensions
Wedding Planner Amanda Wakeley Harvey Nichols Belstaff
Awards & Accolades
 15th annual webby official official honoree
 Best Visual Design – Aesthetic
 Best Navigation/Structure
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39. Commerce Case Study – Kenneth Cole
Mobile & Social Commerce extensions
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40. Commerce Case Study – L.K.Bennett London
Mobile & Social Commerce extensions
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41. Clients - Select Examples
Publishing Retail Technology Luxury
Serving 75+ leading global brands
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42. Contact
New York London
119th Fifth Avenue 90-92 Pentonville Road
New York London N1 9HS
NY 10003 United Kingdom
USA
Contact: info@groupfmg.com
Chennai
2nd Floor, Hardy Tower
Ramanujan IT SEZ, TRIL Infopark Limited
Taramani
Chennai 600113
India
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