VILLAGE history

1989: The company acquires De Laurentis Entertainment, changing its name to Village Roadshow, and forms a multiplex partnership with Warner Bros and Greater Union.

New Zealand became the company's first foreign market in 1991, when it began building up a chain of cinemas there.

Village Roadshow also purchased the Triple M radio network in 1993 and subsequently integrated it to create the Austereo Group.

Village Roadshow also attempted to join the growing multimedia market with the creation of Roadshow New Media in 1995.

By 1996, the company was actively expanding its cinema circuit in 20 different markets, including Hong Kong, where the company formed the Golden Village joint-venture with that country's Golden Harvest.

2000: Village Roadshow begins exiting many of its international markets and extends its co-production agreement with Warner Bros.

In 2001, Village Roadshow spun off Austereo in a public offering, valued at A$1 billion, as part of the company's continued streamlining effort.

In June 2002, the company surprised and angered its shareholders when it announced that it would suspend it dividend payments that year--in part because it needed the cash for its planned expansion of its production operation.

At the beginning of 2003, Burke and the Kirby brothers at last came clean and admitted that they saw the company's future in production, particularly given the seemingly saturated status of the exhibition market.

By the end of that year, Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. had extended the original production deal to 40 films by 2005.

In 2012, Village Roadshow acquired Edge Loyalty, re-branded Edge.

Edge was sold in 2019.