Eternity Entertainment Group - Corporate Profile

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Mission
History
From the Files
Structure
The Partners
Legal Notice

AT A GLANCE

Founded 1987
Geneva, Luxembourg,
Wilmington
Six divisions
Twelve interests
Eleven countries
23 employees
Privately held

Corporate Profile

Mission
The Group's businesses are built around continuous services rather than scheduled programming, and are managed for the long term.

"We set out to supply a service that does not require a schedule." H. Constant Ferrier, Founder and Chairman

History

1987	Founded in Luxembourg on 17 March as Société Européenne de Diffusion Perpétuelle S.A. by Mr. H. Constant Ferrier, formerly of the European Broadcasting Union's relay service, with certain private individuals.
1989	Stiftung Lindenhalde, Vaduz, becomes the first of the Partners.
1991	The company adopts the name Eternity Entertainment Group and the lemniscate device. First continuous-transmission test begins on 2 September; it runs without interruption until November 1995.
1992	Mrs. Ingrid Saelens appointed Chief Financial Officer. Treasury relocated to Geneva. Al-Khulud Investment Company, Riyadh, becomes the largest of the Partners.
1993	Ground broken at Eternity Parks, Almería, on 11 October.
1994	Re-domiciled to the State of Delaware as Eternity Entertainment Group, Inc. in anticipation of a public offering. Registration statement filed in November.
1994	Téléattente S.p.r.l., Brussels, acquired. The first of the Group's interests in other undertakings.
1995	Eternity Music Publishing established in Vienna. Nagai Amusement Holdings K.K., Osaka, joins the Partners. The Office of the Chairman relocates to Geneva.
1996	The ETERNITY channel commences transmission on 14 March at 00:00 CET via Astra 1E.
1997	Compagnie Genevoise de Réassurance S.A., Geneva, joins the Partners. Nachtprogramm Ges.m.b.H., Vienna, acquired. Carriage extended to healthcare and transport. EverCast manufacturing agreement.
1998	EverCast enters consumer beta on 3 April. Composition No. 300 delivered.
1999	Mrs. Claudine Roux-Bessat appointed General Counsel and Company Secretary. This web site is established on 9 November at a Luxembourg address; it moves to eternity.tv in 2001. A 24 per cent interest in Human Nature AG, Zug, acquired.
2001	Majority interest in Reality acquired; the remaining shares follow in 2009.
2003	A 19 per cent interest in Life Systems AG, Basel, acquired. Eternity Home Video launches the Forever Edition.
2004	The Infinity Card introduced.
2005	ETERNITY received in eleven countries.
2006	Hyperium acquired. Further interests follow: Unreal Estate (2008), Dream Machine (2011), Machine Heaven (2015), Halcyon Bio (2019), Excreta Automata (2021), Zero Reality (2022).
2012	The Eternity Music Publishing catalogue is complete at 1,214 compositions.
2021	The board creates the post of Director of Continuity.
2026	The Group increases its interest in Halcyon Bio.

A complete record is kept on the News Releases page.

From the Group's files

The staff canteen, Luxembourg, during the continuous-transmission test.	Ground is broken at Eternity Parks.
Uplink facility, Luxembourg, March 1996.	Transmission control, Luxembourg.

Structure
Eternity Entertainment Group, Inc. is a Delaware corporation and the parent of the Group. The Luxembourg company, Société Européenne de Diffusion Perpétuelle S.A., is the operating subsidiary and holds the Group's broadcasting licence. The Group has no chief executive officer and is led by the Office of the Chairman, Geneva; the Chairman is the Group's principal executive officer. Its officers and directors are listed under Management. The Group's interests in other undertakings are listed under Investor Relations.

The Partners
The Group is privately held by a consortium of long-term investors, referred to collectively as the Partners. The Partners do not participate in management.

Al-Khulud Investment Company, Riyadh (since 1992)

Stiftung Lindenhalde, Vaduz (since 1989)

Nagai Amusement Holdings K.K., Osaka (since 1995)

Compagnie Genevoise de Réassurance S.A., Geneva (since 1997)

Certain private individuals (since 1987)

Legal Notice
This web site is published by Eternity Entertainment Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, from its principal executive offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer of securities in any jurisdiction. The Group's registration statement has not been declared effective. Information on this site is believed to be accurate at the date shown at the foot of each page and is not updated retrospectively. ETERNITY, EverCast, Forever Edition, the Infinity Card and the lemniscate device are trademarks of the Group and are registered in certain jurisdictions.

Eternity Entertainment Group, Inc., Delaware file number 2407718; registered agent The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. Eternity Entertainment Group, Inc., Wilmington, succursale de Genève, registered with the Registre du commerce du canton de Genève, CHE-104.833.519. Operating subsidiary Société Européenne de Diffusion Perpétuelle S.A., R.C.S. Luxembourg B 26.114; broadcasting permission granted by the Government in Council under the law of 27 July 1991 on electronic media, on the application of the Service des médias et des communications; supervised by the Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l'audiovisuel. Auditors: Rochat, Vuille & Cie, Geneva, licensed by the Federal Audit Oversight Authority. See also the Group's data protection notice.