CINTEL COMING BACK IN FOCUS AFTER CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Cintel, a Valencia company that transfers film to video, has completed a yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or corporate restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). following the company's buyout Buyout The purchase of a company or a controlling interest of a corporation's shares. Notes: A leveraged buyout is accomplished with borrowed money or by issuing more stock. from the Rank Organization. The reorganization aims to place Cintel at the center of the post-production industry, managing director Adrian Adrian, Roman emperor Adrian, Roman emperor: see Hadrian. Adrian, city, United States Adrian, city (1990 pop. 22,097), seat of Lenawee co., SE Mich., on the Raisin River; inc. 1836. Rees said in a statement released Monday. As part of the restructuring, Rees will be taking personal charge of sales and marketing worldwide while a search is conducted to replace Dave Fenton. Fenton resigned after 20 years with Cintel in an agreement described as ``amicable'' by Craig Risebury, product and marketing manager. Rees and Risebury said the company is trying to become more customer focused. ``During the company's years as part of the Rank Organization, we became increasingly remote from our market. This led to frequent accusations that Cintel was an arrogant ar·ro·gant adj. 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: company,'' Rees said. ``In the year since our buyout, changing that reputation has been at the top of our agenda. Upon taking over as managing director at the beginning of the year, I set out to completely change our corporate image. ``Those plans involved some changes in our senior management. For instance, in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. we appointed Brad Hunt who has unrivaled experience in film, telecine The technique for converting movie film to TV/video. Pronounced "tel-uh-sin-ee," "tel-uh-sin-uh" or "tel-uh-scene." Because film runs at 24 frames per second (fps), and NTSC video runs at 30 fps, telecine inserts duplicate frames into the video to make up the and post-production, to run our subsidiary company.'' Telecine is the process of transferring 33-millimeter movie film to broadcast video. Cintel is one of two firms in the world that do that, Risebury said. Clive Haward, who has been responsible for Cintel's training for nearly 10 years, will join the sales and marketing team. ``He brings his in-depth operational and technical knowledge to the department and plays a pivotal role in ensuring open communications with the post-production industry,'' Rees said. ``With today's changes we now have the infrastructure in place that will allow us superior communications with our market,'' said Rees. ``I cannot deny this has been a difficult time for Cintel.'' Originally known as Rank Cintel, Cintel Inc., which is a subsidiary of Cintel International Ltd., has been manufacturing film-scanning systems since the early 1950s. The company grew in the 1970s as its technology expanded into post-production houses across the world. |
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