Abbey Home Media

Abbey Home Entertainment

The precessor of Abbey Home Media was Abbey Home Entertainment Group Limited (AHE) Abbey Home Entertainment was founded in 1989 by Ian and Anne Miles. AHE would acquire the Tempo Video brand name from WM Collins Video in 1990 and also later introduced other brand names:

• Tempo Kids Club was used for re-releases of older Tempo Video releases which were previously distributed by their old owners MSD Video and Collins Video.
• Tempo Pre-School was used for releases aimed at very young children. The success of the releases released under the label made Abbey Home Entertainment the only video distributor who's releases were recommended and approved by the Pre-School Learning Alliance. The label remained after the Just Entertainment buyout (as a pre-school brand within Just) and was used into the Abbey Home Media era, before it was retired in favour of the regular Abbey Home Media brand in the mid 2000's.
• Abbey Freetime was used for documentary releases.
• Abbey Music was used for Music and Concert releases.

A subsidiary called Abbey Broadcast Communications was also founded during this time, which produced original content for AHE. According to Companieshouse, ABC is still in operation, even though they haven't made anything since 1999.

In Early 2000, Abbey Home Entertainment was acquired by Just Group PLC. after a while, all of AHE's sub-brands except for Tempo Pre-School were folded into Just Group's home media subsidiary Just Entertainment. Newer releases would be released under ether 2 names.

Tempo Video

Another predecessor of Abbey Home Media was Tempo Video, which was originally launched by video distributor MSD Video in 1987 as a kids-focused video label. After 2 years MSD transitioned the distribution of Tempo to Collins Video and then transitioned the label off to Abbey Home Entertainment within 1990, a year after the company was founded. The label was folded a short while after Abbey Home Entertainment was bought by Just Group in 2000.

Abbey Home Media

In 2002, co-founder Ian Miles resigned from Just Group PLC, and he formed a new company under the Abbey name called Abbey Home Media Almost all of Just Group's properties were also taken by Abbey Home Media in the process. Abbey Home Media retained the Tempo Pre-School brand that Just Entertainment kept during their ownership of the Abbey brands and would later introduce the Tempo and Tempo TV Classics (Previously Tempo Classics) brands. Nowadays all of the releases are released under the single Abbey Home Media brand name.