By January 1995, Swedish media group Bonnier Group announced that their Swedish film production and distribution division Svensk Filmindustri (which is now known as SF Studios) had acquired independent production company Wegelius Television with its founder Annie Wegelius continued to be the president of the company.
[7] In Italy, Magnolia SPA was founded in 2000 by Giorgio Gori as an independent reality television production company so it could adapt entertainment formats to Italian networks.
In November 2001, Wegelius Television had announced that they've rebranded as Mastiff Media by their CEO Brita Sohlberg in order for them to expand their operations.
[12] In February 2006, Zodiak Television AB announced that their expanding its operations into Eastern Europe by acquiring a 34% stake in Russian production company TeleAlliance along with their companies Dixi Media, Teleformat and Rytm, marking the first time the Copenhagen-based entertainment group entered the Russian television market.
[28] In October 2009, Zodiak Entertainment announced that they're expanding their UK operations by taking the acquisition in British factual and drama specialist indie production company Dangerous Films.
They also announced that they've entering into the American Spanish-language market by launching a new production joint-venture company based in Miami with the Ricky Martin Entertainment Group being named RM 5to Elemento with the new joint venture company being headed by the CEO of Ricky Martin Entertainment Group Bruno Del Granado.
[29][30] In April 2010, Zodiak Entertainment along with their Miami-based joint venture producfion subsidiary RM 5to Elemento announced that they've established a production office based in Bogota, Colombia and had hired former Endemol Andino and Caracol Televisión executive Juan Maldonado to head the production office as their managing director.
[36] On July 28, 2011, Zodiak Media Group announced that it had acquired British-based independent producer Bwark Productions, further expanding its British operations in that country.
[42] In June 2015, Zodiak Media had announced that they're in advanced exclusive talks to merge with French-based European global international television production giant Banijay Group that would combine the two companies operations into one pan-European global independent international television production and distribution company under the Banijay Group name.
[44][45][46][47] A year later in January 2016, Zodiak Media announced that the European Commission (EC) had approved their merger with French-based independent international television and distribution company Banijay Group.
In April 2006, RDF Media Group had announced that they had brought rival Cardiff-based Welsh poker television production company Presentable.
Zodiak Kids' catalogue includes programs such as Waybuloo, Totally Spies!, Rekkit Rabbit, Mister Maker, and Gormiti.