我們真的需要貨架上無時不刻的滿滿食物嗎？根據聯合國糧食及農業組織估計，全球有半數以上的食物被丟棄，卻有十億人口處於飢餓危機。在法國一家大型超市每年丟棄的食物高達五六百噸，其中不少是還沒過期的食物；在零售商的強力主導的採購要求下，大顆馬鈴薯、彎黃瓜等農產品被棄置在農田裡，美國平均有百分之五到十的作物因為外表不符標準遭到淘汰，直接拋在土裡。
專家說，已開發的工業國家一般家戶的廢棄物占全國垃圾總量的三分之一，奧地利每年每戶人家扔掉的可吃食物，有100公斤之多，美國、英國和日本也差不多，台灣則是有過之而無不及。環保署表示，2010年台灣廚餘產量平均每人浪費約121公斤，超出歐美國家平均值的一成，更是非洲等開發中國家的20倍之多，一年浪費的食物量達275萬噸，足夠讓台灣26萬的低收入戶吃上20年。
歐盟目前正面臨前所未有的債信危機，但整個歐盟每年每戶光是食物就丟掉上千億歐元。浪費食物不只是浪費錢、浪費資源，更加劇全球暖化。看看家裡的垃圾桶，你在浪費食物嗎？
Distribution
Founded in 2007, CATCHPLAY quickly became a major player in movie entertainment business in Taiwan by providing a wide selection of films excelling in both quantity and quality. Over the years, CATCHPLAY has continued to distribute more than 30 films theatrically every year, an average of one movie every other week, and more than 100 titles for release on home videos, TV and digital platforms. Today, we are the largest independent distributor in Taiwan with a library of more than 2,000 titles, most of which CATCHPLAY owns all rights to exclusively.
LINEAR MOVIE CHANNEL
Capitalizing on the digitalization of Taiwan’s pay TV systems, CATCHPLAY launched CATCHPLAY HD Movie Channel in early 2013. Today it has about 1 million subscribers through partnerships with major pay TV operators. Our diverse and wide range of content has made CATCHPLAY HD one of the most popular linear movie channels in Taiwan.
CO-PRODUCTION
AND INVESTMENTS
In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively.
In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan.
Today, CATCHPLAY continues to look into investment and co-production opportunities internationally and in Asia targeting particularly Chinese-speaking territories and South East Asia following our recent expansion footprints.
DIGITAL
CATCHPLAY started placing significant emphasis on the development of digital movie content years before the others did in Taiwan. Today, we are the largest provider for premium movie content in Taiwan, aggregating content from Hollywood studios including Disney, Warner Bros., NBC Universal and Paramount in addition to having a wide selection of international independent films and leading local productions for distribution on major operators’ digital platforms.
In addition to content aggregation, in 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition of becoming the leading premium content service provider for movie lovers in Asia.
In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service platform made its pilot launch in Taiwan in partnerships with major telecommunication operators and device manufacturers. In June 2016, the service platform launched in Indonesia, collaborating with market leaders IndiHome, Telkom Indonesia. This was followed by expanded partnerships with Telkomsel, Indosat and First Media, and in Singapore, collaboration with the market’s leading telecommunication operator, StarHub.
Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies – CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated – with involvement from production, distribution, linear movie channel operation and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services.
INTERNATIONAL
CONTENT SERVICE PLATFORM
In 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition to become Asia’s largest movie content service provider. Instead of adopting major international players’ one ‘offer-fits-all’ strategy, we at CATCHPLAY with years of experience and passion for content, believes and embraces the importance of individual market’s unique needs and preference of content. Through our passion for movies and the belief in co-creation, internally and together with local leading operator’s partnership – we made it a mission to provide the ultimate content offering tailored for each market’s unique needs and deliver superior user experience that will be cherished by movie lovers universally.
In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service made its pilot launch in Taiwan. In June 2016, the service launched in Indonesia, partnering with market leader Telkom Indonesia, and in Singapore, partnering with the market’s leading pay TV and telecommunication service provider, StarHub.
Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies: CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated, with involvement from production, theatrical distribution, linear movie channel and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services.