Beachwood Services

What Beachwood Services does

Beachwood Services, Inc. is a Culver City-based production support services company founded in 1988 that supplies IATSE crews to film and television productions. Its service offering covers the full set lifecycle, including scenery installation, set rigging, set turnarounds, and fold & hold operations, with a parallel set rental business accessed via the online catalog at stocksets.com. The company's leadership comprises President Mike Foy and Set Rentals coordinator Sondra Garcia, both contactable through corporate channels tied to the @spe.sony.com email domain, indicating affiliation with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The business model is direct service provision: revenue is generated through engagement-by-engagement professional services contracts with production companies in the Los Angeles area, with a GTM motion that is relationship-led and phone/email-driven rather than demand-generation-driven. No pricing is publicly disclosed, and there is no proprietary technology platform, API, or digital booking layer. Channels are limited to the company website and the stocksets.com visual catalog. Beachwood reports 11-50 employees and operates from a single Culver City headquarters at 10202 West Washington Blvd., and it holds no patents, no disclosed funding, and no digital marketing infrastructure beyond a basic GoDaddy-hosted website.

The company profile is consistent with a long-tenured niche vendor inside the Hollywood production services supply chain: relationship-anchored, geographically concentrated, and operationally tied to union crew logistics. Forward signals — hiring, M&A, product launches, or geographic expansion — are absent from public materials, and the most recent observable corporate artifact is the 2021 copyright on its website.

Name

Beachwood Services

Legal name

Beachwood Services, Inc.

Website

https://beachwoodservices.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Beachwood Services is a Culver City-based production support company founded in 1988 that supplies IATSE crews for scenery installation, rigging, set turnarounds, fold & hold, and set rentals to film and television production companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Film and Television Production Support Services

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Miscellaneous Equipment Rental & Leasing (7350)

akta.pro primary industry

Crew & Labor Services (Production Staff, Unions, Payroll) (MPADAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Set Operations & Facilities Support (Power, Generators, Site Services) (MPADAFAF)

Keywords

• Production crew services
• IATSE crew staffing
• Set rigging services
• Film production support
• Scenery installation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Culver City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Production Support Services: Beachwood Services generates revenue by providing IATSE crews for production support, including scenery installation, set rigging, set turnarounds, and fold & hold services. Revenue is generated through direct service contracts with production companies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Beachwood Services supplies IATSE union crews to film and television productions for scenery installation, set rigging, set turnarounds, and fold & hold operations. The company also rents physical sets to productions through its stocksets.com online catalog. Operating since 1988 from Culver City, California, it functions as a hands-on production support provider rather than a software or technology vendor.

Product overview

Beachwood Services is a production support services company providing IATSE crew services since 1988. The company offers two core services: IATSE crew services (including scenery installation, set rigging, set turnarounds, and fold & hold operations) and set rentals (facilitated through stocksets.com for online set viewing). The company operates in Culver City, CA serving the entertainment production industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IATSE Crew Services Provides IATSE union crews for all types of production, including installing scenery, rigging sets, performing set turnarounds, and folding and holding sets. Serves film and television production companies needing skilled labor for physical set operations.
• Set Rentals Set rental services allowing production clients to view available physical sets online via stocksets.com. Supports production companies needing pre-built set pieces for film and television shoots.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Stocksets.comminorOthersStocksets.com is an online platform operated by the company where customers can view available sets. This serves as a visual catalog for the company's set rental and production support services.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Keslow Camera: Keslow Camera rents high-end camera and grip equipment to feature film and episodic TV productions. Adjacent to Beachwood as an LA-based production support vendor serving the same customer base, though focused on equipment rather than crew/set services.

Broad incumbents

• Production Resource Group (PRG): PRG is one of the largest providers of production equipment and crew services for entertainment, including lighting, rigging, and audio — a much larger, broader-incumbent operator with overlapping capabilities in set rigging and production crew provisioning.
• Sony Pictures Studios: Sony Pictures Studios operates the Culver City lot and provides in-house production support services. Comparable as the broader studio operator that both owns Beachwood and competes with it for in-house production support work.
• Universal Studios Production Group: Universal's in-house production support and stage operations provide set construction and crew services at the Universal lot. Comparable as a major-studio vertical integration point that competes for similar production support work.
• Paramount Production Services: Paramount's in-house production services group supports studio operations on the Paramount lot. Comparable as a major-studio-owned counterpart that handles set installation, rigging, and crew services for its own productions.
• Warner Bros. Studio Operations: Warner Bros. operates its own production facilities and support services at the Burbank lot. Comparable as a major-studio-owned operator of in-house set construction, rigging, and crew services — overlapping with Beachwood's offering across non-Sony productions.

Direct peers

• Entertainment Partners: Entertainment Partners provides production management, payroll, and crew services for film and television productions. It is directly comparable to Beachwood Services as a producer-side production services vendor serving Hollywood productions, albeit at significantly larger scale and broader scope.
• Cast & Crew Entertainment Services: Cast & Crew provides payroll, labor relations, and production services for the entertainment industry. Directly comparable as a vendor delivering crew-related services to film/TV productions, overlapping Beachwood's IATSE crew provisioning function.

Emerging players

• Panavision: Panavision provides camera equipment, grip, and lighting rentals plus production crew for film/TV. Comparable as a production-services vendor serving Hollywood, though more focused on equipment than set installation/crew services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beachwood-services-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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