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Deutsch Sales 2023: JPY 314.321 billion (€ 2.068 billion)
Overview
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General Information
Headquarters
9-7-2, Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-8323
Japan
Telephone: 03-5770-0573
website: www.konami.co.jp/en
Legal form: Stock Company
Financial year: 01.04 – 31.03.
Founding year: 1969
Business areas: Video and computer games, social games, slot machines, fitness clubs
Konami Corporation's basic economic data (in million yen)*
| 2013/14 | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2008/09 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 104.335 | 116.400 | 140.400 | 133.100 | 142.700 | 187.600 |
| Profit (operating income) | 10.905 | 21.200 | 33.000 | 17.000 | 21.5 | 41.7 |
*The sales figures refer to the “Digital Entertainment” division
Executives and Directors
Management:
- Su Hua, co-founder, executive director and chairman of the board
- Cheng Yixiao, co-founder, executive director and CEO
- Jin Bing, Chief Financial Officer
Board of directors:
- Su Hua, executive director and chairman of the board
- Cheng Yixiao, co-founder, executive director and CEO
- Li Zhaohui, non-executive director
- Zhang Fei, non-executive director
- Shen Dou, non-executive director
- Lin Frank, non-executive director
- Huang Sidney Xuande, Independent Non-executive Director
- Ma Yin, Independent Non-executive Director
- · Wang Huiwen, Independent Non-executive Director
History and Profile
Konami Corporation was founded in Osaka in 1969 as a company that initially specialized in the rental and maintenance of jukeboxes. It wasn't until the early 1980s that the company began developing and distributing computer games. Konami made its first name with the arcade title "Frogger," in which players helped a frog cross a busy street safely. Thanks to the establishment of various branches in the USA (1982), Germany, and Great Britain (1984), the game also became a classic in the Western world.
However, Konami's most important mainstay was the home console and handheld market. It was games for Nintendo's NES and Game Boy, in particular, that established the company's legendary reputation—such as "Metal Gear Solid" (originally released for PC), "Castlevania" (known in Japan as "Demon Castle Dracula"), and "Contra." Since Nintendo's licensing policy only allowed external game developers to publish five games per year for the NES, Konami promptly founded a fictitious subsidiary called Ultra to continue the high game output.
On subsequent generations of consoles, these series were successfully developed further and new titles were added. "Pro Evolution Soccer," which first appeared on the PlayStation 1 in 2001, became the fiercest competitor to EA's FIFA series, and "Silent Hill" established itself as a serious alternative in the horror genre alongside Capcom's "Resident Evil." Konami's greatest artistic and commercial success, however, remains the Metal Gear Solid series, which established the so-called "stealth" genre. Conceived by Hideo Kojima, the series sold a total of 31 million copies between 1987 and 2011 and is considered a prime example of how to combine challenge and entertainment in video games.
The company experienced a crisis in 1995 when its headquarters in Kobe were almost completely destroyed by the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, and years of game designs and storyboards were lost. In 1997, the company entered the US gaming market from its new US subsidiary in Nevada and has since also produced slot machines for casinos.