Konami Corporation (コナミ株式会社, Konami Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 9766 NYSE: KNM SGX: K20) is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games. Konami is famous for games such as the Metal Gear series, Dance Dance Revolution series, Castlevania series, Contra series, Pro Evolution Soccer series, Yu-Gi-Oh! series, Silent Hill series and Gradius series. The company was founded in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, the still-current chairman and president. The name "Konami" is a conjunction of the names Kagemasa Kozuki (current chairman and president), Yoshinobu Nakama, Tatsuo Miyasako. Konami is currently headquartered in Tokyo and additionally operates health and physical fitness clubs in Japan. Konami also operates United States activities in El Segundo, California for video games and Paradise, Nevada for the casino gaming industry. The location in Paradise, Nevada is located across the street from one of the runways at McCarran International Airport. Its Australian gaming operations are located in Sydney, Australia, and distribution of Konami’s games in Australia is handled by Mindscape Australia. Distribution of KOE’s games in Australia was to be taken over by Red Ant Enterprises in February 2009, but Jason Hill from The Age and ASIC, a government body, announced that the company went into External Receivership and Administration, which then led KOE to re-sign with Atari Australia, now Namco Bandai Partners. On January 5, 2010, Kunio Neo, President of Konami of Europe announced Mindscape Australia would be Australia’s local distributor after a failed distributor change made Konami change back to Namco Bandai Partners, then Atari Australia. コナミ株式会社 Type |
Public TYO: 9766 | NYSE: KNM Industry |
Video game industry | Entertainment industry Health and fitness Founded |
March 21, 1969 | Headquarters |
| Tokyo Midtown, Minato, Tokyo, Japan Key people |
Kagemasa Kozuki | (Chairman and President) Hideo Kojima Koji Igarashi Products |
Castlevania | Chouseishin Contra The Goonies Beatmania IIDX (Japan only) Dance Dance Revolution Metal Gear FlatOut (Japanese publishing) Crash Bandicoot (Japanese Publishing) Spyro The Dragon (Japanese Publishing) Gradius Pro Evolution Soccer Saw Silent Hill Suikoden Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Winning Eleven Yu-Gi-Oh! (video games and TCG) Some Jurassic Park III titles (See complete products listing) Revenue |
Â¥309,771 million (US$3.24 billion) (2009) | Operating income |
Â¥33.8 billion (US$401 million) (2009) | Net income |
Â¥10.874 billion (US$113 million) (2009) | Employees |
5,708 (as of March 31, 2010) | Website |
Konami.com | Konami.net Konami-Europe.com Konami-Play.com Konami See also Hudson Soft - Owned by Konami Corporation Koijma - a subsidiary owned by Konami that now makes Metal GEAR games. reasure - an independent video game company founded by former Konami employees From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Operation of amusement and gaming machines |