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Company Profile
Headquarters: Shinjuku Bunka Quint Bldg.
3-22-7 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-8544, Japan.
TEL.+81-3-5333-1555
Established: September 22,1975
Common stock: ¥14,928,584,900
Number of employees: 2,973 (Consolidated)
1,932 (SQUARE ENIX)
Note: Number of part-time
employees is not
included in the number
of employees.
SQUARE ENIX Group
Company Name Established Fiscal Year End Common Stock Percent of Principal Lines of Business
Major Consolidated Subsidiaries Voting Rights
Japan
TAITO CORPORATION August 1953 March ¥4,524 million 100.0% Management and operation of arcade facilities; planning,
development, production, sale and rental of coin-operated game
machines; planning, development and sale of game software; planning,
development and provision of mobile phone content
SG Lab Inc. May 2006 March ¥10 million 80.0% Planning, development and sale of serious games
DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY CO., LTD. October 1991 March ¥72 million 72.2% School for computer game engineers
(1.4)
Community Engine Inc. May 2000 March ¥25 million 58.8% Network application, development, sale of middleware
North America
SQUARE ENIX OF AMERICA HOLDINGS, INC. November 2006 March US$1 100.0% Holding of shares in and business management of Square Enix
Group companies located in North America
SQUARE ENIX, INC. March 1989 March US$10 million 100.0% Sale of games, sale and management of online games in
(100.0%) North America
SQUARE PICTURES, INC. November 1997 December US$0.1 million 100.0% Management of overseas film revenues
(100.0%)
Europe
SQUARE ENIX LTD. December 1998 March GB£3 million 100.0% Sale of games, sale and management of online games in Europe
Asia
SQUARE ENIX (China) CO., LTD. January 2005 December US$12 million 100.0% Development, sale, and management of online games in Asia
HUANG LONG CO., LTD. August 2005 December 10 million — Sale and operation of online games in Asia
yuan RMB [100.0%]
BEIJING TAIXIN CULTURAL ENTERTAINMENT July 1996 December 16,617 thousand 80.0% Management of arcade facilities and rental of game machines
CO., LTD. yuan RMB (80.0%)
TAITO KOREA CORPORATION May 2004 March 3,300 million 100.0% Management and operation of arcade facilities
won (100.0%)
Partnership
FF.FILM.PARTNERS March 1998 December — 93.6% Licensing and management of movies and derivative products
Notes: 1. In the Percentage of Voting Rights column, numbers in parentheses ( ) represent the percentage of indirect holdings and are including in the total percentage of voting rights held
by the Company. Numbers in brackets [ ] represent the percentage of holdings of closely related parties of parties of the same interest and are excluded from the total percentage
of voting rights held by the Company.
2. On March 31, 2006, TAITO CORPORATION (the former SQEX, Inc., name changed on March 31, 2006) absorbed the former TAITO CORPORATION. To make the de facto surviving
company of this merger—the former TAITO CORPORATION—a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, the former TAITO CORPORATION was absorbed by TAITO CORPORATION
(the former SQEX, Inc.) on a pro forma basis. Consequently, the date of establishment is recorded as that of the de facto surviving company, the former TAITO CORPORATION.
Corporate Data
(As of March 31, 2008)
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