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The Group publishes comic magazines, comic books, and
game related books including game strategy books.
In the fiscal year under review, comic collections taken from
regular monthly magazine serials such as “Kuroshitsuji” and
“SOUL Eater” contributed to increase of sales of this segment,
due to TV broadcasting of animated film version of these comics.
Consequently, sales in the Publication segment totaled
¥12,985 million (up16.4% from the previous fiscal year), and
operating income amounted to ¥3,540 million (down 2.4%, ditto).
This segment includes results from all businesses of the Taito
group, along with amortization of goodwill relating to consolida-
tion of the Taito group into the Group.
Although arcade operations upon a like-for-like basis
demonstrated better performance than competitors, this
segment was not in good shape in the fiscal year under review.
Consequently, sales in the Amusement segment amounted
to ¥58,269 million (down 15.7% from the previous fiscal year),
and operating loss was totaled ¥944 million (the segment recorded
operating income of ¥3,129 million in the previous fiscal year).
©TAITO CORPORATION / WiZLAND 2008, 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
©TAITO CORPORATION 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
©2009 Yana Toboso
©2009 Atsushi Ohkubo
©2008 Hiromu Arakawa
©2009 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
©2008 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
Publication Amusement
Review of Operations
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