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Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.[lower-alpha 1], also known as the Bandai Namco Group[lower-alpha 2] (BNG), is a Japanese entertainment conglomorate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Holdings USA and Bandai Namco Holdings UK, are respectively headquartered in El Segundo, California and Richmond, London. All three companies produce a wide variety of products, including video games, anime, toys, arcade cabinets, and theme parks.
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Native name | 株式会社バンダイナムコホールディングス |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Bandai Namuko Hōrudingusu |
Formerly | Namco Bandai Holdings |
Company type | Holding |
Industry | Mass media |
Founded | September 29, 2005; 18 years ago (September 29, 2005) |
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Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Website | www |
Bandai Namco Holdings was established on September 29, 2005 as Namco Bandai Holdings, following a merge between Namco and Bandai. Founded by Namco president and founder Masaya Nakamura and Bandai president Takeo Takasu, Namco Bandai Holdings was founded to create new potential business opportunities and as a means to unify the two iconic brands. Bandai and Namco worked independently under the new holdings company until March of 2006, where their video game operations were merged into the video game development arm Namco Bandai Games, now known as Bandai Namco Entertainment]. Bandai Namco Holdings has acquired several companies, such as Sunrise and Banpresto, as well as establishing new subsidiaries such as BXD, Megahouse, and Bandai Namco Partners.
In 2009, Bandai Namco Holdings purchased a stake of Atari's Australian division, before acquiring the company entirely in 2013. The acquisition gave Bandai Namco Holdings the ability to expand its operations into Europe, and later Australia and Asia. In 2014, the company was renamed to its current name. A corporate restructuring in 2018 was done in response to a financial decline, with multiple subsidiaries and divisions being merged or dissolved entirely. Bandai Namco holds stakes in several companies and media properties, such as anime production studio Toei Animation, game developer Monolith Soft, and news agency Anime News Network. In 2019, Bandai Namco announced plans to acquire media company Sotsu, which would grant them the full rights to the Gundam franchise.
Bandai Namco Holdings is one of the largest media companies in Japan, and the largest toy company in the world by revenue. It produces multi-million-selling video game franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and Galaxian, anime series like Cowboy Bebop and Mobile Suit Gundam, and toys including model kits and the Tamagotchi and Digimon virtual pets. It also operates several theme parks, such as Namco Namja Town and Hanayashiki, and supplies arcade games to movie theaters globally.