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| Company name | Konami Corporation
コナミ株式会社 | | Company 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
(U.S. operations in El Segundo, California and Paradise, Nevada; and distribution center in Indio, California?)
Sydney, Australia (Poker Machines) and video game production facility in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico? | | 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 | (+)¥309,771 million ($3.24 billion) (2009) | | Operating income | (+)¥33.8 billion (2009) | | Net income | (+)¥10,874 million ($113 million) (2009) | | Employees | 5,708 (as of March 31, 2010) |
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|} (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, and Silent Hill 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 Kouzuki (current chairman and president), Yoshinobu Nakama, Tatuso Miyasako . Konami can also mean "small wave(s)" in the Japanese language.
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 the 5th of January 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.
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