Bandai Visual:
Bandai Visual Co., Ltd (バンダイビジュアル株式会社, Bandai Bijuaru Kabushiki Gaisha?), is a Japanese anime, film production and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai Co., Ltd. and a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc.,[1][2][3] which is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.[4] Since the reorganisation of Namco Bandai Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Co. Ltd, (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis Co., Ltd music publishing labels.
It is involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, a subsidiary of Bandai.
[edit] History
Bandai Visual is currently a fully-owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings.[5][6][7] Namco Bandai announced on November 8, 2007 that it would buy the voting shares it didn't own between that date and December 10, 2007 and turn the company into a wholly owned subsidiary.[8][9] On December 18, 2007, Bandai Namco announced that it owned 93.63%[10] of Bandai Visual's shares since the end of November.[8] The remaining shares were delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on February 15, 2008 after Namco Bandai acquired the remaining 10% of the shares.
[edit] Subsidiaries
[edit] Bandai Entertainment
Bandai Entertainment is a North American based subsidiary of Bandai America.[11] Originally separate from Bandai Visual USA, Namco Holdings announced that Bandai Entertainment would absorb Bandai Visual USA in 2008.[12]
[edit] Bandai Visual USA
Bandai Visual USA was established in 2005 to distribute and market Bandai Visual's productions in North America. Bandai Visual's anime and manga productions are also distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment and in Europe by Beez Entertainment. On May 23, 2008, Namco Bandai Holdings announced that Bandai Visual USA would be merged into Bandai Entertainment.[12] Bandai Visual USA was dissolved on July 1, 2008 and absorbed by Bandai Entertainment.
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