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Bandai
Sign in to saveis a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo, including many international branches around the world. Since 2005, Bandai is the toy production division of Bandai Namco Holdings, which, in 2017, was the world's second largest toy company measured by total revenue. Between 1981 and 2001, Bandai was a manufacturer of video game consoles.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Bandai Co., Ltd.
- Company.native_name
- 株式会社バンダイ
- Company.native_name_lang
- ja
- Company.romanized_name
- Kabushiki-gaisha Bandai
- Company.image
- Bandai head office building Asakusa 20170519.jpg
- Company.logo
- Logo Bandai.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 100
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 1983
- Company.image_caption
- Bandai's corporate headquarters in Taitō, Tokyo
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.former_name
- Bandai-ya (1950–1960)
- Company.founder
- Naoharu Yamashina
- Company.location
- Komagata
- Company.location_city
- Taitō, Tokyo
- Company.location_country
- Japan
- Company.key_people
- Masaru Kawaguchi (president)
- Company.industry
- Toys and entertainment
- Company.operating_income
- 21.7 billion (2019)
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18 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins and success with toys (1947–1968)
- Continuing expansion and Mobile Suit Gundam (1971–1983)
- Entry into the video game market (1983–1989)
- Mainstream success and expansion (1989–1995)
- Financial decline and failed merger with Sega (1995–1999)
- Bandai Namco era and restructuring (2005–present)
- Product lines
- Scale models
- ''Star Wars''
- Toys
- Transferred to Bandai Spirits
- Corporate structure
- Subsidiaries
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo, including many international branches around the world. Since 2005, Bandai is the toy production division of Bandai Namco Holdings, which, in 2017, was the world's second largest toy company measured by total revenue. Between 1981 and 2001, Bandai was a manufacturer of video game consoles.
Bandai was founded by World War II veteran Naoharu Yamashina as Bandai-Ya on July 5, 1950, as the corporate spin-off of a textile wholesaler. The company began as a distributor of metallic toys and rubber swimming rings, before moving to metal cars and aircraft models. It was renamed Bandai Co., Ltd. in 1961 and achieved considerable success with its action figures based on the anime Astro Boy.
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