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...For the fiscal year that ended in March, Koei Tecmo reported an annual profit of ¥31bn....
...Keiko Erikawa, chair of Koei Tecmo Holdings, was exactly the type of female entrepreneur the billionaire founder was seeking....
...Tecmo Holdings....
...Keiko Erikawa, chair of Japanese video game developer Koei Tecmo, has known Son since he founded SoftBank in 1981....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Japan Aviation, Toei Animation and Koei Tecmo....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Nintendo, Nomura, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, Koei Tecmo, Sharp, LG Electronics and China Construction Bank....
...“It is a big challenge for us to expand to retail investors,” says Koei Imai, head of ETFs at Nikko Asset Management, whose business primarily serves institutional investors....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Japan Aviation, Canon Electronics and Koei Tecmo....
...Corporate earnings out today include Nomura Holdings, NTT Docomo, Nintendo, Capcom, Kikkoman, Koei Tecmo, Tohoku Electric, China Merchants Bank, Panahome, PetroChina, China Construction Bank, Sinopec, China...
...Monday’s earnings are Japan-focused, including Daiwa Securities (14.00), Koei Tecmo (15.00), Oriental Land (15.00) and Sumitomo Chemical (14.00)....
...In Japan, shares in the four companies that focus on console games — Square Enix, Capcom, Konami and Koei-Tecmo — increased by between 13 and 55 per cent, while the Nikkei 225 declined by 4.5 per cent in...
...Last year, Dutch outfit Arcadis bought London-listed Hyder Consulting for £296m, after having to outbid Nippon Koei of Japan, while Balfour Beatty sold design business Parsons Brinckerhoff to Canada’s WSP...
...Expectations of a bidding war meant the stock was trading well through Nippon Koei’s offer....
...The appeal of designing and consultancy houses has been underscored by the bidding war for HyderConsulting after Nippon Koei, a Japanese consultancy, made a £268.1m offer for Hyder on Friday, trumping an...
...Koei Imai, head of Nikko AM’s ETF Centre, said the new Listed Index Fund Japan Equity, which was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 27, was designed to appeal to foreign investors....
...Kenji Matsubara, president of games publisher Koei Tecmo, said: “The Japanese market is not growing compared to Europe or North America.”...
...Kenji Matsubara, the president of Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo, said that Natal was “amazing”, but that whether companies such as his made games for it would depend on Microsoft’s business model....
...“This year especially there’s been a bit of saturation in Japan and western markets so this price cut will increase the sales again,” said Kenji Matsubara, president of Koei Tecmo, a large Japanese game...
...Investors reacted negatively to the announcement that game companies Koei and Tecmo would merge. Koei shares lost 6.1 per cent to Y882 and Tecmo shares fell 11.4 per cent to Y775....
...Square Enix is offering Tecmo Y920 a share, a premium of 30 per cent to Tecmo’s share price before the bid was announced. That is equivalent to 22 times Tecmo’s own earnings forecast for 2008....
...Many analysts therefore think that small companies such as Tecmo need to merge and support Square Enix’s efforts at consolidation....
...In separate company news, game developer Tecmo slumped 10 per cent to Y990 after the company sent out a release saying one of their top developers Tomonobu Itagaki had announced he was resigning from the...
...Koei and Sega Sammy have both said that games previously earmarked as PS3 exclusives will now also be developed for its rival platforms, Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360....
...Engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei surged nearly 20 per cent to Y368 on hopes that reconstruction-related demand is expected to increase as world leaders meet on Friday to discuss aid and debt relief...
...Elsewhere, investors continued to take profits from engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei after a 20 per cent surge in share prices last week. Its share price dropped 4.53 per cent to Y337....
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