Sega Sammy Holdings Inc

F:RYU0

Business Description

Sector

Consumer Discretionary

Industry

Leisure Products

Headquarters

Japan JP

Employees

8 147

IPO date

Oct 1, 2004

Sega Sammy Holdings is a Japanese entertainment company best known as the parent of Sega and Sammy. Sega makes video games, arcade games, and amusement equipment, while Sammy sells pachislot and pachinko machines for Japan’s gambling halls. The company also owns game characters and other entertainment brands that it can reuse across software, machines, and media.

Its customers are game players, arcade and amusement venue operators, pachinko parlor operators, and in some cases partners that license its content. Sega Sammy makes money by selling game software, arcade cabinets, amusement machines, and pachislot or pachinko machines, and by earning licensing income from its characters and intellectual property. That mix gives it both consumer-facing and business-to-business revenue streams.

What makes the company different is that it sits at the intersection of home entertainment, location-based amusement, and Japan’s pachinko industry. Instead of relying on only one product line, it can turn the same characters and game worlds into software, machines, and licensed content. That makes Sega Sammy more like a content-and-machine business than a pure video game publisher.