SOFTBANK Creative Corp.

SOFTBANK Creative Corp.

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Corporate History

1999 - to date

Mar.2009 Transferred shares of its wholly-owned subsidiaries Realize Mobile Communications Corp. and EC RESEARCH CORP. to the parent company SOFTBANK Media Marketing Holdings Corp.
Mar.2008 Acquired exclusive right to distribute Harlequin comics digitally around the world.
Dec.2006 Started sale of comics published by Flex Comix inc.
Oct.2005 Merged with SOFTBANK Publishing Inc. and SBMM Creative Corp. Changed the corporate name to SOFTBANK Creative Corp.
Sep.2005 Transferred all shares of ITmedia Inc. to SBMM Holdings Inc. with SOFTBANK Publishing Inc. as investment in kind
Aug.2005 Established 100% owning parent company, SOFTBANK Media Marketing Holdings Corp. by equity transfer
May.2000 Moved the head office to Akasaka
Mar.2000 Changed the corporate name to SOFTBANK Media & Marketing Corp. Established wholly-owned subsidiary, SOFTBANK Publishing Inc.
Dec.1999 Established the first online publishing company in SOFTBANK group, ITmedia Inc.(initially named SOFTBANK ZDnet Inc.)
Mar.1999 SOFTBANK Creative Corp.(initially named SOFTBANK Publishing Inc.) was established by SOFTBANK CORP. by spinning off its publishing division.