Avex Entertainment
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Native name
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エイベックス・グループ・ホールディングス株式会社 |
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Public KK Industrial keiretsu |
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| Traded as | : : AX8 |
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| Genre |
Music Record Label (J-pop, Eurobeat and others) |
| Founded | April 11, 1988 (as Avex DD Inc.)* |
| Founder | Max Matsuura |
| Headquarters | 36th Floor, Izumi Garden Tower, 6-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 106-6036 |
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Area served
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worldwide, especially Asia |
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Key people
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Max Matsuura (CEO) |
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| Revenue | 169,256 million yen |
| 8,611 million yen | |
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The Master Trust Bank of Japan (4.69%) Max 2000, Inc. (4.44%) T's Capital Co., Ltd. (4.44%) |
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Number of employees
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1,423 (as of the end of September 2014) |
| Subsidiaries | see Subsidiaries |
| Website | www |
Avex Group Holdings Inc. (エイベックス・グループ・ホールディングス株式会社 Eibekkusu Gurūpu Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha?), listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan. The word Avex is an acronym of the English words Audio Visual Expert.
With leading producer's Tetsuya Komuro's assistance, Avex became Japan's leading dance record company during the 1990s, and continues producing and recording some of Japan's most famous pop singers such as Japan's highest selling solo musician, Ayumi Hamasaki and popular South Korean singer, BoA. The company also provides theme music soundtracks to many anime and a few video games through its subsidiary Avex Mode.
Avex Group is mainly known in Japan because of its flagship music imprint, Avex Trax, which was founded in 1990. It is one of the top three record labels in Japan since the Komuro period, and is currently the biggest (14.7% of all recorded music sales as of first half 2013), ahead of Sony Music Entertainment Japan (13.0%), Universal Music Japan (9.9%), King Records (7.4%), and J Storm (5.9%).
Avex is an acronym of the English words Audio Visual Expert. Since its foundation, its corporate name was Avex D.D., Incorporated, and ten years later it was changed to Avex, Incorporated.
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