Ubi Soft Entertainment

Ubisoft Entertainment SA

Logo in use since 2003
Formerly called	Ubi Soft Entertainment Software (1986–2003)
Type	Public
Traded as	Euronext: UBI
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	12 March 1986; 31 years ago (1986-03-12) in Carentoir, France
Founders	Christian Guillemot Claude Guillemot Gérard Guillemot Michel Guillemot Yves Guillemot
Headquarters	Rennes, France
Key people	Yves Guillemot (Chairman, CEO) Serge Hascoët (CCO) Alain Martinez (CFO)
Brands	See List of Ubisoft games
Revenue	2,984.786 million € (2016)
Net income	561.8 million € (2016)
Number of employees	10,000 (2016)
Divisions	Ubisoft Motion Pictures
Subsidiaries	See List of Ubisoft studios
Website	ubisoft.com

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software until 2003, commonly referred to as Ubisoft) is a French multinational video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for developing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and Watch Dogs.

In March 1986, five brothers of the Guillemot family founded the video game publisher, Ubisoft, in Carentoir, a small village located in the Morbihan department of the Brittany region, in France. Yves Guillemot soon made deals with Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line, and MicroProse to distribute their games in France. By the end of the decade, Ubisoft began expanding to other markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. They entered the video game distribution and wholesale markets, and by 1993 they had become the largest distributor of video games in France. In the early 1990s, Ubisoft initiated its in-house game development program, which led to the 1994 opening of a studio in Montreuil, France. It later became their administrative and commercial head office, even as the company continues to register its headquarters in Rennes. Ubisoft became a publicly traded company in 1996 and continued its expansion around the globe, opening locations in Annecy (1996), Shanghai (1996), Montreal (1997), and Milan (1998).