Yves Guillemot
Ubisoft's logo since May 2017
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Formerly called
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Ubi Soft Entertainment Software (1986–2003) |
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| Traded as | Euronext: UBI |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 12 March 1986 in Carentoir, France |
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| Headquarters | Rennes, France |
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| Brands | See List of Ubisoft games |
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 €2,984.786 million (2016) |
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€561.8 million (2016) |
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Number of employees
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11,779 (2017) |
| Divisions | Ubisoft Motion Pictures |
| Subsidiaries | See List of Ubisoft studios |
| Website | ubisoft |
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software) is a French video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, and Tom Clancy's. It is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive in terms of revenue and market capitalization.
In March 1986, five brothers of the Guillemot family founded Ubi Soft 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, Ubi Soft 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, Ubi Soft 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. Ubi Soft 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).
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