A fter weeks of rumors, on December 18, 2024, Sony and KADOKAWA have announced the signing of their deal, which sees Sony ...

Hiroki Totoki, Sony’s COO, CFO, and president, added: “Through this capital and business alliance, we will become the largest shareholder of Kadokawa, which consistently creates a wide variety ...

Sony has acquired 12,054,100 new shares in Kadokawa for approximately 50bn yen, around £251.7m. Chinese conglomerate Tencent holds 6.86 percent of shares compared to Sony's 10 percent.

Sony, it seems, will not acquire Kadokawa outright. Instead, the giant Japanese organisations have today announced a strategic capital and business alliance, which will see Sony become Kadokawa ...

Sony has agreed to purchase enough shares in Kadokawa to become its largest shareholder at 10% ownership. Opponents of consolidation can breathe easy, at least for now Skip to main content ...

Sony & Kadokawa Speak. Of course, both companies were more than willing to talk publicly about the moves that were made in the partnership. The CEO of Kadokaw Corporate, ...

Sony Group 6758 1.06 % increase; green up pointing triangle plans to acquire an additional stake in Japanese publishing house Kadokawa for more than $300 million to become one of its largest ...

Sony and Kadokawa have finally agreed on the terms of their acquisition. Sony Group shared this press release on their website: “KADOKAWA CORPORATION (“KADOKAWA”) and Sony Group Corporation ...

Kadokawa Corporation has confirmed it has received a buyout offer from Sony, but insists it has yet to make a decision on whether to sell up. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Sony was in ...

Sony already owns a 2% stake in Kadokawa, which claimed in a recent “integrated report” to control rights to 130,000 books and 2,000 videos.

Sony is reportedly in talks to buy Kadokawa, whose subsidiary FromSoftware is behind smash hit Elden Ring, the Dark Souls and Armored Core games, and PlayStation exclusive Bloodborne.

Japanese media empires Sony and Kadokawa have signed a business agreement that will see Sony become Kadokawa’s largest shareholder in January 2025. Sony will invest around $320 million USD into ...