BANDAI NAMCO : Fact Book 20212.3 MB

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BANDAI NAMCO Group

FACT BOOK 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 BANDAI NAMCO Group Outline

Results of Operations

01 Consolidated Business Performance /

Management Indicators

02 Sales by Category

Products / Service Data

03 Sales by IPs / Facts & Figures

Entertainment Unit (Digital Business) / Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)

06 IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business / Creation Business) / IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business) / IP Production Unit (Creation Business) / Amusement Unit

1. Related Market Data
   Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)
   07 Game App Market / Top Publishers in the Global App Market / Home Video Game Market
   Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)
   08 Toy Market
   09 Plastic Model Market / Figure Market / Capsule Toy Market / Card Product Market
   10 Candy Toy Market / Children's Lifestyle (Sundries) Market / Babies' & Children's Clothing Market
   IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business)
   10 Visual Software Market / Music Content Market
   IP Production Unit (Creation Business)
   11 Animation Market
   Amusement Unit
   11 Amusement Machine Market / Amusement Facility Market
2. ESG Data
   BANDAI NAMCO Group Important CSR Themes: FY2021.3 Activity Report
   12 Safety and Cleanliness of Products and Services
   13 Environmental Consideration
   14 Policies Regarding Influence on Society of the Group's Content and Products / Supply Chain Management
   Environment-Related Information
   15 Overview of Environmental Performance Data for FY2021.3 / BANDAI NAMCO Group CO2 Emissions
   Human Resources-Related Information (Total for Unit Core Companies)
   17 Number of Employees by Type of Employment / Number of Female Managers / Number of Employ- ees Hired after Graduation / Employment Rate for People with Disabilities / Averages / Number of Employees That Took Leave for Childcare or Family Nursing / Annual Paid Leave Utilization Rate / Industrial Accidents / Systems to Promote Achieve- ment of Work-Life Balance (Examples)
3. BANDAI NAMCO Group's History
   History
   18 BANDAI's History / NAMCO's History
   26 BANDAI NAMCO Group's History

	Note: This English-language fact book is based on a translation of the
Printed in Japan	Japanese-language fact book.

1	BANDAI NAMCO Group Outline

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

For the Fiscal Years Ended March 31

Figures in this fact book have been rounded down.

CONSOLIDATED BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

NET SALES

(¥ million)
800,000									732,347 723,989740,903
700,000
							678,312
600,000					565,486 575,504	620,061
500,000		454,210	487,241 507,679
400,000	394,178
300,000
200,000
100,000
0	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
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MANAGEMENT INDICATORS

ROE (Profit Attributable to Owners of Parent / Average Total Shareholders' Equity)

(%)

20
			14.7	15.5
15	14.1
13.3		13.1
	13.2
		11.2		10.2
9.1	9.7
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SALES BY CATEGORY

SALES BY SEGMENT (CONSOLIDATED)

• FY2021.3		• FY2021.3		• FY2020.3
(NEW SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)		(PREVIOUS SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)		(PREVIOUS SEGMENT CLASSIFICATION)
Elimination of internal transactions		Elimination of internal transactions		Elimination of internal transactions
and corporate		and corporate		and corporate
¥48,887 million		¥53,577 million		¥51,061 million
Net sales (after eliminations)		Net sales (after eliminations)		Net sales (after eliminations)
¥740,903 million		¥740,903 million		¥723,989 million

OPERATING PROFIT

(¥ million)
90,000		84,045	84,654
80,000		75,024	78,775
70,000		63,239
60,000		56,321
50,000	48,643	49,641
		44,673
40,000	34,607
30,000

ROA (Recurring Profit / Average Total Assets)

(%)

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15	14.0		14.0		14.7	15.1
	13.5
		12.9	13.0
		12.2
			11.4
	10.7
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	Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)	42.8%				Toys and Hobby Unit	37.3%			Toys and Hobby Unit	32.7%
	¥337,964 million				¥296,016 million			¥253,714 million
	Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)				Network Entertainment Unit	43.3%			Network Entertainment Unit
	¥300,815 million	38.1%				¥344,150 million			¥328,079 million	42.3%
	IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business)				Real Entertainment Unit				Real Entertainment Unit
	¥34,219 million	4.3%				¥63,923 million	8.0%			¥91,753 million	11.8%
	IP Production Unit (Creation Business)	3.6%				Visual and Music Production Unit	3.5%			Visual and Music Production Unit	6.1%
	¥28,213 million				¥28,089 million			¥46,951 million
	Amusement Unit	8.1%				IP Creation Unit	3.6%			IP Creation Unit	3.1%
	¥63,923 million				¥28,213 million			¥23,497 million

20,000	16,338
10,000
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	Other	3.1%		Other	4.3%		Other	4.0%
	¥24,655 million		¥34,088 million		¥31,054 million

Note: Percentage figures are calculated based on sales before elimination of inter-segment transactions.

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PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF PARENT

(¥ million)
70,000									63,383
60,000								54,109		57,665
										48,894
50,000
						44,159
40,000			32,383		37,588	34,583
30,000
			25,054
20,000		19,303
10,000
0	1,848
(FY)	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21

OVERSEAS SALES PROPORTION

(%)

30
20.8			22.4	20.6			22.3
			20.5	18.7	20.0
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16.7	16.6	16.0	16.7

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SALES BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION
• FY2021.3			• FY2020.3
Sales to external customers	¥740,903 million		Sales to external customers	¥723,989 million

	Japan	¥575,492 million	77.7%				Japan	¥578,922 million	80.0%
	Americas	¥58,471 million	7.9%				Americas	¥53,553 million	7.4%
	Europe	¥54,649 million	7.4%				Europe	¥44,168 million	6.1%
	Asia, excluding Japan	¥52,293 million	7.0%				Asia, excluding Japan	¥47,347 million	6.5%

Note: Percentage figures are calculated based on external sales. Figures are estimates based on management accounting.

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PRODUCTS / SERVICE DATA
SALES BY IPs
Groupwide Sales by IPs (Worldwide)
				(¥ billion)
		FY2020.3	FY2021.3
Aikatsu! series	3.2		2.0
Ultraman series	7.8		8.6
KAMEN RIDER series	31.2		28.9
Mobile Suit Gundam series	78.1		95.0
Super Sentai series	6.8		5.2
Anpanman	9.9		8.7
DRAGON BALL series	134.9		127.4
NARUTO	13.0		21.4
PRETTY CURE! series	8.4		6.6
ONE PIECE	34.9		38.0

Note: Sales before elimination of inter-segment transactions

Sales by IP for Toys and Hobby Unit (Japan)

		(¥ billion)
	FY2020.3	FY2021.3
KAMEN RIDER series	28.5	24.3
Mobile Suit Gundam series	35.7	41.0
Anpanman	9.4	8.3
DRAGON BALL series	20.7	15.4
PRETTY CURE! series	8.3	6.6
ONE PIECE	7.9	7.1

Note: Sales before elimination of inter-segment transactions

FACTS & FIGURES

Entertainment Unit (Digital Business)

• Sales by major category

		(¥ billion)
	FY2020.3	FY2021.3
Network content	200.9	207.7
Home video games	99.0	118.1

• Number of network content titles in Japan (As of the end of March 2021)

SNS	6 titles
Game apps (Google Play)	34 titles
Game apps (App Store)	34 titles

Note: The totalization method was changed from FY2021.3.

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.

•  Major home video game titles: Cumulative total number of shipments by series (including PC versions)

· Super Robot Wars series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
April 1991 to March 2021	19.24 million units
· TEKKEN series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
March 1995 to March 2021	52.51 million units
· Tales... of series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
December 1995 to March 2021	24.84 million units
· Ultimate Ninja Storm series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
January 2009 to March 2021	20.80 million units
· DARK SOULS series
Cumulative total number of shipments,
September 2011 to March 2021	29.34 million units

Note: Total for overseas sales for which BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. was the original seller (excluding domestic sales by FromSoftware, Inc.)

•  Major network content titles: Cumulative total number of downloads

· ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise Cumulative total number of downloads,

May 2014 to March 2021

100.00 million downloads

• DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE Cumulative total number of downloads,

January 2015 to March 2021

300.00 million downloads

• THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS: STARLIGHT STAGE Cumulative total number of downloads,

September 2015 to March 2021

25.00 million downloads

• NARUTO X BORUTO NINJA VOLTAGE Cumulative total number of downloads,

November 2017 to March 2021	35.00 million downloads
· DRAGON BALL LEGENDS
Cumulative total number of downloads,
May 2018 to March 2021	40.00 million downloads

Entertainment Unit (Toys and Hobby Business)

BANDAI CO., LTD.

Toys

• Ultraman soft figures (heroes and monsters) Cumulative shipment volume,

1983 to March 2021

101.87 million units

• Super Sentai series (shape-changing model robots) Cumulative shipment volume,

1979 to March 2021

30.89 million units

• Digital Monsters (Digimon portable LCD games) Cumulative shipment volume,

June 1997 to March 2021

14.31 million units

• KAMEN RIDER transformation belt (HEISEI / REIWA RIDER) Cumulative shipment volume,

February 2000 to March 2021

14.50 million units

• First-generationTamagotchi (including overseas) Cumulative shipment volume,

November 1996 to March 1999	40.00 million units
· Tamagotchi (including overseas)
Cumulative shipment volume,
March 2004 to March 2021	43.73 million units
· Donjara series
Cumulative shipment volume,
1984 to March 2021	3.92 million units

• Anpanman PC series including tablet devices Cumulative shipment volume,

1999 to March 2021

2.39 million units

Capsule Toys: Gashapon

• Gashapon (¥100-¥500) Cumulative shipment volume,

1977 to March 2021

3,710.50 million units

• HG / DG / HBG series (non-deformed figures) Cumulative shipment volume,

September 1994 to March 2021

300.10 million units

• Capsule-lessproduct series Cumulative shipment volume,

October 2015 to March 202150.02 million units

Cards, Trading Cards

· CARDDASS series
Cumulative shipment volume,
1988 to March 2021	11,767.40 million units

• DATA CARDDASS series Cumulative total card shipments,

March 2005 to March 2021

2,748.58 million units

Candy Toys

• Candy toys (all lines) Cumulative shipment volume,

1995 to March 2021

2,655.24 million units

Confectionery / Foods

• Crayon Shin-chan Chocobi series Cumulative shipment volume,

March 2005 to March 2021	227.02 million units
· Charapaki series
Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2017 to March 2021	60.84 million units

• Character decoration cake series Cumulative shipment volume,

1994 to March 2021

11.43 million units

• Tabemasu (Japanese-style confection) series Cumulative shipment volume,

April 2015 to March 202110.47 million units

Apparel

· T-shirts
Cumulative shipment volume,
1991 to March 2021	45.86 million units

• Transformation suits Cumulative shipment volume,

1991 to March 2021

11.38 million units

• Glow-in-the-darkpajama series Cumulative shipment volume,

October 2007 to March 20217.06 million units

Lifestyle (Sundries)

· Children's shampoo
Cumulative shipment volume,
1988 to March 2021	92.92 million units

• Bikkura Tamago bathing salts Cumulative shipment volume,

March 2002 to March 2021

139.40 million units

• The Rose of Versailles Liquid Eyeliner series (including overseas)

Cumulative shipment volume,
September 2007 to March 2021	6.80 million units

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PRODUCTS / SERVICE DATA

BANDAI SPIRITS CO., LTD.

Collectible figures

· SOUL OF CHOGOKIN
Cumulative shipment volume,
December 1997 to March 2021	3.41 million units
· SAINT CLOTH MYTH
Cumulative shipment volume,
November 2003 to March 2021	5.45 million units
· SOUL OF ROBOT
Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2008 to March 2021	5.50 million units
· S.H. Figuarts
Cumulative shipment volume,
February 2008 to March 2021	14.37 million units

Plastic Model Kits

· Gundam series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
As of the end of March 2021	714.84 million units
Gundam (Real) series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
July 1980 to March 2021	538.24 million units
Gundam (SD) series plastic models
Cumulative shipment volume,
July 1987 to March 2021	176.60 million units
· Figure-rise series
Cumulative shipment volume,
December 2009 to March 2021	5.11 million units

Prizes

· Number of items developed into prizes in FY2021.3

Total number of items	1,171 items
Formed products (figures, etc.)	511 items
Sewn products (stuffed toys, etc.)	430 items
Sundries	230 items

Overseas

· SAINT CLOTH MYTH
Cumulative shipment volume,
October 2003 to March 2021	8.79 million units

• Gundam action figures Cumulative shipment volume,

January 2000 to March 2021

15.75 million units

• Gundam plastic model kits Cumulative shipment volume,

January 2000 to March 2021

84.85 million units

• Web service "GUNDAM.INFO" Visual product viewing results,

March 2011 to March 2021

1,710.85 million views

MegaHouse Corporation
· Othello series
Cumulative shipment volume,
1973 to March 2021	25.60 million units
· Rubik's Cube series
Cumulative shipment volume,
1980 to March 2021	14.40 million units

CCP Co., Ltd.

• SWEEPLUS vacuum cleaner series Cumulative shipment volume,

August 2011 to March 2021

1.80 million units

• Cordless rotating mop cleaner series Cumulative shipment volume,

July 2015 to March 2021

0.86 million units

SUN-STAR STATIONERY CO., LTD.

• Nurie (coloring book) series Cumulative shipment volume,

July 2009 to March 2021

87.43 million units

• STICKYLE (stick-type stationery) series Cumulative shipment volume,

November 2010 to March 2021

10.70 million units

HEART CORPORATION

• Results in shipments of products for seasonal events Confectionery for

2020	Christmas	106 items, 3.80 million units
Confectionery for
2021	Valentine's Day	175 items, 4.10 million units
Confectionery for
2021	White Day	102 items, 1.70 million units

IP Production Unit

(Visual and Music Business / Creation Business)

• Sales by category		(¥ billion)
	FY2020.3	FY2021.3
Packaged products	15.2	9.8
Productions, license, distribution,	51.5	46.5
events, etc.
Total	66.7	56.3

IP Production Unit (Visual and Music Business)

BANDAI NAMCO Arts Inc.

• Cumulative total sales of visual packaged products ·  Mobile Suit Gundam series
  Cumulative shipment volume,

December 1987 to March 2021	20.92 million units
·  Ultraman series
Cumulative shipment volume,
January 1988 to March 2021	8.48 million units
·  FY2021.3 visual packaged products overall
Cumulative total number of shipments,
April 2020 to March 2021	0.91 million units

• Number of copyrighted products and total number of hours (As of March 31, 2021)

·  Number of copyrighted products	1,157 products
·  Total number of hours	4,341 hours

• Total number of musical works (As of the end of March 2021) ·   Number of works with master license

recordings	Approx. 47,100 works
·  Number of works published	Approx. 25,000 works

Note: From FY2017.3, number of works managed in-house (excluding works managed jointly and works not recorded on CD)

BANDAI NAMCO Rights Marketing Inc.

• Cumulative number of fee-based viewings for on-demand delivery of animations (Total for TVOD and SVOD, excluding free distribution)
  Cumulative total,

October 2002 to March 2021

534,175,416 viewings

• Number of animation productions available for on-demand delivery
  Number of productions delivered as of

March 31, 2021

4,513 productions

IP Production Unit (Creation Business)

SUNRISE INC. / BANDAI NAMCO Pictures INC.

Number of copyrighted products and total number of hours

(As of March 31, 2021)
·  Number of copyrighted products	342 products
·  Total number of hours	2,765 hours

Amusement Unit

• Sales by category				(¥ billion)
			FY2020.3		FY2021.3
Amusement machines		27.1	16.7
Amusement facilities		64.7	47.1
Amusement Facilities
• Number of facilities at end of FY2021.3
	Directly	Revenue-sharing
Region	managed facilities		facilities*		Other
Japan	244	518		3
Overseas	22	16		0
Total	266	534		3

• Revenue-sharingfacilities: Revenues from the operation of amusement machines are shared.

• Existing-store sales (YoY)

		FY2020.3	FY2021.3
Japan		98.1%	74.2％
HANAYASHIKI CO., LTD.
· Number of customers entering
ASAKUSA HANAYASHIKI in FY2021.3*	160,000 customers

* Closed from April to June, 2020, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19

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ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (DIGITAL BUSINESS)

GAME APP MARKET (JAPAN)

HOME VIDEO GAME MARKET (JAPAN)

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT (TOYS AND HOBBY BUSINESS)

TOY MARKET (JAPAN)

GAME APP MARKET SCALE TREND

(¥ billion)

1,600

HOME VIDEO GAME MARKET SCALE TREND

(¥ billion)	580.7
600

[Toy Market Scale]

(Unit: Millions of yen, manufacturer's suggested retail price basis)

Major Categories

FY2020.3

FY2021.3

1,316.4

1,200	969.0	1,058.0	1,166.0	1,214.0
800
400
0
2016	2017		2018		2019		2020
(Year)

480
360	343.9
	44.5
240	182.4
120
	117.0
0	2016
(Year)

446.4	434.2
54.7
88.2
189.3	175.9
202.3	170.0
2017	2018

436.8	213.4
110.4
166.9	181.7
159.5	185.6
2019	2020

Games	16,405	19,246
General games (including mini electronic games), 3D puzzles, others (including party games, humorous games, magic tricks)
Cards, trading cards	113,303	122,240
Jigsaw puzzles	11,273	17,888
High-tech-related trendy toys	5,193	6,488
Interactive toys, robots, cameras, app-related products
Character products	80,890	67,690
Hero toys, etc.
Toy vehicles	51,870	42,903
Mini cars, railroad toys, RC toys, electric, others (racing, spring, metal toys, etc.)

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper 2021" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.) * Prepared based on information as of May 2021

Game apps: Games provided for smartphones and tablets

(Includes games for feature phones that operate on SNS platforms)

TOP PUBLISHERS IN THE GLOBAL APP MARKET

TOP PUBLISHERS IN THE GLOBAL APP MARKET

Rank	Name of Publisher	Country
1	Tencent	China
2	NetEase	China
3	Playrix	Ireland
4	Activision Blizzard	U.S.
5	Zynga	U.S.
6	BANDAI NAMCO	Japan
7	Supercell	Finland
8	Netmarble	South Korea
9	Playtika	Israel
10	Sony	Japan

Source: App Annie

Total for iOS, Google Play / Prepared by App Annie based on 2020 revenue figures

THE BANDAI NAMCO GROUP'S RANKING IN THE APP MARKET

Year	Ranking
2020	No. 6
2019	No. 5
2018	No. 4
2017	No. 7

Based on ranking in Top Publishers in Global App Market, which was prepared by App Annie

Hardware  Software  Online

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper 2021" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.) * Prepared based on information as of May 2021

UNIT SALES SHARE BY MANUFACTURER (2020)

Microsoft Japan	Other
2.1%
	14.1%
Capcom
2.3%		Nintendo
Koei Tecmo		47.5%
Games
2.9%
SEGA
3.0%
Sony Interactive
Entertainment
4.5%
Pokémon
4.8%
BANDAI NAMCO	SQUARE	KONAMI
Entertainment	ENIX
5.8%	6.5%	6.5%

Collection period: December 30, 2019, to December 27, 2020

Source: "Famitsu Game White Paper 2021" (KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.) Company names are as of the collection date.

Dolls, products for playing house	45,251	38,765
Dress-up dolls, dollhouses, products for playing house, arts and crafts, collection toys, cuddly dolls, others (including accessories,
children's cosmetics)
Stuffed toys	26,732	26,063
Character stuffed toys, non-character stuffed toys
Educational
Blocks, wooden products, preschool, infants' characters, babies' products (babies' toys, bath toys, baby products), transportation-	169,423	172,944
related (including baby carriages, child seats, tricycles), others (including musical instruments, telephones, picture books, playground
equipment, children's videos, electric animals)
Seasonal products	47,759	51,265
Small sparklers, summer toys, summer goods, small toys, sports toys, sports supplies, outdoor products
Sundries	95,817	105,789
Variety goods, gifts, interior goods, housewares, stationery, apparel, others
Hobby products	138,087	144,911
Plastic models, RC hobby products, model trains, figures, others
Other	12,410	10,563
Total	814,413	826,755

FY2020.3				FY2021.3
	Other	Games			Other	Games
Hobby products	1.5%	2.0%	Cards, trading cards	Hobby products	1.3%	2.3%	Cards, trading cards
		13.9%			14.8%
17.0%
		Jigsaw puzzles	17.0%
						Jigsaw puzzles
			1.4%
			High-tech-related				2.2%
						High-tech-related
			trendy toys
Sundries			0.6%				trendy toys
FY2020.3 Toy Market	Character products	Sundries	FY2021.3 Toy Market	0.8%
11.8%					Character products
	¥814,413 million	9.9%	12.8%	¥826,755 million
	8.2%
			Toy vehicles				Toy vehicles
Seasonal products			6.4%				5.2%
5.9%			Dolls, products for	Seasonal products			Dolls, products for
			playing house	6.2%			playing house
			5.6%				4.7%
			Stuffed toys				Stuffed toys
	Educational	3.3%		Educational	3.2%
	20.8%				20.9%

Notes: 1. In principle, the market created by the original products and own-brand products of member companies of the Japan Toy Association and of exhibitors at the International Tokyo Toy Show.

1. Excluding drugstore distribution
2. Hobby products include distribution of models Source: Research by the Japan Toy Association

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