Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a French company of development and distribution of video games which was created in 1986 by five brothers of the name of Guillemot, originating in Carentoir in the Morbihan.

Presentation of the company

Ubisoft is one of the French main actors in his field.

The group carried out a turnover of 680 million euros in 2006-2007 for a bottom line of 40,5 million euros.

The mascot of Ubisoft is Rayman, character of the plays of platform of the same name. Michel Ancel is one of principal the originators of video games of Ubisoft and more known, to have created Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil like for its collaboration with Peter Jackson on King Kong .

Ubisoft has three studios of development in France, with Paris, Annecy and Montpellier. In all, the group has the second internal force of production of video games in the world with 15 studios in 11 countries. It has subsidiary companies of production and distribution respectively in 22 and 55 countries. Ubisoft counts more than 3950 collaborators in the whole world (including more than 3200 dedicated to the production).

In 1998, employees of Ubisoft protested anonymously against the methods of administration of the company while launching the “first virtual trade union” Ubi Free. One of them, Jérémie Lefebvre, published in 2000 the Company of consolation , novel inspired of its experiment in the company.

Ubisoft is the fourth independent editor in the world (Japan except), second independent editor in Europe, and the fifth with the the United States.

Studios of development and distribution

The first subsidiary companies of distribution of the group open in 1991 with the the United Kingdom, in Germany and with the the United States (country representing today more than 40% of its sales turnover). Follow, of 1992 with 1996, the openings of studios of internal production in Romania and France. The distribution extends to the Japan, the Italy and the Australia.

From 1997 with 1999, the company extends to the Morocco, the China, the Canada and the Spain, and opens new studios in Italy and France, in particular that of Montpellier where worked Michel Ancel and its team on the project King Kong.

Lastly, of 2000 with 2001, Ubisoft repurchases many studios and distribution companies. Among them:

Redstorm Entertainment (the United States), developer of the plays Tom Clancy;
Blue Byte Software (Germany), developer of The Settlers;
Range Studio (division American business game The Learning Company), which off brings to them rights of exploitations such as Prince Persia, Chessmaster or Myst.

Ubisoft Montreal and Quebec

Ubisoft Montreal is the most important studio of internal development of the company. Created in 1997 the studio is at the origin of titles such as Myst IV: Revelation , Tom Clancy' S Splinter Concealment , Prince off Persia: sands of time , etc whose sales amount to million specimens. Ubisoft Montreal counts approximately 1600 employees in 2007. This studio falls under the strategy of expansion in North America of the company. The choice of establishment was guided by the quality of the engineers and quality of life like by bilingualism with the Quebec. Another studio was open in the town of Quebec on June 1st 2005. Continuous Ubisoft to invest massively in Quebec, and has an objective of Québécois manpower of 3.000 employees by 2013. Of this number, approximately 1000 job creations are envisaged between 2007 and 2013 (800 in Montreal and 200 in Quebec), including 500 for the video game and 500 for the creation of a new numerical movie studio whose contents of works will be based on the licenses had by Ubisoft.

List important plays

Ubisoft developed and published a great number of plays, of which in particular:

External bonds

Official site
Information on the group Ubisoft
Card of the group on the site of Capital

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