Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Ubisoft will exceed one billion euros in annual sales

The French publisher Ubisoft video game expected to exceed the first one billion euros in sales for its fiscal year 2010-2011 and shifted to return to profit in this period, according to a statement issued Monday 14 February. Ubisoft has announced its objectives for its fiscal year 2010-2011, ended March 2011, saying "wait a turnover of around 1.02 billion euros, representing growth of approximately 17%" on a year.

In the first nine months of the fiscal year, turnover amounted to 861 million euros, up 30.3% year on year. And on its turnover in the third quarter ended December 31, 2010, Ubisoft said it had risen to 600 million euros, up 21.2% over the same period of 2009. GAIN IN MARKET SHARE Ubisoft put its first license Assassin's Creed, expressing "strong sales" for the last episode of this action game, Brotherhood, which has more than 6.5 million units sold.

The group also welcomed the good sales of its securities dance, including his play on Michael Jackson. The publisher also insisted on his "successful bet" KINECTS, the video game system without a controller and optical detection of Microsoft, and "two million units sold to distribution.

The French group is also responsible for taking market share in the U.S. and Europe. Ubisoft now represents 7.3% of the shares in the U.S., against 5.4% a year earlier. Third European publisher Ubisoft on the continent represents 9.2% of the shares, against 7.8% a year ago. Affected by the economic crisis, for its 2009-2010 fiscal year, Ubisoft posted a net loss of 44 million euros and revenues were down 17.7% to 871 million euros.

No comments:

Post a Comment