Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for "Harry Potter” and “Star Wars,” the two most successful movie franchises of all time. Given the challenged macro-economic environment, we remain cautious about the balance of 2012 and 2013.
Activision Blizzard is the behemoth holding company for Activision and Blizzard Entertainment. On July 9, 2008 a deal closed merging Activision and Vivendi Games which was worth $18.9 billion US dollars1.
Company Profile
- Trading Name
- Activision Blizzard, Inc.
- Founded
- July 9, 2008
- Location
- Santa Monica, California, United States
- Assets
- US$13.227 billion2
- Key People
- Robert Kotick (Chief Executive Officer)
- Michael J. Griffith (Vice Chairman)
- Michael Morhaime (President and Chief Executive Officer of Blizzard Entertainment
- Number of Employees
- 5000 (as of 2011)
- Key Subsidiaries
- Activision
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Neversoft
- Raven Software
- Defunct Subsidiaries
- RedOctane
- Sierra Entertainment
- Vivendi Games
- Majority Ownership
- Vivendi (52%)
- Key Franchises Owned by Subsidiaries
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Guitar Hero series
- Call of Duty series
- Prototype series
- Tony Hawk series
- Spider-Man series
- Spyro series
- Warcraft series
- StarCraft series
- Diablo series
- Official Site
- http://www.activisionblizzard.com/