Konami Corporation
Konami Corporation is known as an Japanese entertainment and gaming corporation. The
company originally opened in 1969 in Osaka, Japan under the name Konami Industry Co.
During that time the company originally a jukebox rental and repair company. The chairman and
founder of Konami was Kagemasa Kozuki who later transformed the business into
manufacturing place for arcade game machines. Other than video games they company later
supported other products such as the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game helping operate as their
product distributor. As well as casino gaming business within the United States . Overall Konami
Corporation fall under four type of businesses which are “health and fitness, gaming systems,
amusement, and digital entertainment.”
The goal of Konami is stated “ We, the Konami Group, aim to be an enterprise that will
continue to keep our stakeholders always looking forward with anticipation as we create and
provide our current and future customers with products and services that offer “Valuable Time.”
Konami has four guiding principles to achieve their company goals. These four principles are
customer-oriented, our challenge, response to change, and compliance. The customers come
first, Konami wants to maximize customers satisfaction by providing them with the highest level
of their products and services. The challenges for Konami is creativity and innovation in order to
provide their customer will never before felt experiences of excitement. Response to change,
that not only Konami but all company must be aware of to keep up with the needs that constantly
changes. Finally compliance, following the laws and ethics to gain the trust and support of
Konami’s stakeholders. Konami’s employees must be able to recognize any error that can have
negative effects on the business productions.
