Sammy-Sega Holdings Logo Get! Also, Sega’s development teams undergo more reorganization.
Sammy and Sega today revealed the logo for their new corporate parent, Sammy-Sega Holdings. Sammy and Sega will become one in October as a subsidiary of the company still in creation.
Commencing business with an impressive 10 billion ($91 million) yen in capital and fifty employees, Sammy and Sega anticipate their combined income for fiscal year 2005 will be as high as 510 billion yen ($4.4 billion). Sega-Sammy Holding’s board members will include Sammy and Sega chairman Hajime Satomi, Sega president Hisao Oguchi, and various Sammy and Sega directors. Sega’s boardroom will see a major overturn, with only Satomi, Oguchi, and Sammy executive Yoshiharu Suzuki remaining.
Sega’s R&D teams, which were divided into separate companies in the Dreamcast era, will also be brought back under Sega’s roof to create a stronger Sega identity.
"I feel that Sega has high individual capabilities, but it's too separated into different subsidiaries," commented Satomi on the remerger of Sega’s subsidiaries. "Sega wasn't able to create an overall corporate strategy or [a sense of] uniformity because of that, which is a major reason behind the company's stagnation. Oguchi himself has been feeling the same way. It's about time that we returned back to the old [structure of] Sega."
Sega did not mention whether it plans to reorganize the development teams (again) during the reconstructive process.
