TYO Inc.
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Native name | 株式会社TYO |
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| Company type | Kabushiki gaisha |
| Founded | 2 April 1982 |
| Headquarters | Akasaka, Minato, , Japan |
| Owner | Kanamel (100%) |
Number of employees | 280 (2023) |
| Parent | The Carlyle Group[1] (since 2021) |
| Website | tyo |
TYO Inc. (株式会社TYO, Kabushiki gaisha Tī Wai Ō) is a Japanese media production company and wholly owned subsidiary of Kanamel, itself a subsidiary of US-based The Carlyle Group.[1]
TYO was founded as a television advertisement production company and has the second largest market share in Japan. The company name 'TYO' comes from the city code for Tokyo used by the International Air Transport Association. Although the company once fell into a management crisis, it has since managed to rebuild itself.
The company was founded as TYO Inc. (株式会社ティー・ワイ・オー, Kabushiki gaisha Tī Wai Ō) in April 1982.
In April 2002, the companies shares were listed over the counter (now JASDAQ.)
In July 2010, TYO merged with nine major advertising subsidiaries. The merged companies started operating as divisions.[2]
In October 2013, TYO moved to the second division of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and then to the first division in January 2014.
On 11 July 2016, AOI Pro. announced a merger through the establishment of a holding company.[3] On 28 December, TYO was delisted from the first division of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
On 4 January 2017, TYO merged with AOI Pro. with the establishment of the holding company AOI TYO Holdings Inc. (AOI TYO Holdings株式会社, AOI TYO Holdings Kabushiki gaisha) (later renamed Kanamel.)
In 2018, TYO relocated their head office to Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo.
On 23 July 2019, TYO entered a capital business partnership with AnyProjects Inc.
On 4 January 2021, as part of company restructuring, TYO Inc. (株式会社ティー・ワイ・オー, Kabushiki gaisha Tī Wai Ō) split off its advertising business to a new company called TYO Inc. (株式会社TYO, Kabushiki gaisha Tī Wai Ō) and renamed itself to xpd Inc. (株式会社xpd, Kabushiki gaisha Ikusupīdī). Simultaneously, xpd Inc. merged Quark tokyo Inc., Zeo Inc., TYO Digital Works Inc. and TYO Public Relations Inc. In March, xpd Inc. relocated their offices to Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo.
In September 2021, Studio Cruise, a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, acquired Kanamel.[1]
Operations
- MONSTER - Video production.
- TYO drive - Video production.
- PRO2 - Advertisement production.
- SPARK - Branding, advertisement planning and direction.
- Camp KAZ - Video production.
- Offering Management - Advertisement production.
- Creative Incubation - Consulting, creative solutions.
- Dwarf - Character planning and development, stop motion animation production.
TYO used to operate an in house video game production division.