PIA Corporation
TTSE:43372,336.00
JPY
-32.00
(-1.35%)
ISIN
JP3801570007
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-26.31
14.20
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-31.70
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-39.72
68.34
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- CEO
- Hiroshi Yanai
- Full Time Employees
- 621
- Sector
- Consumer services
- Industry
- Movies/Entertainment
- Address
- Shibuya First Tower Tokyo TY Japan 150-0011
- IPO Date
- Jan 30, 2002
- Website
- pia.co.jp
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- PIA Corporation (TSE: 4337), founded in 1972 with magazine operations and formally established on December 20, 1974, and headquartered at Shibuya First Tower in Tokyo, Japan, operates as a leading provider of ticketing, publishing, and event planning services primarily in the leisure and entertainment industry; its core Ticket PIA platform, launched in 1984 as Japan's first online computer ticketing system, distributes over 75 million tickets annually for music concerts, sports events, theater productions, films, and leisure activities through diverse channels including internet, over 40,000 convenience stores nationwide, telephone, and a membership base exceeding 17.5 million; additional services encompass business solutions such as ticket management systems, customer strategy planning, and promotion for entertainment promoters, sports associations, theater troupes, venues, stadiums, and broadcasters; media operations deliver leisure and entertainment content via websites, mobile apps with over 1.8 million downloads, network media, periodic magazines, mooks, and publications; event segments involve planning, production, investment, and operation of concerts, music festivals, stage events, original productions, films, and topical gatherings, with venue management including live houses like Pit in Tokyo and Tohoku regions and ambitions for arenas to address capacity shortages. PIA maintains extensive domestic operations through branches in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Hiroshima, Sendai, and Yokohama, alongside subsidiaries such as Ticket PIA Nagoya, Ticket PIA Kyushu, Tokyo Onkyo for event information and ticketing, PIA Global Entertainment (PGE, est. 2015) for East Asian import/export of entertainment events in collaboration with Chicpia in Beijing, and PIA Field Support for sports promotion lottery (toto/BIG) services transferred in 2019; the company has supported major events including the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics as Official Ticket Supplier, Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2010 Shanghai Expo, 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games, and 2019 Rugby World Cup. Recent developments include sustained revenue growth to ¥45,362 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, reflecting a 14.6% year-over-year increase driven by robust ticketing and event recovery, announcement of consolidated financial results for the six months ended September 30, 2025 on November 13, 2025 highlighting ongoing profitability improvements with consolidated net profit up significantly quarter-over-quarter, extension of takeover defense measures originally from 2009 and renewed in 2023 with partial updates for shareholder approval as of May 2025 to safeguard corporate value and control policies amid market dynamics, and continued expansion of digital platforms like the smartphone app integrated with Ticket PIA since 2020 alongside Asian market advancements via PGE.