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CD Projekt SA

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legal form Spółka Akcyjna
ISIN PLOPTTC00011
founding 1988 (as Optimus)
2011 (renamed CD Projekt RED)
2012 (renamed CD Projekt)
Seat Warsaw , PolandPolandPoland 
management Adam Kiciński ( Chairman of the Board )
Katarzyna Szwarc ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
Marcin Iwiński ( CEO )
Piotr Nielubowicz ( CFO )
Number of employees 1,111 (as of March 31, 2020)
sales 521.3 million zloty (118.5 million euro )
Branch Software development
Website www.cdprojekt.com
As of December 31, 2019

CD Projekt SA (1988–2011 Optimus SA , 2011–2012 CD Projekt RED SA ) is a Polish developer and publisher of computer games for the international market, including the internationally successful computer role-playing game series The Witcher . The company also operates the distribution platform GOG.com and maintains its own development teams in Warsaw , Krakow and Wroclaw under the internal name "CD Projekt Red" . It is the second company with this name. The original company name was Optimus SA and initially operated as a pure IT service provider. It was only through a reverse takeover of the old CD Projekt RED Sp. Z oo in 2009 that the company took over the current business area and finally the name. The distribution business in Poland was outsourced to a newly founded subsidiary under the company name cdp.pl.

history

1988–2009: Start as an IT service provider

The company was founded in Nowy Sącz in December 1988 under the name Optimus and after the economic reforms in Poland in the course of the system change in 1989 it was registered as a joint stock company . The Optimus SA acted first as a pure IT service for commercial customers and operational from 1996, the specially created online platform Optimus.net that under the later name Onet.pl to the Polish media group 2001 popular online platform Poland grew and ITI was sold. In 2006 the company moved from Nowy Sącz to Warsaw.

2009–2012: Takeover of CD Projekt

After the Polish game developer and publisher CD Projekt RED Sp. Z oo ran into serious financial problems in 2009, Optimus SA signed a letter of intent to take over the troubled company. At the same time, the previous owners of CD Projekt RED Sp. Z oo acquired 50 percent of Optimus SA and thus retained control of the new company as a whole. This so-called reverse takeover in October 2009 enabled CD Projekt to go public. On July 25, 2011, Optimus SA changed its company name to CD Projekt RED SA and merged in October with its subsidiary of the same name, the development studio CD Projekt RED Sp. Z oo , which was previously run as a limited liability company . On September 21, 2012, the new CD Projekt RED SA announced that it would in future run its distribution business in Poland under the company name cdp.pl and founded its own subsidiary under the company name cdp.pl Sp. Z oo . At the same time, a sales platform for games appeared under this URL . In November 2012, the shareholders' meeting decided to rename the parent company CD Projekt SA

Development from 2013

In 2013 CD Projekt sold the rights to the company name Optimus to the Polish company AB SA , which started a new IT service provider under this name. In 2014, leading managers from cdp.pl took over a majority stake in their company, which reduced the stake of the parent company CD Projekt SA to 8.29%. CD Projekt stated that it wanted to concentrate on the development and global marketing of computer games. The company cdp.pl , on the other hand, wants to concentrate exclusively on its core market in Poland.

The release and outstanding reviews of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015 resulted in a significant increase in the market value of CD Projekt . According to a report by Bloomberg at the end of 2019, the company's stock market value has risen by a full 21,000% over the past ten years. No other company in the STOXX Europe 600 index has so far achieved such an increase . Beginning in 2020, the figure was the Polish company with nearly 7 billion US dollars . At the end of May 2020, CD Projekt became the most valuable company in the games industry in Europe , ahead of Ubisoft, in terms of stock market capitalization (over 38 billion złoty , thus over 9 billion US dollars) .

In-house developments

year Surname Platform (s) Engine
2007 The Witcher Windows , OS X Aurora engine
2011 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Windows, OS X, Linux , Xbox 360 REDengine
REDengine 2
2014 The Witcher Adventure Game Windows, OS X, iOS , Android N / A
2015 The Witcher Battle Arena iOS, Android Unity
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Windows, PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Nintendo Switch REDengine 3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch REDengine 3
2016 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch REDengine 3
2018 Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android Unity
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Unity
2020 Cyberpunk 2077 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One REDengine 4

Web links

Commons : CD Projekt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CD PROJEKT SA: Zarząd. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (Polish).
  2. ↑ CD PROJEKT SA: Rada Nadzorcza. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (Polish).
  3. ↑ CD PROJEKT SA: MANAGEMENT BOARD REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CD PROJEKT GROUP AND CD PROJEKT SA IN 2019. (PDF; 8.8 MB) Retrieved on April 14, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ CD PROJEKT SA: SKONSOLIDOWANE SPRAWOZDANIE FINANSOWE GRUPY KAPITAŁOWEJ CD PROJEKT ZA 2019 ROK. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Retrieved April 14, 2020 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Quote: The Witcher premiered in 2007, quickly becoming a global commercial hit. Source: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/Capital_group/Our_history
  6. ↑ http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-08-02-cd-projekt-red-launches-krakow-studio ; http://www.gamona.de/games/cd-projekt-red,neues-studio-fur-kleinere-projekte-gegrundet:news,2285638.html
  7. ↑ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-06-seeing-red-the-story-of-cd-projekt
  8. ↑ http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/optimus-finalises-cd-projekt-takeover
  9. ↑ a b Our history (company history) ( English ) In: Official company website . CD project. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  10. ↑ CDP.pl - początek rewolucji na polskim rynku greed. September 21, 2012, accessed April 14, 2020 (Polish).
  11. ↑ Media2: Kultowa marka Optimus wraca na rynek
  12. ^ Daniel Kłosiński: CD Projekt sprzedaje Cdp.pl - firmę przejmują menedżerowie ( Polish ) Eurogamer.pl. November 27, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  13. ↑ Medieval Fantasy Warrior Is Key to 21,000% Stock Gain in Decade bloomberg.com
  14. ↑ https://itkey.media/cd-projekt-on-top-of-their-game-and-league/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cd-projekt-on-top-of-their-game-and- league