Softbank

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SoftBank Group Corp.

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legal form Kabushiki Kaisha
Public Company (Japan)
ISIN JP3436100006
founding 1981
Seat Minato , Tokyo Prefecture , JapanJapanJapan 
management
Number of employees 66,154
sales 8,670 billion yen (69.1 billion euros )
Branch telecommunications
Website group.softbank
As of March 31, 2015

Softbank KK ( proper spelling : SoftBank , Japanese ソ フ ト バ ン ク 株式会社 Sofutobanku Kabushiki kaisha , English Softbank Corp. ), listed on the Nikkei 225 and based in Tokyo , is a Japanese telecommunications and media group with divisions in broadband television, landline telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, robotics, technology service, finance, media and marketing. Softbank owns a number of other companies, such as the Japanese company Cable & Wireless IDC, the BB-Service company, and the computer game company GungHo Online Entertainment. In addition, it maintains partnerships with the Japanese branches of foreign companies such as Yahoo , E * Trade and Morningstar . Softbank also holds around 28% of the Alibaba Group (as of June 2016).

In 2018, the company's revenue was $ 82.64 billion and net income was $ 9.18 billion.

history

A SoftBank store in Ibaraki , Japan

Softbank was founded on September 3, 1981 by the then 24-year-old Masayoshi Son . In January 2005, the company acquired the Japanese professional baseball team Fukuoka Daiei Hawks , henceforth Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.

Softbank and Apple jointly launched the iPhone 3G on the Japanese market in 2008 . On March 17, 2006, the company announced the acquisition of Vodafone's Japanese subsidiary . In early 2012, Softbank acquired around 80 percent of the shares in Aldebaran Robotics for around 100 million US dollars. In October 2012, Nextel and Softbank announced that Softbank would acquire a majority stake in the US wireless operator Sprint . It is the largest overseas acquisition a Japanese company has ever undertaken.

In July 2016, Softbank announced its intention to buy British chip developer ARM for around £ 23.4 billion (€ 27.95 billion). The acquisition was completed in September 2016. ARM should remain as an independent company and be increased in terms of personnel.

In 2017, Softbank took over the robotics company Boston Dynamics from Google's parent company Alphabet .

In December 2017, it was announced that Softbank intended to acquire around 15 percent of the shares in Uber . Uber founder Travis Kalanick then announced that he would also sell part of his shares. A deal worth $ 1.2 billion for a 30 percent stake in Uber was announced in mid-January 2018. In October 2018, Softbank and Toyota announced the formation of Monet Technologies as a joint venture . In November 2018, it was announced that Softbank, along with other investors, had invested $ 1 billion in Tokopedia .

Participations in German companies

  • In January 2018, the German company Auto1 announced that Softbank is acquiring a stake in an unknown amount for 460 million euros.
  • 2019 participation in Wirecard
  • 2019 participation in GetYourGuide

Softbank also owns shares in T-Mobile US , a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom . In June 2020 it was announced that Softbank wanted to reduce its stake.

Web links

Commons : SoftBank  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Board of Directors. In: group.softbank. Accessed October 7, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 2015
  3. ↑ Softbank and Apple to Bring iPhone 3G to Japan on July 11. In: apple.com. June 9, 2008, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Erico Guizzo: Aldebaran Robotics Sells Majority Stake for $ 100 Million. In: spectrum.ieee.org. IEEE Spectrum, March 12, 2012, accessed February 27, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Softbank racheté Aldebaran Robotics. In: lexpansion.lexpress.fr. L'Express, March 13, 2012, accessed February 27, 2013 (French).
  6. ↑ Mobile radio deal Japan / USA bursts into Telekom acquisition plan - agency report from October 15, 2012
  7. ↑ Stefan Beiersmann: Softbank buys British chip developer ARM. ZDNet , July 18, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Chris O'Brien: Softbank completes $ 31 billion acquisition of ARM Holdings. VentureBeat, September 5, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Martin Kölling: Japan's Softbank buys Google's robot forge. In: nzz.ch . June 9, 2017, accessed May 21, 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283?mod=e2twd
  11. ↑ Darrell Etherington: Uber's big SoftBank deal has officially closed. In: TechCrunch . January 18, 2018, accessed April 6, 2020.
  12. ↑ Toyota and SoftBank Agreed on Strategic Partnership To Establish Joint Venture for New Mobility Services In: toyota.co.jp, October 4, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018.
  13. ↑ Yoolim Lee, Pavel Alpeyev: Factory Worker's Son Creates $ 7 Billion Startup. In: bloomberg.com. November 21, 2018, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  14. ↑ https://www.auto1-group.com/press/pressrelease/softbank/
  15. ↑ German press agency : Wirecard brings Softbank on board as a new investor. In: internetworld.de . April 24, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ #EXCLUSIVE Softbank invests 500 million in GetYourGuide. In: deutsche-startups.de. April 28, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Softbank is considering selling T-Mobile shares - T-Mobile US shares lose. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .