DeNA, GREE, KLab, Voltage, Index, A-team, Crooz… the list of publicly traded social gaming companies in Japan is about to get longer.
Tokyo-based enish has announced it filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public at the Mothers section for startups on December 11 (ticker: 3667).
The company was established under the name Synphonie in February 2009 and currently runs a total of eight social games on GREE, Mobage, CyberAgent‘s Ameba, Hangame, entag!, and Mixi. It is especially successful with restaurant management sim “Boku No Restaurant” (My Restaurant) and its second part.
enish says that last year, sales reached 2.59 billion yen (US$32.5 million), 6.2 times more than in 2010. Profit in 2011 stood at 526 million yen (US$6.6 million), 8.2 times more than in 2010.
The company also disclosed that 78.5% of sales came from GREE, the company it has a partnership with.
