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The avex Group (avex) is a fully integrated entertainment business group based in Tokyo. Its main focus is the domestic audience as well as the rapidly growing East Asian entertainment market.

avex is unique in Japan in terms of both the breadth and caliber of its business activities. The Group's major business segments include artist management, musical/visual content production, physical/digital distribution, concert production as well as IP rights development.

Its unmatched, seamless in-house platform allows avex to maximize value for artist and the corporate brand as a whole, thereby enabling the avex label to achieve the No.1 market share in the Japanese music market.

Initially established in 1988 as a record wholesaler, avex underwent rapid growth following its transformation into a music production company and subsequent creation of a number of big hits. In 1999, the company was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

To effectively adapt to the rapidly changing environment in which we operate in, spawned in large part by the explosion of the digital entertainment market, the Group restructured in April 2005, announcing the following mid-term vision:

To evolve into the "Entertainment Brand Company" with the strongest creative and communication capabilities in Asia.

To realize this vision, avex is promoting new business efforts, including full-fledged expansion into the film industry and the Asian market.

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