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Retail sales of licensed Pokémon products in 2021 as listed for The Pokémon Company International by License Global

$8.5bn 2021

FiledRead directly from the publisher’s table; the number is company-submitted and unaudited.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

Retail sales of licensed Pokémon products in 2021 as listed for The Pokémon Company International by License Global: $8.5 billion.

How it’s built

  1. Read from the prior-year column of License Global’s Top Global Licensors 2023 table, a licensing trade publication’s ranking.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Not marked as an estimate, and License Global’s 2022 edition describes the company as submitting $8.5bn. The scope is whatever the company chose to include.

Where it comes from

The Top Global Licensors Report 2023 (CY2022 vs CY2021 table) License Global · 1 July 2023 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

The Pokémon Company International | 5 | $11.6B | $8.5B | 5

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