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A 2022 press statement that The Pokémon Company owns 100% of Pokémon Korea

13 April 2022

ReportedA licensee's employee quoted in the press, not Pokémon Korea or TPC. A reported figure.

How it’s built

  1. A marketing manager at SPC Samlip, the bakery that makes Pokémon bread under licence, said so in a phone interview with the Korean news agency Newsis, reprinted by ZDNet Korea.

What we assumed

  • The licensee knows who owns the company it signed with.It negotiated the bread licence directly with Pokémon Korea, so it had reason to know.

Sanity check

The credit agency's shareholder record shows the same 100%.

Where it comes from

경쟁사도 내놨던 포켓몬빵, 뒤늦게 인기끄는 이유는 ZDNet Korea 온라인이슈팀 (제공=뉴시스) · 13 April 2022 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

일본 기업 '더 포켓몬 컴퍼니'가 지분 100%를 보유한 '포켓몬코리아'와 사용권 계약을 맺었다 ... 이 회사에 지급하는 로열티는 국내 다른 유명 캐릭터들보다 낮은 수준