{"id":12897,"date":"2008-06-13T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2008-06-13T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:50:58","slug":"navarre-discusses-funimations-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/navarre-discusses-funimations-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Navarre Discusses FUNimation&#8217;s Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navarre Corporation CEO Cary Deacon has informed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/12731.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2<\/a> that its subsidiary FUNimation has experienced &#8220;double digit sales growth and more than doubled its operating profits during the fiscal 2008 year.&#8221; The tremendous growth came from a combination of increased market share as a result of Geneon USA&#8217;s closure and reduced activity from other competing American anime distributors, and a sharp decrease in anime acquisition costs from Japanese licensors.<\/p>\n<p>Deacon hinted at the possibility of absorbing one or more domestic anime distribution competitors by saying that &#8220;consolidation opportunities&#8221; exist, but did not elaborate further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navarre Corporation CEO Cary Deacon has informed ICv2 that its subsidiary FUNimation has experienced &#8220;double digit sales growth and more than doubled its operating profits during the fiscal 2008 year.&#8221; The tremendous growth came from a combination of increased market share as a result of Geneon USA&#8217;s closure and reduced activity from other competing American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}