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Frima Studio Games
Frima Studio is a Canadian digital entertainment studio. Headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec and founded in 2003, the company develops Video game, video games across a variety of platforms. Frima also produces animation for television and film. In 2010, Frima was noted as one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Profit (magazine), Profit. History The company was founded in Quebec City in 2003 by Steve Couture, Philippe Bégin and Christian Daigle in the midst of the dot-com bubble, dotcom crash. Originally, the name Frima comes from the French wordfrimas" which is the layer of frost that forms around windows during winter. This is due to the fact that the studio made its debut in the poorly-insulated apartment that the three founders shared. Frima has notably developed flash games for many famous intellectual properties, including Harry Potter and Looney Tunes. In 2008, Frima acquired Humagade, a mobile game developer. Shortly after, the studio was merged with the mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |