Company Background and Core Business

Nikkei Visual Images, Inc. was founded in 1958 as a TV and video production company within the Nikkei Group, making it one of the longest-established film production companies in Japan. Nikkei Inc., the core company around which the Nikkei Group is structured, publishes the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (commonly known as the Nikkei), which ranks alongside the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times as one of the world's leading financial newspapers.

Nikkei Visual Images produces well-known economics programs such as "Dawn of GAIA" and "Cambrian Palace" on a regular basis for TV Tokyo (a terrestrial TV station which is also a member of the Nikkei Group). In addition, Nikkei Visual Images is involved in the production of economics programs and news programs for satellite broadcaster BS TV TOKYO (another member of the Nikkei Group).

Nikkei Visual Images is also responsible for program production and broadcasting (using Nikkei's own studios) for Nikkei CNBC, a 24-hour business and financial news channel that is jointly run by Nikkei, TV Tokyo and CNBC Asia. The production of economics and financial programs is thus Nikkei Visual Images' core business area.