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 Logo in use since September 2019 | |
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| Company type | Public |
| Nasdaq Stockholm: EMBRAC B | |
| ISIN | SE0013121589 |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Lars Wingefors |
| Headquarters | , Sweden |
Key people | |
| Revenue |  38.074 billion kr[2] (2023) |
| 0.194 billion kr[2] (2023) | |
| 4.462 billion kr[2] (2023) | |
| Total assets | 116.071 billion kr[2] (2023) |
| Total equity | 64.721 billion kr[2] (2023) |
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Number of employees | 15,218 (2023) |
| Parent | Nordic Games Group (2011–2016) |
| Subsidiaries | See § Subsidiaries |
| Website | embracer |
Embracer Group AB (formerly Nordic Games Licensing AB and THQ Nordic AB) is a Swedish video game and media holding company based in Karlstad. The company comprises 10 operative groups: Amplifier Game Invest, Asmodee, CDE Entertainment, Coffee Stain, Dark Horse Media, Deca Games, Easybrain, Freemode, Plaion, and THQ Nordic.
Embracer Group was established as Nordic Games Licensing within Nordic Games Group in 2011. The latter had previously purchased assets from the bankrupt publisher JoWooD and established Nordic Games GmbH (a subsidiary of Nordic Games Licensing) to manage them. Nordic Games Licensing continued to purchase intellectual property from defunct publishers, notably several THQ products in 2013, followed by the "THQ" trademark in 2014. In August 2016, Nordic Games Licensing and Nordic Games GmbH changed their names to THQ Nordic. The parent company became a public company in 2016 and was renamed Embracer Group in 2019. Until 2023, Embracer Group rapidly grew through major acquisitions and investments. After a US$2 billion investment unexpectedly fell through, the company was more than $2 billion in debt and began closing and selling multiple studios and while laying off people at others.
On 22 April 2024, Embracer Group announced its intention to transform into three standalone publicly listed entities on Nasdaq Stockholm within the next two years: a board game segment under the Asmodee group, an indie games segment under Coffee Stain Publishing, and a segment to manage its library of licensed intellectual properties include that of Tolkien's Middle Earth.[4]
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