Stillfront Group
| Public | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Mobile and browser games |
| Founded 📆 | January 22, 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Founder 👔 | Jörgen Larsson, CEO |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Board: Jan Samuelsson |
| Products 📟 | Studios: Candywriter, Storm8, Goodgame Studios, Imperia Online JSC, Simutronics, eRepublik, Power Challenge, Kixeye, Babil Games, Coldwood Interactive, Dorado Games, Bytro Labs, Playa Games, Online Football Manager |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 750 |
| 🌐 Website | [1] |
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Stillfront Group is an independent creator, publisher and distributor of digital games. The Group's games are distributed globally, however main markets include Sweden, Germany, the United States, South America, Middle East and North Africa..[1] The company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier since December 2015.[2] Stillfront Group was founded by Jörgen Larsson who is the current CEO of the company.[3]
Acquisitions[edit]
Stillfront Group has acquired fourteen independent game studios. The most recent acquisitions include Bitlife developer Candywriter [acq 1], mobile gaming studio Storm8[acq 2] and Canada-based Kixeye[acq 3]
In 2018, Stillfront Group acquired Germany-based Playa Games[acq 4] and the Bulgarian game studio Imperia Online JSC.[acq 5]
Stillfront acquired German mobile game studio Goodgame Studios in 2017.[acq 6] eRepublik Labs from Bulgaria was acquired the same year and it's founder Alexis Bonte is currently the COO of Stillfront Group.[acq 7]
The American game studio Simutronics, from St. Louis, Missouri, was acquired in 2016.[acq 8] The Dubai-based studio Babil Games was acquired the same year.[acq 9]
Dorado Games from Malta was acquired in 2014[acq 10] and the German developer Bytro Labs joined Stillfront Group in 2013.[acq 11]
Power Challenge, developing and publishing multiplayer sports games, was acquired in 2012.[acq 12]
sv:Coldwood Interactive, founded in Umeå, Sweden, was acquired in 2011.[acq 13]
Notes re acquisitions[edit]
- ↑ Cowley, Ric; Editor. "Stillfront Group acquires BitLife developer Candywriter for $74 million". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ↑ "Stillfront Group acquires Storm8 for $300 million". VentureBeat. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ↑ "Spelutvecklaren Stillfront gör storförvärv". Dagens industri. June 3, 2019.
- ↑ Novac, Dragos. "Stillfront acquires Germany's Playa Games for €45M". Nordic 9.
- ↑ "History – Imperia Online".
- ↑ "Stillfront i tysk mångmiljardaffär – inför nya finansiella mål". www.privataaffarer.se.
- ↑ Delova, Gabriela. "Stillfront acquires romanian gaming company erepublik labs for €75 | Superfounders".
- ↑ "About Us". Simutronics Corp.
- ↑ "Sweden's Stillfront Group buys Dubai-based Babil Games for up to $17 million". December 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Dorado Online Games acquired by Stillfront Group". www.crunchbase.com. 4 June 2014.
- ↑ "About us – Bytro".
- ↑ "Stillfront Acquires Power Challenge". IQ Capital. November 12, 2012.[dead link]
- ↑ "Stillfront Group köper Coldwood". Uminova Innovation.
Geography[edit]
Game studios[edit]
Sweden: Coldwood Interactive
Germany: Goodgame Studios, OnlineFootballManager, Playa Games, Bytro Labs
Bulgaria: Imperia Online JSC, eRepublik Labs
Malta: Dorado Games
United Kingdom: Power Challenge
Canada: Kixeye
United States of America: Storm8, Candywriter
United Arab Emirates: Babil Games
External links[edit]
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- ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stillfront-group#section-overview
- ↑ "NASDAQ STOCKHOLM WELCOMES STILLFRONT TO FIRST NORTH". www.nasdaq.com.
- ↑ Forde, Matthew; Writer, Staff. "Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront's growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2020-05-18.[non-primary source needed]
