Ecoplay
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Ecoplay (formerly named Ecovideo/ Ecofilmes ) was founded in Portugal, in October 1984, by Portuguese businessmen, Gil Oliveira Santos[1] and Rui Manuel Rodrigues de Almeida Fonseca, and Portuguese journalist and founder of Oporto[2] International Film Festival Fantasporto[3], Mário Dorminsky (Ecofilmes Marketing Director and CEO from 1990 to 1995), starting its activities in film distribution. In 1991, the company entered the videogame market through the exclusive representation of Sega (hardware and software) and quickly extended its activities to the distribution of multi-platform software.
With the representations of Electronic Arts and Microsoft, Ecoplay reached high volumes of business that influenced the decision of these multinationals in establishing themselves directly in Portugal. Currently, Ecoplay prominently leads the Portuguese market for videogames and represents some of the world's most important publishers and peripheral brands: Activision Blizzard, Capcom, Konami, Milestone, Sega, Square Enix and Tecmo Koei.
Ecoplay belongs to a group of Portuguese companies, led by the european holding International Entertainment Group SGPS S.A. (also a owner of the Brazilian video games distribution company Ecogames[4][5]). Ecoplay sister companies are PRIS Audiovisuais (formerly Prisvideo) in the market for distribution of films and other audiovisual products and Goody in the media market, while Ecoplay manages video games distribution.
The acronym Eco, featured, in the company name, stands for Edições Comerciais (Trading Editions).
External links
- www.ecoplay.pt
- www.4play.pt (Ecoplay's Online Catalogue)
- www.pris.pt (Pris Audiovisuais, Ecoplay's Sister Company)
- www.goody.pt (Goody, Ecoplay's Sister Company)
- video excerpt, from an old VHS Cassette showing the "Ecovideo" logo used by the company in their early years