Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Type
Public (NASDAQ: ERTS)
Founded
1982
Headquarters Redwood City, California,
United States
Key people
John Riccitiello, CEO
Frank Gibeau, President, EA
Games Label
Peter Moore, President, EA
SPORTS
Kathy Vrabeck, President, EA
Casual Entertainment
Rod Humble, Executive Vice
President, The Sims Label
Larry Probst, chairman of the
board and former CEO
(1991–2007)
Trip Hawkins, founder and
former CEO (1982–1991)
Industry
Interactive entertainment
Products
The Sims series
Medal of Honor series
Need for Speed series
FIFA series
Madden NFL series
Battlefield series
Ultima series
Command & Conquer series
NBA Live series
Rock Band series
Revenue
▲$4.2 billion USD (2009) [1]
Net income
▼-$1.08 billion USD (2009) [2]
Employees
7,900 (2007)[1]
Website
www.ea.com
Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an
international developer, marketer, publisher
and distributor of video games. Founded and
incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip
Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the
early home computer games industry and
was notable for promoting the designers and
programmers responsible for its games. Ori-
ginally, EA was a home computing game
publisher. In the late 1980s, the company
began developing games in-house and sup-
ported consoles by the early 1990s. EA later
grew via acquisition of several successful de-
velopers. By the early 2000s, EA had become
one of the world’s largest third-party publish-
ers. In May 2008, the company reported net
annual revenue of US$4.02 billion in fiscal
year 2008.[2] Currently, EA’s most successful
products are sports games published under
its EA Sports label, games based on popular
movie licenses such as Harry Potter and
games from long-running franchises
like
Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims,
Battlefield and the
later games in the
Burnout and Command & Conquer series.
They are also the distributors of the Rock
Band series. EA reported a $1.08 billion loss
for the financial year ending March 2009.
Revenue for the same period was up to $4.2
billion, a 15 perc