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Panini is a company headquartered in Modena, Italy, named after the Panini brothers who founded it in 1961.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Corporate )〕 The company produces books, comics, magazines, stickers, trading cards and other items through its collectibles and publishing subsidiaries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Collectibles )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Publishing )〕 Panini distributes its own products, and products of third party providers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Distribution )〕 Panini maintains a Licensing Division to buy and resell licenses and provide Agency for individuals and newspapers seeking to purchase rights and comic licenses, respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Licensing Out )〕 Through Panini Digital the company uses voice-activated software to capture football statistics, which is then sold to agents, teams, media outlets and video game manufactures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: Panini Digital )〕 New Media operates Panini's on-line applications, and generates income through content and data sales.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini Group: New Media )〕 ==History== Benito and Giuseppe Panini were operating a newspaper distribution office in Modena, Italy during 1960, when they found a collection of figurines (stickers attached with glue) that a Milan company was unable to sell. The brothers bought the collection, and sold them in packets of two for ten lire each. They sold three million packets. Having had success with the figurines Giuseppe founded Panini in 1961 to manufacture and sell his own figurines. Benito joined Panini the same year. Panini sold 15 million packets of figurines in 1961.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panini: FAQ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fifty Years of Italian History Through Famous Album )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pleasure of the Figurines, from Album 40 Years of Heroes )〕 29 million units were sold the following year, and brothers Franco and Umberto Panini joined the company in 1963.〔 Umberto Panini died on 29 November 2013 at the age of 83.〔http://www.20min.ch/sport/fussball/story/Der-letzte--Vater--der-Panini-Bildli-ist-tot-29932735〕 It became famous in the 1960s for its football collections, which soon became objects of wide interest and are now considered a juvenile cultural phenomenon of the following decades. Rare stickers (''figurine'') can reach very high prices on the collectors' market. Some popular games were invented which used stickers as playing cards. The slogan "Stick with Panini" could once be heard in a jingle following the television advertisements that Panini aired during children's programming. In 1970 Panini began publishing “L’Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio Italiano” (The Illustrated Guide to Italian Football), after purchasing the rights from publishing house Carcano. Panini also published its first FIFA World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, in addition to using multilingual captions and selling stickers outside of Italy for the first time. Another first for Panini, in the early 1970s, was introducing self-adhesive stickers; as opposed to using glue.〔 In 1986 Panini created a museum of figurines which they donated to the city of Modena in 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Museum )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sandwiches new adventure museum made figurines )〕 May 24, 2006, Panini partnered with The Coca-Cola Company and Tokenzone to produce the first Virtual Sticker Album for the FIFA World Cup. The album was viewable in at least 10 different languages, such as Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coca-Cola and Panini Launch First Digital Trading Platform: Officially Licensed Football Stickers for 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany )〕 In January 2009, Panini acquired an exclusive license to produce NBA trading cards and stickers effective with the 2009-10 NBA season.〔"(Topps No Longer Tops with NBA )." CNBC〕 On March 13, 2009, Panini acquired the Texas-based trading card manufacturer Donruss Playoff LP. With it, Panini inherited Donruss' NFL and NFLPA licenses.〔"(Panini Buys Donruss )." CNBC〕 On March 26, 2010, Panini acquired a license from the NHL and NHLPA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NHL and NHLPA Awards Panini with Multi-Year Trading Card License )〕 The 2010-11 hockey season was the first in five years that more than one company (Upper Deck) has produced hockey cards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angilly: Panini, Upper Deck each get NHL deals )〕 The classic stickers today are complemented by collectible card game Adrenalyn XL. In 2010, Panini acquired a license to create an official sticker collection for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London 2012.〔(Panini to make Olympic debut with London 2012 sticker collection ), The Guardian, July 14, 2010〕 In 2014, Panini made cards for the FIFA World Cup that year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panini Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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