While Pokémon trainers are out catching Pikachu, The Pokémon Co. International just caught a printer.
The company responsible for the Pokémon brand outside of Asia entered into an acquisition agreement with Millennium Print Group, a North Carolina-based maker of trading cards and packaging. Millennium Print Group and The Pokémon Co. have been partners since 2015 when Millennium began printing the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TGC).
“The talented team at Millennium Print Group has been an important partner to The Pokémon Co. International for many years, helping us bring the Pokémon Trading Card Game to our fans with the quality they expect,” says Kenji Okubo, president of The Pokémon Co. International. “By joining forces in a more meaningful way, our goal is to enhance the ways our organizations work together and continue to bring the highest quality Pokémon TCG products to market. Simultaneously, we aim to develop Millennium into an even better, bigger, state-of-the-art version of their already exceptional organization, benefitting not just Pokémon, but all of its customers.”
Overall, The Pokémon Co. says that it plans to scale Millennium Print Group to become a leader in the production of trading cards for the entire industry while allowing it to continue operating as “a separate, autonomous organization.”
