-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, IuCl0oPi86cqiFqkq+HRpjA+tKvhQY6yfd6rJ9qSk+H9euQMO2IMNHlwK3kwkK+v G8Lb7pShodY29zpN4O66LQ== 0000000000-06-044952.txt : 20070720 0000000000-06-044952.hdr.sgml : 20070720 20060918132250 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-06-044952 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060918 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ACTIVISION INC /NY CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000718877 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 954803544 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3100 OCEAN PARK BLVD STREET 2: STE 1000 CITY: SANTA MONICA STATE: CA ZIP: 90405 BUSINESS PHONE: 3102552000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 11601 WILSHIRE BLVD 3RD FL STREET 2: STE 1000 CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90025 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MEDIAGENIC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ACTIVISION INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19880829 LETTER 1 filename1.txt September 18, 2006 Via U.S. Mail and Facsimile Michael Griffith Chief Executive Officer Activision, Inc. 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 RE: Activision, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006 File No. 0-12699 Dear Mr. Griffith: We have limited our review of your Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, to disclosures relating to your contacts with countries that have been identified as state sponsors of terrorism. Our review with respect to this issue does not preclude further review by the Assistant Director group with respect to other issues. At this juncture, we are asking you to provide us with supplemental information, so that we may better understand your disclosure. Please be as detailed as necessary in your response. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filings. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. General - 1. Exhibit 10.60 to your 10-K is a September 27, 2005, agreement between Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Activision UK Limited licensing core components of a computer entertainment system. Schedule 1 to Exhibit 10.60 states that the territory covered by the agreement includes Iran and Syria. In light of the fact that Iran and Syria have been identified by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terrorism, and are subject to U.S. economic sanctions and export controls, please describe for us the extent and nature of your past, current, and anticipated contacts with those countries, whether through subsidiaries, licensees or other direct or indirect arrangements. Discuss the materiality to you of any contacts with Iran and Syria, individually and in the aggregate, and advise us of your view as to whether those contacts, if any, constitute a material investment risk for your security holders. 2. Exhibit 21.1 to the 10-K lists among your principal subsidiaries Activision Korea, Ltd., which is incorporated in "Korea." Please clarify for us whether this subsidiary is incorporated in North Korea or South Korea. If the subsidiary is incorporated in North Korea, a country identified by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism and subject to U.S. economic sanctions and export controls, please provide the same type of information regarding your contacts with North Korea as is requested by comment 1 with respect to your contacts with Iran and Syria. 3. In your response, please address materiality in quantitative terms, including the dollar amount of any associated revenues, assets or liabilities. Please also address materiality in terms or qualitative factors that a reasonable investor would deem important in making an investment decision, including the potential impact of corporate activities upon a company`s reputation and share value. We note, for example, that Arizona and Louisiana have adopted legislation requiring their state retirement systems to prepare reports regarding state pension fund assets invested in, and/or permitting divestment of state pension fund assets from, companies that do business with countries identified as state sponsors of terrorism. The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted a resolution directing its Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to report annually to the General Assembly regarding state funds invested in companies that have ties to terrorist-sponsoring countries. The Missouri Investment Trust has established an equity fund for the investment of certain state-held monies that screens out stocks of companies that do business with U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism. Your materiality analysis should address the potential impact of the investor sentiment evidenced by such actions directed toward companies that have business contacts with Iran, North Korea and Syria. Closing Comments Please respond to this comment within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please file your response letter on EDGAR. We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filings to be certain that the filings include all information required under the Exchange Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information investors require for an informed investment decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to the company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. In connection with responding to our comment, please provide, in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that: the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. In addition, please be advised that the Division of Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filings or in response to our comments on your filings. Please understand that we may have additional comments after we review your response to our comment. Please contact Jack Guggenheim at (202) 551-3523 if you have any questions about the comment or our review. You may also contact me at (202) 551-3470. Sincerely, Cecilia D. Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk cc: Barbara Jacobs Brad Skinner Division of Corporation Finance Michael Griffith Activision, Inc. September 18, 2006 Page 1 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-5546 DIVISION OF CORPORATION FINANCE -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----