1994 – Founding of the group and establishment of subsidiaries in United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
1995 – Signs exclusive distribution contracts with National Geographic, and EMME Interactive. Publishes first “multimedia titles”
1996 – Signs exclusive distribution contracts with Peter Gabriels “realworld studios”, Letts, and Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
1997 – Moves to 30,000 sq. ft. office and warehouse facilities in Basingstoke. Signs exclusive contracts with Cybermedia (later acquired by Mcafee).
1998 – Moves into games distribution for the first time signing an exclusive distribution deal with Blue Byte (later acquired by Ubisoft) for its renowned Settlers series.
1999 - Appointed by Dixons Stores as its partner for software referrals whereby all new software is recommended to be supplied by Koch Media.
2000 – Signs the London Racer series from Davilex. The series will go on to sell over 1 million units in UK retail. Appointed as Lego Media’s exclusive UK distributor. Appointed as Steinbergs exclusive partner in the UK.
2001 – Appointed by Nintendo as a distribution partner for the UK.
2002 – Deep Silver established as a hard core gaming publisher, with its first title developed by the legendary Bitmap Brothers. Acquires the famous Europress company from Atari.
2003 – Signs distribution deal with Ascaron
2004 – Signs CDV, Jo Wood, Phantagram and Webroot exclusively. Deep Silver launches X2 and Singles. Singles sells over 500,000 units worldwide with numerous number one’s.
2005 – Deep Silver publishes its first console titles, Europress announce collaboration with Nestle to publish a “Smarties” branded game on Playstation 2. Nero stays on top of the UK utility chart for over 6 months! Webroots Spysweeper breaks up the previous stranglehold on the UK home office chart by Mcafee and Symantec by grabbing a top 10 chart position continuously. Also sign exclusive distribution contracts with Onspeed and the Roland owned music software company “Cakewalk”. Koch Media finishes the year as the 19th largest publisher in the UK.
2006 – Koch Media appointed as Nintendo’s preferred distribution partner in the UK.
2008 – Koch Media announced the opening of their office in the Los Angeles metro area. The office will serve as headquarters for US sales and marketing activities, as well as North American developer relations.
2008 – Following the successful launch of Deep Silver, Inc., Koch Media's branch in the USA, the group now extends its influence in Europe on a large scale as well. Koch Media is taking over the Spanish distribution company PROEIN S.L. from SCi Entertainment Group. As of the beginning of 2009, PROEIN S.L. has changed to Koch Media S.L.U.
2009 – Koch Media announced their expansion into the Benelux region by opening a dedicated office.
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