Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I will also give you an overview of our company.
Enzyme is a private Canadian company in the video game industry, founded in 2002. The board of directors is made up of three people and a new CEO, which has been me since 2012. We have about 15 years of experience with quality assurance tests for video games. Enzyme is considered to be the only private quality assurance company of international level based in Canada; we are certified and recognized by the major video game developers and publishers.
At the present time, we have three studios: the head office in St-Jérôme, an office in Montreal and an office in Kawasaki, Japan. Our services include functionality testing, linguistic testing in over 39 languages, and pre-certification testing for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone and Android. We bring together focus groups for offline and online games. We have a translation service and provide customer service in 18 languages.
Our clients are definitely international and they operate on all platforms: PC, mobile, tablet, console, toys. This applies to big companies, SMEs, indies, AAA games, non-subscription online games and educational games. Our clients are in North America, Europe and Asia.
Our team has about 175 employees in the low season, from November to April, and 350 employees in the high season, from May to October. Fifty-five per cent of the employees work in linguistic testing, 35% in functionality testing, 8% in pre-certification and 2% in accounting. Eighty per cent of the staff is in St-Jérôme. We are careful to keep the jobs local.
Let’s talk about the distribution by region. We have 30 clients in the U.S., 17 in Japan, 11 in Canada, four in France, two in the U.K., two in Germany, one in Italy, one in Sweden, one in Luxembourg and one in Romania.
Because of Quebec’s tax credits, some companies, such as Warner Brothers and Ubisoft, have set up shop in Quebec. That has certainly enabled us to increase our sales in Quebec and our exports have decreased.
In 2013, 26% of our revenue came from Quebec and 74% came from exports. In 2014, those percentages were 56% for Quebec and 44% for exports. This year, from January to March, 68% of sales came from Quebec and 32% from exports. Our main challenge is to triple the expenses to obtain 70% for our exports.
Mr. Chair, that is the end of our presentation.