amana inc. engages in the visual communication business. The company is involved in the strategy planning and designing for marketing and communication arena, brand design and activation, inner communication planning, contents marketing, contents production and editing, prototyping, movie and graphic design and productions, website production, and other marketing and promotion related planning and execution plan proposals, etc. It also offers community marketing, presentation support services; plans, sets up, and manages various events, such as exhibitions, product announcements, and special events at stores and halls; produces owned media and PR magzines; operates shelf, a content management service that visualizes the photos, videos, documents, and other content for companies; and plans and develops applications. In addition, the company provides stock materials, such as photos, illustrations, and videos; various services, such as searching for the location of rights holders and administrators of various rights, application work, negotiations on usage, etc.; visual content services comprising TVCM movie shooting, still and drone aerial photography, 360 panorama content, business trip photography, printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 2DCG, 3DCG, and 3DCG background material services; IMA, a multimedia information dissemination project; Fasu, a lifestyle media for families; cooking communication, a monthly magazine for food information; and NATURE & SCIENCE, a web magazine for natural world and natural sciences. The company was formerly known as amana holdings inc. and changed its name to amana inc. in April 2014. amana inc. was incorporated in 1970 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.