Navarre Corporation

Navarre Corporation
Company type	Private
Industry	Music and film distribution and publishing
Founded	1983
Founder	Eric H. Paulson
Defunct	2013
Fate	Shut down Assets acquired by WYNIT Distribution LLC. Relaunched as Navarre Distribution in 2016; Funimation reacquired by Gen Fukunaga in 2011, later acquired by Sony Pictures Television;
Headquarters	Greenville, SC, New York, NY, United States
Owner	Geof Lewis and Peter Richichi
Number of employees	648
Divisions	Navarre Distribution; Funimation (2005–2011)

Navarre Corporation was an American public distribution and publishing company founded in 1983 by Eric H. Paulson. The company was headquartered in New Hope, Minnesota. Navarre owned three subsidiary companies: a software publisher, Encore, Inc.; a distributor, Navarre Entertainment Media; and a Japanese anime distributor, Funimation, which was acquired in 2005 and divested in 2011 to founder Gen Fukunaga.

The company also offered niche films through BCI Home Entertainment a.k.a. BCI Eclipse Company (formerly Brentwood), but this division was closed in a 2013 re-structuring due to the recession, after two years of being unprofitable.