Question: Robert N. Charrette (born 1953) is an award-winning graphic artist, game designer, sculptor and author, Charrette produced gaming products for FASA Corporation, an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001, after which they closed publishing operations for several years, becoming an IP holding company under the name FASA Inc, in which year,a wholly owned subsidiary called FASA Games Inc. went into operation, using the name and logo with permission of the parent company.?
Context: Robert N. Charrette (born 1953) is an award-winning graphic artist, game designer, sculptor and author.  Charrette has authored more than a dozen novels.  His gaming materials have received many Origins Awards.  Charrette was inducted in the Origins Hall of Fame in 2003.  His work is known for a clean, realistic style that invokes themes from Feudal Japan and Chanbara films and in particular, historical and fantastic representations of Samurai culture.  His early work in game design and miniature sculpting set the tone for depictions of Japanese mythology in American fantasy and science fiction.  His 1979 role-playing game "Bushido" was one of the first role-playing games with a non-Western theme and remained in print for more than three decades.  Charrette produced gaming products for Fantasy Games Unlimited, Grenadier Models Inc. and Ral Partha Enterprises, FASA and currently operates Parroom Enterprises, LLC, a boutique miniatures game company. 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He was a performing folk musician from 1968 to 1975, and played one concert at the White House during the administration of Richard Nixon.  He was an employee of TSR, Inc. from 1980–1986, spending part of that time as Creative Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, Gary Gygax.  He also founded the Role-Playing Games Association (RPGA) during his time with TSR.  He has been closely involved with the world's largest game auction at the Gen Con game convention since 1983, and is an expert on, and a major collector of, family boardgames and role-playing games.  After Gygax was ousted from TSR at the end of 1985, Mentzer left TSR as well and helped him to start New Infinities Productions Inc. (NIPI).  When this venture failed, Mentzer left the gaming industry, eventually becoming the manager of a bakery.  In 2008, he closed down this business and, two years later, announced he was returning to the gaming industry as a founding partner of a new publishing company, Eldritch Enterprises. 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Their miniatures are sold at gaming conventions, in hobby shops, and by internet and mail order for use in role playing games, wargaming, dioramas, competitive painting, and collecting.  The company began as a basement enterprise undertaken by a group of wargamers around the talents of Tom Meier, a 16-year-old sculptor.  The company grew with the increasing popularity of board and role-playing games.  By 1982 Ral Partha products were sold worldwide.  Ral Partha is best known for its historical figures, "Fantasy Collector's" series, and miniatures produced for TSR, Inc.'s "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" and FASA's "BattleTech" games. BattleTech is a wargaming and military science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps.  The series began with FASA's debut of the board game "BattleTech" (originally named "BattleDroids") by Jordan Weisman and L. Ross Babcock III and has since grown to include numerous expansions to the original game, several computer and video games, a collectible card game, a series of more than 100 novels, an animated television series and more. TECO Energy Inc. is an energy-related holding company based in Tampa, Florida, providing electricity to the greater Tampa area and central Florida, and natural gas throughout the state of Florida through its subsidiaries Tampa Electric Company and Peoples Gas Company respectively.  Another subsidiary, TECO Services, Inc., provides IT, HR, legal, facilities, and other common services to Tampa Electric, Peoples Gas, and former TECO subsidiary New Mexico Gas Company.  On September 4, 2015, Emera, a utility holding company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, announced the pending acquisition of TECO Energy.  That purchase closed on July 1, 2016, and TECO Energy, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera, Inc. Michel's Bakery Café is a Canadian bakery-café founded in 1980, operating restaurants throughout Canada.  The company is one of the largest bakery-café chains in Canada and operates both corporate and franchise locations.  The company was purchased by Timothy's Coffees of the World Inc. in 2001.  Timothy's continued to operate the Michel's Bakery Café stores under their original trade name, Michel's Baguette.  On November 13, 2009, Michel's Baguette was sold to Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. along with Timothy's Coffee and mmmuffins through a wholly owned subsidiary called ThreeCaf Brands Canada Inc.  Bruegger's has continued to operate these chains.  The company has since revitalized its operations, revamped its aesthetics and changed its name to Michel's Bakery Café. Independent Natural Resources, Inc. or INRI is an American IP holding company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.  “It formed Renew Blue in Dallas as a wholly owned subsidiary charged with licensing the SEADOG pump.”
Answer: 2012