Gary Hunter becomes president of Tomy Europe

First main role will be to integrate European arms of Tomy and RC2.

Author:: Samantha Loveday
Publish date:: Jul 14, 2011

The first step of the integration of Tomy Europe and RC2 Europe has begun, with Gary Hunter having been appointed as president of Tomy Europe.

Hunter has been in the toy industry for some 17 years and has been head of the RC2 international business for the past five years - during which time it has shown solid growth in both revenue and profit.

His first main role in the new position will be to integrate the European arms of both companies.

Tomy announced it was to acquire RC2 back in March.

Former Tomy Europe CEO Robert Mann has now left the company.

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Tomy?s acquisition of RC2 was one of the main talking points of 2011. Now, with the integration of the two firms complete, the new-look Tomy Europe is pushing ahead with some ambitious plans. ToyNews talks to president Gary Hunter and head of European marketing Joanne Gray to find out more?