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Entertainment merchandise specialist Koyo and Games Workshop have expanded their partnership to launch officially licensed Warhammer 40,000 plush toy collectables in time for Christmas. The exclusive Nurgling plushie (pictured) is available now, with an Archibald the Gryph-Hound plushie available from 13 November. Other creatures from the Mortal Realms and 41st Millennium …
Read More »Games Workshop staff receive £5000 bonus each as full-year profits spike 69 per cent
A big spike in profit over the last year, confirmed plans to expand in China, and a bonus of £5,000 to each member of staff compound another successful end of year for the UK-based tabletop gaming brand, Games Workshop. In its trading update issued this week, the tabletop figures retailer …
Read More »Games Workshop to share £12 million in share bonus across all staff as it sees sales rocket
A boost in the hobby and hobby gaming sector over the past year and throughout the pandemic has led to another set of record results for the UK’s miniatures and tabletop gaming specialist, Games Workshop, who is set to hand £12 million worth of share bonuses to staff following the …
Read More »Games Workshop builds out entertainment business with former Hasbro exec Finn Arnesen
Games Workshop Group is delving deeper into the entertainment business with the appointment of the former Turner Broadcasting and Hasbro Studios executive, Finn Arnesen as its first head of entertainment development. In his new role, Arnesen will get to work mining the Warhammer library of novels and short stories in …
Read More »Games Workshop valued at £3.8bn as hobby demand fuels its latest sales surge
Games Workshop, the British firm behind the wildly popular Warhammer tabletop miniatures gaming franchise, has reported blockbuster sales and profits driven by the stay at home messaging of the last year and the surge in the hobbyist and gaming markets. The company’s chief executive, Kevin Rountree has billed its 2020 …
Read More »The Koyo Store lands Games Workshop deal to launch Warhammer 40,000 collectables
The entertainment merchandise specialist, The Koyo Store, has secured the global rights to create a range of officially licensed Warhammer 40,000 collectables through a new partnership with Games Workshop. The deal marks a major success for The Koyo Store as the range will not only be sold through Games Workshop’s …
Read More »Meeple Power: Eclectic Games talks the nation’s new love of board gaming (and why it’s time for a re-stock)
There will be trends and culture shifts that stick with us once the fog of the pandemic has finally cleared, and there will be those that won’t. Fortunately, the Thursday evening clapping was one of the first to go. Others, like the weekly crush for the five remaining M&S food …
Read More »Hasbro taps into ’80s nostalgia as it crowdfunds the relaunch of HeroQuest
Hasbro is looking to resurrect the popular fantasy, role-playing game of the 1980s, HeroQuest, by turning to its legions of fans to help crowdfund the project via the global toy maker’s own crowdfunding platform, HasLab. The game, a reboot of the 1989 tabletop originally developed in a partnership between Milton …
Read More »Games Workshop sees online sales surge over lockdown as latest financials beat expectations
Games Workshop is continuing to play its role as the Great British success story, having reported that trading in the three months to August 30th was ahead of the board’s expectations thanks in part to a solid online performance. The miniature wargaming company has said current estimates show sales of …
Read More »Games Workshop celebrates ‘best financial year in the company’s history’
Games Workshop is celebrating what it has hailed ‘the best financial year in the company’s history,’ having reported a revenue of £269.7 million for the 12 months to May 31st 2020. That’s an increase of over £10 million on the £256.6 million it totalled for the same period in 2019. …
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