Playmobil: Figuring Out a Stagnant Toy Market
Credit: AUFORT Jérome / stock.adobe.com Construction workers, cowboys and knights. When the German company Brandstätter launched its first Playmobil figures in 1974, the success was just as modest as the available range of figures and themes. About 3 billion produced toys later, the company, now owned by the geobra Brandstätter Foundation, supplies 100 million figures …
