Brio (company)
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Brio (stylized BRIO) is a
Lekoseum
In 1984, the company started the BRIO Lekoseum (from Swedish "leka", to play), a toy
Products
BRIO is best known for its
BRIO also sells BRIO-Mech construction kits. Long, thin wooden slats with evenly spaced holes are connected together with various fasteners made of colorful plastic. Young children can build sturdy and elaborate constructions.
BRIO also sold Theodore Tugboat toys. Released were the tugboats, the Dispatcher, Benjamin Bridge, Chester the Container Ship, and Barrington and Bonavista barges. These toys were discontinued in 2000, a year before the show was cancelled.
During the 1960s BRIO manufactured
Additionally, the Alga subsidiary was one of five companies who at one time produced the physical skill game Crossbows and Catapults.
Recent company history
In 1983, BRIO acquired the Swedish game manufacturer Alga, originally founded as a subsidiary of Pressbyrån in 1917.[3]
Plantoys of Thailand had a joint venture with BRIO in 2001-2002,[4] being present in the Brio catalogs of the time. In 2004, the Swedish
The "Financial Statement January — December 2008" presented on February 17, 2009[8] speaks of financial problems concerning the company's liquidity. On the 11th of March 2009 the company stated "BRIO financially reconstructed — shareholders’ equity strengthened by more than SEK 300 million".[9]
BRIO was acquired by the Ravensburger Group on January 8, 2015.[10]
References
- ^ About Brio Archived December 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mattel acquires HiT Entertainment"
- ^ Boken om ALGA, by Jimmy Wilhelmsson, 2019, ISBN 978-91-984567-4-5, OCLC 1089418626
- ^ Note Archived August 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at the www.playthings.com site on the joint venture plans of Brio and Plan Toys from 2001.
- ^ Brio profile Archived February 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine on the Proventus website.
- ^ "Proventus new principal shareholder in Swedish toy maker BRIO" Archived December 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine from 6 July 2004.
- ^ New York Times article of September 18, 2007
- ^ English version of the report at "Business Wire"
- ^ "Brio - press release". Cision Wire. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
- ^ "Brio - press release". PR Newswire. 2015-01-08.
External links
- BRIO corporate homepage – links to BRIO web sites in several countries and languages
- At www.lekoseum.se Archived 2018-01-06 at the Wayback Machine you will find the toy museum "Lekoseum" in Osby until 2014 known as "BRIO Lekoseum".
- Wooden Train Manufacturers – links to other companies that make wooden trains that work with BRIO
- A "History of Brio until 1999" at the FundingUniverse website with information on the American market entry.
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