WHAT IS GAMES WORKSHOP?
Games Workshop is the largest and the most successful tabletop fantasy wargames company in the world. Our major brands are Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. In addition, we hold a licence for The Lord of the Rings tabletop battle game.
At the heart of the Hobby are the millions of gamers, who spend their time collecting, creating, painting and building up the armies, which they go on to command on a carefully prepared tabletop battlefield.
OUR GAMES
Warhammer [back to top]
Warhammer is a high fantasy world of dark magic and powerful gods, populated by mighty heroes and foul monsters. Proud men stand shoulder-to-shoulder with noble Elves and grim Dwarfs against the unending attacks of their countless enemies. Vile rat-like Skaven crawl beneath every city, the restless dead stir in their graves, and daemons lead the mutated hordes of the Chaos Gods into war. This is the Warhammer World, a realm of grim adventure, where only the strongest survive.
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Warhammer 40,000 [back to top]
Warhammer 40,000 is a game of strategy and skill set in the far distant future. The 41st millennium is a dark, forbidding place, ravaged by thousands of years of conflict. Across this gothic universe armies struggle for victory in a battle to the death.
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The Lord of the rings ® [back to top]
Pitting the Free Peoples against the evil hordes of the Dark Lord Sauron, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game gives players control of noble heroes such as Aragorn or evil creatures like the foul Uruk-hai to see who will win in the struggle for Middle-earth.
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OUR HISTORY [back to top]
Games Workshop was founded more than 30 years ago by three game fanatics who began selling handmade, classic wooden games from their homes in London. They went on to develop a chain of general games shops. In 1981 Games Workshop helped to found Citadel Miniatures Limited, a manufacturer of metal miniatures based at Newark-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire.
A few years later the company moved closer to Nottingham and began to develop and expand, producing wargame systems under the Games Workshop name.
Tom Kirby, the Group's Chairman and Chief Executive, joined us in 1986 as General Manager. In December 1991 Tom led a management buy-out and in October 1994 the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange.
Although Games Workshop began its life in the UK it now has direct sales operations in the UK,the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Italy. With around 70% of sales coming from outside of the UK, we are truly international.
CORPORATE INFORMATION [back to top]
Games Workshop is a vertically integrated business, retaining control over every aspect of design, manufacture and distribution of our models and rulebooks. We design, make and sell miniature soldiers. To that end we also design, make and sell game systems and accessories of extraordinary variety. Our design centre is in Nottingham and we have manufacturing and distribution facilities in Nottingham and Memphis, TN. Products are sold through our own chain of more than 340 Hobby Centres and more than 4,000 other toy and shops around the world. These outlets are complemented by our mail order and online sales businesses.
Games Workshop Group PLC has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1994
MISSION STATEMENT [back to top]
Games Workshop markets a Hobby. We make and sell the best model soldiers in the world.
The Games Workshop Hobby involves collecting, modelling, painting and tabletop gaming with whole armies of these soldiers. Our strategy is to establish and develop the Games Workshop Hobby in each of the world’s major economies.
Simply put our mission is to find new hobbyists and to help experienced hobbyists get more from the hobby.
