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Bandai Namco was established in 2005 through the merger of Bandai (established 1950), a toy manufacturer, and Namco (established 1955), a video game developer and arcade operator. Since then, Bandai Namco has emerged as one of the top entertainment companies in Japan, producing and selling games, toys, animation, and music content for a portfolio of over 400 internationally popular intellectual properties. The company’s most notable franchises—Gundam, Dragon Ball, and One Piece are among the highest-grossing franchises in the world.

Pop Mart was founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Wang Ning and his partners to design, create, and sell pop-culture figure toys based on intellectual properties, or IPs. The company develops toy products by acquiring and self-incubating IPs, as well as collaborating with IP owners thorough exclusive and nonexclusive licensing agreements. Its products have gained widespread popularity in China and have rapidly expanded into overseas markets, such as Southeast Asia and North America, in recent years. To diversify its revenue streams, Pop Mart has also tapped into accessories, building blocks, and theme park operations.

Hasbro is a branded play company providing children and families around the world with entertainment offerings based on a world-class brand portfolio. From toys and games to television programming, motion pictures, and a licensing program, Hasbro reaches customers by leveraging its well-known brands such as Transformers, Peppa Pig, and Magic: The Gathering. The firm acquired EOne in 2019, bolting on popular family properties like Peppa Pig and PJ Masks, and has since divested noncore lines from the tie-up. Furthermore, the addition of Dungeons & Dragons Beyond in 2022 offers the firm access to 19 million digital tabletop players.

Games Workshop Group PLC designs, manufactures and sells fantasy miniatures and games related products. It carries the manufacturing activity in the UK and sells the same in the different region of the countries such as Continental Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments Core and Licensing . The core segment includes all revenue and expenditure relating to the design, manufacture and sales of their fantasy miniatures and related products. The licensing segment includes all revenue and expenditure relating to licences granted to external partners. The company generates majority of its revenue from the core segment.

Mattel manufactures and markets toy products that are sold to its wholesale partners and direct to retail customers. The company offers products for children and families, including toys for infants and preschoolers, girls and boys, youth electronics, hand-held and other games, puzzles, educational toys, media-driven products, and plush and fashion-related toys. Mattel's owned portfolio includes Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, and American Girl. In addition, it currently manufactures toy products for its segments both internally and externally (through manufacturing partners). Nearly 60% of its net sales were generated from North America in 2025, with the remainder stemming from international markets.

Asmodee Group AB is an entertainment company specializing in tabletop games, miniatures board games, card games, and others to bring people together through great games and amazing stories. The company operates in Sweden, France, Germany, the USA, the UK, and other American and European countries, with the majority of revenue from France.

TOMY Co Ltd is a Japanese manufacturer of children's toys and merchandise. The company's products include electronic and physical toys, card games, baby care products, and general merchandise. The company's brands include Tomica, Plarail, Licca-chan, and Koeda-chan. It organises itself into five geographical segments: Japan, the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and Asia (other than Japan).

Alpha Group (Alpha Group Co., Ltd., 奥飞娱乐) is a Chinese animation, toy and entertainment company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since September 2009 under code 002292. It was founded in December 1993 by Cai Dongqing as Auldey Toys and later traded as Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture before adopting its current name in 2016; its headquarters is in the Chenghai district of Shantou, Guangdong. The company creates and licenses animated IP, producing animated films and television series and distributing them through its media businesses, and it designs, manufactures and sells toys and building-block sets linked to its characters. Subsidiaries include Auldey Toys, Creative Power Entertaining, Alpha Pictures and Korea's David Toys and Entertainment and it has developed video games. Revenue comes from toy sales, IP licensing and content distribution. Cai Dongqing is chairman and general manager.

Tonies SE provides an audio entertainment system. The company offers Toniebox, an audio system for kids that plays stories, songs, and others. Geographically, It generates majority of the revenue from Germany.

Bloks Group Ltd is a assembly character toys company in China. Its Bloks System that combines standardization and individuality elements to create popular and fun assembly character toys, address consumers demand for toys that recreate the essence of IP characters, and deliver the joy of assembling. It has nearly 431 SKUs available for sale, including 116 SKUs designed for children under the age of six, 295 SKUs designed for consumers between the ages of six and 16, and 20 SKUs designed or consumers over the age of 16.

Spin Master is a children’s entertainment company operating in the roughly $120 billion global toy industry (Circana). The firm has three operating segments: toys (84% of sales in 2025), entertainment (7%), and digital games (9%). The company creates, designs, and markets a portfolio of products, brands, and entertainment properties across four key categories (outdoor; wheels and action; infant, toddler, preschool, and plush; and activities, games and puzzles, dolls, and interactive). Spin Master has increased brand awareness via homegrown brands including PAW Patrol and Bakugan, licensing relationships, and a robust acquisition strategy to reach adjacent markets through tie-ups like Rubik's, Gund, and Melissa & Doug.

Shaily Engineering Plastics makes precision injection-moulded plastic parts and devices, including pen injectors for healthcare, and consumer and automotive products. Customers are global pharma and consumer firms. Headquartered in Vadodara.

Rastar Group is a Chinese company involved in the development, manufacturing, and sale of model cars in China. It also manufactures RC auto model, Die cast car, Ride-on products, and baby safety car seats. The company sells its products in China and also exports its products to the international countries.

Genda Inc is a pure holding company engaged in management support for several subsidiaries in entertainment businesses. The company has two business segments: Entertainment Platform Business and Entertainment and Content Business. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Entertainment Platform Business segment, which is engaged in developing "Karaoke," which operates karaoke facilities and distributes equipment, and "Food & Beverage (F&B)," which provides food and drinks as a platform to deliver "Food as Entertainment". The Entertainment and Contents Business includes Character Merchandising (MD), which plans and provides product and events that utilize the characters that appear in IPs and the worldview and appeal of those IPs, as well as anime production and publishing.

Tron Inc is a trusted toy and souvenir designer and developer, selling into theme parks and entertainment venues. It has developed, manufactured, and supplied the entertainment and amusement park industry with exclusive products that are often only available to consumers inside SRM’s customer base venues such as Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Six Flags, Great Wolf Lodge, Dollywood, and Merlin Entertainment. Its product category includes The Smurfs and Zoonicorns, Sammy Sloth, lilita Llama, kyle Koala, and Hanna Hedgehog.

Guangdong Qunxing Toys JSC Ltd is a China-based company engaged in developing, designing, producing and selling electrical toys. The company's main products include baby car series, children computer, baby toys, electric car series, mobile phone series, and others.

Mubang High-Tech Co Ltd is a manufacturer which is specialized in the research, development, and production of educational plastic block toys and infant preschool block toys. It also engaged in the production and sales of precision non-metal molds, production and sales of pharmaceutical packaging materials, building block creative training, educational service consulting among others.

Jakks Pacific Inc is a multi-product line, multi-brand toy company that designs, produces, markets, sells and distributes toys and related kid-targeted consumer products, inclusive of kids indoor and outdoor furniture, costumes and various product lines in the sporting goods and home furnishings space. Its products offering include Traditional toys and electronics such as Action figures, Toy vehicles, Dolls and accessories, Ride-on toys, Toys for pets, and others. The company's products have been divided into two segments: (i) Toys/Consumer Products and (ii) Costumes.

Funko Inc is an USA based pop culture consumer products company. It creates whimsical, fun, and different products that enable the customer to express their affinity for their favorite through the movie, TV show, video game, musician, or sports team. The company's current products are principally figures, fashion accessories, apparel, plush products, accessories, homewares, and NFTs. The company sells its products through a diverse network of retail customers across multiple retail channels, including specialty retailers, mass-market retailers, and e-commerce sites. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the core collectibles products.

Universal Entertainment Corp is a Japanese manufacturer of gaming machines. The company's primary business, which constitutes the majority of consolidated revenue, is to manufacture and sell Pachislot and Pachinko gaming machines, and related parts and peripherals. Universal Entertainment also operates the Okada Manila casino resort in Manila Bay, Philippines. In addition to gaming operations, the company has businesses in media content, broadcasting, online games, and restaurants. The company derives the vast majority of income domestically.

Cre8 Direct (Ningbo) Co Ltd is a China-based company principally engaged in the design, production and sales of paper-based products around the world. Its product lines span a vast number of categories including stationery, storage, office supplies, scrapbooking, paper crafting, party, D.I.Y., dated goods, card making, and children's crafting.

IG Design Group PLC is a UK-based company that operates in a single segment of design, manufacture, and distribution of Celebrations, Craft and creative play, Stationery, Gifting, and 'Not-for-resale' consumable products. Its Celebrations products are greetings cards, gift wrap, Christmas crackers, gift bags, and partyware. Gifting items include food and non-food gifts, photo Frames and Albums, and Calendars. Its Craft product ranges include Ribbons and Trim, Sewing Patterns, Buttons, Needlecrafts, and Kids Craft lines. The not-For-resale category includes Paper Twist Handle Bags and Polaris. It operates in three geographical segments: DG Europe, DG UK and DG Australia.

Aurora World Corporation manufactures dolls and other stuffed toys. The company also engages in character design, brand marketing, etc. It operates in the gift industry. Its overseas branches are in the United States, Indonesia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.

Mandarake Inc is a Japan-based company engaged in the purchase and sale of Japanese cartoon-related secondhand books, goods, and animation-related products. It provides mail-order sale of comics, magazines, DVDs, games, and costume along with an auction of books, toys, celluloid pictures, animations, and acting scripts.

Character Group (The) PLC is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, and international distribution of toys, games, and giftware, including licensed products based on film, television, comic, and digital characters. The Group designs and distributes a wide range of toys and playthings across Pre-school, Boys, Girls, and Activity and Crafts categories, with brands such as Goo Jit Zu, Peppa Pig, and Sticki Rolls. Its principal markets are the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, with operations across Europe and the rest of the world, and international expansion is a key area of focus. The Group partners on an exclusive basis with overseas toy producers, serves toy retailers, independent stores, and distributors, and generates the majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom.

Lexibook Linguistic Electronic System SA is a France-based company engaged in producing and selling leisure electronic products and toys. It sells its products under its name and through licenses. The company’s products include educational tablets, toys, laptops, alarm clocks, calculators, educational games, interactive games, audio and visual products, translators, and other products. It sells the products in France and also exports internationally. The group sells Electronics, Toys, and Other products, of which the majority of the revenue is generated from the sale of electronic products.

AS Co SA is engaged in the production & distribution of toys, games and other products. The company's product categories are Educational, which includes scientific games, family board games and toy computers. Its brands include Nenuco, Pinypon, Plexi Flexi, StickerZ, SuperSand and art greco.

Hour Loop Inc is a technology-enabled consumer products company that uses machine learning and data analytics to design, develop, market, and sell products. Hour Loop predominantly operates through online retail channels such as Amazon, Walmart, and Hourloop.com. The Company, as an Internet marketplace seller, sells products in multiple categories, including home/garden decor, toys, kitchenware, apparel, and electronics. It has only one segment, which is online retail (e-commerce).

CMON Ltd is an investment holding company. The company is engaged in the design, development, and sale of board games, miniatures, and other hobby products. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from North and South America and also has a presence in Europe, Oceania, Asia, and Africa. It generates maximum revenue from Board games.

Kolejkowo SA engaged in creating and operating detailed miniature model exhibitions that depict vibrant scenes of everyday life, complete with moving trains, vehicles, and figures.