Märklin gets back on track.

The model railway manufacturer is back on growth course
Lok "Emma" from "Jim Knopf and Lukas, the engine driver" as bestseller.

After years of stagnation, the traditional Göppinger company expects sales of 112 million euros in the financial year 2018/2019 and thus an increase of four million euros compared to the previous year, as managing director Florian Sieber said a few days before the beginning of the Nuremberg Toy Fair , "In a difficult year for the toy industry, we can post slight growth, and our earnings and financial position continues to be good and solid."

The licensed "Emma" locomotive from the classic children's book "Jim Knopf and Lukas, the locomotive driver" by Michael Ende was a complete success. Shortly after the theatrical release of the eponymous film in March last year, the starter set for children over the age of six years was sold out. In the meantime more than 10,000 pieces have been sold, so it is now firmly in the program. In the new financial year 2019/20, Märklin plans to invest 6.5 million euros in new products.

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Hey Dave, all the Jim Knopf items were last year. I certainly wasn't expecting any new items for this series.

But what is not clear to me is if the items were only going to be produced for the year, or are they still going to produce them.

Oh no. Back to gloom and doom we are going bust. lol

I guess it depends how well the New Items orders go, and how many gold crocodiles they actually sell.

Not being serious Ranjit. Marklin appears to be doing OK although we are all going to have to pay more to ensure proftabilty.

We must hope that youngsters are prepared to take up the hobby and continue with it.