Hornby sells slot car racing brand Scalextric for £20m

Purbeck Capital Partners seals deal for business and property rights of toy with model railway maker ...

Hornby sells Scalextric after 60 years

Hornby, the model train maker, has sold off its slot car racing brand Scalextric to a US drinks tycoon for £20m.
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End of an era: Hornby parts ways with Scalextric

Hornby has owned Scalextric since 1968, though the brand itself dates back even further. Invented by Fred Francis, the first ...

Hornby sells Scalextric brand to Purbeck Capital for £20m

Toymaking giant Hornby has agreed to sell the nearly 70-year-old slot car racing marque Scalextric. for £20m. Hornby has ...
Yahoo Finance

Investors in Hornby (LON:HRN) have unfortunately lost 45% over the last three years

Hornby PLC (LON:HRN) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 26% in the last month. But that cannot eclipse the less-than-impressive returns over the last three years. In fact, the ...
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Hornby Delisting from AIM Indicative of Further Decline of Exchange

Hornby, a 124-year-old UK firm specializing in model trains, has announced its intent to delist shares from AIM. The microcap generated revenue for the six months to September 2024 of £25.0 million, ...
The Guardian

Hornby boss quits after third profit warning in five months

Richard Ames ran model railway maker for less than two years and had said it also risks breaching bank lending agreement Hornby’s chief executive, Richard Ames, has quit less than a week after the ...