Ironstone Partners Signs Exclusive License To Bring The Top Trumps Brand To The Videogaming Market
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-- 5th October 2006 --
The Brand and Licensing Show, Olympia, London, United Kingdom -- 5th October 2006 - Ironstone Partners and Winning Moves today announced a new licensing deal which grants exclusive Worldwide Video Game Rights to enable Ironstone to bring the highly successful Top Trumps brand to the video gaming market.
Top Trumps is a card-based game which gained popularity in the 1970 and 80's and combines luck, strategy and subject knowledge in a game-concept that has hooked children for several generations. Packs start from £2.98 retail and sales in the UK hit £10 Million each year. The brand has enjoyed many years of success with its strong licensing programme which includes brands such as Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter and recently, Doctor Who.
Ironstone will develop games for the Sony's PlayStation®2 (PS2), Nintendo DS and PC gaming platforms and will also work with Winning Moves to create proprietary Top Trumps characters.
"We are tremendously excited to be working with a brand with such fantastic heritage as Top Trumps", commented Ironstone's Managing Director, Paul Gouge, "our track record working with high-value concepts in the gaming space and our award winning studio Rockpool Games, will ensure a great success for Winning moves".
Winning Moves, Head of Interactive, James Rankin added, "We're delighted with how quickly Ironstone have understood our brand values and implemented them in such high quality products. We're looking-forward to a long and successful relationship bringing many more video gaming products to market".
For further information please contact Simon Jones at PEPPERMINT M, Email: simon.jones@peppermintm.co.uk
This release was issued by PEPPERMINT M, a marketing company specialising in the mobile entertainment, toy, video games and licensing sectors.
For more information see: www.peppermintm.co.uk
-- About Ironstone Partners --
Ironstone Partners Ltd is a commercial vehicle created and funded by a number of individuals with a combined experience of over 100 years in the global games and media industries. Ironstone has been created to pursue strategic and speculative games opportunities outside the remit of the current focus of the large games industry companies.
Ironstone Partners owns an extensive portfolio of games I.P.R. and is always willing to discuss interesting propositions in the games and media space. For more information, visit: www.ironstonepartners.co.uk
-- About Winning Moves --
Winning Moves UK (WMUK) was founded in 1997 by four highly respected professionals in the games industry, who between them have over 100 years of experience.
WMUK's objective is to be the UK's leading innovator of games product with games such as The Da Vinci Code and Sudoku, and to make Top Trumps a global brand, both in the physical and digital worlds.
Winning Moves, as a group of companies, seeks to deliver enduring, entertaining and engaging games for generations to come.
For more information, visit: www.winningmoves.co.uk.