Directories

Richard Gottlieb's Global Toy Experts has worked with Gameplan Europe to provide you with the most up to date information on doing toy business in The United Stated and internationally in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. If you are looking to get into the toy or game industry and not sure where to start, this is an amazing resource tool to help point you in the right direction.

(These directories also include shipping and handling in the purchase price.)

With these directories you can:

Contact toy buyers by name and category in the 48 most important toy markets
Invite toy buyers to your stand at toy fairs
Send samples or information to buyers
Check which are the most important retailers in each market
Check if your importer-distributors have listings with the important retail chains
Check market values to prioritize your export efforts
Find distributors or sales agencies to sell your products in 48 countries
Understand the basic facts about each of the 48 toy markets

Important Notification about the New 2019 Directories
In order to comply with the newly introduced EU General Data Protection Regulation we had to reformat the information provided in our directories:

The International Directory of Toy Importer-Distributors remains unchanged. All importer-distributors listed in the countries of the European Union have given consent to their details being listed in this directory.

For the International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers it was not possible to get consent from the buyers within the EU to list their details. Therefore the directory lists a generic email address (where possible) for the purchasing department, but no buyer names and only occasional buyer email addresses, if consent was given. In the countries not affected by GDPR legislation we continue to list names of buyers by category and email addresses of buyers. In order to compensate for the less detailed information provided, we have included the US Directory of Mass Market Toy Buyers in the International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers. This means there is no longer a separate directory for the US Mass Market Toy Buyers, but when you purchase the International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers you will also receive full contact details of toy buyers in over 130 retail chains in the US covering
mass merchandisers, supermarkets, sporting goods, craft, book and many other channels which carry toys.

International Directories - New 2019 Editions now available!

Click here for the brochure with additional information.

We are offering Gameplan Europe's International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers 2019, and the International Directory of Toy Importer-Distributors 2019. These directories are specially compiled to help manufacturers of toys to increase their exports. You can identify and contact the leading retail toy buyers and the leading importer-distributors, which is the first step in trying to export to a country.

These directories list annually updated details of the leading retailers and distributors in the following 48 countries:

Argentina / Australia / Austria / Belgium / Brazil / Canada / Chile / China / Czech Republic / France Germany / Greece / Hong Kong / Hungary / India / Ireland / Israel / Denmark / Finland / Malaysia / Mexico / Netherlands / New Zealand / Norway / Poland / Portugal / Russia / Saudi Arabia / Italy / Japan / Slovakia South Africa / Spain / South Korea / Sweden / Switzerland / Taiwan / Turkey / UAE / Ukraine / United Kingdom / USA / Venezuela / Singapore / Romania / Colombia / Bulgaria / Peru

These directories include the names of key buyers, contact information and much more.
Available in book format, book+CD, digital PDF of book, and PDF of book with database (by email).

Value Add - U.S. Directory of Mass Market Toy Buyers is now included with International Toy Buyers directory.

International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers 2019*
*U.S. Directory of Mass Market Toy Buyers now included

This directory enables you to identify and communicate with toy buying departments in more than 800 of the world's leading retail chains. To comply with EU GDPR legislation no buyer names and email addresses of buyers are listed in the countries of the EU. In countries not affected by GDPR legislation we continue to list names of buyers by category and email addresses.

In addition it now includes full contact details for more than 200 US Toy Buyers from 130 different retail chains with a total of 85,000 stores. The US toy market is worth $25 billion, which is nearly one third of the global toy market value. Our directory allows you to get all toy buyers in one list, covering over 95% of the market value of the US toy market, including mass merchandisers, supermarkets, sporting goods, craft, book and many other channels which carry toys.

Click here to view a sample page of the International Directory of Retail Toy Buyers 2019

Click here to view a sample page of the U.S. Directory or Mass Market Toy Buyers 2019

Book Only $375 USD (airmail)
Printed book + Access database and Excel spreadsheet (CD-Rom by airmail) $445 USD
PDF of book by email $350 USD
PDF of book + Access database and Excel spreadsheet (by email) $410 USD

International Directory of Toy Importers & Distributors 2019

Identify over 800 leading importer-distributors and check which ones are most appropriate to sell your range. By looking at which brands and categories they sell already and if they do TV advertising, focus your search on the most suitable prospective partners. The information is presented as follows:

Click here to view a sample page of this directory

Book Only $375 USD (airmail)
Printed book + Access database and Excel spreadsheet (CD-Rom by airmail) $445 USD
PDF of book by email $350
PDF of book + Access database and Excel spreadsheet (by email) $410

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