Joe Baptist
United States
California
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Battlefront is telling customers that one of their products has been delayed due to the bankruptcy of the American printer of the game box and board - a company that they describe as "one of the worlds largest game manufactures" - that went out of business on January 5th and is evidently in some kind of receivership/bankruptcy situation.
Does anyone know what this company was? Is this going to have an impact on other game products?
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Samuel Hinz
Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
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interesting. i haven't heard anything though
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Clark D. Rodeffer
United States
Ann Arbor
Michigan
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It was probably DeLano. Here's the story.
(edited to add link)
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Rob Bartel
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
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I know Delano ran into trouble around that time and is in the process of restructuring (I believe under bankruptcy protection). That would be my guess of who's being referred to, at any rate.
Edit: That Clark fellow's got fast fingers, dammit. 
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DJ
United States
New Jersey
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I heard it was DeLano as well http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2009/01/22/local_news/2....,
I think Avalanche Press Ltd. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/142 had some of their game releases delayed http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/375854 and had to redistribute the work to another printer.
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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
California
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Sorry to hear about that. On a side note, can someone point me to a list of other manufacturers/printers who do board games as Delano does.
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Walt
United States
Orange County
California
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Here's a more recent article on Delano. It doesn't sound good:
http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2009/02/05/local_news/2....
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Martin Gallo
United States
O'Fallon
Missouri
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I think there were two and maybe three wargame companies affected. I do not recall the other two (after Avalanche Press).
Best wishes to al involved.
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Richard Pardoe
United States
San Ramon
California
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GMT had to delay The Halls of Montezuma due to card printer closing its doors in the middle of production. Was never confirmed as far as I can remember as Delano, but the timing was very close. So I suspect GMT was one of the impacted companies.
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Matt Lee
United States
East Meadow
New York
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At the New York Toy Fair, I did hear from a few other small companies that were impacted. Without going into specifics, it's had a big impact due to the sudden closure, and people are scrambling to figure out what to do next. I feel bad for these companies since they are running on fairly tight margins.
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Brian Morris
United States
Raytown
Missouri
2nd, 6th & 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana, 24th Michigan
24th Michigan monument at Gettysburg Pa.
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RPardoe wrote: GMT had to delay The Halls of Montezuma due to card printer closing its doors in the middle of production. Was never confirmed as far as I can remember as Delano, but the timing was very close. So I suspect GMT was one of the impacted companies.
Yes it was. Their delay wasn't as long as they expected however as I believe they originally said it would be delayed until early April but now it seems it ships on Monday.
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Ben Clark
United States
Allegan
Michigan
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DeLano isn't closed, but it isn't accepting new orders (exept from really large customers), pending sale of the company. There's a skeleton crew in to finish out orders that were in process (like Battlefront's campaign game and GMT's cards).
I'm still checking my mail over there and you can PM me here with any questions. You can also check out http://www.imagigrafx.com, my new home. We're honoring DeLano quotes and I am working really hard to provide continuity of service to customers who were affected by the shutdown at DeLano.
Sincerely,
Ben Clark
Director of Game Development
Imagigrafx Games
(formerly Director of Game Development at DeLano)
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