Corona pandemic and lockdown as sales drivers. Sales increased by 20 percent to 632 million euros.
The strong demand for games and puzzles in the corona pandemic gave German game manufacturer Ravensburger a surge in growth in 2020. Compared to the previous year, sales rose by 20 percent to 632 million euros, as the Upper Swabian company announced in Ravensburg on Wednesday. CEO Clemens Maier said that the year of the crisis was good. He did not want to make a forecast for the current year.
28 million Ravensburger puzzles were sold last year – around 32 percent more than in the previous year. According to Maier, Corona had triggered a little hype about the rather “quiet hobby”. But the trend towards puzzles was already noticeable before the pandemic. You have produced up to the capacity limit.
The group was also able to score points with board games. Classics were particularly popular here. 25 million games from the manufacturer with the blue triangle have been sold worldwide.
