Heiko Windfelder, the Kosmos board game lead who played a key role building up brands including Catan and the Exit family of games, is retiring after 30 years at the company.
Eminent German board game designer Uwe Rosenberg's project to create a forest in the Ghanaian savannah - and provide fair employment for local people - is nearing its goal of bringing 20 board game publishers on board.
Amigo Spiele has named two new managing directors as it lays the groundwork for a future beyond veteran company head Uwe Pauli, the man who helped save the German board game maker from financial peril in the early 1990s.
Board game sales in Germany, one of the world's biggest tabletop markets, grew 6% in the year to August as the industry bounced back from a slump in 2022, new data from German trade association DVSI shows.
Nominees for the board game industry's biggest award, the Spiel des Jahres, are being revealed on a livestream next week.
