Games Workshop
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| Industry | Miniature wargaming |
| Founded | London, United Kingdom (1975) |
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| Headquarters | Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Revenue |
 £123.5 million (2014) |
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£12.3 million (2014) |
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£8.007 million (2014) |
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| Total assets |
£35.069 million (2014) |
| Total equity |
£34.476 million (2014) |
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| Website | www |
Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated as GW) is a British miniature wargaming manufacturing company. Games Workshop is best known as developer and publisher of the tabletop wargames Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. The company is listed on the with the symbol GAW.L. The company's British operating subsidiary company is Games Workshop Limited.
Founded in 1975 at 15 Bolingbroke Road, London by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson (not to be confused with U.S. game designer Steve Jackson), Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, Nine Men's Morris, and Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process.
In order to promote their business and postal games, create a games club, and provide an alternative source for games news, the newsletter Owl and Weasel was founded in February 1975. This was superseded in June 1977 by White Dwarf.
From the outset, there was a clear, stated interest in print regarding "progressive games", including computer gaming, which led to the departure of traditionalist John Peake in early 1976 and the loss of the company's main source of income. However, having successfully obtained official distribution rights to Dungeons & Dragons and other TSR products in the U.K., and maintaining a high profile by running games conventions, the business grew rapidly. It opened its first retail shop in April 1978.
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