GW Corporate

[Lexington]

I don't think GW's got anything to worry about, re: being acquired against the board's will. Unless things have changed quite a bit lately, GW's primarily owned by a handful of investment firms. If they don't want the company to be merged or acquired, it won't be. However, there's been a lot of talk in the last year or two of GW acting like they want to be bought. That might just have some truth to it.

[xcom]

It doesn't bode poorly either, we have nowhere near enough information to make any kind of judgement. However:

'GW Purchases Privateer Press; Mass Fanboy Head Explosions Reported'

would make my year.

I know you're just joking, but the reality is that would not happen. (At least not anytime soon.) Privateer Press is a privately held company. So unless Matt Wilson decides to sell off the company, that's never could happen.

[Serphi]

Perhaps it could be something as simple as GW wanting to merge in one of its sub companies into the parent. Maybe merging Forgeworld into GW.

[Cpt Codpiece]

Perhaps it could be something as simple as GW wanting to merge in one of its sub companies into the parent. Maybe merging Forgeworld into GW.

look at the bottom of FW web pages.

FW is and always has been part of GW, they were separate entities as businesses so that the specialist items would have no reflection on the main core company..... like if they tanked (bah dum tisst) it would have little fallout on GW as a whole.

[Serphi]

look at the bottom of FW web pages.

FW is and always has been part of GW, they were separate entities as businesses so that the specialist items would have no reflection on the main core company..... like if they tanked (bah dum tisst) it would have little fallout on GW as a whole.

I know that GW already own FW, however there is a lot of legal tape around abolishing the identity of a sub company to take it into its parent. She is a merger specialist as much as she is a acquisitions specialist it seems.

Just a speculation!

[Mr Mystery]

I know you're just joking, but the reality is that would not happen. (At least not anytime soon.) Privateer Press is a privately held company. So unless Matt Wilson decides to sell off the company, that's never could happen.

To counter that one, without suggesting some conspiracy, every man has his price.

[Wildeybeast]

Maybe they are thinking the would be better off if they owned one of the licensed games companies, rather than receiving royalties? Owning the likes of fantasy flight or their computer games developer would creat a lot of interesting business opportunities.

[eldargal]

I know you're just joking, but the reality is that would not happen. (At least not anytime soon.) Privateer Press is a privately held company. So unless Matt Wilson decides to sell off the company, that's never could happen.

It's extremely unlikely certainly and while Mr Mystery is correct that they could effectively drive a truckload of money to the door of the owner(s) of PP it probably wouldn't be worthwhile their doing so.

[Wolfshade]

Yes most of GW competitors seem to be converting the existing GW base, rather than expanding the wargaming base as an whole.

[weeble1000]

Forge World is not a sub company. It is Games Workshop. That can't be why she was brought in. And I seriously doubt GW is in any sort of position to be acquiring a worthwhile competitor. It is a good bet she was retained in connection with GW being acquired by another company, like Hasbro, for example.

Much of GW's aberrant behavior in the past 12+ months can easily be explained by GW preparing itself for acquisition or attempting to attract a buyer.

This is simply another piece that fits pretty well into the now-rapidly forming puzzle. I'm not saying this is the only explanation, mind, simply one that fits with the facts, and I have not seen any evidence that makes the above inference unreasonable. I happen to think that it is also the most likely scenario.

Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 are and will remain valuable pieces of property, almost entirely regardless of how Kirby chooses to manage the company. GW won't license its rights in any meaningful way, especially to a big dog, so if a serious company out there (like Hasbro) wants that property it probably means acquiring GW in its entirety, which I suspect the board and especially Kirby would be only too willing to agree to.