GreenLight Collectibles, founded in 2002, is a premier manufacturer and marketer of officially licensed, authentic model cars, replica figures, accessories and dioramas. Throughout the last seventeen years a lot has changed in the toy and collectible markets. Mergers and acquisitions, the Great Recession, a rapidly evolving China manufacturing landscape, companies folding and new companies emerging. GreenLight has evolved throughout the years from a start-up company replicating race cars and pace cars for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a firm focused on dynamic growth, extensive license acquisition from the biggest and best in entertainment and the acquisition of brands at opportune moments; all while continuing to focus on our original goal of producing authentic, highly detailed replicas that would catch the eye of the collector and find their way into the homes of model car enthusiasts around the globe. In recent years GreenLight has twice been honored as a “Fast 25” company in the State of Indiana, as one of the 25 fastest growing private companies in our region. We’ve been privileged to bring some of great model car brands into our company portfolio during the last several years, adding GMP, First Response Replicas, Highway 61 and Precision Miniatures – rebranded as Precision Collection – to the GreenLight stable. We’re excited to see what 2019 brings with the introduction of several new and exciting product lines that that are bound to excite. We’re optimistic for the new year and look forward to producing the best range of die-cast model cars we’re capable of offering, while keeping our collective ear to the ground for new and exciting opportunities to continue growing the market for vehicle replica enthusiasts worldwide!
Revell USA | 1,099 followers on LinkedIn. Discover Revell - Discover the fascination of model making for young and old with the model making products from Revell | For over six decades, hobbyists of all ages have turned to Revell and Monogram brands for accurate scale plastic model kits. We offer a huge selection of accurately detailed cars, trucks, ships, aircraft, spacecraft and entertainment related model kit subjects including Star Wars, Cars 3, HALO, & Fast & Furious! We work with numerous licensed entities and are continually pursuing new licensing opportunities.
Airfix was founded in 1939 by Nicholas Kove, a refugee from Hungary who originally manufactured rubber inflated toys. The name Airfix was chosen because part of the process involved fixing air into products. Kove believed that all successful companies should have their names at the beginning of business directories and consequently the name Airfix was born. After the Second World War he switched to producing plastic combs, and was the first manufacturer to introduce an injection moulding machine. In the late 1940s Airfix was approached by Harry Ferguson (the tractor manufacturer) to make a cheap model of one of his tractors that could be used by his sales team as a promotional tool. At first there were problems making the model, so it was decided to make it in a series of parts to be assembled by a team of skilled workers. This ready-built tractor proved to be popular and Ferguson allowed Airfix to produce them as toys and sell them under the Airfix name. It soon became obvious that more tractors could be sold if they were cheaper, and to achieve this they sold the kits unmade with instructions. This proved to be successful and shortly after Woolworths approached Airfix suggesting that by using a more stable polystyrene plastic and poly bags with a card header, it would meet the Woolworths retail price of 2 shillings. The small scale Golden Hind was launched in 1952. Woolworths buyers than began to ask for more subjects, then soon after Airfix began to produced a wider range of polybagged model kits - the all famous Spitfire model appearing from 1953.