{"id":2337,"date":"2021-07-31T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T05:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/how-games-workshop-grew-to-become-more-profitable-than-google\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T07:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T05:40:56","slug":"how-games-workshop-grew-to-become-more-profitable-than-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/how-games-workshop-grew-to-become-more-profitable-than-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tabletop gaming, based on a mix of science fiction and fantasy worlds, has seen sales surge during lockdown<\/p>\n<p>It started in a small flat in west London, with three friends selling board games and a fanzine via mail order; now Games Workshop is worth more than Marks &amp; Spencer and Asos and is more profitable than Google.<\/p>\n<p>This week the Nottingham-based company, which produces the Warhammer fantasy role-playing brand, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jul\/27\/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-hands-staff-5000-bonus-after-lockdown-sales-surge\">all of its workers would get a \u00a35,000 bonus<\/a> after sales and profits surged during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/jul\/31\/how-games-workshop-grew-to-become-more-profitable-than-google\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a101c3aff3209e3966b1633a337cbebbb6a6ee44\/0_7_2172_1303\/master\/2172.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=102e62e9233c07f964abe5540b580d4a\" title=\"How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google\" \/>Tabletop gaming, based on a mix of science fiction and fantasy worlds, has seen sales surge during lockdown<br \/>\nIt started in a small flat in west London, with three friends selling board games and a fanzine via mail order; now Games Workshop is worth more than Marks &amp; Spencer and Asos and is more profitable than Google.<br \/>\nThis week the Nottingham-based company, which produces the Warhammer fantasy role-playing brand, announced all of its workers would get a \u00a35,000 bonus after sales and profits surged during the pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabletop gaming, based on a mix of science fiction and fantasy worlds, has seen sales surge during lockdown It started in a small flat in west London, with three friends selling board games and a fanzine via mail order; now Games Workshop is worth more than Marks &amp; Spencer and Asos and is more profitable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/how-games-workshop-grew-to-become-more-profitable-than-google\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}