The 2 corporations in the back of Warhammer miniature figures and Scalextric racing units have loved a excellent Christmas, whilst caution in regards to the have an effect on of the price of dwelling disaster.

Video games Workshop – which closing month struck a care for Amazon to create a sequence in accordance with Warhammer – accomplished document gross sales of greater than £200m within the six months to 31 December, its first part.

Gross sales of its Warhammer video games, collectible figurines and paints rose 4percentwith gross sales at its personal stores up 9.8% and business revenues 3.4% upper, and a small drop in on-line gross sales of 0.5%. Part-year pre-tax income fell to £83.6m from £88.2m.

Kevin Rountree, the manager government, stated: “We set ourselves a better gross sales enlargement objective, so whilst it is a document quantity, it isn’t the place we would have liked to be, specifically in the USA, which was once flat, at consistent forex, in opposition to a document 12 months closing 12 months.”

Video games Workshop loved booming gross sales all the way through the Covid pandemic when folks have been caught at house and pursued leisure pursuits akin to tabletop gaming.

The Scalextric and Airfix maker Hornby stated gross sales between 1 October and 31 December, together with the important thing Christmas length, have been upper than the similar length in 2021. In consequence, gross sales for the monetary 12 months thus far are forward of closing 12 months via 6%.

“This has been pushed via higher availability of inventory, worth will increase, and funding in e-commerce platforms and virtual media,” it stated. “Then again, those gross sales figures are in the back of finances because of the difficult client financial local weather and can have an effect on our full-year figures. Order ebook stays robust forward of our 2023 product vary releases.”

Hornby is launching a brand new product vary this month, together with a brand new keep an eye on gadget for trains that makes use of Bluetooth generation to connect with telephones or pills.

The corporate is forecasting a “modest underlying loss prior to tax” for the 12 months to the tip of March.

Video games Workshop stated its international initiatives have been held again via the sluggish rollout of latest IT techniques. It gave group of workers a three% pay upward thrust closing 12 months, whilst some gained as much as 10% to benchmark their pay to marketplace charges. To handle Brexit-related group of workers vacancies, the company has opened a gross sales place of business in Barcelona.

The consequences recommend Christmas will have been higher than feared for some shops, in spite of the worsening price of dwelling disaster. Annual client worth inflation was 10.7% in November, down fairly from 11.1% in October, with power and meals expenses hovering.