Bburago
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Bburago is a large manufacturing company of toys and die-cast scale model cars formerly based in Italy. The company was based in Burago di Molgora, where all products were made from 1974 to 2005. At the height of its popularity, Bburago's main competitors were Politoys and Maisto, the latter of which was to become dominant in the 1:18 market segment in the late 90's.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Bburago
- Company.former_names
- Martoys (1974–1976)
- Company.logo
- Bburago Logo.png
- Company.type
- Private (1974–2005)
- Company.fate
- Company defunct, brand rights acquired by May Cheong Group in 2006
- Company.foundation
- 1974
- Company.industry
- Manufacturing
- Company.num_employees
- 130
- Company.owner
- May Cheong Group
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- manufacturer
- Country
- Italy
- Headquarters
- Burago di Molgora
- Official website
- www.bburago.com
- Image
- Burago 356B IMG 4782a b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bburago models
- inception
- 1974-00-00
- product or material produced
- model car
- location of formation
- Burago di Molgora
- social media followers
- 3120
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2005-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Martoys
- Models
- Detail and rendering
- Packaging
- Later history
- Bburago
- Early models
- Larger scales
- Smaller scales
- Competition increases and closure
- Scale models 1/24 (Italian production)
- Footnotes
- Sources
- Further reading
- See also
- External links
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bburago” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.