Ravensburger
Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a
German game company. It is a leader in the European
puzzle market.
Encyclopedia
Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a
German game company. It is a leader in the European
puzzle market.
History
The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in
Ravensburg, a town in
Upper Swabia in southern
Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first game appeared in 1884, named "Journey around the world".
At the turn of the
20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, Art Instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families and activity kits. In 1900, the Ravensburger blue triangle
trademark was registered with the Imperial Patent office. As of 1912, many
board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to
Western Europe, the countries of the Danube monarchy as well as
Russia.
Before the
First World War, Ravensburger had around 800 products. The publishing house was undamaged during the
Second World War and continued to produce games in the years of the reconstruction. The company focused on children's games and books and specialized books for art, architecture and hobbies, and from 1962 grew strongly. The company started to produce puzzle games in 1964, and in the same year opened subsidiaries in
Austria,
France,
Italy, the
Netherlands,
Switzerland and the
United Kingdom. In 1977 the company split into a book publishing arm and a game publising arm.
Today there are approximately 1,800 available books and 850 games as well as puzzles, hobby products and
CD-ROM titles at Ravensburger and its subsidiaries, which include
Alea for "hobby and ardent game players" and
FX Schmid for games and children's books. Ravensburger products are exported to more than fifty countries.
Notable games
Games sold under the "Ravensburger" imprint:
...
Games sold under the "Alea" imprint:
Games sold under the "FX Schmid" imprint:
External links
- Ravensburger's .
- by Ravensburger.
