Hogworts

Absolutely agree. I was at the 2018 range preview which was pre Lyndon/ Simon Kohler, personally I can't see a way out of this and Hornby is a money pit but they always find an Angel in the City to pump in more cash. The only people who spoke out against Hornby Junior were the Italians who were like " we absolutely cannot sell this"... the look on senior managements face was amazing (Steve Cooke) absolutely gobsmacked. The UK reps just sat back and kept their mouths shut...out of fear. With Simon back that culture of fear has been lifted, but there are still a few left who "know" how to save the Company, and these are same ones that sold off the family jewels.

The biggest problem they have is not making enough of the good stuff and not getting rid of the bad stuff. The solution has been sell the good stuff off to the discounters, and this is across all their brands. The new logistics company has not been that great and I don't think they have much other than the Brand names that other companies would want, Oxford Diecast make a better range of diecast (and now Loco's) and would Bachmann want old Hornby tooling? They have never recovered from the Olympics.