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Aus dem Jahresbericht 05/2023
Manufacturing
Our manufacturing team has remained focused, as always, on producing the best fantasy miniatures in the world. They have retained a
default 24/5 shift pattern keeping our overtime to a minimum and voluntarily working weekend shifts, but only as required.
All three Nottingham factories have operated in line with our forecast and expectations throughout the year. We decided not to expand
our manufacturing footprint further during the year, instead focusing our energy upon improving our capabilities and efficiencies using the world class equipment and people we have. A range of projects have been progressed focusing on material efficiency as well as tool design and machining. These projects will allow us, in the future, to produce more with less. We have also completed a suite of refurbishments to upgrade our facilities for staff.
Work towards obtaining a China Compulsory Certificate (CCC) was completed as expected. Our factories successfully passed follow up
audits and we now have all relevant core products accredited for sale across China.
The land in Nottingham, purchased in 2020, has been partially developed with the building of an injection moulding tool storage unit and the creation of c.100 car parking spaces. We continue to plan ahead and are ready to build an additional manufacturing facility on this land when it is required. We currently have spare capacity.
Production staff costs decreased in the period as we reduced our use of temporary agency staff
Aus den Halbjahreszahlen per 11/2023
Manufacturing
We continue to manufacture all of our core products at our three factories in Nottingham. Work on improving efficiencies
has negated the need for the purchase of any additional manufacturing equipment during the period and allowed
numerous manufacturing output records to be broken. As part of our longer term capacity planning, we are exploring
options for Factory 4 on the site next to Factory 2.
Our total manufacturing headcount has increased slightly during the period with the total number of jobs in our factories
now standing at 361.