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WinMagic Toys success story India has traditionally been a risk-averse market, and most toy distributors focused on traditional categories like dolls, vehicles, and guns. Then came WinMagic Toys, which was launched by Mukesh Jagwani and the senior management team in 2017, which disrupted in the toy industry by launching new trendy categories and global brands into the market.
Read this article to know about the success story of WinMagic Toys, founder, growth, vision, mission, and funding.
WinMagic Toys – Company Highlights
- Startup Name-WinMagic Toys
- Headquarter-Mumbai, India
- Sector-Toys & Games
- Founder-Mukesh Jagwani
- Founded-2017
- Parent Organization-WinMagic toys pvt ltd
- Website-winmagictoys.com
- Contact-[email protected]
WinMagic Toys – Vision and Mission
WinMagic Toys is a company that creates and distributes world-class marketable & unique products that bring happiness for kids and fulfillment for parents.
For the customers, it is a marketing-oriented company that always creates new and innovative categories at retail, provides a significant product or price differentiation, and drives strong communication campaigns to create consumer demand and affect shopper conversions at retail.
For the employees, it is a company that empowers them to create the future they dream of, for themselves and their families, which makes them spring into action every day.
WinMagic Toys – About and How it Works
WinMagic Toys creates and spreads happiness, pride, and oneness amongst kids and families! A full portfolio-kids’ product creation, manufacturing, marketing & distribution company, that touches consumers from birth & remains a companion for life, through its product offerings.
The company dominates the pre-school retail aisle with Paw Patrol, PJ Masks, and Peppa Pig toy lines that are the top 3 licensed content and toy properties globally as well as in India. Similarly, this fastest-growing toy company of India has also transformed the girls’ aisle with brands like L.O.L Surprise! Dolls, Hatchimals, and Shopkins.
WinMagic Toys Products
Products
To ensure product quality, the company only works with global brands that are already supplying to the US and Europe. Their products comply with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), European Standard EN 71, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and other independent standards likes Facility and Merchandise Authorization (FAMA) certification by The Walt Disney Company.
Recently, the government of India conducted a survey where 66% of imported toys failed to comply with quality standards – these are all unbranded toys. WinMagic Laboratories have claimed that not even a single toy that it has offered into the country has ever failed a test.
WinMagic Toys – Products/Services
Fisher-Price and Thomas were given a run for their money, with WinMagic Toys distributing Spin Master’s – Paw Patrol, which is today the number 1 preschool licensed toy property at retail. Paw Patrol is a TV series that runs on Nick Junior, a content co-owned by Viacom and Canada’s Spin Master Entertainment (SME).
Paw Patrol Toys – WinMagic
Spin Master Toys, a top 5 listed toy company globally, and a sister concern of SME owns the global rights to Paw Patrol toys. Through its distribution partnership with Spin Master, WinMagic Toys brought into the country many trendy toy lines, like Hatchimals for example – that became toy retailer Hamleys’ number 1 selling toy when it was launched in 2016, while the inventory lasted.
Hatchimals – WinMagic
Hatchimals is an egg-shaped tech toy, that has a unique hatching feature, where with a kid’s love & care an electronic pet hatches itself out of an egg and there are various play possibilities at pre-hatching, during-hatching, and post-hatching stages. Hatchimals has since then developed into a veritable array of collectible and tech toys that have become one of the best-selling toy ranges in the girls’ aisle.
Through its partnership with Spin Master, the company is set to launch toy lines like Bakugan, a massive hit from a decade ago that is being relaunched by Spin Master globally, Batman & DC action figure lines based on the popular entertainment franchises and Monster Jam Monster vehicles lines based on World’s Number 1 Monster Truck racing show.
WinMagic Toys – Target Market Size
With 26% of the population under the age of 15 years, it’s no surprise that the Indian toy industry is accelerating. Valued at USD 1.5 Billion in 2018, registering a CAGR of 15.9% during the year 2011-2018. According to market research firm IMARC, the market is further estimated to cross USD 3.3 Billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 13.3% during 2019-2024.
In a post COVID scenario, toys & games, and in general kids play assumes even more relevance with kids and parents staying more at home.
Founders of WinMagic Toys and team
Mukesh Jagwani is the founder of WinMagic Toys.
Mukesh Jagwani – WinMagic Founder
Mukesh has over two decades of practice including leadership roles in setting up multinationals in India to leading start-ups to profitability and turnover goals. He is a complete believer in empowering people to be the best they can be, unconditionally, and, in keeping commitments ruthlessly!
The management team comprises of:
- Heena Natu – National Sales Manager (Key Accounts & Exports) with over 13 years of experience in modern trade (retail chains) account management, ex Mattel, Ex Pepe Jeans
They focus a lot on training people for their development and growth – not just for business but overall holistic growth of an individual and the team looks at life as one. Not a split between work and life. When people grow, they bring all about growth to be it at home or work.
WinMagic Toys – Name, Tagline, and Logo
Winners with the magic of play made WinMagic Toys!
WinMagic Toys – Startup Launch
WinMagic Toys are known for their freshness and new ways to play at retail. Since its inception, India has seen some of the categories that never existed in the country in the toys and games aisle before. It created Collectables as a category with iconic brands like Shopkins. They launched all globally successful brands including – LOL Surprise! Dolls, Hatchimals Colleggtibles, Hairdorables, Soft n Slo – squishable, etc.
WinMagic Toys always offers brands and play patterns that are trending globally. They are dominating the retail aisles with the latest DIY trends. For the girls, the categories were limited to dolls and a few accessories, however, the company has brought all these different categories into the country.
“For example, at Toys “R” Us, we have 26 dedicated brand spaces and at Hamleys all our brands are present with key brands like Paw Patrol and Hatchimals occupying dedicated spaces. This approach has enabled us to be a top 3 vendor at all the retail points including an over 20% share of the shelf at top mom & pop retail outlets in the country.”, said Mukesh Jagwani, founder of WinMagic Toys.
Finally, the company’s industry and functional expert teams apply the right load of energy, ownership, and meticulousness from product selection to business operations at all levels.
WinMagic Toys – Marketing Approach
They are a marketing-oriented company and their marketing team does not follow the box-in-box-out approach. They believe in launching unique marketable concepts and back them up with 360-degree marketing efforts. WinMagic Toys’ social media campaigns are appreciated by retailers and the team is the trailblazer on the digital front in the industry.
Some of the key marketing tie-ups of the company include:
Youtube Sensation and a famous toy reviewer – My Miss Anand
Hatchimals video that was viewed 4.2M times –
Hatchimals video
Wrapples Dance challenge with 3.8M Views –
WinMagic Toys has also partnered with Child actor Myra Singh, from Kulfi Kumar Bajewala.
WinMagic Toys – Business Model and Revenue Model
Revenue Generation Model – WinMagic Toys directly sells to retail chains, and resellers on Amazon, Flipkart. It also sells to sister concerns of Amazon, Flipkart, etc. Being a foreign-funded company, they cannot do multi-brand retail. In the General trade sector, it supplies to the sub-distributors who then in turn supply to mom and pop stores. The company caters to 3000+ stores. It works on a Firm sale Model.
This ensures that they can make the right pricing available to the consumer. For a target group looking at a lower price band, they have their private labels and they plan to aggressively expand this business. WinMagic Toys provides a price point of as low as Rs 50 to as high as Rs 15,000.
WinMagic Toys – Startup Challenges
The challenges that WinMagic Toys faced were – Duplicates, unorganized nature of trade, government regulations, experiments: cash & carry model, launching collectible toys, new/trending brands like Paw Patrol, Hatchimals – even though expensive, PJ Masks, and branding the generic category like bubbles.
However, making licensed, high-quality international brands available in India continues to be a challenge due to tough import norms and the recent increase in import duty. As a result, small businesses, who wish to legitimately license and sell these products suffer, while low quality, low-cost Chinese toys continue to flood the market
WinMagic Toys – Growth
The company has also partnered with all major online channels including Amazon, Flipkart, Firstcry, Hopscotch, etc. With legendary brands in the portfolio like – Paw Patrol, PJ Masks, Hatchimals, Shopkins, etc., WinMagic Toys is the No.1 third party distributor in India in the toy specialty channel.
Some of the suppliers of WinMagic Toys are Spinmaster – World leader in innovative toys, Just Play – A manufacturer known for its high-class plush toys, and Moose Toys – A company that created a revolution in the collectible’s category. Some of the customers are Hamleys, Toys “R” Us, Crossword, Amazon, Flipkart, and Firstcry.
WinMagic Toys – Future Plans
WinMagic Toys has plans to constantly innovate & upgrade their portfolio. They will be soon adding world-class toys like Batman & DC action figures, Bakugan, Monster Jam vehicles, and its own unique private labels in categories like Games and Puzzles, Sports Goods, & Impulse Play.
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