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Originally Posted by 25pie
apparently from an insider source tamiya has decresed worldwide sales by almost 30% since 2002 and is now having financial difficulities..... hopefully it is not the end for the mother of all RC!!  |
The market for R/C is changing rapidly over the last couple years and Tamiya is having to change the way they do business in order to keep up with the changing market. Tamiya will not be going out of business and that should be evident at the Nuremburg Toy Fair this weekend.
They recently sold their U.S. facility (with track and warehouse....and the track was amazing) and outsourced their warehousing to another company. Tamiya relocated to a leased office building rather than their own building as they had been in before.
Nothing is able to stay the same forever, and markets will always fluctuate. Tamiya is no different than anyone else and is making sure they are in the best position to stay around for a long time.