The owner of the Playmobil brand – The Horst Brandstätter Group – has today (1 March) confirmed it will stop supplying products to Russia with immediate effect, citing concerns about the developments in Ukraine.
For the year 2022, Horst Brandstätter Group had budgeted a turnover of around €10 million for Playmobil and its Lechuza brand in Russia.
Alongside this, The Children’s Foundation founded by Horst Brandstätter has donated €150,000 for children in Ukraine.
The employees and the entire management of the company want to show a sign of solidarity with the people in Ukraine.
“We are shocked and dismayed by the Russian troops’ invasion of Ukraine,” commented Steffen Höpfner, ceo of the company. “Our sympathy goes out to the many people in the region whose lives are in acute danger, or who must leave their homes in hundreds of thousands.”
The Horst Brandstätter Group has no employees in Ukraine or Russia.
