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2019/01/29 08:00:45
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Et In Arcadia Ego
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https://dailymemphian.com/article/2693/Maker-of-miniature-war-game-products-plans-big-expansion-in-Memphis
An English company that makes miniature, tabletop war games is investing another $3.4 million in its Memphis distribution center.
Games Workshop Group applied for a building permit to expand its warehousing site at 6211 E. Holmes Road in Southeast Memphis.
The company will expand the 100,000-square-foot building by another 50,000 square feet, Tom Chipley, Games Workshop's distribution and logistics manager for North America, told The Daily Memphian Monday morning.
The company has operated at the Memphis site for 15 years and it's time to expand and update the facility, he said.
Among the improvements will be the addition of a new picking system for the warehousing operation, Chipley said.
The distribution center employs about 150 people now, and the company has not determined if the expansion will require more employees, Chipley said.
"Hopefully, the new automation will allow us to do more with the people we've got," he said.
The company develops and publishes such war games as Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and The Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game.
Games Workshop is headquartered in Nottingham, England.
“We’ll begin to upgrade our warehousing capacity in both Memphis and Nottingham,’’ chief executive Kevin Rountree said in the company’s latest report to shareholders in early December.
“These further investments will help us maintain our current volumes, increase efficiencies and give us good scope for sales growth in the future.”
Grinder, Taber & Grinder will build the expansion at the warehouse owned by Regis Property Management.
Games Warehouse sells both online and in its 507 retail shops around the world.
The Memphis center handles Games Workshop's distribution for all 150 stores in North America.
“Our business and the Warhammer Hobby continue to be in great shape,’’ Rountree reported last month. “We have remained true to our long-term strategy, and once again delivered on our promise to produce and sell the best fantasy miniatures in the world, while engaging and inspiring our fans.”
Last year, the company’s revenue rose to 125.2 million Euros compared to 109.6 million Euros the year before.
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2019/01/29 11:14:52
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider
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I expected Khemri, but that is also interresting! 
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2019/01/29 12:02:19
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Sentient OverBear
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Ha! I love it.
Really sounds like GW is ramping up capacity. A year ago I would have been clamoring for more new releases to update model lines, but as it is, the pace has been brutal.
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2019/01/29 15:14:51
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon
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It would be awesome if they would reopen the World of Battle at this location.
For those who do not know World of Battle literally was Warhammer World North America. It was an amazing place.
Perhaps not as good as Warhammer World, but a decent 2nd in my opinion. Sadly D-bag Tom Kirby shut it down as a cost savings measure when he was killing the company.
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2019/01/29 15:16:54
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Moustache-twirling Princeps
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 oni wrote:It would be awesome if they would reopen the World of Battle at this location. For those who do not know World of Battle literally was Warhammer World North America. It was an amazing place. Perhaps not as good as Warhammer World, but a decent 2nd in my opinion. Sadly D-bag Tom Kirby shut it down as a cost savings measure when he was killing the company.
It the Citadel keeps doing well I can see it happening.
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2019/01/29 17:26:08
Subject: Re:GW's Memphis expansion
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Haughty Harad Serpent Rider
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"Games Warehouse sells both online and in its 507 retail shops around the world."
GAMES WAREHOUSE
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2019/01/29 19:07:44
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I went all over the GW website looking for this Memphis game and couldn't find it. Is it Specialist Games or Foreworld? It's hard to get excited about this expansion when I don't know what the core set looks like...
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2019/01/29 19:32:09
Subject: Re:GW's Memphis expansion
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Been Around the Block
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I Have nothing against Memphis but it's like 8000km from my city in France...
Any chance Memphis expands all the way to Europe ?
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2019/01/29 21:17:13
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Tzeentch Aspiring Sorcerer Riding a Disc
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oni wrote:It would be awesome if they would reopen the World of Battle at this location.
For those who do not know World of Battle literally was Warhammer World North America. It was an amazing place.
Perhaps not as good as Warhammer World, but a decent 2nd in my opinion. Sadly D-bag Tom Kirby shut it down as a cost savings measure when he was killing the company.
To be fair, it was Mark Wells that was killing the company.
It is kind of a standard thing to do- Mark took up the reigns as CEO for a while with the goal of cutting costs and maximizing the short term profits. He cut costs and raised prices. When profits were at their peak, he left Tom Kirby holding all of the blame for the soon-to-be shrinking company. Mark set them up to look like he made the company way more profitable, when he really set them up to fail (and he gets to walk away with a lot of cash and no blame).
Tom Kirby gets blamed, but he was a patsy set up to be the fall guy. He was trying to continue to do what Mark Wells had done- only it didn't work anymore, because Wells had done all that could be done in that regard. Tom was captain of the sinking ship, but Mark was the one who drilled the holes in the hull.
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2019/01/29 21:20:26
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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The Daemon Possessing Fulgrim's Body
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Disagree. Kirby was Chairman for the whole time Wells was CEO, and had been heavily involved at senior level since forever.
Whatever Wells was responsible for, he did it on Kirby's watch, so anything bad he did makes Kirby either complicit or incompetent.
But this isn't really the place.
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2019/01/29 22:09:16
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Tzeentch Aspiring Sorcerer Riding a Disc
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 Azreal13 wrote:Disagree. Kirby was Chairman for the whole time Wells was CEO, and had been heavily involved at senior level since forever.
Whatever Wells was responsible for, he did it on Kirby's watch, so anything bad he did makes Kirby either complicit or incompetent.
But this isn't really the place.
Fair enough. And things are better now, so there's not a good reason to argue about it.
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2019/01/29 22:53:57
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Posts with Authority
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Now, if they reopen their Stateside manufacturing....
The Auld Grump
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2019/01/29 23:11:19
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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If it's economic to do so I suspect they will.
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2019/01/29 23:17:09
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Fixture of Dakka
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Didn't they close down the Memphis place? When did it reopen? I wonder if it will be making paints again or is this something else now?
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Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong". |
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2019/01/30 02:10:14
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Most Glorious Grey Seer
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We'd still be charged the ROTW Tax.
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2019/01/30 02:46:55
Subject: GW's Memphis expansion
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Irked Necron Immortal
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I live 90ish miles away. Go there every couple of months. The current overall building is HUGE already, but that is because it is a warehouse that ships everything out from there. The front retail store is very small, no bigger than something that would be at a mall. Walls lined with the standard store stock, a few tables in the center for playing and a couple set aside for building and painting. They have recently re-opened "The Bunker" for certain events, which is the larger play space. I think they just had a couple of ITC tournaments there where 10 people played that last two times. With plenty of tables left open. They still have the Facebook page named "World of Battle" https://www.facebook.com/GWMemphis/?fref=ts
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2019/01/30 04:15:55
Subject: Re:GW's Memphis expansion
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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 eflix29 wrote:I Have nothing against Memphis but it's like 8000km from my city in France...
Any chance Memphis expands all the way to Europe ?
GW already has a distribution center in Europe. This is to help expand their infrastructure in North America. It has little to do with actual production, just deals with inventory and distribution.
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2019/01/30 15:08:45
Subject: Re:GW's Memphis expansion
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Auspicious Aspiring Champion of Chaos
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eflix29 wrote:I Have nothing against Memphis but it's like 8000km from my city in France...
Any chance Memphis expands all the way to Europe ?
Having been to Memphis a few times, you may want to be careful what you wish for. It's kind of a rough town. The Blues scene is awesome, though.
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