‘The total revenue of the physical toy industry was in 2015, with almost 35 percent below the level of the peak year 2008. In the first nine months of 2016 took the turnover increased by almost 2 percent compared to a year earlier. In addition, the number of physical toy stores back’, says the CBS.
Twenty percent less toy stores
in Early 2008, the Netherlands still has 965 speelgoedbedrijven, which, in total, 1375 physical stores. Beginning 2016 there were 660 companies with a total of 1100 stores. That is 20 percent less than in 2008.
Strongest decline in Utrecht
The strongest decrease of the number of toy stores occurred in the province of Utrecht. Here, the decline in the number of sites with a third to over seventy shops. Overijssel province is the only province where the number of toy stores between 2008 and 2016 increased: from 85 in 2008 to ninety in 2016.
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