Acquired by Panini Group in 2009, becoming Panini America
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Mark Warsop (CEO)
Products
Trading cards
Number of employees
50+
Parent
Pinnacle Brands (1996–98) [1]
Donruss was a US-based trading cards manufacturing company founded in 1954 and acquired by the Panini Group in 2009. The company started in the 1950s, producing confectionery, evolved into Donruss and started producing trading cards. During the 1960s and 1970s Donruss produced entertainment-themed cards. Its first sports theme cards were produced in 1965, when it created a series of racing cards sponsored by Hot Rod Magazine.[2]
Its next series of sports products came in 1981, when it produced baseball and golf trading cards. It was one of three manufacturers to produce baseball cards from 1981 through 1985, along with Fleer and Topps. In 1986, Sportflics (Major League Marketing) entered the market as the fourth fully licensed card producer, followed by Score in 1988, and Upper Deck in 1989. Since entering the trading card market, it has produced a variety of sports trading cards, including American football, baseball, basketball, boxing, golf, ice hockey, racing and tennis; and has acquired a number of brand names. In 1996 Donruss was acquired by rival Pinnacle Brands, makers of Score and Sportflix.
Donruss produced baseball cards from 1981 to 1998, when then-parent company Pinnacle Brands filed for bankruptcy. Baseball card production resumed in 2001, when then-parent company Playoff Corporation acquired the rights to produce baseball cards. From 2007 to 2009, Donruss released baseball card products featuring players that were no longer under MLB contract after MLB decided to limit licensing options in 2005.
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baseball cards to companies other than Topps. Fleer and another company, Donruss, were thus allowed to begin making cards in 1981. Fleer's legal victory...
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the market. That let Fleer and another company, Donruss, enter the market in 1981. Fleer and Donruss began making large, widely distributed sets to compete...
career, and helped create a line of celebrity-based trading cards for Donruss. He has also obtained celebrity autographs for companies such as: Upper...
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used as a common wrapping for sports card packages (O-Pee-Chee, Topps, Donruss, etc.). It was notorious for leaving wax markings on the back card where...
various Odd Rods trading card series from the 1970s made by rival company Donruss), "Monsters from Mars Attacks" (nine cards, all done as an homage to an...
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Publishers other than game makers were now entering the CCG market such as Donruss, Upper Deck, Fleer, Topps, Comic Images, and others. The CCG bubble appeared...
The brand has changed hands many times. Thomas Wiener Company became The Donruss Company in 1954 when D.J. Thomas sold his interest in the company to Donald...
Sports Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-07-24. Angilly, Paul (2004-10-12). "Donruss buys rights to Pacific's names". Trading Card Central. Retrieved 2008-07-24...
Ginter American Tobacco British American Tobacco Bowman Capstan Churchman's Donruss Fleer Futera Gallaher Group Godfrey Phillips Goodwin Goudey Imperial Tobacco...
Ginter American Tobacco British American Tobacco Bowman Capstan Churchman's Donruss Fleer Futera Gallaher Group Godfrey Phillips Goodwin Goudey Imperial Tobacco...
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