Collectibles, distribution, licensing, and publishing
Founded
1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Founder
John Warsop, Robert Warsop, Robert Windmill
Defunct
1995; 29 years ago (1995)(absorbed into Topps, the Merlin name would continue as a brand under the Topps franchise)
Headquarters
Milton Keynes
,
United Kingdom
Area served
United Kingdom, Europe
Products
Books, comic books, magazines, stickers, trading cards and trading card games
Owner
Topps
Merlin Publishing Limited, commonly known as Merlin and sometimes branded as Merlin Collections was a British publishing firm who released a variety of sticker collections during the late 1980s and 1990s, they also designed trading cards, card games and pogs. Although most notably releasing football stickers in particularly for the Premier League and Serie A, they also designed collections around television shows and other points of interest.
In 1993 the company became known as Merlin Publishing International PLC before being bought out by Topps in 1995. They were absorbed into the company, being renamed Topps Europe Limited, although the name Merlin would continue as a brand under the Topps name initially until 2008. In 2014 the Merlin brand returned to the Premier League sticker collections until Panini was awarded the contract in 2019. Today the Merlin brand is used by Topps as a retro range designed around its UEFA Champions League trading cards.
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coming more prominent with their release of the 1970 World Cup album. MerlinPublishing and Topps also notably mass produced sticker albums of a variety of...
fiction and fantasy publishing, although it lost to J. K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Meisha MerlinPublishing, which had previously...
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Fraudsters: Sharks and Charlatans – How Con Artists Make Their Money. MerlinPublishing. ISBN 978-1903582824. Ford, Charles V. (1999) [1999]. Lies! Lies!...
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including the armed forces of Britain, Denmark, and Portugal, use the name Merlin for their AW101 aircraft. It is manufactured at factories in Yeovil, England...
Highway Robbery, Sutton Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7509-3528-9 Dunford, Stephen (2000). The Irish Highwaymen, MerlinPublishing, ISBN 1-903582-02-4 Evans...
Dignam, co-written by journalist Neil Fetherstonhaugh and published by MerlinPublishing. One reviewer said it "should be required reading for anyone hovering...
outsiders: exposing the secretive world of Ireland's Travellers. MerlinPublishing. ISBN 978-1-903582-67-1. Drummond, Anthony (2006). "Cultural denigration:...
apart". Herald. 10 November 2008. Crime Wars, Paul Williams (2008) MerlinPublishing ISBN 1-903582-83-0 "Bloodbath fear after gunmen snatch brothers"....
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