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News from Buffalo Games
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Buffalo Games Celebrates 25th Anniversary |
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Buffalo, NY (August 4, 2011) – What began in 1986 with two employees around a kitchen table has today grown into a leading manufacturer of award-winning party games and jigsaw puzzles with national and international distribution.
Buffalo Games was formed in 1986 by Paul and Eden Dedrick with the dream of bringing innovative games and puzzles to the marketplace. Selling through small to medium size retailers and mail-order catalogs, their first product, the World’s Most Difficult jigsaw puzzle, shot Buffalo Games from near obscurity to being a major factor in the marketplace.
In 1996, after 10 years of using outsourced manufacturing, Buffalo Games purchased its first piece of machinery and started down the road of insourcing the manufacturing of its own products.
Today, Buffalo Games is a vertically integrated consumer products company with 80 employees in administration, design, manufacturing, marketing and sales, in an 85,000 square foot headquarters in Buffalo, New York. The company currently services 3,000+ retail accounts, including Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, as well as gift and specialty stores throughout the U.S. and Canada with over 200 Buffalo Games branded board games and jigsaw puzzles.
To commemorate 25 Years of Fun, Buffalo Games unveiled two new party games this year, Gotcha and Phone Frenzy, as well as six new puzzle lines including a 4,000 piece series (the only U.S.-based company to produce this size puzzle), Photo Seek, Classic Peanuts, and lines from renowned artists Bonnie Marris, Mort Kunstler, and C.F. Payne.
Later today, founders Paul and Eden Dedrick will host an evening event for more than 200 people, including employees and their families, friends and colleagues, to celebrate this momentous occasion. |
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BUFFALO GAMES PARTNERS WITH KALEIDA HEALTH |
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Full-Line of Award Winning Party Games and Select Jigsaw Puzzles to be Donated for Therapeutic Play; Parent Rooms
 Buffalo, NY (May 17, 2011) – Buffalo Games, manufacturer and marketer of multiple award-winning party games and adult jigsaw puzzles for 25 years, has partnered with Kaleida Health in an effort to make life more fun and rewarding for patients and their families while staying at three of Kaleida’s five local facilities.Buffalo Games will provide party games and jigsaw puzzles in playrooms and parent lounges at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo; jigsaw puzzles in the senior day care center at DeGraff Memorial Hospital; and party games and jigsaw puzzles in the waiting areas and recovery areas at Buffalo General Hospital. According to Lisa LaTovato, senior development associate at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Foundation. “Thanks to Buffalo Games our patients will be able to take some time to meet other patients and enjoy time with their family members during their stay.” Samples of all five titles in the Buffalo Games party game line will be donated, including Gotcha, Truth Be Told, Likewise, The T-Shirt Game, and Last Word, as well as more than 35 puzzles in various piece counts. “Knowing patients and their families are playing our games and enjoying our puzzles is what our core mission - to make life more fun and rewarding - is all about,” said Paul Dedrick, president. “Sometimes all it takes is a simple game to shift the focus to ‘fun’ and help make the families who visit their loved ones a little more at ease.” Kaleida Health is the largest health care provider in Western New York serving the area’s eight counties with state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive health care services by expert, compassionate health care professionals to bring patients the best care.
Buffalo Games is a multiple award-winning American manufacturer and marketer of party games and jigsaw puzzles. Popular board game titles include Gotcha! and the 2010 breakthrough game, Truth Be Told, as well as Likewise, Last Word, and The T-Shirt Game. A full line of premium puzzles is also available featuring today’s hottest licenses and most fashionable themes including Harley-Davidson®, Coca-Cola®, Peanuts®, William Wegman, Photomosaics, The Hautman Brothers, Darrell Bush, Art Poulin and more in piece counts of 300, 500, 750, 1000, 2000 and 4000.
“Helping to bring happiness to our friends and neighbors staying at one of Kaleida’s five regional hospitals is a great feeling,” added Dedrick.
Find us at www.buffalogames.com, 800-832-2331 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/buffalogames.
Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo patient Ashley Goodrow, 17, second from left, plays a round of the party game, Gotcha! with her aunt, Vicki McGraw, left, and Child Life Specialists Deb King, second from right, and Mackenzie Mattison. Gotcha! is the newest party game by Buffalo Games, and is available for patients and their families to enjoy along with other games and puzzles at Kaleida facilities throughout Buffalo. |
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