phantom II
Master at Arms
In case anyone here cares about Heller product .
Read and weep.
Just read this at another site.
Heller/Joustra's gone into receivership a few weeks ago, and then they have been bought by MAPED, a French manufacturer of school/office stuff.
However, 15 out of the 45 employees have been laid off, most of them the experienced ones in the kit injection business.
MAPED has kept the previous CEO in place (the one that lead the company successfully to receivership...), and rumours are they are more interested in the Joustra part than the Heller part.
Must say some of their recent choices of kits were a bit mixed -nice to have French classics like the Citroen HY or the 4L, also some rally cars; but the Mehari was bugged with mistakes, and they didn't really care about other areas of modelling-
Oh well, stocking up while it's possible is probably a good idea, they had some unique models in their range -though they sold lots of moulds to Smer, some to a south american company, and lost some others...-
Time will tell if we'd see again Heller rise from its ashes...
Read and weep.
Just read this at another site.
Heller/Joustra's gone into receivership a few weeks ago, and then they have been bought by MAPED, a French manufacturer of school/office stuff.
However, 15 out of the 45 employees have been laid off, most of them the experienced ones in the kit injection business.
MAPED has kept the previous CEO in place (the one that lead the company successfully to receivership...), and rumours are they are more interested in the Joustra part than the Heller part.
Must say some of their recent choices of kits were a bit mixed -nice to have French classics like the Citroen HY or the 4L, also some rally cars; but the Mehari was bugged with mistakes, and they didn't really care about other areas of modelling-
Oh well, stocking up while it's possible is probably a good idea, they had some unique models in their range -though they sold lots of moulds to Smer, some to a south american company, and lost some others...-
Time will tell if we'd see again Heller rise from its ashes...