Funko - Facing Challenges to Maintain Their Iconic $30M Pop Figures
The company founded in 1998 managed to become an icon of pop culture by creating the collectible vinyl figures with a peculiar design called precisely pops. The popularity of them led them to close deals with companies such as Marvel, DC Comics, Sony Pictures, Nickelodeon, video game developers and creators of anime series. But, after publishing the financial results of 2022, the situation is no longer so glorious. Despite achieving profits for $17.4 million last year, this year the numbers reflect losses for almost $50 million. This unleashed in a call with investors, where Brian Marietta, president of Funk, blamed macro factors and other specific problems of Funk for the loss, also confirmed layoffs and other measures that will be complied with to reduce costs. Among the problems described in the Funk Finance Report of 2022 there is a surplus of inventory that affects the company's operation capacity. Basically Funk has more pop figures than you can store and will have to ge...
