Assassins Creed Statue/Figures

[Legi]

Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

I don't follow?

The logic is as follows
UBisoft is a multinational company
Basically split 2 ways
NCSA (north central south america)
EMEA (Europe middle east and asia)
Each division handles its licencing and licenses to different companies, and handles distribution differently

But within that, each separate country within EMEA has its own budget for making promotional or retail items and so you get France having exclusives or Germany having exclusives ... That's because the UBisoft or distribution cdivision for that country has authorised it
their isn't a "whole world" merchandise plan

What do they get from making some exclusive to a certain region? I thought what every company that holds a product and such, is to make the most money they can make out of it.
and by keeping a product to one or a certain region, they lose lots of potential money, I never understand moves as such.

[LowlyAssassin]

Originally Posted by Legi

What do they get from making some exclusive to a certain region? I thought what every company that holds a product and such, is to make the most money they can make out of it.
and by keeping a product to one or a certain region, they lose lots of potential money, I never understand moves as such.

An example
A retailer called game, is based in the UK
Game asks UBisoft UK if it can have an exclusive,
UBisoft UK says yes, IF you can make 50000 sales of that item
So UBisoft grant games wish, and no other retailer in any other country even knows this item exists as only game UK and UBisoft UK know it exists

Sooo
If you asked someone in UBisoft NCSA if they knew about that item...they would not


And for European exclusives like this arlo figure....
EMEA granted a licence to the maker of the figure to make the figure,
But EMEA only has distribution rights for EMEA territories
This is because NCSA has the distribution rights to NCSA and they granted the licenses to McFarlane and hot toys for figures,
Sooo the EMEA division would have to discuss distribution rights and terms with either NCSA division or one of the licenses holders that NCSA granted the rights too

So it gets very mess and time consuming and then it becomes complicated with customs and import charges and tax's from ROW to NA sooo usually UBisoft doesn't bother with all that and just let's retailers or importers/exporters or wholesalers to deal with all if that