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Panini Group history
Panini Group company history timeline
Panini sold 15 million packets of figurines in 1961.
1962 Booker T and the MG’s released their instrumental single ‘Green Onions’.
29 million units were sold the following year, and brothers Franco and Umberto Panini joined the company in 1963.
P Z Ingerman, 'Panini-Backus form' suggested, Communications of the ACM 10 (3)(1967), 137.
In 1970 Panini began publishing L'Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio Italiano (The Illustrated Guide to Italian Football), after purchasing the rights from publishing house Carcano.
Panini also published its first FIFA World Cup trading cards and sticker album for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, in addition to using multilingual captions and selling stickers outside of Italy for the first time.
1992 The Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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In May 2006, Panini partnered with The Coca-Cola Company and Tokenzone to produce the first virtual sticker album for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
In his honor, in 2006 the Municipality decided to establish a Sticker Museum, which hosts the entire donated collection.
On 13 March 2009, Panini acquired the US trading card manufacturer Donruss Playoff LP. With it, Panini inherited Donruss' NFL and NFLPA licences.
The classic football stickers today are complemented by the collectible card game Adrenalyn XL, introduced in 2009.
In March 2010, Panini acquired a licence from the NHL and NHLPA. The 2010-11 ice hockey season was the first in five years that more than one company, with Upper Deck producing their own NHL cards.
In 2010 Panini released a UEFA Champions League edition of Adrenalyn XL, containing 350 cards from 22 of the competing clubs, including defending champions FC Barcelona.
For the 2014 World Cup, three million FIFA.com users took part in the Panini Digital Sticker Album contest.
August 11, 2015 is the first ‘official, National Panini Day*
Beginning in 2015, Topps signed a deal to produce stickers, trading cards and digital collections for the competition.
Since Fifa’s revenue from licensing almost doubled in 2018, it is likely that Panini also had to pay more in recent years.
Panini developed an app for the 2018 World Cup where fans could collect and swap virtual stickers.
Dubbed the “Panini Cheapskates”, in 2018 a UK couple won fans all over the world by filling in their 2018 World Cup sticker album by drawing in each player.
During the 2018 World Cup, Panini produced an average of 8 and 10 million card packages per day.
The fourth edition of Panini FIFA 365 Adrenalyn XL was released for 2019, featuring top clubs, teams and players.
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