Spin Master

Spin Master Corp. (formerly known as Spin Master Toys) is a Canadian multinational toy and entertainment company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Spin Master employs over 1,600 people globally with offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. In 2022, Spin Master won The Golden Screen Award for Feature Film, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, for Paw Patrol: The Movie. Spin Master received the "Toy of the Year" and "Action Figure of the Year" awards at the 2026 Toy of the Year Awards. Three university friends from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario - Ronnen Harary, Anton Rabie and Ben Varadi - founded Spin Master Toys with $10,000 in Toronto in early 1994. The company's first product, Earth Buddies, were small heads made out of Kmart pantyhose and grass seeds, which grew "hair" when watered. The Earth Buddy went on to sell over 26,000 units. Spin Master Toys' first major success came in 1998 with the launch of the Air Hogs brand and its first item, the Sky Shark. Developed from the prototype provided by inventors John Dixon and Peter Manning, the Sky Shark was a foam plane that used compressed air to enable outdoor flight. Product development took over two years and more than $500,000, but ended up generating $103 million in revenue over the next few years.