John Sands (company)

John Sands is an Australian printing company and former distributor of games and computer hardware that is now a wholly owned subsidiary of American Greetings.[1]

In 1851, John Sands and Thomas Kenny founded Sands and Kenny in Sydney. The firm later became Sands, Kenny & Co., and then John Sands Ltd.[2]

American Greetings acquired John Sands from Amcor in December 1995 as part of a global expansion.[3]

Distributor

John Sands acted as a distributor for Milton Bradley from the 1960s to the 1990s, releasing board games in Australia including Foxy, The Game of Life, Wonderland, Mix & Match, Stay Alive, Upwords and I Wish I Were.

John Sands Electronics, based at 6 Bay Street Port Melbourne, also distributed Sega computing hardware into the Australian market, including the hardware and software of the Sega SG-1000 game console and SC-3000 computer.

gollark: Approximate and heavily biased summary: palaiologos suddenly demanded that all (future?) events not require specifically Python after being annoyed by HelloBoi's event somehow and apparently past ones, and ubq shut down the code guessing event and left.
gollark: Weren't you one of the primary supporters, even?
gollark: Didn't you vote for lyric demotion?
gollark: I like how the artificial intelligences are above all other users.
gollark: This is why *I* should be owner. You know exactly what I'll be(e) like.

See also

References
  1. "About Us". John Sands. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  2. Walsh, G. P. (1976). "Sands, John (1818–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. "AMERICAN GREETINGS TO BUY AUSTRALIAN CARD UNIT". The New York Times. AP. 5 December 1995. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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