Buddy and Barney LTD

Monday Blog Post 

Author: Jeremy Boreham, Managing Director at Buddy and Barney Ltd.

We’re Buddy & Barney, an independent, family-run toy brand and publishing company based in the beautiful city of Bath. We’ve been a part of the toy industry for many years, sharing our passion for creating high quality toys and fun novelty books. We specialise in bath toys and novelty books, with award-winning products that we are super proud of, but our product portfolio expands much further into educational needs for intellectual stimulation, and craft products, encouraging creativity, learning and fun through play. 

Under the Buddy & Barney brand, we also have lots of new and exciting products to share across a variety of categories, including a highly anticipated new addition to our award-winning Scratch and Sniff Fart Book collection! Brand new product ranges are also on their way including reusable silicone sticker books! 

Recently, we received some fantastic news that Buddy and Barney won two awards in the Independent Toy Awards! Our new Muddy Paws Colour Changing Bath Time Stickers were awarded first place in the ‘children’s gifts’ category, and our Dino Farts Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Book was awarded second place for the ‘novelty’ category! 

We are looking forward to sharing more of our colour changing toys at the toy fair. 

Sustainability is of great importance to the team at Buddy & Barney, and we have recently improved the packaging of many of our products. We are very conscious of the impact our packaging choices have upon the environment, and where possible, we have redesigned our packaging to be entirely plastic-free! This is one of our key focuses currently, which will continue into the future as we find new and innovative ways to improve our environmental impact.  

We are thrilled to be attending the Toy Fair for the first time this year, sharing our company’s story and products with likeminded people. We’d love to meet you and hope to see you there!