Kader Group

ODM customers have included toys for Disney, Hasbro and Mattel; and electrical goods housings for National Panasonic.

As well as introducing its own brands to North America, Kader under the Bachmann brand built itself up as the largest volume seller of model railways by purchasing other failing companies, using the Bachmann name to front a series of purchases in the rest of the world to combat the then poor perceptions of Hong Kong-based production quality.

Kader's business model for each take over, from its original purchase of Bachmann to the present day, is to buy a perceived quality brand in the target market or country.

[1][2] Sanda Kan's biggest client had been Bachmann's dominant rival in the UK market Hornby Railways, which had concentrated production there since 1997–2001.

The merger was hailed by one producer as "a marriage made in heaven",[4] although it is not yet clear what long-term effects the concentration of the ownership of production will have.

Hornby's managing director pronounced the acquisition "a welcome outcome [that] removes the uncertainty over the future of Sanda Kan".