Europress was a British magazine and software publisher based in Adlington, near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Chris Payne came up with the name Mandarin Software as the brand for all the planned games, graphic designer Heather Sheldrick designed the logo, and Mandarin Software was launched to the press at a Chinese restaurant in London, where it showed off its first round of planned product launched.
Europress Software published a high proportion of educational material, such as the Fun School series.
Following Hasbro Interactive's purchase by the French-based Infogrames in January 2001, they gained little interest in Europress' focus on educational multimedia.
They had encouraged Europress to produce a Countdown CD-ROM, but only weeks before the launch, with large pre-orders, they discovered that they did not have the interactive rights.
Run by ex-Newsfield directors Roger Kean, Oliver Frey and Jonathan Rignall.