Denys Fisher sale in Schofields department store in Leeds in 1965. A year later, Fisher licensed Spirograph to Kenner Products in the United States. In 1967 Spirograph was chosen as the UK Toy of the Year. Denys Fisher Toys, which also produced other toys and board games, was sold to Palitoy in 1970 and it was subsequently bought by Hasbro. Through the 1980s & 1990s Fisher continued to work with Hasbro in developing new toys and refining Spirograph. Denys Fisher Toys produced the following toys and games: Denys Fisher Denys Fisher (11 May 1918 – 17 September 2002) was an English engineer
Herman Fisher manufactured 16 wooden toys which proved highly popular at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Fisher was the president and chairman of the Fisher-Price company from its inception in 1930 to 1969. He was instrumental in building Fisher-Price into the world's largest manufacturer of preschool toys. Along with Irving Price and Helen Schelle, he established the simple but strict Fisher-Price creed: ""Fisher-Price toys should have intrinsic play value, ingenuity, strong construction, good value and action"." Herman Fisher was also instrumental in spearheading many 'firsts' in the toy industry. He coined the term “preschool toys” with the advent