Toy of the Year 2015: goki excels with four nominations

Toy of the Year 2015: goki excels with four nominations

Smiling faces at Gollnest & Kiesel, the most northerly toy manufacturer in Germany. No fewer than four new products from the range of the wooden toy specialist have been nominated for "The Golden Rocking Horse", Germany's leading toy award.

Nominated in the category "Games and technology": The giant crane from goki

The giant crane is indispensable at the building site. A construction crane made of solid beech and lime wood. Fully functional with many realistic details:

• Rotatable through 360°
• Two smooth-running cranks for horizontal and vertical load transportation
• Pallet fork with Euro-pallet
• Ultra-quiet rubber tyres
• Very high quality thanks to solid beech and lime wood

Superbly manufactured for heavy-duty construction work. Size: 100 x 32 x 100 cm. Article and picture no.: 55937, brand: goki.

Nominated in the category "For the whole family": Steel drum from goki

The goki steel drum is here! This instrument is fascinating, its sound is so unusual and yet somehow familiar. It can be played well with a little practice. Is that the sound of the Caribbean? – We think so! Each steel drum is hand-made in Trinidad Tobago and checked for purity of sound.

Height: 7.8 cm; diameter: 25.7 cm; article and picture no.: 61908; brand: goki.

Nominated in the category "Everything to make children happy": goki doll's greenhouse

From sowing to harvesting is a long process. A greenhouse with all the trimmings shows playfully how it's done. Guaranteed environmentally friendly: the flexible doll's greenhouse from goki. Two flexible dolls, planting bed, seed bags, compost bin, planting table and a lot more besides.

21 x 16.8 x 20 cm; 50 pieces (!!!); article and picture no.: 51819; brand: goki.

Nominated in the category "For the little ones": Susibelle ride-on from goki

The Formula 1 among the ride-on vehicles gets the little ones moving. The playful design provides toddlers with their first driving experience and awakens their enjoyment of movement.

75.3 x 35 x 40 cm, article and picture no.: 53833; brand: goki

Place your votes here

From 10 June up to 7 July 2015 you can vote for your favourites here: www.das-goldene-schaukelpferd.de

Gollnest & Kiesel

Gollnest & Kiesel KG is Europe's innovative manufacturer of wooden toys and the largest toy company in northern Germany. Its brands HEIMESS (baby toys made of wood and high-quality plastic, made in Germany), goki, HOLZTIGER  and ANKER Stone Building Sets are well known in the toy and gift trade. The company was founded 34 years ago by its two owners. The HEIMESS brand has existed for over nearly 60 years, and ANKER Steinbaukasten GmbH in Rudolstadt can trace its history back over 130 years. More than 2,000 different products form one of the most widely varied ranges anywhere in the toy industry.

"We produce toys for children's hands, heads and souls," says Gerhard Gollnest. Over 600 Gollnest & Kiesel employees worldwide are busy transforming a thousand new ideas into a thousand living colours.

Gollnest & Kiesel places a very special emphasis on forestation. "Whoever takes something from nature must give something back to it," says Fritz-Rüdiger Kiesel. Every year, Gollnest & Kiesel donates a new forest to Germany's least wooded state, Schleswig-Holstein. A tree is planted for every newborn child in the northernmost federal state. In this way, 300,000 new beech, maple and oak trees have been planted over the past ten years.