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The Mindscape Group is an international Software Publish ing company, previously a sub-label to '''The Software Toolworks'''. As of 2004, the group has offices in France , England , Ireland , Germany , the Netherlands , Asia , Australia and Latin America . It has an annual turnover of €38 million and employs 150 people. HISTORY Mindscape started as a sub-brand of The Software Toolworks, a Computer Game Publisher , active from 1980 until 2001. It started out publishing software for Heath/Zenith personal computers. Early products included Mychess ® and the C/80 C compiler for CP/M . The two most popular products were the very long-lived series Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and the Chessmaster series of Computer Game s. In 1990 TST debuted the Miracle Piano , a critically acclaimed music-teaching product which almost sank the company after it over-ordered the piano hardware, was not able to sell through copies of the product very quickly, and was stuck with a large Inventory . Mergers and acquisitions ;1994 :Purchases RPG publisher SSI and changes name to Mindscape. ;1999 :Sold to Mattel for around US$3.6 billion, causing a strong impact to Mattel's stock price and the ouster of its CEO. Mattel subsequently sells Mindscape to Gore Technology Group for just a share of the profits that Gores could obtain by selling the properties. ;2001 :Mindscape is made a separate company in following the purchase of the international division of The Learning Company from the Gore Technology Group by Jean-Pierre Nordman. ;2002 :Montparnasse Multimedia is purchased by Mindscape. ;2005 :Mindscape purchases the studio Coktel Vision - owners of the brands ADI and Adiboo - from Vivendi Universal Games As of 2006, Ubisoft continues to publish Chessmaster titles. Broderbund is the new publisher of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing . EXTERNAL LINKS
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