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{{Short description|American company}}
{{about||other companies with the name|Topps Meat Company|and|Topps Tiles|the computing programming group|TOPPS (research group)||Tops (disambiguation)}}
{{Overly detailed|date=July 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2012}}
{{Infobox company
| name             = The Topps Company, Inc.
| logo             = Topps Logo.svg
| logo_size        = 180px
| logo_caption     = Logo used since 1981
| type             = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| genre            = 
| foundation       = [[Brooklyn]], New York, U.S. ({{start date and age|1938}})
| founder          = 
| location_city    = 95 Morton <br /> New York, New York
| location_country = U.S.
| area_served      = 
| key_people       = {{ubl|[[Michael Eisner]] (Chairman)|Mike Mahan<ref name=cnbc.com>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/fanatics-hires-former-dick-clark-ceo-for-topps-digital-collectibles.html |title=Fanatics hires former Dick Clark Productions CEO to lead its collectibles business |last=de Leon |first=Riley |date=16 June 2022 |work=CNBC |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> (CEO)}}
| industry         = [[Collectable|Collectibles]], [[confectionery]]
| products         = [[Trading card]]s, [[chewing gum]], [[candy]]
| brands           = [[Allen & Ginter]]<ref name=board>[http://www.cardboardconnection.com/n28-allen-ginter-baseball-cards 1887 N28 Allen & Ginter Baseball Cards] on The Cardboard Connection</ref> <br /> [[Bowman Gum|Bowman]]<ref name=gogts/>
| services         = 
| operating_income = 
| revenue          = $91.6 Million (fiscal 2006)
| net_income       = $101 Million (fiscal 2017)
| owner            = [[Fanatics, Inc.|Fanatics]]
| num_employees    = 422
| divisions        = 
| subsid           = 
| slogan           = 
| homepage         = {{URL|topps.com}}
| footnotes        = 
}}

'''The Topps Company, Inc.''' is an American company that manufactures [[trading card]]s and other  [[collectible]]s. Formerly based in [[New York City]],<ref>{{cite web |title=United States (Headquarters) |url=http://www.topps.com/contactus/ |work=topps.com |access-date=October 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026144737/http://www.topps.com/contactus/ |archive-date=October 26, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> Topps is best known as a leading producer of [[Baseball card|baseball]] and other sports and [[Non-sports trading card|non-sports]] themed trading cards. Topps also produces cards under the brand names [[Allen & Ginter]]<ref name=board/> and [[Bowman Gum|Bowman]].<ref name=gogts>{{Cite web|url=https://gogts.net/history-of-bowman-baseball-cards/|title=History of Bowman Baseball Cards – Go GTS|date=August 4, 2015 }}</ref>

In the 2010s, Topps was the only baseball card manufacturer with a license with [[Major League Baseball]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.beckett.com/news/topps-locks-up-mlb-exclusive-card-license-throuugh-2020/|title=Topps locks up MLB-exclusive license through 2020 – Beckett News|date=2013-03-18|work=Beckett News|access-date=2017-04-18|language=en-US}}</ref> Following the loss of that license to [[Fanatics, Inc.]] in 2022, Fanatics acquired Topps in the same year.