Below is a table of toy soldier manufacturs from around the world. This is not exhaustive, but is fairly comprehensive.

MAKER	NATIONALITY	CATEGORY	COMMENTS
Airfix	England	Plastic	Founder Nicholas Kove wanted the company to have a name begining with an A so that it would be near the top of trade directories. Best known for plastic construction kits they produced some of the earliest soft plastic toy soldiers in 1946 and more extensive ranges in 20mm scale from the 1960's and 54mm scale during the 1970's
Acedo	France	Plastic	Domage et Cie, originally made aluminium toy soldiers under the name Aludo but changed it to Acedo when they began producing the same figures in acetate plastic. Hence ACEtate DOmage
Allgeyer	Germany	Flat tin
Aludo	France	Aluminium	Domage et Cie. see above. It was common for French companies producing aluminium figures to incorporate ALU in their name (Mingalu, Cofalu, Quiralu, etc.) Here it is ALUminium DOmage
Ammon	Germany	Flat tin
Armee	Germany	Composition	From late 1930's to early 1950's made poor quality Wehrmacht and Wild West figures based on Lineol designs, didn't make the transition to plastic when the market turned away from composition
Athena	Greece	Plastic	Often referred to as AEHONE, based in Athens and takes it's name from the Greek godess Athena which is it's trademark. Most common figures are Hoplites and Evzones sold as tourist souveniers
Authenticast	Eire	Solid Lead	Authenticast Comet Gaeltacht Industries. Was set up in the Republic of Ireland by US toy soldier manufacturer Comet, to take advantage of post war development grants and tax concessions. Designed by Swedish artist Holger Eriksson who carved the masters in wax giving the finished product a distinctive "hammered" look which has a strong appeal to collectors.
Beffoid	France	Plastic	Named after the founder Charles Debeffe made a range of post-war French army, colonials and Wild West, some issued as premiums for Nescafe
Bon-Dufour	France	Composition	Made very distinctive doll like toy soldiers of the French army around the turn of the 20th Century, also made very artistic wooden forts and buildings to go with them.
Britains	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic	Named after the founder William Britains in 1893 who revolutionised the marketing of toy soldiers by introducing Hollow Casting to reduce cost and setting the standard size of toy soldiers at 54mm high to compliment the popular guage of toy trains. When plastic began to replace metal toy soldiers in the 1950's, due to cost and child safety laws, Britains produced some of their hollow-cast farm animals in plastic but were unable to match the quality of some of their competitors so they bought Herald to acquire the skills they needed.
Cellose	France	Composition	Made 80mm toy soldiers of the Napoleonic period and the contemporary French army during the 1930's
Charbens	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic	Named after Charlie and Ben Reid, founders of the company
Cherilea	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic	Named after Wilf Cherington and Jim Leaver, founders of the company.
Crescent	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic
Cafe Storme	Belgium	Plastic	In 1960 Francis Storme commisioned a range of figures to depict characters from Belgian history to be issued as premiums with Cafe Storme.
Deetail	England	Plastic	Brand name for a range of toy soldiers launched by Britains in 1971 to replace the Swappet and Eyes Right ranges which were in decline. Deetail was the brainchild of Charles Biggs who incorporated a plastic figure with a metal base to improve stability, a feature which was copied many years later by Elastolin for their 70mm swappet range.
Durso	Belgium	Composition
Durolin	Czeckoslovakia	Composition
Elastolin	Germany	Composition/Plastic
Fontanini	Italy	Plastic
Gemodels	England	Plastic	Founded by George E. Musgrave who had been a sculptor for Britains and Crescent. When the company was originally set up the name was pronounced as GemModels but there was already another toy firm making model rockets with this name so Musgrave had to change the pronunciation to GeeModels.
Heinrichsen	Germany	Flat tin
Herald	England	Plastic	Name and Trade Mark of Zang, inspired by a poster for the Harrogate Toy Fair. The company was later sold to Britains and operated independantly producing plastic toy soldiers alongside the parent company which continued to make hollow cast figures until the two were finally integrated and the metal line was discontinued.
Heyde	Germany	Solid Lead	Named after the founder George Heyde
JIM	France	Plastic	Name derived from Jouets Incassables en Matiere Plastique. Made a large range of plastic figures including Disney characters which are particularly sought after.
Jean	Germany	Plastic	Named after Jean Hofler, founder of the company.
Jecsan	Spain	Plastic
Johillco	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic	John Hill and Co. named after the founder John Hill.
Krolyn	Denmark	Aluminium
Leyla	Germany	Composition	Named after Christian Ley, founder of the company
Lineol	Germany	Composition
Lone Star	England	Hollow Cast/Plastic	Trading name of the Die Cast Machine Tools cmpany (DCMT)
Lucotte	France	Solid Lead
Malleable Mouldings	England	Plastic/Solid Lead	Malleable: "that which can be hammered or pressed into shape" An early (post war) attempt to make plastic figures from acetate utilising moulds designed by Holger Eriksson (see Authenticast). When this failed they produced soild metal figures for adult collectors.
Manurba	Germany	Plastic	Named after the founder Manfred Urban.
Mars-Hindenburg	Germany	Composition
Marx	USA	Plastic	Louis Marx produced tin lithographed toy soldiers in the 1930s but is best known for developing the concept of the playset which incorporated tin lithograph buildings with plastic toy soldiers and accessories
Miller	USA	Plaster	Made 12" figures of WW2 G.I.s in plaster of paris.
Mokarex	France	Plastic	Issued as premiums with Mokarex coffee was a collection of figures depicting characters from French history
Ochel	Germany	Flat tin
Pfeiffer	Austria	Composition	Named after proprietor Emil Pfeiffer, originally made dolls and began making toy soldiers around the turn of the 20th Century. Their sodiers were quite distinctive being over 10cm high they stand without any base and have child like faces, a legacy of the doll making. They went on to make the first toy soldiers for Elastolin.
Quiralu(x)	France	Aluminium/Plastic	Derived from Quirine et Cie. (pronounced key-ra-loo) When production changed to plastic an x appears to have been added to the name.
Reamsa	Spain	Plastic	Name derived from Resinas Artificiales Moldeadas S.A.
Reisler	Denmark	Plastic	Named after the founder Kai Reisler.
SAE	South Africa	Plastic/Solid Lead	Swedish African Engineers. Best known for 25mm solid lead wargame figures, they later made a range of 54mm mounted figures in plastic.
Schweizer	Austria	Flat tin/Semi Flat lead
SEGOM	France	Plastic	Name derived from Societie d' Edition General d' Objets Moules. Produced 54mm kit figures in cream acetate (mostly Napoleonic) as well as 25mm wargaming pieces
Spenkuch	Germany	Semi flat lead
Starlux	France	Composition/Plastic
Tipple Topple	Austria	Composition	Latter trade name of Pfeiffer, they made Wild West, Polar, Zoo and Crib figures.
Timpo	England	Composition/Aluminium Hollow Cast/Plastic	Name derived form Toy Importers Co. Founded by Sally Gawrylovitz better known as Ally Gee. Initially bought in composition figures made by Zang and aluminium made by Wendal which were packaged into playsets and sold under the Timpo name. Timpo produced their own hollow cast range and later adapted the moulds to create their early plastic figures. Contemporaneously with Britains they developed the Swappet style of figure in order to cut out the cost of hand painting, this in turn led to the development of overmoulding to provide a multicoloured product.
Wendal	England	Aluminium/Plastic	Name derived from Wendan Manufacturing, mostly made copies of Quiralu under licence also some original designs such as a tiger hunt produced for Timpo. The zoo and farm ranges were later produced in plastic with a flock coating to simulate fur.
Zang	England	Composition/Plastic	Named after the founder Meyer Zang. Initially made compositon figures for Timpo whcih carry no trademark. Early plastic figures carry the Zang trademark M overprinted with Z (which looks like a Y in a square box) this was later replaced with the Herald trademark.