This month could set a new toy sales record in the UK, thanks to two extra shopping days compared to 2011. However, retail sales tracker NPD also says that despite sales potentially topping £400 million in the last three weeks of ...
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Are the days of a single hot toy over? Retailers predict kids tablets, Furby, Nerf and LEGO to be this year's top sellers. Most of the UK’s top retailers of toys believe that rival kids’ learning tablets LeapPad 2 and InnoTab2 ...
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Royal Mail elves read children's letters to the North Pole; iPads also high on wish lists. Every year hundreds of thousands of children post letters to Santa to ask for presents and this Christmas most want a Furby, according to Royal ...
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There once was a time when a holiday in early August was far removed from the realms of possibility. Only once the new Argos book had been studied could I consider taking a week off. However, no longer are there the nasty surprises in the ...
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Paddy Power has said the LeapPad 2 is the “clear favourite” to become the UK’s top selling toy this Christmas. The popular Irish bookmaker has placed the kids iPad-style device as odds-on favourite at 1/4. For punters ...
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Don't you just love the school holidays? Loads of kids come into the shop looking at the toys they want and hopefully buy them. But you still get the odd ‘child’ who needs some serious time with the Supernanny. Take this ...
Tags: toys, soft toys, tougher toys, toy, toy trade
In one body I am the mum of a toddler, a kid that won't grow up, and a toy reviewer. So when they announce the toys that will be making Santa's lists this year, it's like I'm Meryl Streep when they announce the Oscar nominations – ...
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A massive 54 per cent of mums and dads would push their budget to purchase a must-have Christmas toy. However, findings from a survey conducted by ToyNews also revealed that 51 per cent of parents said they're spending less on ...
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Import Services has bolstered its portfolio of toy clients with Famosa. The new distribution platform will be operational from January 1st in time to support the launch of the new Furby plush line and the I Love Minnie range of dolls. ...
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The ACE Group has hired Timothy O’Donnell as executive vice president of financial lines for its international insurance operations, effective 1 June 2012. In this role, O'Donnell will be responsible for the company's directors and ...
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ACE has appointed Mark Homan as the Executive Vice President of Casualty, for ACE’s international insurance operations, effective from 1 July 2012. Based in London, Mark Homan will succeed Keith Stibbards and will report to David ...
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With just over a month until Christmas, 57 percent of consumers (and 65 percent of men) have yet to begin shopping, mostly because they think they have plenty of time, according to the latest Consumer Reports Holiday Poll. However, in yet ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, economy, Malls