Distributor The In Thing has announced a list of show-only trade deals for Toy Fair and Spring Fair. For example, for every Display of Moshi Monster Slap Watches (12 count, £66) purchased, a retailer will receive one free box of ...
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Retail opinion was divided over what the most important or stand out moment was for the toy industry last year. Hasbro’s new Furby was named by just under ten per cent of the retailers we questioned, while seven per cent said the ...
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Head of licensing Darran Garnham (left) and senior consumer products manager Sam Ferguson (right) reveal how they're growing the Moshi Monsters brand even further with Poppet. Why licence out the Poppet Moshi Monster in particular and ...
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Moshi Monsters Music Rox! has gone Gold in the UK without any promotional airplay. Released in April this year, Music Rox! is the debut 12-track album from Moshi Monsters. In the UK a record must sell 300,000 copies to achieve Gold ...
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The final golden ticket in Vivid Imaginations' nationwide Gold Iggy promotion has been located. Nine year-old Cameron Smith from Worcester was the lucky recipient, and he now joins the exisiting four ticket holders on a trip to Moshi ...
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Surprise acquisitions,top level exec changes,retail casualties and the London 2012 effect,the continued dominance of LEGO and Moshi Monsters in-store–not to mention some eye-watering charity challenges…the toy business has ...
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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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IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
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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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Disney rocked the world this week by announcing it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion – AND release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015. The entertainment giant has come a very long way since its 1928 black and white Mickey Mouse film ...
Mattel 01628 500 000 Mattel had two of the top five family games last year, according to NPD December 2011 data, and Uno was the number one card game. This season it has a number of fresh products, including Chameleon Crunch, which ...
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So a particular toy is being sold in a particular retailer exclusively for a limited period. There’s nothing wrong with a little exclusivity between friends, right? Why shouldn’t a company and a retailer be able to ...
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