Winning Moves has hired David Ripley as its new chief operating officer to support the company's push into new products, licences and territories. The new role will cover general operations, supply chain capability, product sourcing and ...
Tags: Toys, top trumps, winning moves
Every year David Letterman picks his favourite toys to appear on his famous talk show. This year, Wow Stuff's Attacknids have appeared on the legendary US talk show. The wily host first takes control of a single Attacknid, and then ...
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1) Toys R Us bags exclusive Skylanders Giant figures 2) VTech introduces InnoTab 2 Baby 3) Now Golden Bear adds Woolly and Tig 4) LEGO Star Wars prices rocket on eBay 5) Toy retail is under pressure 6) Are the days of a single hot ...
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At 13 months old, Julian Lazcano was too young to speak or even really understand the firefighters and volunteers who visited his room and formed a small circle around him Friday morning at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. But ...
Tags: Firefighters, toys, hospitals
Playmobil has released its first ever game app. Plamobil Pirates is available on iOS platforms now and is set to hit Android's Google Play store soon. In the game players take control of popular figures from Playmobil's popular Pirates ...
The majority of chronic diseases Russian kids contract are caused by toxic toys,a new report has claimed. A team tested over 500 randomly selected toys bought in shops and markets in towns across Russia,and almost a third were proven to ...
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Bandit Lites recently participated in its annual angel tree charity by providing gifts for local families who have fallen on hard times, in both Knoxville and Nashville. In the lobby of each Bandit office, employees decorated a Christmas ...
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LEGO says its new entertainment franchise Legends of Chima will be a hit with boys–just like the Ninjago brand is. The firm even expects Chima sales to grow 30 per cent more in 2013 than Ninjago did in 2012. Legends of Chima toys ...
Editor's note: We recently asked readers to share their thoughts on what is the best part of this season. Following is a selection of readers' favorite traditions. Truth be known The year I found out the truth about Santa Claus, it was ...
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Nancy Stanek is used to predictions of her toy shops' demise. In the 1970s, catalogs were expected to be the death of her Toys et Cetera stores. Then it was the big-box discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target. More recently, the big, ...
Tags: Toys, Toys et Cetera stores, Nancy Stanek, toy sellers
Argos'partnership with Barnardo's has resulted in a£700,000 bumper pre-Christmas bonus for the children's charity. During the six-week Toy Exchange campaign with the retailer,donations to Barnardo's rose by over 71,000 bags. Those ...
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Peterkin has signed the exclusive UK and Ireland rights to Amazing Live Sea Monkeys. The deal is effective now and the first wave of crustaceans will be available from Peterkin in time for Easter. Peterkin Head of Sales and ...
The Textiles Committee under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, will hold a one-day workshop on December 24 at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The workshop will be on ‘Post GI Initiatives for Brand Promotion through Market ...
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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 ...
Tags: toy, NPD, UK toy, Sales of toys
The children in front press their noses against the windows, staring slack-jawed and wide-eyed at the magic of the department store window at Christmastime. Behind, kids are hoisted — careful with that hot chocolate! — on the ...