Mattel has promoted Michael Hick to Sales Director for the UK and Ireland. He joined the company in 2008 as Senior National Account Manager on the Argos and Tesco business, having previously worked at Mega Brands UK and LEGO UK. Hick ...
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It might be a challenging year for the toy trade, but Harrods’ Toy Kingdom is confident it is about to have one of its strongest 12 months yet. Sales have risen since the London store’s toy area underwent a multi-million pound ...
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LEGO Star Wars toy sales in LEGO retail stores rose 40 per cent during a recent marketing campaign. The Yoda Chronicles Tour, which took place over the Easter period, attracted an estimated 10,000 people who take part in the fun ...
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It took just two weeks for this year's Toymaster show to sell out – beating the record which had been set in 2012, when all space had been filled by the end of January. This time round, however, the organisers revealed in ...
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You know you can count on Arnolds to keep you up to date on all the latest office trends, which is why we want to make sure you know all about offices turning into meet markets (and we don’t mean the kind you find at happy hour on a ...
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Iron Man 3 movie star Robert Downey Jr has praised the LEGO Iron Man toys on TV show Daybreak. The actor apparently said the toys were "really cute". He also joked that the way the LEGO Iron Man was sitting made him look "as drunk as a ...
More than 100 exhibitors took to the Independent Toy and Gift Show last week, in what the organisers said was 'the best show to date'. The event, held at Cranmore Park, Solihull, ran from Tuesday, April 16th until Wednesday, April 17th. ...
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How important are toys to Argos? What are your ambitions in this sector? Argos is the UK's number one toy retailer (by value) and toys is an incredibly important category to our business. Many people will remember flicking through the ...
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Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys are continuing to soar. It's been named the number one new toy property in the UK in NPD's March retail sales data, in terms of value sales. Flair's action figures are also the third-placed ...
sjennings What's the coolest thing in your office? Your collection of Star Wars bobble heads? The vending machine recently stocked with Skittles? The free coffee? All those "perks" will seem pretty lame after you read about some of the ...
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Tobias Tostesen has changed the way many see LEGO's, in fact his LEGO chandelier displayed at this year's Milan Design Week shines with so much more than light. Made from 8,000 transparent LEGO's that stretch from the?floor-to-ceiling, this ...
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LEGO Muppets play-sets could become a reality. A 39-year-old teacher from Kearns, US, has created a selection of Minifigures and play-sets based on the popular Disney property. He has pitched his idea using the LEGO Cuusoo website, ...
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Toy Industries of Europe (TIE) is organising two webinars about the new chemical rules of the Toy Safety Directive. The first webinar (7 May) will focus on the new chemical requirements of the Directive, which will enter into force in July ...
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I was really pleased to be asked, as a special needs parent, to write an article for ToyNews. As with anything I write, I think about my approach and I started by looking up the definition of toys. This is what good old Wikipedia said: ...
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Remember the giant LEGO Christmas tree made out of 600,000 bricks? One artist is now creating his own 'LEGO Masterworks' and is seeking funding on Kickstarter to help him build them. Mike Doyle is offering model kits and prints to ...
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