The Good Toy Guide is celebrating its official launch at Toy Fair with the announcement of its new mascot: Popcorn the Bear. The play advice site went live in September and recieved such a positive response that the team knew it needed to ...
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The search giant saw its market share drop to 88% in December 2012. According to Experian, 2.7 billion visits were made to UK search engines in December 2012. This represents a 17% increase year-on-year for UK search. Google market ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has awarded Australian contract mining and construction company Macmahon Holdings Ltd the mining services contract for the expansion of its Christmas Creek mine in the ...
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John Lewis is hiring an extra 100 IT staff as it continues its drive into online following a successful Christmas and sales trading season. And according to Paul Coby, IT director at the department stores chain, a high proportion of ...
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The sharemarket closed little changed yesterday, despite news from Japan that Australia's second-biggest trading partner was taking steps to spur growth in its long-stalled economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 1.6 points, or ...
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The Australian sharemarket has closed flat as investors gave a muted response to the Bank of Japan's plan for a more expansionary 2 per cent inflation target. At 4.15pm AEDT today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 1.6 points, or ...
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Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning. Snow way to run a business: Each day of ...
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We all know that a great pair of tights is a really cost efficient way to update your wardrobe and transform your pins, but the majority of fashion styles out there are sheers featuring opaque designs. Which is all well and good, but with ...
According to the British Retail Consortium footfall in December was 1.2 per cent lower than in 2011, despite seeing a 0.4 per cent rise last November. The UK’s worst-hit locations this December were the North & Yorkshire, down ...
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The annual show season can leave some of us longing for the relative comfort of the office. Based on his own experience – but also the invluable advice of others – Lewis Tyler gives some tips on how to survive the show with ...
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Stardoll, the site for fashion conscious young women, recently hit a 200 million user milestone. We find out how it’s boosting toy brands with high-impact campaigns, while taking its IPs into the physical world. "Media consumption ...
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Sharp has drastically cut-back production of 9.7-inch touchscreens for Apple's iPad, shifting its focus to the 7.85-inch screens that it makes for the iPad Mini at its Kameyama plant in Japan. The news caps a slowdown that began in ...
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The majority of retailers are positive 2013 will be a prosperous year for the toy industry. 76.5 per cent told ToyNews they’re confident about the health of their business for the year ahead, despite sales tracker NPD’s ...
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I should have known better. After all, I’m the former managing editor of Mobile Entertainment, I can boast a long stint as editor of video games publication MCV, and I’m now publisher of B2B titles covering PC, tech and ...
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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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