Emma King joins as junior product manager, Dave Glicksman as key account manager and James Keys as a sales agent. Following the relocation to new offices in Richmond, Bandai has welcomed a trio of appointments within its marketing and ...
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Pink Key’s MD, Richard Pink, has revealed that the company are close to signing a new deal with a toy partner, who will bring Slush Puppie gadgets and toys to market. Since being appointed as the exclusive UK and European licensing ...
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The success of the sales has been fuelled by the show’s return to its Tuesday to Thursday format, helping it sell out a full four months ahead of the show next year. Toy Fair 2017 has sold out. The British Toy and Hobby ...
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Firms are looking to fund final stage of production on the site, with an aim of raising $200,000. PlayFusion and TOMY have headed to Kickstarter to fund the final production of its new toys-to-life title, Lightseekers. Lightseekers is ...
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‘We feel that Go! Go! Sports Girls is a brand that has limitless opportunities and is a great addition to the JazWings and Jazwares family,’ says JazWings’ Karen Kilpatrick. JazWings, the brand development arm of ...
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The ceremony, developed to honour the top female leaders, executives, entrepreneurs and other changemakers, will be held at the Women in Toys 2017 Gala on Sunday, February 19th next year. Nominations are now open for Women in Toys, ...
“It has been an extremely difficult decision for me to make but six years ago I had a heart problem and some of the more painful side effects have returned over this past year," said Groves. After nine years with Posh Paws, Barry ...
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‘The Perudo Championships final is always a landmark event in the games calendar,’ says Paul Lamond’s Richard Wells. Winners of this year’s Perudo Qualifiers are gearing up for next month’s Grand Perudo ...
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"Spin Master's products bring genuine newness to the girls’ toy aisle," Cartoon Network's VP of EMEA, Johanne Broadfield, told ToyNews. Toys are leading the consumer product programmes for two of Cartoon Network's returning ...
Called Champions of Shengha, the game uses wearable sensors to interpret biofeedback in order to power and dictate the collectable card gameplay. A collectable card game that uses a player's own emotions to dictate game play is looking ...
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Hot Wheels will be Mattel's second big screen venture of recent times, following Max Steel. Justin Lin, the director of Fast & Furious and Star Trek Beyond, has signed a deal to develop, direct and produce a Hot Wheels movie. Based on ...
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"The inclusion of the renminbi in the SDR is the biggest structural event in currency markets since the creation of the euro66." This was the title of a recent article published on the Euromoney website. This neatly sums up the view of ...
The Chinese government has released a plan on scientific and technological (S&T) cooperation between China and countries along the Belt and Road. China plans to set up joint labs, research centers, tech transfer centers and S&T parks with ...
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John Lewis has signalled its commitment to financial services provision by announcing its intention to launch a new John Lewis Finance brand. The brand will encompass John Lewis' growing range of financial services products – which ...
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MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has expanded its growing portfolio of monolithic microwave ...
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