The most popular toy products and retailers during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US have been listed. During the last two weeks of November, nearly 24 million consumers shopped online for toys, a rise of 18 per cent year-on-year, ...
Greetings specialist Carte Blanche says toys could go on to make up around 25 per cent of its turnover within five years. Licensing and business development director Paul Haines told ToyNews in an exclusive interview: "We've been [in the ...
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Vivid is to roll out its hotly tipped Cut the Rope toy line over Easter with a raft of TV, web and app advertising. The ZeptoLab app has to date notched up in excess of 300 million downloads and over 1.5 million likes on Facebook, with ...
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Tomy has launched a Britains Got Talent competition. But there's no singing or dancing to be found here. The company hopes to find a young farming toy fanatic to be the face of its 2014 toy collection. The 'Britain's Got Talent' ...
"Technology is moving at such a fast rate that electronic learning toys can quickly become outdated." But VTech product manager Charlotte Johnson also tells ToyNews that tech toys can stand the test of time by focusing on accessibility ...
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Merger and acquisition activity has been pretty sparse in toy circles in recent times. Back in the 1980s Hasbro snaffled the Playskool and MB companies followed by Kenner Parker Tonka in the 1990s, the same decade in which Mattel flexed ...
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Enhanced Retail Solutions (ERS) and Planalytics announce a joint venture in order to marry Planalytics' business weather intelligence forecasting system with ERS' POS Analytic and Demand Planning Software. ERS' broad customer base has ...
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A heatable soft Boofle Bear will hit toy shop shelves this summer, courtesy of Intelex. The firm struck a three-year licensing agreement for Boofle. The soft toys will be filled with treated millet and gently scented with lavender. ...
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Disney has just announced its Infinity video game that works with physical figures, and other games publishers have hinted at introducing something like Skylanders. Do you welcome the competition? Oh definitely. We think we've invented a ...
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Children have played with toys from their favourite stories for decades, whether it's pretending to be super heroes or collecting Moshlings in real life – or while playing Moshi Monsters online. The difference now is that children ...
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After being re-elected president of the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), Alonso Ancira Elizondo, CEO of Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA), said that the steel industry and the Mexican government can no longer ignore ...
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At last - the toy shows are all over and we can all get back to doing our normal day jobs. So how did the shows go this year? Well, the general consensus seems to suggest they were steady but nothing exciting emerged. I'm not sure I ...
The outdoor toys sector faced a tough 2012, mainly thanks to the poor weather, but suppliers remain optimistic for the year ahead. Plum Products, which supplies play houses, trampolines, slides and more, weathered the storm, with swing ...
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As a parent you know that your children are precious and you need to make sure that they are happy all the times. If you are the mother or father of a girl child, you would know that even a simple toy doll can bring a lot of happiness ...
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Dolls today are enjoying a huge resurgence in the toy and gift sector and are firmly in the forefront of everyone's minds for 2013. NPD released statistics in September 2012 stating that sales in the girls sector were up from the ...