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...And that is a much bigger market to compete in than simply making plastic toys for kids....
...In the US, spot prices for virgin high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a common plastic used in products such as shampoo bottles, toys and plastic bags, dropped from $1,674 a tonne in 2021 to $943 in 2023,...
...This was one of two things I learnt from spending an hour on Zoom last week with Alan Adler, the 85-year-old American who invented the AeroPress....
...The falling-rates-equals-higher-stocks story was a fun toy the market threw away when something shinier came along. So there is a bit of euphoria in the air, then....
...Well: a large plot point is baldly pinched from Toy Story, and you do also wonder what actual 10-year-olds are meant to watch this summer....
...They wanted a toy to help them imagine being adults and she gave them the postwar ideal....
...Although Elemental has enjoyed favourable audience ratings, its North American opening weekend gross of $30mn was below already-modest expectations and signals that the film may not recoup its estimated...
...The main character is Errol, Musk’s father, an engineer and boastful fantasist, who does stuff like test whether a kitchen microwave affects spins of a plastic roulette wheel....
...Adieu bins of random plastic trinkets and toys that my kids no longer play with. I tend to give away or donate my unwanted items. But plenty of Americans have a hard time letting go....
...Michael Rakowitz’s stop-motion animation “The Ballad of Special Ops Cody” (2017) stars a toy model of an American soldier who climbs a vitrine in a museum to reach the Mesopotamian votive statues within...
...“Plastics: an important part of your healthy diet”, read a 1990s ad sponsored by the now-defunct American Plastics Council. “You could think of them as the sixth basic food group.”...
...Like it or not, investment in Apple is a geopolitical bet, the contemporary, corporate, Great Powers version of Greek tragedy: Apple as a toy of the gods, squeezed between the CCP and American interests....
...On Tuesday, Reuters’ Milana Vinn reached out to a bagholder: Aliya Capital Partners LLC, one of the biggest investors that joined Elon Musk’s $44-billion acquisition of Twitter Inc, said on Tuesday it expects...
...In the reverse, WWE made $130mn from consumer products such as toys; UFC’s equivalent was just $55mn....
...Every day, millions of Americans use their credit cards to buy things like a cup of coffee or a bagel....
...The arc of going from a movie about how this naive fool doomed us all to eventual nuclear extinction to we should solve our emotional problems by buying plastic toys just made me kind of despair....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Mattel, which was founded in 1945, makes toys such as Barbie, Hot Wheels and its Fisher-Price brand that have become a staple of American life....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 13 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc....
...Mattel will have to sell plenty of tiaras and plastic princess slippers to bring the magic back....
...The sprawling American conglomerate bought newly issued preference shares alongside a significant chunk of the flooring company’s common equity....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s series on the joy of tennis Tennis toys are a bit like sex toys: until you ask around, you don’t realise how common they are....
...Scientific American says mycelium is “the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs — and much more”....
...In another life, I would have been an aesthetician or a plastic surgeon....
...Free from walls and equipment, Play Mountain would encourage children to run and slide along modulations that the Japanese-American sculptor intended to carve into the ground....
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