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...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...“I’ve missed shopping, and I am too old for online,” she said. She left laden with three bags of toys....
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...It has these adorable Ghost toys with beautiful glazes and two little eyes. I got them for my nieces....
...Hatchimal The furry toy that hatches from an egg is this year’s knockout Christmas gift....
...image of a sex toy....
...Heaney’s muscular verse, thick with the sounds and textures of nature, is a powerful posthumous gift....
...With its colourful shots of double-decker buses, red telephone boxes and black taxis, and cameo roles from some of London’s most famous landmarks, the film must feel like a gift to the city’s tourist board...
...Prynt’s 24-year-old co-founder and chief technology officer admits while showing off the device in London that the project started out as more or less a joke....
...It was a lesson the co-founder of Intel learned young....
...Working with journalist and co-writer Amy Wallace, Pixar co-founder Catmull is a rare example of an executive author able to analyse his own successes and failures, including the cultural challenge of Pixar...
...Mike used his connections to buy a box load and promptly distributed these new toys among all the senior tech bankers and deal brokers in London. People remember things like that....
...And, once gamers replace their Nintendo hardware with a new toy, the next casualty will be software – which accounts for about two-fifths of Nintendo’s revenues. Nintendo is not standing still....
...The run-up to Christmas will also see the release of Moshi Top Trump cards, a gift pack with subscription cards and cuddly toys, and Moshi-themed Silly Bandz, the elastic-bracelet craze sweeping America....
...Brawn GP survived financially thanks to a £2m gift from Honda and sponsorship revenues that swelled as the team began to perform on the tarmac, as well as savage cost-cutting....
...“They are a limited proposition – you’re not going to buy wedding gifts there, you’re not going to buy luxury items, and people still want to trade up,” says Verdict’s Mr Saunders....
...No surprise, then, that many of them are “early adopters” of the latest tech toys and that digital gadgets are likely to be top of their holiday gift wish lists this year....
...Do we go out and purchase gifts as never before, in a kind of last hurrah?...
...“I don’t know enough about him,” says Amy Farmer, a mother of four. “There’s something about him I don’t trust.”...
...Mr Corre – and his co-founder wife Serena Rees – had the vision....
...The country’s children are as familiar with Santa Claus as their western peers and – alas for Japanese parents – demand as much from his gift run....
...They will begin selling toys and apparel because the group already distributes Lego, Disney and Mattel toys and other branded products through its Mahindra Intertrade unit....
...Instead, it seeks to overcome southerners’ suspicions of organised labour by featuring union members talking about the safety of toys imported from China, foreign sweatshops and community work....
...Global retailers such as Tesco and Carrefour are said to be waiting in the wings. Mahindra’s retail chain will initially sell toys and clothing and will probably launch next year....
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