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...Demand for Nintendo merchandise and toys is high among young fans around the world. The good news is that Nintendo’s console sales remain strong....
...The $426bn investment firm Carlyle Group is demanding the early repayment of a £125mn loan made to the airport in 2021, when the aviation industry was reeling from international travel restrictions....
...The transaction is the latest UK retail deal for Reliance, which acquired toy shop Hamleys in 2019 for £68mn....
...Gold became CEO of the lingerie and sex toy chain in 1987 and transformed the brand into a multimillion-pound retail empire, becoming one of the most prominent female entrepreneurs in the UK in the 1990s...
...3D printing promised to revolutionise production of everything from toys to biomedical implants through “additive manufacturing”....
...The Angry Birds characters became the subject of comics, animation, films, toys and other media....
...had bought an 80ft Sunseeker motor yacht for “a couple of million”, joking throughout the deal that if we got it done, we’d celebrate by having a day out on their boat, kitted out with jetskis and other toys...
...She intended to rush home to finish packing for her family — or as she would have put it, to carry out a “mum check” of her daughters’ suitcases to ensure they weren’t stuffed with soft toys — ahead of an...
...I think everyone knows that this industry is extremely, extremely difficult. And we started with just the two of us… One step at a time....
...In subsequent decades, Nintendo branched into taxi services, ramen noodles and toys before finally arriving at video games in the 1970s....
...The past decade has been kind to the private equity industry. But the free-money era is over, and cracks are starting to show....
...“I felt completely rejected by the music industry,” she says. There were dark forces at work....
...RBL is a subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, whose parent company Reliance Industries previously acquired the British toy retailer Hamleys in 2019....
...But UK chemist chain Boots could have a chance to crack it under the aegis of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries....
...Meanwhile, B&M, a variety discounter that sells homeware, consumer goods and toys, said it also expected to retain customers won during the pandemic and maintained its prediction for full-year underlying...
...The private equity group is working with Ambani’s Reliance Industries on a bid that if successful, would see one of Britain’s best-known retailers expand its presence into India, south-east Asia and the...
...47) Messari Holdings Appears to be the operator of data platform Messari, which promises “industry leading research, data, and analytics tools”. It seems to be alive and well. Good on ’em....
...Waterstones can take comfort from Amazon’s failings in physical retail after the company last month said it would close its 68 bricks-and-mortar book, toy and homeware stores in the US and UK to focus on...
...But dire predictions of sold-out toys, imported turkeys and shortages of pigs in blankets have failed to materialise....
...Her business partner is Oklahoma-based Max Weitzenhoffer, a Broadway producer who has co-produced with Burns on Medea and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf....
...Reliance Industries has denied it wants to make an offer for BT after an Indian newspaper reported it was interested in the UK telecoms group....
...Broken supply chains have raced up the agenda of companies, central banks and investors, as they lead to shortages of goods and price increases for goods ranging from pet food to toys....
...Broadridge Financial Solutions snapped up Itiviti for $2.5bn this year and Ion, the UK-based group, has acquired Dash Financial Fidessa, and Broadway....
...“It has been a big last two weeks in categories like toys,” he told the Financial Times. “They [consumers] have already started shopping....
...“I’ve been buying stock for 40 years and it’s the hardest year I’ve ever known,” said Robert Myers, managing director of Heathside Trading Ltd, which buys surplus toys and home goods....
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