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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....
...David, who was also co-chairman of football team West Ham United, died in January....
...In subsequent decades, Nintendo branched into taxi services, ramen noodles and toys before finally arriving at video games in the 1970s....
...RBL is a subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, whose parent company Reliance Industries previously acquired the British toy retailer Hamleys in 2019....
...Co-founder Paul Sengh seemed stoic as FTX began to collapse: Watch this space?...
...If you happen to be nostalgic about all the gadgets that have failed to capture the public’s imagination, check out deadstartuptoys.com, which sells limited-edition toy versions of unsuccessful products...
...Many were hit by closure programmes or had suffered ever since the collapses of chains such as Comet, Toys R Us and Blockbuster and the emptying out of food outlets such as TGI Fridays....
...In Amsterdam, car brand Lynk & Co has opened a co-working space instead of a car dealership. These retailers straddle both digital and physical retail. One is not exclusive to the other....
...She left laden with three bags of toys. In Paris, I struggled to muster any enthusiasm for shopping for gifts online in November — too little time and even less patience....
...Smart reads A private equity explainer From Taylor Swift to Toys R Us, private equity companies seem to have a hand in almost everything....
...Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is bringing upmarket US jeweller Tiffany to India through a joint venture, as high-end global retail brands vie for a slice of what they hope will become one of their...
...Retail has had a number of large restructurings recently: Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year and Toys R Us collapsed into liquidation....
...Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of Uber, is working on a cloud kitchen company, and venture capital firms have started backing companies feeding at the same trough....
...“They might not be making money from the current Jio model, but they’re getting people hooked on using data, and once they monopolise the industry they can start monetising that,” said Jayanth Kolla, co-founder...
...Discount fashion retailer Pep&Co, which has concessions in Poundland, did particularly well....
...“Today the equity market is pretty nutty and the leveraged finance market is not that bad,” says Michael Carr, co-head of M&A at Goldman Sachs....
...The transaction with C.banner, the owner of UK toy shop Hamleys, would have delivered a £70m infusion to House of Fraser....
...Using its new line of cardboard toys, Nintendo is looking to stress the Switch’s wholesome appeal to parents and children....
...Beanie babies: Made by Ty Inc, these super-soft cuddly toys proliferated in bedrooms, car boot sales and even auctions in the 1990s....
...It also still has large shares in labour-intensive toys and furniture....
...A toy fishing rod from Nintendo plays to that theme. The intention of this and other cardboard accessories is to extend digital fun into the physical world....
...C.banner International, the Chinese owner of Hamleys toy shop, is in talks to acquire a stake in House of Fraser Group....
...“However, we need to go further and faster if we are to confront the seismic shifts in the retail industry,” he added....
...But Mr Gibson cited the “durability of toys, given they are made of cardboard” as a concern....
...The property industry has been grumbling about House of Fraser’s company voluntary arrangement since it was first mooted in early May....
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