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...When Kreiz took the reins, Mattel had also lost its deal to make Disney princess dolls and shareholders were fretting about the future of toy companies in the age of the smartphone, the Toys R Us bankruptcy...
...S.O.L.A.R. You know, when someone or something is solar, and has a sunny or happy energy?”...
...Up until Gavi was created, the global alliance for vaccines, in the year 2000, there was no purchasing power to get those new vaccines to the kids who needed them most....
...Or some kid who’s simply the next me?”...
...Hastings, though, describes himself as “a pretty average kid with no particular talent”....
...Its brands relied heavily on shelf space at now defunct toy store chain Toys R Us. Nerf sales ended up sliding more than a fifth to $500m. Hasbro is firing back....
...Mr Barry’s Tru Kids group, which holds the rights to the brand, said the relationship with b8ta would allow Toys R US to “entirely reimagine” its brand....
...It wasn’t a matter of Gillette being short of R&D cash, but just that crowdfunding platforms are something even big corporations now use to drum up early adopters for a new concept....
...The prior-year loss reflected expenses including bad debt associated with Toys R Us, severance charges and charges associated with tax reform....
...“The sense of wonder that kids have when they look at toys is an important part of the shopping experience,” said Greg Portell, retail consultant at AT Kearney....
...Citron’s overly bullish note coincided with the launch of Fitbit Ace, the company’s first wearable device for kids. Fitbit shares are up a little over 20 per cent this year....
...theme song a fixture in pretty much all households with kids under the age of 10....
...We sometimes dropped in to gawk at the Ferris wheel in the Toys R Us flagship store on Times Square....
...I will still go to toy shops with my kids, but only the ones that make the effort to attract my business....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 5. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As Lex notes here, it remains to be seen what an overhauled Toys R Us looks like but expect a lot less debt. Even Toys R Us kids have to grow up one day....
...The TV advert, unveiled in the UK in November, evoked a nostalgia for the 1990s, when parents would queue up outside Toys R Us stores to grab Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and games consoles....
...But not all investors are convinced that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is the right course for the retailer that brought the jingle “I don’t want to grow up, I’m a Toys R Us kid” and Geoffrey the Giraffe...
...Hardly kids’ stuff. And Mattel has other problems. It lost the license to Disney’s blockbuster Frozen franchise to rival Hasbro. While Barbie sales have improved of late, the group’s have shrunk....
...“I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book,” he told the FT, and the lands of A Song of Ice and Fire were in part inspired by his experience growing up on the New Jersey shoreline....
...For while tourists have visited the store in droves, they have not been spending money on the scale that FAO Schwarz’s owner — Toys R Us — needs....
...The legendary figures of jazz, R&B, rock and soul often seemed to be on the wrong end of the deal....
...These kids today The real problem might be that Spotify users don’t even know who Led Zeppelin is....
...“First, the kids are gone.” This strikes me as a little eccentric — spending time with the family at the very point that the family is no longer there....
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