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...It has racked up $428mn in net loss during this period, compared with a profit of $332mn last year....
...The toy retailer started life in 1901 in Liverpool when founder Frank Hornby received a patent for his Meccano construction toy....
...Last year was the worst on record since estimates for the global toy market started more than 15 years ago, he added....
...The toymaker’s sales growth of 2 per cent last year was dragged down by a weak performance in China. But it was respectable enough given a seven per cent decline in toy industry sales....
...We’ve focused on stories that bring us all together, from tree-decorating to toys and board games, alongside stories that celebrate the pleasures of escaping into our own private worlds....
...It has since grown into one of Britain’s biggest private companies, selling everything from toys to homeware and electricals from its almost 600 shops....
...His rental service for children’s toys is used by approximately 18,000 households across Japan and his company appears in 121st place in the FT list....
...And that is a much bigger market to compete in than simply making plastic toys for kids....
...We met last year at the Salone del Mobile in Milan....
...To this day, she still gets emails from adults asking about Rosie and Jim, which was last made in 2000....
...It follows the breakaway success of last year’s The Super Mario Bros Movie. Anticipation is all very well....
...When, last June, Setchu was awarded the LVMH Prize, Kuwata’s mobile phone was full of congratulations....
...Kreiz told CNBC in an interview last week: “The idea was to create multiple touchpoints, to build strong toy brands....
...increase its user base and boost order frequency by expanding the range of restaurants it offers, as well as developing its capacity to deliver groceries and other consumer goods, from flowers to children’s toys...
...In the toy category, sales of Mattel’s Barbie dolls have been especially strong since last summer’s release of the popular film Barbie....
...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....
...That is almost double the number from last year, when nine companies said they needed extra time....
...Robertson, the academic, agrees that Lego — with toys, TV shows, films, and theme parks — is starting to resemble Disney, which had $82.7bn in revenues last year....
...For most of their careers, the Campana brothers were best known for their playful furniture made up of dozens of stuffed toys sewn together in a moment of Frankenstein-esque inspiration....
...Online sales of toys were up 182 per cent on Thanksgiving Day....
...The EU last year started consultations to dismantle these rules....
...May Hung and Jonathan Wong, both administration professionals, are planning a plane trip to Osaka with their 11-year-old toy poodle this autumn....
...But amid the AI grills and mattress toppers, the gadget attracting most attention is a smartphone replacement that looks like a Playmobil toy....
...McCawley: “How would you describe sex toys?” Maxwell: “I wouldn’t describe sex toys.”...
...Meanwhile, the last time I was in Croatia, in 1998, the country was on the cusp of a new tourist boom....
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