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...Hasbro would probably not welcome an enlarged MGA. Smiling doll faces belie the aggressive battle between MGA and its rivals....
...MGA has found success with products including LOL Surprise!, which according to NPD was the biggest-selling toy last year, ahead of Barbie, Hot Wheels and Nerf....
...A long-running feud with Mattel bubbled up last year, when Mr Larian pushed its board to combine with MGA....
...Mattel, which was the subject of takeover interest from Bratz maker MGA Entertainment earlier this year, has seen its shares rally more than 34 per cent this year....
...Toys R Us has rejected a bid from Isaac Larian, the chief executive of Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment, that would have kept open some of the bankrupt US retailer’s stores....
...MGA Entertainment, the toymaker behind Bratz dolls, is trying to pull together a bid for Toys R Us’ Canadian business, the company told Bloomberg on Wednesday....
...He subsequently sold the Bratz designs to MGA, which went on to enjoy huge sales with the range....
...Traditional toymakers have faced stiff competition as the industry become more fragmented with companies like Spin Masters, MGA Entertainment and upstarts like Moose Toys all battling for children’s attention...
...That period included a $137.8m charge related to a long-running legal battle with Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment. Net sales fell 6.3 per cent to $2.1bn, led by a 10 per cent drop in North America....
...Other competitors for Barbie include MGA’s Novi Star dolls, a group of aliens, and the Winx Club dolls based on an Italian cartoon series....
...MGA’s April victory came at a retrial that reversed a 2008 court decision that supported Mattel’s claims and awarded the company $100m. MGA always denied the allegations....
...took it to MGA....
...“There were high-profile managers, a few of them running in excess of $10bn in assets, who attended,” said Frederic Lebel, co-chief executive of OFI MGA, which manages about €1bn ($1.38bn) on behalf of institutional...
...Since 2008, Mattel has incurred legal costs of about $60m in its fight with MGA, which launched its Bratz toys in 2001....
...MGA, which is privately held, said in a statement that it would appeal and seek to stop the enforcement of the order “so we can maintain the over 1,500 people that MGA employs, and continue to give our consumers...
...It also won a court case against MGA, which makes the rival Bratz line. Bratz dolls have proved popular and stolen market share from Barbie....
...MGA described the Bratz dolls, which sell for around $15 each in the US, as a “billion dollar franchise”....
...A long-running legal dispute between Mattel and one of its fiercest rivals was settled in Mattel’s favour when a judge ruled that MGA should stop making and selling the Bratz line of dolls, potentially eliminating...
...MGA, which makes the rival Bratz line of dolls, has also challenged Barbie’s dominance in the US market, analysts say....
...MGA Entertainment, the maker of the hugely popular Bratz Dolls, launched its Rescue Pets rival in August, with Mutt and Golden Retriever models at $9.99, undercutting Webkinz’s $14.99 pricetag....
...The growing popularity of Barbie dolls in international markets boosted Mattel’s second-quarter profits yesterday, offsetting a decline in the US where the company is under increasing competition from MGA...
...In the other is MGA Entertainment, the privately owned company that launched its Bratz range seven years ago....
...These could be more MGA deals, or acquisitions of specialist underwriters....
...Isaac Larian, MGA’s chief executive who launched the enormously successful Bratz dolls in 2001, said he saw “terrific synergies that can be derived through a strategic partnership between MGA and Zapf”,...
...Barbie sales have fallen for the four years, partly as a result of competition from new, more edgy products, including MGA Entertainment’s Bratz dolls....
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