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...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...Adieu bins of random plastic trinkets and toys that my kids no longer play with. I tend to give away or donate my unwanted items. But plenty of Americans have a hard time letting go....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Scientific American says mycelium is “the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs — and much more”....
...In the early 1980s, Mr Adler explains, he moved from electronics to toys. His big hit was Aerobie, a Frisbee-like flying disc that he sold in 2017 as AeroPress grew....
...(FT) Lego bucks trend in gloomy toy industry The world’s largest toy maker reported record sales and a rise in profits, helped by strong demand for its bright plastic brick sets, including Harry Potter...
...This makes the Four Seasons, and eventually Aman, players in a bigger game than just water toys and sexy bathroom finishes....
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...But closing in fast is Spin Master’s Hatchimals — the fuzzy toy that emerges from a plastic egg shell and is then cared for by its owners that pet it, feed it and teach it how to talk....
...The privately-owned maker of bright plastic bricks still bucked the gloom in the toy market by posting an 11 per cent rise in revenues to DKr15.69bn ($2.35bn) compared with a year earlier, writes Richard...
...Her likeness adorns everything from a fleet of Airbus A330 jet airlines to sex toys....
...Mattel is turning its classic View-Master toy into a virtual reality headset in a new partnership with Google....
...Here are the trappings of family life – garden furniture, picnic food, toys – but without the family....
...Barbie is Mattel’s best-known brand, but it also has Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, Monster High, and the fast-growing American Girl (American Girl’s sales may be cannibalising Barbie’s – a real worry for investors...
...… Outsourcing/ value chain deconstruction The vast container ships that sail into the ports of most developed countries are often thought to be full of cheap electronics, toys and other finished goods...
...Launch partners will include UK high-street retailers Argos and Boots, and American Airlines in the US....
...“When economic times are tough, the last thing gift recipients want is to get something they can’t use,” says Bruce Bower, former chief executive of Plastic Jungle, an online gift card exchange where he...
...The ad takes us on a tour of town called “Dial Up”, where plastic toy cars jerk along awkwardly to a tune from American rock band The Cars, altered to sound like a slow dial connection....
...The first Barbie was launched in 1959 at the American Toy Fair in New York. She was a platinum blonde, with piercing blue eyes, in a zebra-striped swimsuit and stiletto heels, retailing at $3....
...Steven Paul Jobs was born in Los Altos, California, in 1955, son of a Syrian professor of political science and his American speech therapist girlfriend....
...I have been trying to resolve my internal Mac v PC battle....
...The backbone of Chinese exports are still textiles, toys and plastic goods, products with little added value that Japan no longer exports in volume....
...www.ragoarts.com v Rocking chair Austrian The Viennese firm J&J Kohn made this child’s rocker around the turn of the 20th century....
...And neither can the closest Japanese offering, the rather civilised, American-built Honda Gold Wing. The Victory also has the extra cachet of rarity....
...Since January 2009, the price of ethylene – used to manufacture plastic containers such as shampoo and ketchup bottles – has doubled; the cost of polyvinyl chloride – the plastic known as PVC – has risen...
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