Hints and tips:
...Machin spends Christmas Eve visiting stores until around 7pm, and sometimes attends midnight mass, which he sees as an opportunity to reflect and give thanks....
...The only pleasure to be had in places like this is seeing the excitement on the spawn’s faces as they shake hands with Peppa Pig or secure top toys at the gift store....
...The company made a splash in 2019 with its acquisition of Entertainment One, the production company behind the children’s cartoon Peppa Pig....
...Character Options, whose brands include Peppa Pig and Fireman Sam, has its toys made in subcontracted factories in China....
...Department store group John Lewis said it expects to deliver a full-year profit following better than expected Christmas trading....
...A lack of must-have playthings is also problematic because top releases drive footfall into stores....
...US rival Hasbro is also pushing into China by acquiring Peppa Pig franchise owner Entertainment One. Its operating margins have fallen to 13 per cent, according to S&P CIQ....
...Mr Waters said the group was basing its UK turnround plan on a push into digital, less discounting and converting footfall in stores into spending....
...(FT) The price for Peppa Pig?...
...released to promote a Peppa Pig film....
...The broker also highlighted that 80 stores representing about half of group sales were being refurbished over the next few quarters....
...It opened 28 new stores, to reach 114, and intended to continue at a rate of two a month. It also opened distribution centres in Coventry and Bradford to support nationwide coverage....
...Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has launched what it calls Toy Lab, a “digital playground” website in which youngsters can supposedly test toys, including Peppa Pig play sets and Harry Potter wands...
...Character Group keeps them supplied with Teletubbies, Peppa pigs and slime....
...The censorship by Bytedance, the internet group behind Douyin, comes after the company’s flagship news aggregation app, Jinri Toutiao, was suspended from Chinese app stores for three weeks for hosting inappropriate...
...Peppa Pig for the win....
...Earlier this month, videos including Peppa Pig were removed from a popular short video platform, after the cartoon pig became an unlikely cult character whose image was made into subversive memes....
...Douyin earlier this month removed videos of Peppa Pig, the children’s cartoon character, in user-generated copy over concerns that it was being used for subversive purposes that undermined morals promoted...
...The successful global rollout of Peppa Pig, which accounts for 85 per cent of revenues at Entertainment One’s Family division, suggests management may be too conservative with a target of doubling retail...
...And so, my more realistic spiritual journey began at the app store....
...FastFT reports Topps Tiles says it has made a “strong” start to the second half of its financial year, with same store sales in the seven weeks to May 21 up 8.4 per cent compared to 6.3 per cent growth during...
...Entertainment One, the media group best known for its Peppa Pig franchise, dropped 15.1 per cent to 176.4p after announcing a more costly than expected debt refinancing....
...Entertainment One, the media studio best known for its Peppa Pig franchise, slid 5.2 per cent to 206.1p....
...Marwyn, the British value investor, has sold a 9 per cent slice of its major stake in Entertainment One, the company best known for owning the rights to toddlers’ favourite Peppa Pig....
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