Sentences with phrase «of toy companies»

Plenty of toy companies are making coding toys for this bigger kid age range.

Tegu Plenty of toy companies do right by kids, but how many think beyond that?

Shares of toy companies Mattel and Hasbro spiked in early afternoon trading Tuesday, months after it was reported the maker of My Little Pony had made an approach to Mattel.

Larian, the CEO of the toy company MGA Entertainment, on Friday bid $ 890 million for more than 300 Toys R Us stores in the US and Canada.

Peter Gasca, founder of toy company Wild Creations, reveals how he underestimated the power of bloggers in his recent article How an Al Roker Segment Couldn't Match the Marketing Power of This.

We already knew that Paramount and Hasbro were working on turning more than one of the toy company's products into movies, looking to build a shared cinematic universe along the lines of Marvel's behemoth.

Jason Hamilton is less than pleased when the board of his toy company forces him to fly to the best - performing store in the Moosby's chain to inject some wholesomeness into his freewheeling bachelor image.

Lego City: Undercover effectively conveys the breadth of the toy company's urban product line with a well - conceived city that you could imagine rebuilding with real life Legos.

The series follows lawyer Kate Walker as she travels to a sleepy French village to finalize the takeover of a toy company by a multinational conglomerate.

Warner Bros and TT Games have officially unveiled «Lego Dimensions», a news Toys - to - life game based on, well, Lego, and including many of the toy company's franchises, including Batman, Back to... Read more

Nintendo is a mix of a toy company and a game company: consoles exist to support Nintendo's crown jewels — the games and first - party franchises.

This has echoes of a situation a decade ago where the database of a toy company was going to be acquired.

Not exact matches

The chairman and co-chief executive of a Melbourne - based toy company has become the first Australian to be selected as global winner of EY's Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Jill Barad ran the toy company for a few years in the late 1990s until she was ousted following a widely panned $ 3.5 billion acquisition of software company Learning Co..

The popular plastic building toys are now a part of many childhoods the across the world, but the company had a humble start in the 1930s.

And these «toys» — products — run much of the infrastructure at many of the world's largest companies.

But it's Don Levine, then the company's head of research and development, who is often referred to as the «father» of G.I. Joe for shepherding the toy through design and development.

Levine and his team came up with an 11 1/2 - inch articulated figure with 21 moving parts, and since the company's employees included many military veterans, it was decided to outfit the toy in the uniforms of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, with such accessories as guns, helmets and vehicles.

The LEGO Group is one of the only modern businesses (let alone toy companies) that has designed a product meant to be passed down from generation to generation.

He made more stop - motion toy videos with the idea of approaching companies and selling them his services.

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

Once we get established with these major retailers, it would be really nice to start a toy company in our town that could compete with the big guys and offer a lot of products for kids with allergies.

In 1996, toy company Tyco asked to use Dubren's technology to create a laughing doll of Elmo from Sesame Street.

In the more tech - heavy segments of the industry, startups like pet toy and treat subscription service BarkBox, services platform Rover, direct - to - consumer pet pharmaceutical company Vets First Choice, and smart - collar maker Whistle Labs are some of the dominant companies.

If you have been toying with the idea of expanding your company in the next year or so, it might indeed be time to push up the timetable.

Besides problems with Toys R Us, the companies have faced trouble selling their toys to kids, many of whom would rather play with a tablet or smartphone.

This week, the Canada - born, Japanese - owned e-book retailer, e-book and tablet manufacturer unveiled its newest line - up of tech toys, including a 10 - inch HD tablet — the company's largest to date — to compete with the full - sized likes of the iPad, Nexus 10, Nook HD and Kindle Fire.

I worked at Worlds of Wonder, a toy company startup, in the late «80s.

Commentary by Debbie Sterling, the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a company that makes building - block - like toys aimed at girls.

Items recalled: The Manhattan Toy Company of Minneapolis issued a recall of its Busy Loops table top toy.

Spin Master controls about 2.8 % of the U.S. market, making it the fifth - largest toy company.

A few years later I was working a full - time job as a marketing and brand manager at a toy company where I got a lot of product development experience and realized I had gained enough knowledge to give this idea a shot.

The Toronto - based company's bid surpassed the $ 215 - million bid made earlier this month, outside of the auction, by California - based, privately held toy company MGA Entertainment Inc..

Having recently sold his second start - up, Mohsenin was scanning the landscape for a new business venture and playing with one of the toys he bought with the spoils of his company's sale — a new digital camera.

The bid from Fairfax surpassed the US$ 215 million offer that Isaac Larian, the CEO of privately held toy company MGA Entertainment, along with several other investors, made last week.

The Toronto - based company, whose $ 300 - million stalking horse offer for the Canadian subsidiary of the toy retailer was approved in a U.S. court this week, is looking for stores outside of Canada it can potentially snap up.

By putting hundreds of kids between ages 18 months and 12 years old in a room to play with 80 toys — and then having them vote on their favorites — the company identified five toy trends ahead of the holidays:

But without a glut of company stores, Life Is Good had no widespread physical showcase for its eclectic product line, which fills a 136 - page catalog and includes tire covers, picture frames, and dog toys.

In the pre-Internet dark age, the company was the unrivaled supermarket of toys, the arbiter of fads and tastes that shaped the entire industry.

This is where about 700 of the company's creatives sit — toy developers, graphic designers, and even Barbie hair specialists.

By 2007, in fact, the company hit a home run with a line of boy toys called Bakugan — spheres that pop open and convert into Japanese - style action figures.

As intended, the entertainment properties — TV shows built around some of the company's toy brands — allowed Spin Master not only to make inroads in new international markets, but also attract the attention of toy inventors, who would pitch ideas and prototypes to the company's R&D team.

At the same time, the company also decided to make a much more concerted foray into the global children's entertainment market, setting up a stand - alone division in Los Angeles with a mandate to create TV and digital content to work alongside the company's portfolio of toy brands.

Having captivated boys with its «Star Wars» figures, the toy company is turning to Disney Princesses and the launch of its first animated movie to arrest a five - quarter slump in sales of its toys for...

Throughout the 2000s, the company's fortunes had soared on the success of its quirky, unconventional toys, and its franchise approach to marketing.

With a market cap of about $ 25 billion at the time, the family - run oil and gas empire was the largest company Elliott had ever gone after, and it occupied a nostalgic place in American culture thanks to the novelty toy trucks it released each year at Christmastime.

While Bhakta says that in the earliest days of launching WhistlePig, he toyed with the idea of building a spirits company to sell, he had long ago decided to keep WhistlePig in the family and run it for generations.

Small, innovative companies currently dominate the relatively young industry, but as major toy companies begin exploring green products consolidation becomes more of a reality.

So while tech advances that make the whole process of turning babies into adults more fun come along occasionally, we hardly tend to think of the industry segments serving families — companies making strollers, toys, breast pumps, etc. — as the most innovative ones out there.

The Cabbage Patch Kids concept was rejected by five major toy companies in the early 1980s, including Mattel and Hasbro, which apparently took to heart the wisdom of unimpressed mothers in focus groups.