Sentences with phrase «own toy company»

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..

While Kiwi Crate and other startups have already launched subscription - based concepts for toys, Hasbro's (has) effort is the first for a large toy company.

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.

It's also where smaller toy companies can have an opportunity.»

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.

The toy company secured a licensing deal with Walt Disney Co. to produce dolls from its Disney Princess line, including characters from the Oscar - winning film «Frozen.»

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.

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.

For the holidays, toy company MGA Entertainment launched the $ 69.99 LOL Surprise Big Surprise, which it says has 50 items to unwrap, including small dolls, accessories and bath balls that fizzle in water and reveal charms.

GoldieBox, a toy company on a mission to get girls excited about engineering, won a national competition sponsored by Intuit and will be featured in a 30 - second commercial during the Super Bowl.

The 70 - year old global toy company's brands include Barbie, Fisher - Price, Hot Wheels, American Girl dolls and Matchbox.

«This is why you will hear [him] say things like «toy companies are worth 1x revenue.»

For example, if you run a children's educational toy company, it would be poor form to retweet content that's not strictly family - friendly.

In the last week or so Sleep Country Canada, the mattress retailer with the catchy radio jingle, and Spin Master, Canada's largest toy company, have both filed to go public.

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

The Toronto - based toy company hasn't revealed how much it's planning to raise, but its prospectus shows it's a company that's growing at a healthy clip.

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.

Margaux Vega, a Fisher - Price spokesperson, says the toy company typically deals with 18 - month lead times on manufacturing, making it impossible to turn out a tie - in product fast enough.

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..

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 toy company described the new doll as an 11 - year - old named Luciana Vega, a «creative» and «confident» girl who wants to be the first person to touch down on Mars.

In 1945, Ruth Handler co-founded the Mattel toy company, and later introduced the world to Barbie.

The statement came a day after California - based toy company MGA Entertainment confirmed its CEO Isaac Larian and affiliated investors have made a bid for the Toys «R» Us Canada operations.

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...

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.

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

Some see the emerging trend as a way for toy companies to woo children back to their products, but others expect these technologies also can be used to enhance classic children's play.

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.

The 36 - year - old vice-president of one of North America's biggest toy companies is dressed in the official company uniform: flip - flops, cargo shorts, T - shirt and sunglasses, perched just so atop a crop of bed head.

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

This is how custom dog toy company PrideBites uses Zapier — when a Slack message contains #Julietrello, a task assigned to Julie is added to a specific Trello board.

(Reuters)- Mattel Inc has rebuffed Hasbro Inc's latest takeover approach, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, casting uncertainty over the potential combination of the world's two largest toy companies.

Mattel is one of the world's largest toy companies and the executive leadership change comes at a time of substantive growth for the global toys industry.

Like other toy companies, Mattel has been grappling with children's...

Prior to Avanti, Mr. Scal served as Executive Vice President and a member of the board of directors of CamelBak Products LLC, an outdoor equipment company, Senior Vice President at Kransco Partners LLP, a private equity firm, Director of Business Development at Kransco Group Companies, a toy company, Director of Development at Visa International, a financial services company, Product Manager at General Mills, a food products company, and as an analyst at Cambridge Associates.

Bernie Ting, chairman of the Hong Kong Toys Council and director of a childcare products and toy company, says: «It's a complicated year, similar in scope to 2008.

In honor of International Women's Day 2018, the toy company announced 17 new dolls.

Many «cheaper» wooden toy companies don't want to put the time or money into pesticide free drying.

Babies and toddlers - Quality wooden toys from Chicago toy maker T.S. Shure, Myland Toys, and items from French toy company Djeco.

I do nt think there is a toy company that can put a 100 percent gaurantee on their toys being lead free.

THESE are the items which parents should be purchasing if you really want to break down the stereotypes and send the toy companies a message that the gender - specific toys that only do one thing just.

Thanks and yes big toys companies today can not be trusted.

That being said, there are several wonderful european toy companies (Haba, Plan), but I'm not sure if their toys are made their or in China.

While some of their toys are made in China, they state, «We have received safety assurances from the toy companies represented in our store.

He picked up a catalog — not Target or Toys R Us or any of the large toy companies, but one supposedly devoted to «creative play» — and showed me that the two pages of PINKPINKPINK toys * only * featured photos of girls playing with those toys.

Herman Fisher, Irving Price and Helen Schelle combined their diverse manufacturing and retailing experience to create a toy company, confidently bringing 16 wooden toys to the International Toy Fair in New York City.

HABA a top toy company from Germany provides teething relief in wooden form.