Sentences with phrase «toy industry as»

The concern underscores a tricky challenge facing the toy industry as it struggles to keep up with children's growing affinity for technology and Web - enabled gadgets.

However, now he's entered the sex toy industry as the co-founder of a company called Kiiroo.

Not exact matches

Craft and hobby supply shops, as well as stores that sell toys and games, have been outperforming the overall retail industry, growing at an annual rate of 9 percent, according to AnythingResearch.com.

The findings are in line with a report released by The NPD Group reported earlier this year, which said sales of licensed toys outperformed the industry as a whole by rising 3 percent in 2013.

Nevertheless, Bertoia and other industry watchers say the appeal of antique toys as an investment exists.

The toy industry itself rapidly changed, as iPhones flooded the market.

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.

If something like this happens, the cryptocurrency industry will find itself with a huge amount of real users — people who are using it not as a programmer's toy or investment vehicle, but for real purposes like investment and international markets.

There are model airplanes from TWA — the takeover that cemented his name among major league dealmakers — and toy trains from ACF Industries, which has served as his cash machine for decades.

She is known for being an expert on as well as advocate of toys, play and the toy industry.

The importance of focusing on practicality struck us during iRobot's formative years in the 1990s, when we were engineering robots as toys, oil - well surveyors and commercial cleaners for industry - leading firms.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

His technology industry experience also includes twenty years as a venture capital fund principal, and an early career as an industrial designer (toys and cars), and biomedical engineer.

Using Amazon as the bellweather of the industry is like using a thousand - pound gorilla to test children's toys.

The Moonachie, N.J. - based Multipet has been in the pet industry for more than two decades and is the creator of well - recognized toys such as the Loofa Dog, Lamb Chop, Pigglesworth, and more.

Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming, a leader in the pet products and services industry, has opened a new store located in Rockwall, Texas and will offer a wide selection of pet foods, treats, toys and supplies as well as offering top quality grooming services.

Sure, seasonal merchandise like heart - shaped treats or toys can encourage impulse buys, but pet stores might want to focus on the oral care product category throughout February, as the industry honors National Pet Dental Health Month.

This evolving lineup of toys includes pet owner favorites such as Invincibles stuffing - free, multi-squeaker toys (the winner of Pet Business» 2010 Industry Recognition Award in the dog toy category), the Hide - A-Squirrel puzzle toy, and Egg Babies, plush animal toys that contain three removable squeaking eggs inside.

I particularly love: «David Cage's comments over the years come off as someone that is embarrassed by the game industry's origins in the toy aisles.

Ralph Baer, the man who created the gaming industry, as well as cool toys like Simon, would be 94 today.

Back then, it really was a wasteland, usually treating games as toys and industry news as somebody else's problem.

«In bringing together visionaries from inside and outside the games industry, and in spotlighting the ever - increasing impact of games on movies, fashion, even toy design, GAMEHOTEL is in a unique position to celebrate games as a driving force of today's pop culture», commented GAMEHOTEL producer Tina Cassani.

Sure, R.O.B. didn't work out, but it allowed Nintendo to market their console as a toy, which may have saved the industry.

Its claim as industry leader in the category called «toys to life» spurred an intense rebuttal from Activision, which created the business in 2011 with its Skylanders franchise.

The Robotic Operating Buddy's design marketed the NES as an advanced toy rather than a risky video game console, following the industry's crash in the early 1980s.

In 1983 they were recorded as the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry.

An industrial designer who has worked in a number of industries, including pet products, toys, food - service hardware, and consumer kitchen products, Ruegg's clients include retailers such as Williams Sonoma and Kohl's and brands such as KitchenAid and Martha Stewart.

Outside of Frieze, take a look at Victoria Miro gallery's show, Sexshops, of paintings of those working in the sex industry by artist Tal R, as well as the performance art, Private Collection: Unperformed Objects in Tate Tanks at Tate Modern by Delfina Foundation with the South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong, which incorporates, yes, sex toys.

In a release, the firm said Mitsunaga has a deep understanding of the business and legal practices in the Hollywood and entertainment industries as he regularly represents broadcast, film production and distribution, talent management and toy and game companies on M&A matters, debt and equity finance transactions, and intellectual property matters.

Beyond serving as a nostalgic trip for those of us with fond toy - related memories, The Toys That Made Us is a fascinating look into some of the biggest toy lines of all time — Barbie, He - Man, G.I. Joe — as well as the companies behind those toys and the relationships between industries (as laid out in the first episode, which covers Star Wars toys).

As Voicebot pointed out in March, many industry leaders believe smart speakers are missing that «killer app» that will turn these kinds of devices from a niche toy to a ubiquitous one for the home.

If something like this happens, the cryptocurrency industry will find itself with a huge amount of real users — people who are using it not as a programmer's toy or investment vehicle, but for real purposes like investment and international markets.

Sean McGowan, a toy industry analyst, says Barbie's new house will likely serve as an experimental project for the company to determine whether it can replicate the concept with its other brands.

It's billed as one of the biggest toy innovation of the year, set to shake up the toy industry and transform how we build with Lego