Toy manufacturers are revealing dismal results for the holiday season as shoppers scooped up far fewer dolls and action figures than last year – and experts say there’s no relief in sight. Hasbro’s ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -This holiday season, U.S. parents may have to make an extra pit stop - not for toys, but for the batteries that power them, as manufacturers pare down on frills and packaging to ...
NEW YORK -- The demise of Toys R Us will have a ripple effect on everything from toy makers to consumers to landlords. The 70-year-old retailer is headed toward shuttering its U.S. operations, ...
NEW YORK — It turns out there are lots of sharp elbows in the plush toy business. Build-A-Bear and the makers of Squishmallows are facing off in federal court. Kelly Toys and its Berkshire Hathaway ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -While U.S. consumers keep searching for an authentic Pop Mart Labubu, rivals are introducing their own cheaper, easier-to-find "blind box" products for the key holiday shopping ...
It's only September, but the world's toymakers and designers are converging on El Segundo this week for an industry conference to decide on the hottest toys for next year. The city has long been a hub ...
It's just like Santa's workshop, only instead of the North Pole, it's located in Palm Harbor, where dozens of volunteers act ...
This year, children will have a hard time finding Uncle Milton's glow-in-the-dark ant farm, or the gel and ant village version. Basic Fun, the parent company behind the brand, has stopped producing ...
NEW YORK -- A snaggletooth 8-year-old. A middle schooler with a punk rocker bob cut and big earrings. Tween siblings with a penchant for playing. These are among the young power brokers who will ...
Hasbro and Mattel have seen tariffs before and have prepared to the point that less than half of their sourcing now is from China Shares of the big toy makers fell Monday, amid fears that extra ...
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - (This Nov. 14 story has been corrected to say that unit sales in overall holiday spending may fall by as much as 2.5%, not that the figure applies just to toys, in ...