The time has come to place orders for toys for the 2025 holiday season. Chinese toy makers are enhancing their offerings by producing higher-value and more innovative toys to remain competitive ...

As well as the Mickey Mouse toy, other "weird and wonderful" items have been found blocking the pipes or at sewage treatment works. These include handlebars, a piece of a tree, safety signs ...

Toy makers and stores are freezing holiday orders, predicting shortages and higher prices. Some are consulting bankruptcy lawyers, fearing their firms won’t survive. The Aldik Home store in Los ...

India’s toy industry is looking to tap into what it sees as a “golden opportunity” arising from the steep tariffs imposed by the United States on Chinese imports. With US buyers increasingly ...

In the 1930s, Mickey Mouse was recruited to endorse Post products ... companies began outsourcing creative toy ideas to marketing companies, who would then try to bid for cereal contracts.

AT THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM. Two-year-old Madeline Dahl would tell anyone that she doesn't go anywhere without "Baby," her beloved stuffed toy.Anywhere included the New England Aquarium ...

He had designed a stuffed toy bear in 1902, before the teddy bear became associated with Roosevelt. “But they kept at me to make the ‘Billy Possum’ and then nobody wanted it.” The company ...

A new plush toy modeled after Kirby will appear courtesy of the German stuffed animal manufacturer Steiff. VPC opened pre-orders for the new stuffed toy on its Japan-exclusive ValueMall website.

Awa Gaye, the co-founder of the toy brand Yeewu, was among the sellers at a bustling Christmas market this month. She launched the business after having a daughter and realising there were few ...

Their posts unexpectedly went viral and caused the toy to sell out, earning Cookie the title of “most wanted stuffed toy of 2024.” “I never imagined it would get this big,” Silva ...