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This holiday season, toy shortages are an “absolute inevitability,” according to Jay Foreman, CEO of Florida-based toy manufacturer Basic Fun.…
Alan G. Hassenfeld, a renowned philanthropist and former CEO of iconic toy company Hasbro Inc., the maker of G.I. Joe…
Polly Pocket may one day be your digital assistant. Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, has signed…
For weeks, Jay Foreman, a toy company executive, froze all shipments from China, leaving Care Bears and Tonka trucks piled…
Less than a week ago, President Trump suggested that children may have to make do with fewer toys this year.“Well,…
For consumers, the holiday shopping season starts in about six months. But for retailers and manufacturers, it’s already Christmas season—and…
President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas.Toy makers, children’s shops and specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays…
I first met Dane Chapin, a San Diego-area entrepreneur, in 2012, when he gave me a ride in his Prius…
It’s one Lego kit, a collection of small plastic bricks and related accessories. What could it cost? The answer, it…
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…