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Playthings EXTRA for January 21, 2009
 

Toy Fair Editorial Appointments

Playthings' editorial department will soon begin making appointments for next month's Toy Fair. Please contact us at toyfairitems@reedbusiness.com to get on our Toy Fair appointment radar.
 
 
Mattel
Mattel buoys game biz with two buys
Mattel said Friday it acquired Sekkoia SAS, owner of the Blokus board game franchise, and purchased the rights to the Whac-A-Mole game from rights holder Bob's Space Racers. Click to continue
 
RC2 cuts staff as sales slide in Q4
Toymaker RC2 has begun a cost cutting effort in the wake of worse than expected fourth quarter and 2008 sales. Click to continue
 
 
K'nex ups Araten to CEO
K'nex Brands has promoted Michael Araten, the construction toy maker’s president and operations chief for the past there years, to chief executive officer. Click to continue
 

TOY OF THE WEEK
You may have been elected President of the United States, but you haven’t really made it until someone’s made you into an action figure. Jailbreak Toys of Melville, N.Y., recently stepped up to the plate to make President Barak Obama official. Click to continue
 
TRU's Toys For Tots campaign topped $2.7M
Toys "R" Us said Tuesday that its fifth annual in-store and online campaign to benefit the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation raised more than $2.7 million and nearly 200,000 toys during the 2008 holiday season. Click to continue
 
 
Infantino
Infantino recalls 131,000 rattles
Infantino of San Diego, Calif., is recalling an additional 131,000 Lion and Lamb Grabby Rattles because of a potential choking hazard it thought it had ably taken care of nearly a year ago. Click to continue
 
Land of Nod recalls musical toys
The Land of Nod, Northbrook, Ill., is recalling approximately 500 of its Rolling Toy Xylophones because of a potential choking hazard Click to continue
 
 
Fisher-Price
Fisher-Price recalls licensed play yard
Fisher-Price is recalling approximately 200,000 Fisher-Price branded Rainforest Portable Play Yards produced by licensee Simplicity Inc. of Reading, Pa., because they pose a fall or entrapment hazard. FP's move was prompted by Simplicity's apparent failure to recall the products on its own. Click to continue
 

Out of the Toy Box Blog: Let's talk
Richard Gottlieb writes: [Yesterday was] an historic and wonderful day for the United States and the world. We are seeing the inauguration of an African-American President of the United States. An event of this nature truly speaks to the greatness of any society that can, in essence, peacefully reinvent itself.

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PLAYTHINGS.com POLL

What impact will today's business climate have on your participation at next month's American International Toy Fair?

  • None; it'll be business as usual
  • We'll be exhibiting in a smaller space
  • We'll be sending fewer staff
  • We'll be spending less on show marketing and entertainment
  • We won't attend at all

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Have a profitable week,

Cliff Annicelli, Editor
Karyn Peterson, Managing Editor
 


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