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- Disruption Report #58: Ocean Freight Company Revenues Are Up a Ridiculous Amount, 3,113 Containers Lost at Sea, Just In Time Inventory May Be on the Way Out
- Choosing TikTok for Toy Advertising; Its Gen Z’s Preferred Choice
- Radioactive Bling: The Atomic “Bomb” Ring from KiX
- The Daily News for June 24, 2022
- The Strong’s Comprehensive Collection Chronicles More than a Century of Coin-Operated Games
- Shenzhen, the Center of Toy Production, Is Under Covid Threat
- Disruption Report #57 – West Coast Port Strike Deadline July 1, Ocean Shipping Reform Act is Law, Ocean Freight Carriers Unhappy
- Road Tripping in Primary School with Schaper’s U-Drive-It Action Set
- Learning from Pregnant Moms – Recent Baby Registry Trends Provide Insights for the Toy Industry
- Canadian Retailer, Showcase, Is Opening 27 U.S. Stores this Summer – My Interview with CEO, Samir Kulkarni
- Jeffrey Breslow: A Gamemaker’s Life
- A Private Equity Firm Wants to Buy Kohls – It’s Toys R Us All Over Again
- President Biden Wants to Punch Ocean Carriers
- You Say Potayto, I say Potahto: Spudsie from Ohio Art
- The Spielwarenmesse #5 – Taking the Plane and Train to Nuremberg
- Disruption Report #56 – 96% of Jobs Are Back, Apocalyptic Inventory Levels at Walmart, and 30% of Japan’s Population Is Over 65
- Private Label and Exciting New Materials: A Conversation with Chad Gharring of Boley
- Big Changes in Retail Coming – A New #1 in 2026
- Science in a Can: Remembering the Remco Science Kits
- Sambro Turns 25 Years Young; my conversation with C.E.O., Paul Blackaby
- Quotes With Your Coffee #4 – Amazon Opens a Department Store, China’s Generation Z Wants to Spend, Long-Term Freight Rates Up, and More
- Action Face CEO Kenny Davis on New, Interactive Virtual and Real World Platform
- Chris Byrne, “The Toy Guy,” Talks About Guns
- The Strong National Museum Object of the Month – “The $25,000 Pyramid Game”
- Saying Goodbye to the Pay Phone – Once, a Salesperson’s Best Friend
- “Really Bad Chess” and Games that Aren’t Fair
- Do You Want to Make It in the USA? Focus on Beauty and High Quality
- Pampered Pooches: Anthropomorphized Dolls
- Disruption Report #55: Birth Rate Up, Domestic Freight Rates Peaking, and Hong Kong Maintains Its Quarantine Policy
- Marketing Through Schools; my interview with Julia Stone
- 2023 Toy Fest – Come Play!!!
- It’s a Bear Market for Toy Industry Stocks – The TTI Composite Toy Stock Index Down 9%
- Experts Caution: 2022 Supply Chain Could Be Worse Than 2021
- Heroines Just as Interesting as Heroes
- Women In Toys Elects Nine New Board of Directors Members
- Aaron Muderick of the Toy Association on Toy Fair & More
- The Spielwarenmesse #4: Where to Stay in Nuremberg
- Results of the Toy Inflation Survey 2022: Part 2 Price Increases
- Results of the Toy Inflation Survey 2022: Part 1 Container Pricing
- The Strong Museum: Past & Present
- It Takes More than a Factory; the challenge of re-shoring
- Building a Global Brand: Star Stable Gallops Into the Toy World
- Elenco Announces New CEO and National Sales Manager Anthony Trani to Lead Maker of Iconic SNAP CIRCUITS® Brand [ad]
- My Interview with Grant Chapman, President of Kroeger (Toy Distributor)
- Hamleys Rides on the “Retailtainment” Trend with Its Newest Retail Space Dedicated to Gaming
- Quotes With Your Coffee #3 – “It’s taking an average 100 days to receive production materials, the longest in records dating back to 1987.”
- Disruption Report #54: Supply Chain Challenges May Get Worse, Importers Accuse Shipping Lines of Price Gouging, and American Consumers Vote for Global Trade with Their Wallets
- How Does a Game Get into the World Video Game Hall of Fame?
- Toy Industry History: Barry Schwartz on 50 Years of Making Hits
- The Spielwarenmesse #3 – What U.S. Companies Exhibit at the Spielwarenmesse?
- What Makes a Great Animated Character?
- Get Ready for the Las Vegas Li©ensing Expo 2022 (AD)
- Retail’s Growing Challenge – The “De Minimis Rule” Isn’t So Minimis Anymore
- Remembering Play Scholar and Advocate Joe L. Frost
- Quotes With Your Coffee #2
- Is Mattel for Sale?
- Toy Industry Inflation Survey – 2022
- The Spielwarenmesse #2: Nuremberg By the Numbers
- Quotes With Your Coffee #1
- “Goodbye to All That” – Hong Kong’s Star Ferry May Be a Thing of the Past
- Replaying Pandemic in a Pandemic
- Raccoon Tycoon Joins the Fun at University Games
- China’s Baby Bust and What It Means for the Toy Industry
- From Fad to Brand: Rainbow Loom 10 Years In
- Leadership Lessons from Barnes & Noble
- Disruption Report #53: Thirty-Five Percent Chance of a Recession, White House Warnings, and Improving Conditions at West Coast Ports
- New ‘Making it Matter’ Report Highlights Why Every Organization Needs to Become Family First (Ad)
- From the Page to the Playroom
- The Spielwarenmesse #1: Nuremberg Takes Center Stage for the Winter Toy Calendar
- What Managers Can Learn from Walt Disney’s Florida Problems: Eric Pliner of YSC Consulting
- Toy & Edu China Sets New Dates for August
- Disruption Report #52: Wooden Pallets Foil the Russians, Mattel Doubles Down in Mexico, and the Party May Be Ending for Ocean Freight Companies
- Marketing to Children Is a Good Thing
- The Toy Fair Survey and What It Says About the State of the Toy Industry
- ‘E-connect 360’ now launched for global sourcing ahead of rescheduled Toy & Edu China, Baby & Stroller China and Licensing China (Ad)
- Making Space for Play
- The Results of the Toy Fair Survey
- The Most Popular Retro Toy In Every State
- Next Gen Genius: Yanofsky & Wiseman of WowWee
- Who Are the World’s Top 50 Retailers?
- Play Pals: Dolls, Action Figures, and More
- TOY FAIR NEW YORK – SEPT 30 to OCT 3, 2023
- Disruption Report #51: A Longer Hong Kong Flight, 50% Chance of Dock Workers Strike, and Shanghai Under Lockdown
- Keeping the Adventure Fun for Everyone: Safety tools for Tabletop Roleplay Games
- Let’s Help Ukraine’s Toy Industry
- What Makes an “Expert” an Expert?
- Watching YouTube – The Reason a Child Looks Hypnotized
- America’s Most Trusted Companies – How the Toy Industry Fared
- Toy Fair Survey
- Disruption Report #50: Shenzhen Factories Reopen, FOMO and Container Prices, and Flights to Hong Kong Resume
- Jumping into the Toy Biz: An Interview with producer Brian Volk-Weiss
- Is Globalization Still Powerful? Ask Russia.
- The Insights Family expands into Argentina, Turkey, South Africa and Saudi Arabia (Ad)
- Disruption Report #49: Chinese Toy Factories Shut Down and Grocery Prices Up 11.5%
- Economic War News: Intellectual Property Theft Now Legal in Russia
- The Russia Embargo’s Impact on Toy Inflation
- My Interview with Heather Smith, President of the Good Toy Group
- A Real American Hero: Invest in G.I. Joe
- LEGO Dominates… Elegantly
- The TTI Composite Toy Stock Index Down 9%, Cost of Oil Up 31%, Container Costs Down 4.5%
