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Category: Jay Foreman’s Blog

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on August 7, 2025August 8, 2025

Wow, what a roller coaster of a year, and if we are lucky we are…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: Shared Responsibility

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on May 13, 2025May 16, 2025

When these tariffs first hit I made the subject of my blog: Pass it on!…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: Just Make The Deal!

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on April 11, 2025April 11, 2025

34 percent, 54 percent, 104 percent, 145 percent or 165 percent !!! Why not make…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: The Tariff Blog. Pass It On!

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on March 1, 2025March 10, 2025

BY JAY FOREMAN, CEO Basic Fun As we go into Toy Fair ’25 the administration…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: The Tariff Question

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on February 6, 2025February 6, 2025

BY JAY FOREMAN, CEO, Basic Fun Tariffs hitting exports from China: what is Basic Fun…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: The Strange Trip of ’24-to-’25

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on January 8, 2025January 13, 2025

BY JAY FOREMAN, CEO Basic Fun Happy New Year all! It’s been a while since…

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Jay Foreman’s Blog: Back to LA and Back on Track

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on September 8, 2024September 12, 2024

Well , we are about to start the second half of the Fall ‘25 LA…

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Jay’s Blog: Comment on Restructuring

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on June 28, 2024July 2, 2024

Many of those in our industry might be seeing the news about an event taking…

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Jay’s Blog: LA on My Mind 24/7/365!

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on May 16, 2024May 16, 2024

After five of six weeks, the spring LA sales preview marathon is finally over! This process began the week of March 25th for many of us, with key Walmart buyers traveling to LA to preview Spring ’25 with essential vendor partners and finally ended May 3rd!  

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Jay Foreman on China and the Upcoming Election

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on March 5, 2024March 6, 2024

This week I had a couple of big wake-up calls about our industry’s relationship with…

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Jay Foreman Reports from London & Nuremberg

  • by Guest Author
  • Posted on February 20, 2024February 21, 2024

It’s the end of my weeks on the road that was…and the week that wasn’t!…

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