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Category: Posts by Richard Gottlieb

  • Disruption Report

Disruption Report #74: Near Shoring Is On the Rise, Its Payback Time for Shippers, and What Retailers Are Headed for Bankruptcy

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 23, 2023February 28, 2023

NEAR SHORING ON THE RISE – ManufacturERS Shift PRODUCTION Closer to the U.S. Manufacturing is…

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  • Inflation

Toy Prices Are Down Dramatically Since 2000

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Visual Capitalist, “Consumer Price Inflation, by Type of Good or Service (2000-2022),” Nick Routley. I…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Huggy Wuggy and the Public’s Fascination with Ugly Plush

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 17, 2023February 17, 2023

The creature pictured above is one ugly and scary piece of plush. You have to…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Magic the Gathering Is Now a Billion Dollar Brand. So Why are some stakeholders unhappy?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 17, 2023February 20, 2023

I read many different publications, so I sometimes see sharply conflicting perspectives on the same…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Forbes’s 2023 List of Best Midsize Employers – What Toy and Toy-Related Companies Made the List

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 16, 2023February 16, 2023

What are America’s best places to work? In conjunction with Statista, Forbes decided to find…

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  • Disruption Report

The Disruption Report #73 – A Potential U.P.S. Strike, Slack-Fill, Tik Tok Interns, and Anti-Influencers

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 13, 2023February 15, 2023

A TEAMSTERS STRIKE AT U.PS.? Those of us who grew up in the 20th century…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

What We Can Learn from AMC’s New Movie Ticketing Policy

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

This week AMC theaters announced a new ticketing policy. The price of your movie ticket…

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  • Playroom

An Architect and a Toy Inventor Walk Into a Bar…

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

““But if we can create this space where the whole family — grown-ups and kids…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Spielwarenmesse 2023 – A Great Experience

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on February 7, 2023February 8, 2023

It wasn’t “mellow” I was seeing; it was relief. The Spielwarenmesse is the world’s largest…

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  • Layoffs

The Hasbro Layoffs – Two Clues as to Who Will Be Impacted

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 29, 2023January 30, 2023

Hasbro announced last week that it was reorganizing. The announcement gave 1,000 as the number…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

The Spielwarenmesse ToyAward Nominees

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 26, 2023January 30, 2023

Each year the Spielwarenmesse celebrates the best of the best with its Toy Awards. The…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Quotes With Your Coffee #17

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

Intelligence expects demand on Hong Kong-Los Angeles container routes to be flat to down by low-single…

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  • Chess

A Cat Conquers Chess – Lessons for the Toy Industry

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

I like cats and Chess, so it should be no surprise that I was immediately…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Hasbro Has Angered Its D&D Fans; Does It Matter?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 18, 2023January 20, 2023

All is not well in the land of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast,…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

The Toy Industry Times – Party City Files for Bankruptcy and More

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

America’s largest party supply store files for bankruptcy, Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Shopper Rebellion Against Higher…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Quotes With Your Coffee #16

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

India may have already surpassed China as the world’s most-populous nation in a milestone that…

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  • Disney

The Mickey Mouse Copyright Runs Out in 2024 – What That Means for All of Us

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 11, 2023March 13, 2023

2024 will specifically pull “Steamboat Willie, “The Barn Dance,” and that original design of Mickey…

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  • Disruption Report

Disruption Report #72 – Product Returns Up 63%, Container Prices Are “Collapsing,” Bed Bath & Beyond Considering Bankruptcy, and a New Book on Economic Policy in a More Uncertain World

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond Is Considering Bankruptcy “Bed Bath & Beyond” is one of those…

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