New York Governor Eliot Spitzer vowed Friday to take legislative action on the recent federal recall of lead-contaminated and hazardous toys because it does not require retailers to take the products off store shelves.
Toymaker Mattel on Monday posted first-quarter profits, versus expectations for a loss, as strong sales of its pre-school Fisher-Price toys and its Hot Wheels toys for boys offset a 21 percent drop in U.S. sales of Barbie dolls.
The standardized image is pasted all over the mass media. Whether it's Hollywood, the runway or glossy magazines, the message is very clear: Look like this and be sexy.
If Mattel was hoping that Princess Barbie and Fairytopia Barbie -- its two big doll initiatives for 2005 -- would light a fire under sagging Barbie sales over the holidays, the toymaker may be in for another rude awakening.
Pierre Omidyar, 38, is one of the world's richest idealists. With stock in eBay worth $8.4 billion, the founder of the auction giant and his wife, Pam, are starting to give money away. In early Nov...
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer vowed Friday to take legislative action on the recent federal recall of lead-contaminated and hazardous toys because it does not require retailers to take the products off store shelves.
Toymaker Mattel on Monday posted first-quarter profits, versus expectations for a loss, as strong sales of its pre-school Fisher-Price toys and its Hot Wheels toys for boys offset a 21 percent drop in U.S. sales of Barbie dolls.
The standardized image is pasted all over the mass media. Whether it's Hollywood, the runway or glossy magazines, the message is very clear: Look like this and be sexy.
If Mattel was hoping that Princess Barbie and Fairytopia Barbie -- its two big doll initiatives for 2005 -- would light a fire under sagging Barbie sales over the holidays, the toymaker may be in for another rude awakening.
Pierre Omidyar, 38, is one of the world's richest idealists. With stock in eBay worth $8.4 billion, the founder of the auction giant and his wife, Pam, are starting to give money away. In early Nov...
[HIT] Desperate marketing. When your network's in last place, using on-air promos is a surefire way to keep it there, since you'll only reach your own ever-shrinking ranks of loyal viewers. So ABC ...
Barbie dolls from the "Princess and the Pauper" line and some high-tech toys featuring Elmo and Barney are among the "Hot Dozen" toys on the Toy Wishes magazine list announced Tuesday.
A new Barbie doll is sold approximately every three seconds. The average American girl has ten Barbies. And 100% of mothers with daughters ages 3 to 10 can identify the doll by name (and, let's fac...
As a time-strapped working mother, I find few things more aggravating than toy shopping, especially during the holidays. The trek from store to store in search of the one particular giggling, bulgi...
When Michael A. Schuler took over as president and CEO at Zippo Manufacturing in 1986, the company's business plan read like a living will. It was selling a cigarette lighter virtually unchanged in...
It's easy to see why the Pilot is a hot item these days. The little personal digital assistant (PDA) from U.S. Robotics is inexpensive, compact, and easy to use, and syncs up to your PC with no has...
Over the past month, investors rewarded several MONEY 30 companies for exhibiting the market dominance that qualifies them for our index. Coca-Cola (up 7%) snagged a prized Venezuelan bottling cont...
Q. An official with the U.S. Commerce Department said on television recently that many businesses and industries are in development in China and that the country would become an economic contender....
Ten years ago Jill Barad, then a junior manager in the boys' toys division at Mattel, went to Tom Kalinske, the senior vice president who had hired her, and said, ''Okay, I'm ready now. Give me a b...
ALAN B. LEFKOF, 36 TANDY CORP. For some people, good things really do come in small packages. Nine years ago Lefkof got a peek at Grid Systems Corp.'s ten-pound laptop computer. ''The only other po...
A few common misconceptions: Beauty is only skin deep. One's physical assets and liabilities don't count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to look her best. Over the l...
YONKERS, N.Y. -- A man who once weighed 640 pounds says he was kicked out of a health club because the ''Barbie dolls'' there didn't want a fat man around. At a hearing . . . before the State Divis...
The page you requested cannot be found. The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:
• If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.
• Open the www.cnn.com home page and look for links to the information you want.
• Use the navigation bar above to find the link you are looking for.
• Click the Back button to try another link.
• Enter a term in the search form below to look for information on CNN sites or the Internet.
