The Australian toy firm has named Bulldog Licensing its UK and Ireland licensing agent for the new collectable range of toys, launched to offer the boys’ collectable market its own ‘unboxing’ toy range.
The TAGIEs recognise the best and brightest innovators, designers and marketers in the toy and game industry.
Big Potato, Spin Master and Ravensburger have all been named among the winners across 15 categories at the second BlogOn Toy Awards.
The closing date for entries is Friday, September 28th and the Dad’s Choice team is urging any and all toy, game, puzzle, app, electronic device firm to enter now to be in this year’s running.
"Our global team is building out an innovative product portfolio designed to bring all the excitement, adventure and fun that Ricky Zoom and his Bike Buddies experience in the show to life for kids around the world.”
Run by Loved by Children - who has recently appointed Hello Communications to handle all PR and event management for the process - the team recently opened the awards for submissions until October 26th this year.
“Our Hairdorables launch has been sensational and early indications are really positive with the opening weeks of sales being really strong."
Collectables has become a significant slice of the UK toy industry, with sales increasing 29 per cent in the first eight months of 2018 alone.
New figures show that the family-owned Irish retailer enjoyed strong growth in 2017 in the UK as sales surged by 11 per cent to a record £475.7 million or €534.5 million.
Visitors to the show will be able to get a look at a cast of characters from Lamaze’s Clip & Go toy segment as well as other activity toys launching in 2019. All of the toys are endorsed by development experts in the US and the UK.
The return to growth has been driven primarily by top selling brands such as Peppa Pig, Stretch and Teletubbies, as well as its exclusively distributed lines that include Little Live Pets and Mashems.
The department store chain and owner of the Waitrose supermarket brand revealed that pre-tax profits before one-off items fell to £1.2 million in the six months to July 28th this year, a massive plunge from £83 million in the same period a year earlier.
The company chairman, Sir Ian Cheshire has released a statement following reports that Debenhams was working with advisory firm KPMG on a company voluntary arrangement to enable it to exit unwanted properties and negotiate rent cuts across groups of stores.
Changes include a more refined consumer journey facilitating faster shopping, improved performance to support with increasingly high levels of traffic over peak seasons such as Christmas, and a new predictive search engine.
The TAGIEs recognise the best and brightest innovators, designers and marketers in the toy and game industry.
Big Potato, Spin Master and Ravensburger have all been named among the winners across 15 categories at the second BlogOn Toy Awards.
The closing date for entries is Friday, September 28th and the Dad’s Choice team is urging any and all toy, game, puzzle, app, electronic device firm to enter now to be in this year’s running.
Run by Loved by Children - who has recently appointed Hello Communications to handle all PR and event management for the process - the team recently opened the awards for submissions until October 26th this year.
The Twitch platform is seeing a shift from solely video game content to hobbies and tabletop; Big Potato is leading the charge with its first live broadcast this week.
The firm, alongside Ravensburger, Zuru and Party Popteenies joined a line up of 32 companies to help BlogOnToys to its fifth successful annual event over the weekend at Manchester’s Hotel Football.
“LEGO’s sponsorship will help The Toy Bank bring the magic of play to more than a million children in need throughout the coming year.”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach and The Enormous Crocodile will be the focus of a major PR push from Grapevine Global this year.
The partnership has been forged as a means of highlighting the benefits Baby Annabell in child development, learning to care for another and as a tool to help introduce a new sibling to the family.
The latest development has been launched to support and celebrate the September launch of series two of the collectable range, SuperZings - Rivals of Kaboom while the campaign follows a successful initiative that launched the brand into schools earlier this year.
Toy manufacturer PMS International has covered its entire fleet of lorries with images of Elves Behavin’ Badly in different set-ups as part of the campaign. Images include that of a group of rowdy elves creating chaos on board a Christmas party bus.
The initiative sees John Adams create exclusive games crates, now available for guests to access at ten different Forest Holidays locations across the country. Each crate contains a selection of ten family games to suit every taste.
The ticketed event, which had over 200 fans attend, took place near The Entertainer toy store and saw Tiana sign merchandise for fans and pose for photos alongside her new Toys AndMe toy range, which is inspired by Tiana and her channel.
Treasure X is a new range that boasts a multi-layered ‘unboxing’ process complete with a surprise reveal that will see fans dig their way through to uncover a chance to strike upon real gold.
As part of the investigation, the CMA has written to a range of celebrities and social media influencers to gain further insight into the inner workings that goes on behind the posts.
The new line boasts over 10,000 combinations of characters and accessories for kids to create and collect.
