Mattel News

Are toys safer now? Sure, say federal regulators and Mattel, the world's biggest toy maker.

I just got a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and boy, was he mad. A hot toy is threatening to dash toymakers' hopes this season, leaving nothing but coal in their shareholders' stockings.

Of the more than 2 million drop-side cribs being recalled in the United States and Canada following the death of four infants, about 147,000 carry the brand Fisher-Price, a property of El Segundo-based Mattel Inc.

Chinese-made drywall imported into the U.S. is linked to corrosion of metal and wires in homes and may also be causing health complaints by homeowners, according to a report by American investigators.

With the holiday shopping season about to boost into overdrive later this week, I decided to get an early read on the hottest toy trends at Amazon.com . Regardless of your thoughts on Amazon's valuation -- lofty on an earnings basis but much more reasonable on a free cash flow scale -- the leading online retailer is a great resource for taking the ...

Mattel Inc, the world's biggest toymaker, lowered the sales target for its Barbie store in Shanghai by at least 30 percent after deciding the original marketing concept didn't work.

Just a few years back before anyone thought that Chinese suppliers would make a regular thing of cutting corners and putting lives at risk by shipping tainted toys, food- and baby-products and drywall, there was an original incident that stopped everyone in their global sourcing tracks.

GSI Commerce Inc. said Thursday it has signed a multiyear agreement worth an undisclosed amount to provide e-commerce and digital marketing services, as well as customer service, for toy maker Mattel Inc.

It's common knowledge that a company planning on making any sort of an impact in this day and age better have a website up and running -- and a killer one at that.

The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. The economy is so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?" The economy is so bad that CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

TOWN HISTORY: At one point, about one-third of the town s population worked at the Meining Workshop making Barbie dolls and their clothes for the world s children STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Sunday, Nov 15, 2009, Page 2 Taipei County s Taishan Township , once a major production site for Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, yesterday began a two-day ...

The following recall has been announced: ConAgra Foods is recalling a limited number of 15 ounce tubs of Blue Bonnet Spread that were inadvertently mispackaged.

Mattel has donated $1.85 million to Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design, one of the few U.S. colleges that offers a degree program in toy design.

Bryan Stockton, president of Mattel International and a trustee at Otis College of Art and Design , presented the Los Angeles college with a $1.85 million gift from the toymaker.

On Friday, November 6, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral argument [mp3 here ] in an appeal from the TTAB's decision in Mattel, Inc.

Three major retailers have agreed to pay nearly half a million dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from the companies' sale of toys containing excessive amounts of lead, the California attorney general's office said Thursday.

Two years ago, Mattel was forced to make massive product recalls due to lead poisoning of paint.

Twilight's Kristen Stewart Barbie Doll and Robert Pattinson Ken Doll hit the store shelves just as the "New Moon" movie is set to release in theaters on November 20th.

The macho world of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc is kidding around. The sports entertainment company, better known for staging dramatic and occasionally violent wrestling matches, is all set to woo a younger audience as it collaborates with toymaker Mattel Inc and tones down the violence in its TV shows.

The sports entertainment company, better known for staging dramatic and occasionally violent wrestling matches, is all set to woo a younger audience as it collaborates with toymaker Mattel Inc and tones down the violence in its TV shows.