Moose Toys

Through studying the entire retail toy industry, we have been able to understand the complexity of the industry in which Toys "R" Us operates. Upon completion of the analysis, we realized that the industry is growing stably,

Barbie has become one of the best selling toy brands in the world helping Mattel become one of the largest toy makers. Mattel has had much success with it popular Barbie dolls for over fifty years. However it seems every product has a life cycle and in recent years Barbie has begun to decline in popularity due to recent technological trends and stiff competition. Today young girls have become more interested in mp3 players and ipods rather than playing with dolls. At home and abroad competitors are producing new doll with different characteristics that persuade consumers to purchase these products over Barbie. Competitors have begun stealing significant market share away from Mattel who depends on Barbie for 20 percent

Beanie Baby phenomenon has really opened a lot of eyes in the toys industry, especially, because this phenomenon was sustained in an industry that is known to be very turbulent based on the fact that, there are a lot of substitutes that come into the industry everyday, moreover, the excitement that these toys create, only can last for a short period of time as buyers in this market (usually children) tend to have an inconsistent buying behaviour and unpredictable majority of the time. This was not the case for Beanie Babies.

Beijing will provide us with a large footfall of customers and we have passed our target market on the premium toy market. We plan to have a number of promotional tactics in place to attract our chosen target market with the aim to gain the competitive advantage needed to differentiate ourselves from competitors. These tactics will be explored in more detail throughout our project.

Mattel is the world’s #1 toy maker with more than 30,000 employees and more than $4 billion in sales. A well-established core product portfolio has set Mattel’s established position in the toy market much higher than their competitors. Its products include Barbie, Fisher-Price toys, Hot Wheels and Matchbox Cars, American Girl dolls books, and licensed Disney and Sesame Street products are just a few that have helped them reach such great profits throughout the world. Although Mattel leads the industry, it recognizes the complexity of staying on top in a highly competitive and shifting business. While keeping their sales outlets current, toy companies must constantly seek to achieve the next big hit. In

The Lego Cast Study is about how the toy company has been affected by the rapid and vast change in the way children play with toys and their preference of the same. Historically, Lego’s have been a top rated toy for children and when that quickly changed Lego was not expecting it and furthermore not prepared. The company began to lose money, “by 2004, the company found itself close to extinction, losing $1 million a day.” (Saunders & Pearlson , 2013)

Mattel, Inc. is the largest toy company in the world. This largest toy company in the world was founded by Harold Matson and Elliot Handler in 1945, as they started to produce picture frames. However it was Elliott Handler who had a visionary of a side business in dollhouse furniture out of the converted garage (Mattel). As a top company, the primary activities of Mattel are to design, manufacture, and market the toys. As the company’s sales growing slowly, Mattel started to produce varieties of high quality products and became one of the of the best toy companies around the nation at the time. The major move by Mattel was when it sponsored Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club television show that put the company in spotlight and company’s

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In past and recent reports experts tell us that this is accurate and they rely heavily upon trendsetters to popularize new brands for them so that they are successful because often times this can either make or break a company. Now a days marketers are using crafty strategies to win over the hearts of young kids. In today’s youth the age group that market consists of includes kids which are age 6-9 years old, tweens which are 10-13 years old, and teens that are 14-18 years old. For example The

The competitive rivalry in the toy industry is intense. Organizations try to sell through their own retailers and online instead of solely through other retailers. Flexibility and responsiveness to the market are

Continual change, vanishing distance and compressed time is what is driving the toy industry. It mentions in the case study that Hasbro is failing to adapt by being unable to make timely strategic decisions. Hasbro has dedicated too much of their resources in the television and movie sector only to abandon their successful board gaming business. (Coulter, 2013, p. 49) Our text expresses all organizations have to deal with change. (Coulter, 2013, p. 38) Mattel joining forces with an successfully established online company is only going to benefit them in Mattel’s structured transition.

Robert Rodriguez’s “ Marketing New Inventions “is an essay about the difficulties in marketing a new product. Rodriguez’s begins the essay talking Cindy Reichman and Shelly Conte the inventors or the Hide-N-Seek Haley and how quickly they are toy became “top selling toy during the 2005 holiday season (548). Quickly came down crashing down after a rival toy company introduced a similar product. Although they did experience some success experts in Mr.Rodriguez’s essay say “copycats and timing play a large role in a products longevity on the market” (549). He also talks to the inventor of the Daysago Jennifer Barney who has had success in the marketing world but says it come with a price because she has to continue to push her product forward by visiting each store she has sold her product. Later on in the Rodriguez it talks about Mike Summers, who says that there is a second option for people invent products: “

Specialty Toys, Inc., sells a variety of new and innovative children’s toys. Management learned that the preholiday season is the best time to introduce a new toy, because many families use this time to look for new ideas for December holiday gifts. When Specialty discovers a new toy with good market potential, it chooses an October market entry date.

The new small entrants are coming out with completely new idea which eats out of the existing segment of buyers. For an example, Heelying Shoes’ unique shoe with imbedded and detachable wheel turned out to be a success. They sold 1 million pairs in the first year of operations.

More young children prefer the game in Ipad video game and online game rather than traditional toys; therefore Toys R Us is facing on high threat of substitution.