Plastic processor Sunshine Inflatable Toys Co. Ltd. is like a lot of smaller Chinese manufacturers these days, staring at sharply rising labor costs and weaker export markets.
HONG KONG — China's large toy industry, including its plastics-related toy makers, faces potentially stepped up scrutiny on safety and factory working conditions.
HATFIELD, PA. — K'Nex, the construction toy company, will set up a United Kingdom subsidiary on Jan. 1, two decades after it first started sending its products across the Pond.
BILLUND, DENMARK -- Targeting Asia as a major up-and-coming consumer of its building-block toys, Lego Group plans to set up a factory in Jiaxing, China, its first in the nation.
MEXICO CITY — Arburg GmbH & Co. KG has completed the installation of several hundred injection molding machines at the Mexico plant of toy-brick maker Lego A/S.
HONG KONG — Imagine if Walt Disney Co. owned injection molding factories and you get some idea of the business model of one of China's largest toy makers, Guangdong Alpha Animation & Culture Co. Ltd.
MONTREAL — Toy producer Mega Brands Inc. is requesting C$50 million (US$48.5 million) from the province of Quebec for research and development and to buy more automation equipment.
BILLUND, DENMARK -- Global toy maker Lego A/S has announced plans to cut 380 jobs by summer 2015 at its main production site in Billund, when it shuts down the plant's product decoration and packaging units.
ZIRNDORF, GERMANY -- The company that makes Playmobil toys is investing 30 million euros ($40 million) in injection molding after a successful 2012 boosted sales 5.3 percent to 531 million euros ($710 million).
NEW YORK -- As the debate over gun control heats up across the country, another one is simmering on the nation's playgrounds over their toy counterparts.
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