Toy maker Hasbro completes deal to sell $500 million notes to lower debt Toymaker Hasbro Inc. said Thursday that it completed a public offering of $500 million in notes to help pay down its debt. The 30-year notes bear an interest rate ...
<div id="subtitle">Economic crisis prompts some parents to rethink plans for holiday toy-buying</div><div><p>In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy ...
<div id="subtitle">Group says lead levels in toys improved from last year but urges stricter standards</div><div><p>After the high-profile recalls of millions of lead-contaminated toys last year, a watchdog group said Wednesday that its tests found fewer toys with high levels of chemicals in ...
<div id="subtitle">California says toy companies to pay nearly $1.8M to resolve lawsuit over lead-tainted toys</div><div><p>Nine toy companies, including Mattel Inc., agreed to pay a total of nearly $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over Chinese-made toys tainted with lead, California state and ...
<div id="subtitle">Ho, ho, no: Small toymakers say anti-lead law threatens safety of mom-and-pop workshops</div><div><p>Worries over lead paint in mass-market toys made the holidays a little brighter for handcrafted toy makers last year, but now the federal government's response to the scare has ...
<div id="subtitle">Ho, ho, hope: Mom-and-pop toy makers cheer proposed changes to lead testing rules</div><div><p>The makers of handcrafted toys received some holiday hope Wednesday with support from a federal agency for proposed exemptions from strict lead-testing regulations they feared could put them out ...
<div id="subtitle">Judge agrees to extend deadline for MGA to pull Bratz off store shelves</div><div><p>The judge who barred MGA Entertainment Inc. from selling or making its popular Bratz dolls agreed Tuesday to extend a deadline he set for the company to take the ...
<div id="subtitle">Analysts say shoppers will still buy toys this holiday but restrain spending in weak economy</div><div><p>Will financial-market turmoil be the Grinch this Christmas?</p><p>With parents already facing high food and gas costs and slumps in the job and housing markets ...
<div id="subtitle">Bakugan, Elmo Live among the toys making this holiday's hot toy lists</div><div><p>Industry experts are beginning to unveil the list of what they believe will be hot toys for the holiday season. Here are a few that made both Timetoplaymag.com's "Most Wanted" ...
<div id="subtitle">Factory closure in China a sign of deeper pain _ and change _ in nation's economy</div><div><p>Unemployed worker Wang Wenming was angry at his boss for shutting down a massive Chinese factory this week that made toys for Mattel Inc., Hasbro Inc. ...
