Mattel News

Share + Dec 10, 2009 8:32 am US/Pacific PASADENA, Calif. 1 of 1 A federal appeals court panel in Pasadena on Wednesday suspended an order that MGA Entertainment stop selling Bratz products this year, recall remaining toys and give ownership of the brand to rival Mattel Inc.

Hasbro spanks larger rival Mattel on a quarterly basis , so why not wrestle away a key licensed property between quarterly financial updates? Hasbro has inked a 10-year deal with Sesame Workshop, the Sesame Street creator.

Kolkata, Dec 8 : With the countdown already started for Christmas, toymaker Mattel Inc , has introduced Hot Wheels Dino Trick Tracks, Barbie and The Three Musketeers and Newborn-to-Toddler Rocker for kids.

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 145,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS , the Fool's free investing community, toy maker Mattel has earned a respected four-star ranking .

Collective Brands, parent company of shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource, has named Sharon John president of the Stride Rite Children's Group unit of Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group.

In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Big Bird is seen during the taping of an episode of "Sesame Street" in New York.

Now in its eighth season, the Dancing With Our Stars event, where local dance couples compete to raise money for their favorite charities, is still popular.

The criticism over Mattel Inc's new black fashion dolls underscores how difficult it is for large commercial companies to please a widely diverse black community with a single image or two depicting young African-Americans. With so few black dolls on toy-store shelves, many black parents had high hopes when toy powerhouse Mattel released So in ...

Stupidity is contagious. It gets us all from time to time. Even respectable companies can catch it.

Despite tougher federal lead standards and toy makers' efforts to reduce lead, parents should take steps to avoid buying lead-tainted toys this holiday season, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard says.

The popular American Girl doll shop will open its first Colorado location in the Park Meadows mall next spring.

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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard today urged parents and anyone buying toys for children this holiday season to take steps to avoid toys contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of lead.

Marina Strauss O n a recent Sunday, Anton Rabie, co-founder of Toronto toy company Spin Master, received an e-mail from a customer.

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.