bigger and better
3/14/2019 by Tina Manzer New York’s Toy Fair 2019 in February was the largest in the show’s 116-year history. The annual event at…
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Change Your perspective to Change Your Business
03/14/2019 by Phil Wrzesinski Wanna change your business for the better overnight? Put on a hat and go outside. (P.S. Don’t want to go…
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at the center of success
03/14/2019 by Claire Sykes In the late 1970s, Jim Davis was a kitchen contractor and his future wife Retha was a food editor for…
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Truckin’
As long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…
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On the Rise
01/31/2019 by Claire Sykes It was the last thing they expected: when Yamil Castillo and his wife Sue walked into a Salt Lake…
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Don’t Work the Deals, Work the Toys
01/31/2019 by Phil Wrzesinski Independent retailers – and I include myself in this statement – are a bunch of hypocrites. We really are….
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Color Coding
01/31/2019 by Claire Sykes They send our emails and run our cars, but most of us haven’t a clue about how computers actually work….
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Hold the Phone
Sometimes it’s difficult to separate our philosophical opinions from our self-interest. Do we favor certain government programs, for example, or tax policy, or whatever…
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The Undead
It turns out that Geoffrey may not have been a giraffe after all. He may be a vampire. By that I mean that he…
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The DADS are Coming!
11/08/2018 by Phil Wrzesinski I was born into the life of toy retailing. My grandfather started Toy House 17 years before I entered the…
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