Christmas Toy News

Mattel raises toy prices to fight higher costs
(Reuters) - Prices of Mattel Inc toys like Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars have gone up as the company tries to compensate for increasing costs for materials like resin and rising wages in China. The world's largest toy company, which sees input, labor and transportation costs rising in 2012, said on Tuesday that it had raised prices at a mid-single-digit rate on January 1 with the goal of ...
Demand for Barbie boosts Mattel profit
Mattel says strong Christmas demand for toys has helped push its fourth-quarter net income up 14 per cent.
Mattel profit tops estimates, sales miss
Maker of Barbie dolls boosts dividend as quarterly earnings rise to $370.6-million from $325.2-million a year ago
Could Cancer Cure Barbie? Mattel vs. Beautiful and Bald Barbie
? Barbie is just shy of 53 years old.?? She's survived the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, both wars with Iraq and has managed to outlast 10 U.S. Presidents.?? But she might have just met her match with two cancer survivors. The Associated Press reports that Rebecca Sypin and ...
Mattel Should Make a Bald Barbie
Advocates for children without hair are pushing Mattel to develop a bald Barbie. The Barbie doll has always been a symbol of beauty. There really isn't any reason why Mattel shouldn't help little girls . . .
Parents, kids urge Mattel to make cancer Barbie
You've heard of Malibu Barbie and Christmas Barbie, but what about cancer Barbie? A new online movement urging Mattel to create one is picking up steam.
Cancer activists urging Mattel to make a bald Barbie
Two friends have created a Facebook page to rally support for Mattel to manufacture a bald Barbie for children with cancer. Should the company comply?
Mothers Launch Bald Barbie Campaign For Cancer Awareness
Mattel’s Barbie franchise — those glamorous toy dolls with notoriously unrealistic physical dimensions — may soon be making an unprecedented foray into the real world. If a growing community of Facebookers has its way, the next version of the iconic American plaything might ditch her golden locks for a chic smooth scalp. Just days before Christmas, friends Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham launched ...
Bald Barbie? Mattel responds to lobbying campaign
Facebook fans want the toymaker to create a Barbie that will resonate with cancer patients and other kids who suffer from hairloss.
Rotary makes Christmas bright for more than 500 local needy families
More than 500 boxes were packed and ready to go early Christmas Eve morning for delivery by a generous community – a lot of community, according to Rick Cook, co-chair of the Rotary Club of Santa Paula Christmas Basket program.