Out of the Toy Box

Richard Gottlieb, president of Richard Gottlieb & Associates, a New York-based business development firm specializing in the toy business, offers his sometimes funny and always unique take on developments in the industry.

March 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Are movies based on toys a good idea? It depends upon who you talk to

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Mattel goes to the movies; will toys now drive cinema?

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Video Games and the toy industry: Can they put the whee back in Wii?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Marbles The Brain Store and Barnes & Noble; Are they selling a new form of literacy?

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Madame Alexander, Charisma Make Acquisitions; is the specialty doll industry shrinking?

Friday, March 19, 2010

Davy Crockett dies…yet again

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The inexpensive face of toys; Let Target be Target

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wal-Mart’s unfulfilled self-fulfilling prophecy; is it the end of “kids getting older younger?”

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Pink: A not so ladylike color

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Driving through China

Monday, March 8, 2010

Global pricing? Not yet, but maybe sooner than we think

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Gender Neutral: The Oscars and toys

Thursday, March 4, 2010

New moms and the future of toy marketing

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Getting people to stay through the last day of a trade show: Some ideas

Monday, March 1, 2010

Trade Shows: That depressing last day

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