Guide for Mattel Licensees GLOBAL MANUFACTURING PRINCIPLES QUALITY &SAFETY PRODUCT INTEGRITY “Create and sustain competitive advantage through safety and quality from concept to consumer” GLOBAL MANUFACTURING PRINCIPLES PRODUCT QUALITY AND SAFETY NEXT STEPS for LICENSEE ACTION Mattel is committed to providing fair and safe working conditions and quality and safe merchandise to our customers. As a Licensee of Mattel-branded product‚ you have an important role in ensuring that working
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Mattel Case Development of Major Issue Mattel was the world’s largest toy manufacturer with revenue over $5 billion. It had been doing business in China for 25 years. China was Mattel’s most important manufacturing country. 65% of Mattel’s toys were manufactured in China. It owned 5 factories in China and had a network of contract manufacturers for the remainder of production. In August and September‚ 2007‚ Mattel recalled for three times globally 21 million problematic toys that were made
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Mattel and Toy Safety Mattel‚ the world’s largest toys company‚ had been faced with some rough challenges due to some safety scandals revolving toy design and manufacturing in China. During August 2007 Mattel was forced to extremely recall toys due to loose magnets and excess lead found in some of the Mattel toys that posed immediate danger to the children that played with them. “Mattel voluntarily recalled 1.5 million Chinese made‚ Fisher-Price product‚ after the company learned that they
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Barbie you’re beautiful. You make me feel‚ my Barbie doll is really real. Barbie is small and so petite. Her clothes and figure look so neat.… Someday I’m gonna be exactly like you‚ till then I know just what I’ll do. Barbie. Beautiful Barbie. I’ll make believe that I‚ am you. (Barbie Collector‚ 2007) That‚ was Mattel’s first ever jingle for the iconic Barbie doll that would soon sweep over a nation winning the hearts of young girls across America. It aired in 1959‚ 43 years ago and today
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Case Study Final: Battle of the Toys—FAO Schwarz Is Back! Cindy Smith Professor Miller MBA 5110 – Management Information Systems October 12‚ 2012 Battle of the Toys—FAO Schwarz Is Back FAO Schwarz is a high end retailer that began in 1862 by German immigrant Frederick Schwarz. The store was moved several times before settling at 745 Fifth Avenue in 1931. After filing bankruptcy twice in 2003‚ the store finally closed its doors in 2004. The company ran into trouble by trying to compete
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Barbie A Popular Culture focus study A popular culture is a shared set of practices and benefits that have attained global acceptance‚ and which can be normally characterised by: being associated with commercial products; developing from a local to a national to a global level; allowing consumers to have widespread access to it and; is constantly changing and evolving. As a focus study‚ it is seen that Barbie inherently displays such characteristics‚ and is therefore a legitimate popular
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People have told me that nothing else matters in a profession besides being passionate about what I do. As a toddler I remember taking my most treasured toy‚ a bright red Ferrari Testarossa Hot Wheels car‚ and rolling it back and forth on the glossy‚ white tiled floor of my house. It never left my hands‚ accompanying me to restaurants‚ my grandparent’s house‚ and even Disney World. Somehow‚ the simplicity of this toy car fascinated me. As I entered elementary school‚ I realized that real cars
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Is Barbie the ideal woman? For generations she’s been the doll that little girls have aspired to be–a party girl‚ career woman and bathing beauty all wrapped into one . In Marge Piercy’s poem entitled "Barbie Doll‚" the title underscores the theme of the poem‚ which is that girls are ultimately and fatally entrapped by society’s narrow definitions of feminine behavior and beauty. By comparing the young lady in the poem to a Barbie doll‚ the author reveals the irony of the title. In the poem‚ the
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Barbie Impacts Self-Image of Young Girls Children today are being blasted with images from television‚ movies‚ games‚ and toys that are gender-biased. The media and toy designers have increasingly and negatively sexualized children’s toys. This has led to a gender divide and the formation of low self-image in our nation’s youth‚ particularly girls. Barbie is one such toy that all young girls seem to want‚ but at what costs? When you visit stores like Toys R Us‚ Target‚ or Wal-Mart their toy aisles
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Leslie Thammavong Dr. Van Ham English 101 revision Who is Barbie? What does she stand for? Do all younger girls envy her? Emily Prager is a columnist for the New York Times and a fiction writer who has written many books. She reads an article in the New York Times about a man’s death‚ Jack Ryan. He was an inventor and designer‚ a man with many accomplishments. As Prager reads on‚ to her astonishment‚ she discovers that one of Ryan’s accomplishments was designing Barbie. “Of course‚” she thought
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