start off by telling you who the master mind behind Barbie was) Body I: The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler‚ whom referred to herself as “Barbie’s Mom” A: Ruth (co-founder of Mattel) invented and anatomically improbable molded plastic statuette named Barbie. 1. Ruth was born November 4‚ 1916 in Colorado. 2. She lived 84 long years before kicking the bucket on April 27‚ 2002 in Los Angeles‚ CA. 3.
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Summer Project Report “Toys - Training Module for the customer service representatives” By Kiran Prem (Reg No:CB.BU.P2MBA13040) Under the Guidance of Faculty Mentor Industry Mentor Prof. Gopakumar.V Mr.Parameshwaran Pillai Visiting Faculty Category Manager-toys Amrita School of Business. FLF Ltd. DECLARATION I‚ Kiran Prem of II year MBA Amrita School of Business‚ Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham hereby declare the project titled “Toys - Training Module for the customer service representatives”
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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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20% of adult Indians own a watch and about 90% of them own a single watch. So as to sustain and strive in this scenario‚ a company has to market itself well. Among those marketing strategy applied by the companies‚ one is STP (segmentation‚ targeting‚ positioning) ANALYSIS. Here‚ STP analysis is done for a company which has got the highest market share in the watch market of India and it is TITAN. As the world’s sixth largest manufacturer brand of watches‚ the company’s product attract the classes and
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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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