Kids' Meals With Toys on the Decline - NACS Online

Kids' Meals With Toys on the Decline
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by RSS Feed by Email CHICAGO – Kids' meals with toys are no longer the draw they once were for the restaurant industry's youngest customers, according to The NPD Group. NPD's foodservice market research reports that restaurant visits that included an ...
Better Deals & More Sophisticated Palates Contribute To Kids Meals Decline ... PerishableNews (press release)

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Toddler rides toy scooter into traffic intersection in China - Examiner.com

Toddler rides toy scooter into traffic intersection in China
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Now though, there is a grandfather in China who took a bathroom break which allowed his three-year-old grandson to ride his toy scooter into traffic. CCTZ out of Wenzhou, China is reporting that the child got on his little toy scooter and rode it right ...

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Cartoon studio faces state clout, global stars - The News Journal


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Cartoon studio faces state clout, global stars
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In this Oct. 12, 2011 photo, Chinese cartoonist Carol Liu Hong, right, and her staff artist create a cartoon on the computer at Shanghai Cartoon Communication Group in Shanghai, China. Liu built her studio from scratch, doing post-production work for ...
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Pixar's Día de los Muertos movie a nod to Mexican audiences - Los Angeles Times

Pixar's Día de los Muertos movie a nod to Mexican audiences
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Pixar's "Toy Story 3" is the highest-grossing movie of all time in Mexico, where the animated adventure tale of children's toys Woody and Buzz Lightyear collected $59 million at the box office in 2010, more than megahits like "Avatar" and the "Harry ...

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Tinkerers Unite! How Parents Enable Kids' Creativity - Wall Street Journal

Tinkerers Unite! How Parents Enable Kids' Creativity
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Sales of hands-on building toys jumped 23% to $1.6 billion in 2011 from $1.3 billion, while toys overall fell to $21.2 billion from $21.7 billion, according to NPD Group. But true tinkering is more than following directions to assemble prepackaged ...

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Orbotix: Where Mobile Apps and the Toy Industry Collide - Entrepreneur


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Orbotix: Where Mobile Apps and the Toy Industry Collide
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It's a toy to children, rolling prey to dogs and a crucial instrument to athletes. But for Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson, the 28-year-old founders of Denver-based Orbotix, it's the pinnacle of robotics and a prime example of how smartphones will one ...

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HIT Entertainment & Sakar Expand Thomas & Friends® to Consumer Electronics in ... - MarketWatch (press release)

HIT Entertainment & Sakar Expand Thomas & Friends® to Consumer Electronics in ...
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As of early 2012, according to The NPD Group, the brand has ranked as the #1 preschool toy property in both the US and the UK for 11 and 12 consecutive years, respectively. In the US, Thomas & Friends also holds the #1 spot for overall top preschool ...

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Better Deals and More Sophisticated Palates Contribute to Kids Meals Decline ... - PR Web (press release)


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Better Deals and More Sophisticated Palates Contribute to Kids Meals Decline ...
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Kids meals with toys are no longer the draw they once were for the restaurant industry's youngest customers, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD's foodservice market research reports that restaurant visits that included ...
Kids' meals sales continue to decline Nation's Restaurant News

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The diplomat's new toy: South Asian lit fests - Firstpost


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The diplomat's new toy: South Asian lit fests
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An initiative of the Indo-Bhutan Foundation, the festival is managed by Indian non-profit literature promotion group Siyahi with the support of the queen mother of Bhutan. It was inaugurated May 20 in Thimpu by the Bhutanese queen mother, ...

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The diplomat's new toy: Lit fests - Firstpost


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The diplomat's new toy: Lit fests
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An initiative of the Indo-Bhutan Foundation, the festival is managed by Indian non-profit literature promotion group Siyahi with the support of the queen mother of Bhutan. It was inaugurated May 20 in Thimpu by the Bhutanese queen mother, ...

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