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Playing At Business - toy & game business podcast with Steve Reece

Jan 30, 2023

Report on UK Toyfair 2023, with a short UK Toy Market update based on newly available year end 2022 Toy market performance.

 

Our business is a Consultancy to Toy & Games companies. We have worked with more than half of the biggest Toy companies in the world, as well as 100+ startups and small businesses. Our...


Jan 19, 2023

2022 was a tough year for the Toy business. But finally that's over...now we can look ahead to what 2023 will bring.

In this podcast we look at the 4 key factors driving 2023's Toy market:

1. RETAIL INVENTORY LEVELS

2. CHINA'S RE-OPENING

3. INFLATION RATE & CONSUMER DISPOSABLE INCOME

4. TOYETIC MOVIE SLATE

We explain in...


Jan 2, 2023

The Toy industry does not spend enough time worrying about available production capacity. For decades we have presumed that we can get our Toys & Games produced from the same old factories in China...but things have changed...

...and the pace of change may be set to accelerate. We discuss what Toy manufacturing will...