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The Motley Fool
July 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bratz vs. Barbie, Round 2.0 Forget the big screen. Bratz are coming to the small screen, too. The allure of creating an avatar and mingling in a virtual community is all too real. There are too many competitors, going after a finite number of kids. Investors, take note.   |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Come On Barbie, Let's Go Party Investors, for the girls who aren't old enough for News Corp.'s MySpace (and the parents who want to keep it that way), Mattel has a shot to cultivate a new online audience and get Barbie back on the map with the launch of BarbieGirls.com. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Barbie Goes From Vinyl To Virtual Mattel is betting its online Barbie Girl will hold kids who've outgrown real dolls. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Mattel's Operation Barbie The toy maker is trying to build off the strength of its Barbie brand to delve into several other products, including clothing for adult women that could launch this fall. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's Chilling in Cyberspace Disney's blend of self-developed sites and the Club Penguin purchase will keep it on the cutting edge among young audiences. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kiss and Mattel Mattel wraps up the year with another strong quarter. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2006
Philip Durell |
Barbies Gone Wild? Mattel needs to let Barbie go wild to make the company a worthwhile investment at today's price of $17 and change. In the meantime, Mattel continues to produce a ton of free cash flow, pays a 2.9% dividend yield, and continues to buy back shares. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Kate Rockwood |
How Spin Master Mixes Tech and Toys -- And Keeps Mattel Looking Over Its Shoulder How Spin Master Toys created the hit Liv dolls, a thoroughly modern marriage of tech, storytelling, and 21st-century marketing that has industry giant Mattel looking over its shoulder. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
American Girl Taunts Barbie Although Barbie will probably never be replaced by another doll, sales of the icon have dwindled over the past few years, leading some to wonder what's going on at Mattel. Is it a good time to buy Mattel before the upcoming holiday season? |
Wired
David Kushner |
Webkinz Effect: Plush-Toy Fad Begets Imitators The innovative idea of supplementing stuffed animals with virtual interactive pets was a huge success for Webkinz and is now being copied by other toy companies. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Zwinky Gets Swanky IAC tries its hand at creating a virtual community for kids. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2004
Bill Mann |
Why Disney Is Destroying Barbie Blond bombshell Barbie has never had competition for little girls' attention like the Disney Princesses. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Heavy Mattel Mattel has a better-than-expected showing as it heads into the holidays. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Barbie Belts One Out Bad financial results, bad press, down-on-its-luck stock. It's a value investor's feeding trough! Yet Mattel signed a record deal and dominates the "Hot Dozen" toy list amid a turnaround. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Barbie Bites Back Mattel goes after the Bratz girls in a legal tussle. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Mattel Makes the Grade Toy maker Mattel has reported improved second-quarter earnings. However, trouble on the horizon includes weakness in the company's quintessential Barbie brand. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
Mattel: So Cheap, It's Scary With the toy maker's stock near five-year lows, is it finally time to buy? |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Mattel's Barbie Blues Cutthroat competition and a possibly slow holiday season mean lower net profits and net revenues for Mattel. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Mattel Doesn't Play Around Mattel beats estimates, even as Barbie slumps closer to home. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Barbie 1, Bratz 0 A federal court jury is awarding Mattel $100 million in its long-standing case against MGA Entertainment over the Bratz doll line. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Bratz Pout Over Mattel Settlement The battle over Bratz has been something of a Pyrrhic victory for Mattel. While the jurors in the trial sided with the toymaker, the damage done to its own iconic Barbie brand has been substantial. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's March of the Penguins Disney is paying about $700 million for Club Penguin, a kids' social-networking site where, for $5.95 a month, subscribers can pretend to be an animated penguin.. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Look back at some business news from this past week: Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones... Disney looks to buy Club Penguin... |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Kris Eddy |
The Girls of Mattel Get Makeovers Toys keep maturing despite the stalled economy. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2011
Chris Hill |
Listen Now: Google Cries Foul and One Priceless Investment Today's Podcast discusses Egypt Index ETF... Google accuses Microsoft of copying search results... Mattel had a great quarter... |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Mattel Has Toys in the Attic Toy sales keep going the wrong way at Mattel. The toymaker posted sluggish third-quarter reports this morning, but that's just the tip of iceberg. |
Salon.com
October 27, 2000
M.G. Lord |
En garde, Princess! For the first time ever, Barbie may have a challenger who can kick her anorexic butt. At least that's what her unauthorized biographer thinks... |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Christopher Palmeri |
To Really Be a Player, Mattel Needs Hotter Toys Mattel is selling toys, not soap or cornflakes. Good brand management goes only so far in a business that caters to children's whims. Like it or not, the key to success is launching innovative products and promoting the heck out of them. If you don't do it, your competitors will. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Mattel Plays It Right The toy giant's diversification moves continue to pay off. Investors, take note. |
Fast Company
October 2009
Tim McKeough |
Inside Barbie's Fun House Barbie has a new dream house! With a flagship shop in Shanghai, the American idol reveals her emerging-market ambitions. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Christopher Palmeri |
Hair-Pulling In The Dollhouse Bratz toys have produced explosive growth for Isaac Larian, founder of toymaker MGA Entertainment Inc. -- and woes for Mattel. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Matt Townsend |
Why Ken Is the New Babe-Magnet in Toyland Barbie's "arm candy" is finally getting some attention of his own. Mattel has brokered a reconciliation between Ken and Barbie as part of its brand-marketing strategy. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
Oops, Apple Does It Again Well, what do you know? The iPod goes video after all. Investors, it's worth noting that on the same day Apple rolled out its latest toy, the company started playing nice again with Disney. |
Reason
May 2005
Holiday Dmitri |
Barbie's Taiwanese Homecoming A plastic, fantastic tale of globalization: Barbie is revered like a messiah in Taishan, a municipality nine miles southwest of Taipei that the blonde doll transformed from an agricultural village of 5,000 to a manufacturing center nearly the size of Boston. |
Reason
August 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Dolled Up Authoritarian regimes play make-believe with Iran's new "national doll." |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Even Barbie Can Be Hacked Toy manufacturers are learning a hard lesson about Wi-Fi-enabled dolls, action figures, and building sets: They can be hacked pretty easily. |
BusinessWeek
September 15, 2009
Christopher Palmeri |
Spin Master Goes Up Against Barbie With its Liv line of dolls, the company brings its cool-toy bravado to the notoriously tough girls' market. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
More Upside: Hasbro or Mattel? Hasbro outshines Mattel in their latest quarters, once you dig beneath the surface. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2004
David Meier |
Mattel Has No Eye for Fashion A closer examination of Mattel's earnings report shows there is still much to be done. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Kate Rockwood |
Big Breakthroughs in the History of Toys for Girls Barbie was the first. Take a look at other big breakthroughs in the history of toys for girls. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Mattel's Doing Well Mattel toys around with a pretty decent second quarter. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Mattel Loses Barbie Brawl The veteran toy maker loses a frivolous lawsuit and is stuck with the legal fees. A quick look at the firm's flagging sales and increasing costs shows that Mattel execs have stumbled. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Another Recall Nightmare at Mattel For the third time in a month, the giant toymaker announces another massive toy recall. This time it is 800,000 accessories for Barbie dolls, Mattel's biggest seller, bringing the total number of recalled toys to an astounding 20 million. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away The long view of Mattel is problematic. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Tale of Two Toymakers Hasbro is greater than Mattel. Again. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2008
Rimmy Malhotra |
Standing Out by Standing Apart The key to value investing is finding something that is selling cheap because not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon yet. But that alone isn't enough. Read on for more. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Misfit Mattel Beats Recall Bumble Toymaker Mattel reports higher fourth-quarter revenue and earnings, even though domestic sales fall. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Mattel Gathers Up Its Toys The toy company combines all of its toy brands into one operational business. With third-quarter earnings due out next week, it is an interesting time for Mattel to announce a business reorganization. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Mattel Begs for Forgiveness -- From China! A bizarre apology from Mattel to its Chinese manufacturers makes the toy company seem desperate heading into the holiday season. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Can We Believe Mattel? The toy maker is on the defensive over recalls, but are assurances of good sales believable? Will consumers be willing to take the risk on the company's products this holiday season? |
