By: BBC News
There is no doubt here that the global slowdown is already affecting China. A year ago there were 80 people working at the factory.
By: Healthnewsdigest
The biggest problem with the recall of millions of lead-tainted toys over the last few years has been getting shops and consumers to comply. According to Mattel—which has issued dozens of recalls in recent years, including some...
By: BBC News
Wal-Mart has told its Chinese suppliers they will have to adhere to new quality standards and have better knowledge of the practices of their sub-contractors
By: Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska)
John Keenan, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Even in tough times, people tend to not skimp when it comes to their children, which is good news for toy retailers as the holiday season approaches.
Toys are "recession resistant,'' Chris Byrne, an industry expert known as the...
By: Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
Hearing that a bill in the Senate would require retailers to pull recalled toys off store shelves confused Barbara Weedon.
"I thought that was the law," said the New Cumberland mother of a 6-year-old son. "I was always assuming...
By: Los Angeles Magazine
Lacter, Mark
At Mattel's testing and design lab, two minutes from the company'sEl Segundo headquarters via the "Hot Wheels" shuttle bus, a half-dozen technicians in white coats take apart toys to make sure they're safe. Matchbox cars, Polly...
By: Los Angeles Times
Rong-Gong Lin II, Times Staff Writer
Federal officials on Thursday warned consumers to avoid buying any infant formula imported from China, citing reports of dozens of babies in that country who fell ill with kidney stones after drinking a brand called Sanlu,...
By: USA TODAY
Elizabeth Weise
The Food and Drug Administration is alerting Asian and ethnic markets across the USA that infant formula made in China may be contaminated.
The FDA is working with state health agencies across the country to make members of...
By: Buffalo News (New York)
By Matt Glynn - NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Fisher-Price faced a massive public relations challenge last year over toy recalls.
Not surprisingly, when the news broke, Fisher-Price and its California-based parent company, Mattel, were flooded with inquiries from customers,...
By: Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee)
Michael Oneal and Patricia Callahan, McClatchy Newspapers
CHICAGO -- Until it collapsed in a financial crisis this spring, Simplicity Inc. was a case study in how companies can prosper in an increasingly globalized economy.
In eight years' time, Simplicity's sales rocketed from about...
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