Mattel and Toy Safety Gabriel Caldwell BUS 250 Pof. Robert Hamamoto May 11‚ 2014 In 2007‚ the Mattel toy company recalled around 20 million of its toy products do to contamination of lead in the paint and safety issues dealing with parts of its products (magnets) that was manufactured in China. The Mattel Company is considered the “global leader’ in toy manufacturing with over 30‚000 people employed in over 40 countries and operates in more than 150 countries. The Mattel Company faces
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Preparing for the Toys for Tots Dance Three years ago my friend Amy and I were looking for a way to bring customers into Behm’s Sawdust City while helping the community. After about a month of throwing ideas around Amy came across an advertisement for Toys for Tots‚ and we decided that this would be a great way to bring people in and help the community. Little did we know that it would be a huge success! Every year we have had to become more organized. The first time we get together we decide
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G.G. Toys 1. Do you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago Plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? In the Chicago plant‚ G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from the legacy or traditional costing methodology to activity-based costing (ABC). In allocating overhead as a percentage of direct labor cost‚ the margins of 9% and 34% in the Geoffrey doll and the specialty branded doll #106 respectively‚ do not reflect the actual cost of
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Inside Toyland is a gem — a well-written examination of politics‚ inequality‚ racism and working conditions in the context of the toy store. In order to gain a firsthand look at the intricacies of retail work‚ Williams conducted her research by participant observation. She worked at two toy stores. Both stores are a part of national chains and at the time of her research employed about 70 workers. Despite the fact that both stores sell similar merchandise‚ and include large inventories of electronics
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Toys and Gender The way children are raised in today’s society is based on the age old tradition of gender appropriate toys for sons and daughters. The idea that girls will always play with feminine toys‚ and boys will always play with masculine toys has been passed down from generation to generation dating back to the age of men. In medieval times‚ sons would learn to practice swordplay and knighthood‚ while daughters would learn sewing and practice at being a princess. The theory of Gender Role
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Pius Achanga‚ Esam Shehab‚ Rajkumar Roy and Geoff Nelder Department of Enterprise Integration‚ School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science‚ Centre for Decision Engineering‚ Cranfield University‚ Cranfield‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to present the critical factors that constitute a successful implementation of lean manufacturing within manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of comprehensive literature review and visits to ten SMEs based in the
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| Pages | 1 | 1.0 Executive Summary | 2 | 2 | 2.0 Situation Analysis | 3 | 3 | 2.1 Company Analysis | 3-4 | 4 | 2.2 Macro-environmental PEST analysis | 5-6 | 5 | 2.3 Market Analysis | 7-8 | 6 | 2.4 Competitor Analysis | 9 | 7 | 2.5 SWOT Analysis | 10-15 | 8 | 3.0 Market Targeting and Positioning | 16 | 9 | 3.1 Target market | 16-18 | 10 | 3.2 Product positioning | 18-19 | 11 | 3.3 Suggestion to Melaka Toy Museum | 20 | 12 | 4.0 Marketing Strategy | 21 | 13 | 4.1 Product
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Porter’s Five Forces Model of Industry Structure An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other (e.g. car industry‚ travel industry). Some industries are more profitable than others. Why? The answer lies in understanding the dynamics of competitive structure in an industry. The most influential analytical model for assessing the nature of competition in an industry is Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ which is described below: Porter explains
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What you are doing is looking at the toy in terms of finding what it provides and evaluating whether this provision is good or not‚ in terms of development and other things that support children. Also things like safety‚ price etc. So you could make a checklist of things like is it ?: appealing to children‚ durable safe age appropriate developmentally supportive ( I would elabaorate on this by looking at each developmental area and/or at specific things like how a climbing frame could support
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Summary: Industry Selected: Automobile industry has been focused in this analysis being one of the fastest growing industry eventhough it’s highly competitive in the recent years. Since 2005‚ there are several changes in the Automobile Industry due to globalization and the demand for high featured cars from the growing economical countries despite the oil shortage which is a challenging the industry. Methodology: Te below analysis of the Global Automobile Industry is based on the PORTER’s 5 forces
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