Summary of Case Mattel’s Toy Recalls and Supply Chain Management This case talks focuses on the event in the year of 2007 when Mattel – the leading global toymaker – voluntarily recalled its toys from worldwide stores. Mattel’s name is synonymous worldwide for its most famous product – the Barbie Doll. The recall was initially for 83 toys which had excessive lead paint and soon after 6 more products we recalled which had a design problem of small magnets coming off the toys in addition
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Mattel and Toy Safety Bus 250 Prof. J. Reece Amanda Wagoner November 18‚ 2013 Mattel and Toy Safety Mattel is an American based toy manufacture that was founded in 1945 by Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler. The company has been headquartered in El Segundo‚ California since it first opened. However‚ in 2007 the toy manufacture faced hard times when they had to do multiple recalls on their children’s playthings due to unsafe parts and hazardous materials (such as lead paint) the company faced
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Mattel Barbie’s state of depression OVERVIEW Mattel‚ the largest toy company based on revenues‚ is the manufacturer of Barbie‚ Hot Wheels‚ Matchbox cars and board games. Barbie dolls (Mattel’s flagship brand) were introduced in 1959. With these dolls attracting 7 to 12 year old girls‚ different varieties of Barbie dolls were released into the toy market. Mattel dominated the toy market till the late 1990s. But in 2001‚ when MGM’s Bratz dolls were introduced‚ the realistic look of these
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(2007). Mattel: Recalls Are The Least of Its Problems. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/15/news/companies/mattel_call/index.htm Lipsher‚ M. Earnest‚ L. and Kim‚ V. (2007‚ December). Lead found in toy jewelry. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.ceh.org/storage/cehca/documents/LAT_12.13.07.pdf Mattel (1999) Annual Report. Retrieved from http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/MAT/1189599211x0x228945/6D5E2393-4CE5-49DE- BC1C-E2B20D373895/1999_annual_report.pdf Mattel (2009)
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Marketing MBA Fall 2013 Mattel Individual Case Report I. Executive Summary Mattel‚ Inc. (Mattel or ’the company ’) designs‚ manufactures and markets toys across the globe. The company operates in the Americas‚ Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Headquartered in El Segundo‚ California‚ and the company employs approximately 30‚ 000 people as of December 31‚ 2012. Mattel has some of the highly recognized brands in the toy industry‚ with its core brands providing strong sales
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illustration on the appendix 1 demonstrates that Mattel Inc.‚ was in the leading position in market share among the members in the European Union in 2011. Followed by Lego which owns a total market share on 8.32 %‚ which is approximately 1.76 % lesser then Mattel Inc. Additionally‚ it was only a very short brief for Mattel Inc.‚ to be in this position‚ as a recent article from September 2014 highlights Legos which has left their competitor‚ Mattel Inc. behind. With this in mind the success relies
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Application of Lean Manufacturing Principles for Process Time Reduction in Conveyor Pulley Manufacturing Shyam Rangrej1‚ Kaustubh Samvatsar1‚ Pinkal Rana1‚ Purvi Chauhan2‚ Saurin Sheth3 1UG Students of Production Engineering Department‚ 2Assistant Professor Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya‚ Production Engineering Department‚ V.V.NAGAR-388120 Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya‚ E-mail: shyamrang24@gmail.com V.V.NAGAR-388120 E-mail:pdchauhan@bvmengineering
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on products and tie-ins with various consumer products companies. Marketing strategy: Mattel’s global marketing success can be linked to its new-product development effort. Mattel markets as much as 80 percent of its product offerings to a global audience‚ with just 20 percent geared to individual country markets. Mattel’s product introductions as well are global in scope. For example‚ Mattel launched Rapunzel Barbie on the same day in 59 countries supported by a televised advertising campaign
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1 )Manufacturing is the act of making or producing goods by utilizing labor and machineries especially in a large -scale‚ which includes large division of labor. Finished goods produced after manufacturing are further divided into two groups’ producer goods and consumer goods. Producer goods are those supplied to another company for manufacturing other complex products and consumer goods are the finished products which are purchased by the customers directly for the general usage. Casting is a widely
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Some sales men made unrealistic delivery date to customers because they couldn’t access older sales order information. The engineering projects took too long to be transferred to Manufacturing because of lack of project management. Lastly‚ the manufacturing department still relied on too many manual labor steps in manufacturing process. (2) Implementation: The management decided to implement Microsoft ERP across the whole company to stream line their Supply Chain Processes so that the inventory control
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