Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
For laura ingraham and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. One week from today, the first ballots for presidential election will go out, the stakes could not be higher. And if you were wondering what kamala harris day one priorities were. Her first interview provided little clarity. If you are elected, what would you do on day one in the white house? well, there are a number of things. I will tell you first and foremost, one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class. What would you do day one? day one it s going to be about, one, implementing my plan for what i call an opportunity economy. I already laid out a number of proposals in that regard. Which include what we are going to bring down the cost of everyday goods. Kayleigh: so vague, no answers. I was wondering what happened to this. Kamala used to be crystal clear about her day one priorities. On day one we are going to repeal that tax bill. On day one we are going to re
Our premier event is taking place september 7th in brooklyn, new york. I will be there with the rest of the gang, you do not want to miss it. Good evening from new york, we have a two hour special edition of all in on this labor day weekend yves, we are 67 days out from the election which i cannot believe, the past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the whole race, you ve got kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work, they kept an even keel in a sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. And while they are doing that, trump is out there and honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps making a mess, including an enormous one tonight which we are going to get to. Both the candidate and his aides are as usual posting through it, the fallout continues from his political photo operand campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumb
I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table where some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And i think it would be to the benefit of the american public to have a member of my cabinet who is a republican. Cbs correspondent jarred hill ran through the key takeways from ms harris first broadcast interview of the election campaign. I think one of the things that we heard from vice president harris in this first sit down interview yesterday it was that she sees herself as a pragmatist, essentially, a pragmatic democratic politician. There was not a lot of nuance when it came to some of the policy points that she might be trying to push through. A lot of this interview was significantly looking into the differences in her stance on issues now compared to her initial run for the white house in 2019, that many have considered to be significantly more left leaning than sh