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
Having a lot of positive sentiment coming from us investors, the companies obviously are trying to figure out how to appeal to a new set of investors that can offer a better valuation or recognise better valuation or recognise better valuation. So obviously asia based investors understand the company better, they understand china better. They are less worried about the environment in china in general again from a political and trade perspective as opposed to the economy certainly the economy in china is not great. But to those investors buying in hong kong, not enough buying power, not enough ability to change the valuation relative to this big anchor, which is the adr positions. So upgrading it to a dual primary gives it the ability forfirst it to a dual primary gives it the ability for first of all for money to come in from the mainland through the connects and various channels like that, and various channels like that, and then the hong kong traded stock can start influencing the us
His place in the history book of impeachment was already secure. But this solidifies his unique low point in american history. Now, trumps charge with incitement to insurrection stemming on the capitol hill a month ago. Tonight in a interview with cbs news, speaking out about trumps behavior, if he would vote for impeachment if he were still in the senate . I ran like hell to defeat him, i felt he was unfit to be president. I watched when everyone else watched when the crew invaded the congress. I will let the senate make the decision. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not. Because of his eradict behavior. What is your worst fear if he continues to get the Intelligence Briefings . I would rather not speculate outloud, i just think that theres no need for him to have the intelligence briefing. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing. What impact does he have at all other than the fact that he may slip and say something. Tonig
Thousands of jobs, you would have covered that. Patrick mahomes and tom brady going ahead in the sunday super bowl. Who is going to get the ring . Hey, bucs you are going down. Born to be wild will. Brian playing host to super bowl lv. We dont have it two different cities. One city is playing home that is the Tampa Bay Bucs first time in history they did that not many people traveling during the pandemic. 25,000 people in the stadium. Millions will be watching at home. Maybe the highest ever. This game is the most seasoned scalable game in the history of the super bowl between brady and mahomes and it the electrifying way both these teams play offense. Its going to be fantastic. We know the weather is going to be good. Steve we do know the weather is going to be good. I have actually have something in common with Patrick Mahomes. Like Patrick Mahomes i need a hair cut. Im going to get one. Do you know why in the barber had covid as it turns out and they stopped doing that im wearing re
Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor