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
In part by wage gains, in part by wage gains, but momentum is slowing but momentum is slowing as the labour market shifts as the labour market shifts into lower gear. Into lower gear. Personal income rose only moderately. Yet, overall, the data yet, overall, the data is a good sign for the economy is a good sign for the economy and it comes at a time and it comes at a time when there has been growing when there has been growing concern over the health concern over the health of the consumer and the labor of the consumer and the labor market, especially after the latest monthlyjobs data, which was a big disappointment. Forecasters seeing a further forecasters seeing a further moderation in the economy moderation in the economy for the remainder of the year for the remainder of the year as high borrowing costs as high borrowing costs continue to filter through the economy, continue to filter through the economy, but most economists aren t yet but most economists aren t yet predicting a r
Is calling on the food industry to take allergy training more seriously, and says she lies awake at night thinking about whether she could have prevented her death. She s been talking to our reporter tim muffett. Hannah was a bright child, funny, full of life. She loved doing tiktok, what any 13 year old liked doing. She was like a big teddy bear. She loved to come to my bed and just give me a big cuddle. She loved her friends. She loved hanging out with her friends. Hannah had a severe dairy allergy. In february last year, when she was on her way to the dentist, her mum ordered two soya hot chocolates from a costa coffee in barking in east london. After one sip, that was it. She called me from the toilet and said, that was not soya hot chocolate. She was shouting. She was screaming. It happened so quickly, at that point. A postmortem examination found that hannah died after an anaphylactic reaction triggered by an ingredient in her hot chocolate, which caused an allergic response. Ear
This needs context because in 2019, she said she in favour of banning fracking and the following year any vice presidential debate on the ticket with joe presidential debate on the ticket withjoe biden, said joe biden will not ban fracking and so a change in position from 2019 to 2020, and since then she has been in lockstep with the policies and she was referring tojoe biden s policy positions but did not explain whether her own views in fracking differed from president biden s. In fracking differed from president biden s. In fracking differed from president biden s. That is one ofthe president biden s. That is one of the attack president biden s. That is one of the attack lines president biden s. That is one of the attack lines for president biden s. That is one of the attack lines for the of the attack lines for the republicans, the notion of flip flopping. A lot of questions about the economy, cost of living, bidenomics. What is she saying about that? she specifically honed in
Guided bombs that moscow used to attack kharkiv are guided bombs that moscow used to attack kharkiv are cruise to attack kharkiv are cruise missiles, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore asking their to provide them long range weapons and zelensky has a sponsor to this attack by once again calling on his partners to allow him to use these weapons to hit targets, deep inside russia, currently, ukraine, they provided missiles to hit deep inside russia and they are saying if they are allowed to do so it will only escalate the war. Ukrainian authorities say this weapon will only be used to hit military targets like airfields where ukrainian bombers take off an attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky fired the head of the country s air force after an f 16 fighter jet crashed on thursday, killing its pilot. The f 16 was recently sent by nato allies. It crashed while aiming to sh