Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. It was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Helen Schelle and Margaret Evans Price. Fisher-Price, Inc. U.S.
brand generated gross sales amounting to about 530 million U.S. dollars in North America specifically. Fisher-Price is an American company that produces educational toys for children and infants. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.
Putting Barbie and a whole family of Little People under one roof, Mattel Inc. and Fisher-Price on Thursday announced a $1-billion merger that likely will make the combined company the nation's No. 1 toy maker.
In 1991, Fisher-Price regained its independence from The Quaker Oats Company and became a publicly traded company. Two years later, in November 1993, Mattel bought Fisher-Price.
In 2023, Mattel's doll segment had gross sales amounting to about 2.4 billion U.S. dollars. The company had net sales of approximately 5.4 billion U.S. dollars globally that year. Barbie and Hot Wheels are two of Mattel's biggest brands.
As of August 2024 Mattel has a market cap of $6.41 Billion. This makes Mattel the world's 2283th most valuable company by market cap according to our data.
Unable to find dolls for her nieces, Pleasant Rowland started the American Girl doll company in 1986 at age 45. She funded the venture with $1.2 million she earned from royalties as a textbook author. Rowland built American Girl into a $300 million (sales) business and sold it to Mattel in 1998 for $700 million.
Fisher-Price said it has no plans to close operations in East Aurora or move the Fisher-Price headquarters away. “There is no change regarding the headquarters location for Fisher-Price.
Mattel, the toy company that owns huge franchises like Hot Wheels and Barbie, is facing a new lawsuit brought by UCLA and its health system, claiming the company failed to make good on a pledge to donate $50 million to the university's children's hospital.
(NASDAQ: MAT) today announced that its iconic Barbie brand was named the 2021 top global toy property of the year for the second consecutive year and its Hot Wheels Singles 1/64 Assortment was named the 2021 global top-selling toy of the year per The NPD Group, a leading global information company1.
Anthony DiSilvestro, CFO of Mattel, added: “Mattel achieved another quarter of increased profitability. We continue to generate significant cash flow and are executing our capital allocation priorities, with the expectation to continue share repurchases in the second half of the year.
$5.43 bil. Mattel, Inc. is an American toy and game creator and manufacturer known for such iconic toy brands as Barbie dolls, American Girl dolls, and Hot Wheels and Matchbox die-cast toy cars, as well as board and card games including UNO and Skip-Bo.
Mattel, Inc. (/məˈtɛl/ mə-TEL) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.
Mattel's operated at median total debt of 2.928 billion from fiscal years ending December 2019 to 2023. Looking back at the last 5 years, Mattel's total debt peaked in December 2019 at 3.192 billion. Mattel's total debt hit its 5-year low in December 2023 of 2.667 billion.
Mattel Inc. on Monday announced an agreement to buy Tyco Toys Inc. in a $755-million stock deal that would move Tyco's Matchbox cars and Sesame Street figures into the House of Barbie.
Mattel agreed last year to pay a hefty $680 million for Hit Entertainment, the British owner of Thomas, a cheery blue locomotive first introduced in a 1946 book.
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