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Toy Stocks Mostly Lower After Toys 'R' Us Confirms Bankruptcy
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 9:25am | 497Read More...Toy stocks were hard hit last week after reports suggested that the toy-retail giant Toys "R" Us was close to potentially filing for bankruptcy. By Tuesday morning, the company's deceleration of bankrupt was made official, The Washington Post and other media outlets reported. Toys "R" Us filed for...
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Toy Stocks Fall On News Of Potential Toys R Us Bankruptcy
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 3:39pm | 347Read More...Toyland is in trouble. Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) and JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAKK) each plunged about 2 percent Wednesday on news that Toys R Us hired restructuring lawyers to help address about $400 million in debt and potentially file for bankruptcy. The national...
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Toys 'R' Us CEO's Turnaround Plan: Become More Of A 'Toy Store,' Less Of A 'Garage Sale'
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 1:22pm | 578Read More...Dave Brandon is the CEO of Toys "R" Us, and he isn't happy at all with what he sees inside the retail locations. According to a Bloomberg report, Brandon visited a Toys "R" Us store in Secaucus, New Jersey, and needed just five minutes before spotting problems....
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Wal-Mart, Target And Macy's All Don Black This Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 1:09pm | 795Read More...Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year. Within the last few years, several major stores have opened their doors earlier and earlier; now, the pattern has continued pushing and several stores are set to open on Thanksgiving Day. This phenomenon, Black...
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Why Walter White And Jesse Pinkman Dissed Toys 'R' Us
Monday, October 27, 2014 - 4:38pm | 758Read More...The tale of a meth-making science teacher makes for great television, but some questionable toy ideas for children. That's how one mom felt, at least. Susan Schrivjer is an admitted fan of AMC's "Breaking Bad," but she doesn't care for its action figures. In an online...
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Retailers Look to Lure in More Holiday Shoppers with Extended Hours & Discounts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 4:39pm | 606Read More...What may be good news for last-minute Christmas shoppers can also be seen as a sign of alarm from some retailers, who appear to be concerned about both the shortened holiday shopping season this year and word that some consumers have been staying home during the recent bout of winter storms. On...
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Retailers Work to Squeeze in More Sales During Shortened Holiday Season
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 1:06pm | 815Read More...Spurred on by this year's shortened holiday shopping season, a number of major retailers have decided to go straight from Halloween to Christmas, with barely a nod towards Thanksgiving. Reuters reports Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) began its online sales promotions on Friday, one month earlier...
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How to Make A Hot Holiday Toy
Friday, November 26, 2010 - 9:57am | 338Read More...(TheStreet) -- Take that $50 Barbie doll with a digital camera and place it alongside a $9 16-pack of cute creature-shaped pencil toppers and you'll get a quick lesson in the anatomy of a hot holiday toy. With Toys R Us opening 600 pop-up shops this season, Target (NYSE: TGT) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:...
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Christmas Fight! Teamsters vs. Toys R Us
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 12:23pm | 159Read More...Just in time for Black Friday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and an environmental justice group have released a report they commissioned attacking the nation's biggest toy seller, Toys R Us and Babies R Us, for allegedly selling “toxic toys.” The group says the toys purportedly...
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Retailers Chose Many Paths to Holiday Sales
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 1:58pm | 132Read More...Clothing retailer Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS) is counting on shoppers to buy themselves a holiday present now, leaving purchases for friends and family until later. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) may have pulled back from price "rollbacks" in its day-to-day business, but for the holidays, the pace of...
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What's Hot On TheStreet
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 12:37pm | 302Read More...Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet BP, Street Titans 'Win' Ig Nobel Awards Executives of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), BP (NYSE: BP), the former financial powerhouse Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch (NYSE: BAC), Magnetar Capital, and AIG (NYSE: AIG) were...
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IPO Market Begins to Heat Up
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 2:19pm | 139Read More...The initial public offering market is beginning to warm from recession lows, and with big name deals such as General Motors and Toys R Us looming on the horizon large IPOs appear to be gaining momentum. According to analytical firm Dealogic, 2010 year to date has brought $138.74 billion in priced...
