Toys and Sporting Goods (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global toys and sporting goods industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Toys and Sporting Goods

Industry Snapshot

According to the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI), in 2003 sales of traditional toys around the world was US$59.4 billion. While the toy market always had an international flavor – the creations of German toy makers delighted U.S. children in the nineteenth century – by the 1990s the industry had become truly global. This continued to be the case in the mid-2000s. Giant toy makers, such as the Mattel Inc. in the United States, Lego in Denmark, and Nintendo in Japan, generated much, if not most, of their revenues overseas....

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