Uglydolls Sit Pretty in 3,000 Stores Uglydoll plush toys are so ugly they’re cute. The first Uglydoll was handmade by Sun-Min Kim as a present for David Horvath in 2001...
10/1/2007
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Woodstock Chimes Rings True In 1979, Garry Kvistad was teaching music at a Midwestern university when he decided to make his first instrument — a xylophone constructed of aluminum lawn-chair tubes that he hung to be played by the wind...
9/1/2007
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Blackall Associates Crafts a Masterpiece The unique and lifelike Masterpiece Dolls by Blackall Associates were an instant success when Shirley Blackall introduced them in 1998...
8/1/2007
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NuOp Design Thrives on Originality In 2005, Frank Frisari and John McCoy pooled their talents to create geometric magnets and the flexible plastic Q-Man. Two years later, they have a line of colorful novelties...
7/1/2007
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Out of the Box Makes Its Own Rules Word games, board games, dice games, card games. Party games, skill games, family games … Out of the Box Games makes every type of game imaginable...
6/1/2007
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Only Hearts Club Keeps Growing Soft yet poseable, wholesome yet cool, Only Hearts Club dolls are an appealing alternative to the typical dolls marketed to girls ages 8 to 12...
5/1/2007
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Bling Bling Scores! Real estate investor and photo/video producer Joseph Cassarino was introduced to Jeff McGill, the inventor of Bling Bling, in 2002. Cassarino was so impressed with McGill's preliminary outline that he decided to fund his company...
4/1/2007
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Secrist Shares Secrets, Gains Sales Reborning — disassembling a doll and rebuilding it into a lifelike baby — has turned the business model upside down...
3/1/2007
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Safari Grows Fearlessly Since 1980, Safari Ltd. has been making all types of realistic animal figures...
2/1/2007
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River Dolphin Toys Makes the Connection A flying dog, a fish that walks on elephant legs, a seal with a lizard tail. Children can make these fantastic creatures with Zoomorphs...
Teddy Bear Stuffers Knows Its Stuff Annette Block owned a successful corporate gift basket company when she and her husband Stanley saw their first bear stuffer...
11/1/2006
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Preschool Prep Brings Life to Letters Preschool Prep Company produces DVDs and books that teach toddlers the alphabet, numbers and shapes while they are learning to talk...
10/1/2006
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A Puzzling Business Since childhood, Andrew Snowie has been fascinated by construction and logic toys...
9/1/2006
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On the Road With Asmodee Asmodee Editions LLC is an established French company that’s been around for 15 years and takes in over 17 million Euro a year. Having conquered the Continent, they were getting a volume of requests for their product in the U.S...
8/1/2006
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Kamhi World Makes Fortunes Jay Kamhi went from selling toys on the streets to running a multi-million dollar company...
