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Spin Master Toys ДЄlongside the companyвЂ™s toy and board game businesses they are also the company behind several successful kids' shows: The acquisition was completed on 5 January 2021.

On 27 October 2020, Spin Master said it will pay $50 million for Rubik's Cube, the iconic game invented nearly 50 years ago. Spin Master is now a $1.5 billion (sales) company, which employs over 1,600 people in 16 countries. In March 2018, Spin Master acquired the 120 year old stuffed toy brand Gund. In 2017, Spin Master acquired Marbles, a firm known for creating games, gifts and gadgets and the maker of Otrio Aerobie, a leading producer of outdoor flying disks and sports toys and Perplexus, a 3D ball-in-a-maze Spin Master had been distributing since 2013. In August 2016 Spin Master diversified into the water and outdoor sports category through the acquisition of Swimways corporation. In April 2016, Spin Master purchased digital toy makers Toca Boca and Sago Mini from the Bonnier Group of Sweden. In February 2016, Spin Master bought the Etch A Sketch and Doodle Sketch brands from The Ohio Art Company for an undisclosed price. In January 2016 Spin Master purchased the library of board games owned by Editrice Giochi SRL, one of the oldest privately held toy game companies in Italy. A month after announcing it was buying Cardinal, Spin Master made its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The purchase made Spin Master the second largest games company in the U.S. In June 2015, Spin Master entered into an agreement to acquire Cardinal Industries, a 60-year-old game and puzzles company. In August 2013, Spin Master acquired the Erector Set by Meccano construction set line. Together with her best Fuzzly friend Bozzly, Abby goes on wild adventures to fix Fuzzly mishaps and help them in any way she can. The show centers on Abby and her new friends the Fuzzlies, who are amazing and quirky creatures that live in her family's hotel.

#SPIN MASTER ENTERTAINMENT SERIES#

Abby Hatcher, Fuzzly Catcher, Spin Master's newest animated preschool series debut on Nickelodeon on January 2019 in the U.S. To date, Spin Master Entertainment has developed six television series with over 400 cumulative episodes. Under Harary's leadership, Spin Master Entertainment launched with Bakugan Battle Brawlers the animated action adventure television series under the direction of Mitsuo Hashimoto. Bakugan reached almost $1 billion in yearly sales. In 2008, Spin Master launched the Bakugan Battle Brawlers franchise, a card game developed in conjunction with Sega Toys, featured plastic balls which burst open to reveal anime-style characters. Over the next handful of years, Spin Master opened offices in the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. In 2003, the company made its first corporate acquisition buying Bounce вЂRound, a company that created scaled down versions of the inflatable bouncy castles. The company scored another success in 1999, with Flix Trix Finger Bikes, a string of 1/2 inch replicas of BMX bikes. The company, which had grown to 28 employees by 1999, told the LA Times they were already вЂњassessing 1,000 inventions a year.вЂќ TheyвЂ™d moved their manufacturing supply chain to Hong Kong in 1998 and were ready to rise as a new name in the toy industry. The Sky Shark put Spin Master on the map, becoming one of the most popular toys in the world and earning them a slot on daytime television Regis and Kathie Lee alongside other international press.

Product development took over two years and more than $500,000, but ended up generating $103 million in revenue over the next few years. Developed from the prototype provided by inventors John Dixon and Peter Manning, the Sky Shark was a foam plane that used compressed air to enable outdoor flight.

Spin Master's first major success came in 1998 with the launch of the Air Hogs brand, and its first item, the Sky Shark. The Earth Buddy went on to sell over 26,000 units. The company's first product, Earth Buddies, was a small head made out of Kmart pantyhoses and grass seeds, which grew 'hair' when watered. Three college friends from Western Ivey Business School, Ronnen Harary, Anton Rabie and Ben Varadi, founded Spin Master with $10,000 in Toronto in 1994.

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