Sentence examples for toy trade from inspiring English sources

The event, one of two that the Toy Industry Association holds in New York each year, is the nation's largest toy trade show.

"She took five or six of us to a toy trade show to learn the buying aspect," one of the employees, Charline Mitchell, 18, said recently.

But by that time it was becoming difficult for a small doll company to compete in the toy trade, in which large retail chains fight over penny discounts.

The robotic Dragonfly will take flight again at the American International Toy Fair, the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere, which begins Sunday in New York.

Market research group NPD, which claims to measure around 70% of the UK toy trade, has recorded a 20% rise during the past year in the sales of tabletop games (including card and dice games, war games played with miniature figures and role-play titles such as Dungeons & Dragons, in which players imagine themselves as heroic warriors and wizards in imaginary, fantasy worlds).

He's also, less literally, following their trail through the culture, wondering why they are yellow; learning about the physics of what happens to big ships in high seas; exploring remote corners of Alaska frequented by eccentric oceanographers and feuding environmentalists; beachcombing and learning about the economics of the international toy trade.

Last year Shanghai began hosting an annual sex-toy trade fair.

Launched in 2008, Moshi Monsters now has 60 million registered users in 150 territories worldwide and has expanded offline with bestselling toys, trading cards, a Moshi DS game and a popular magazine.

Judges' comment: With a hockey stick of revenue coming in from membership subscriptions, the cuddly Moshi Monsters game for kids is now forecasting a further $100 million in related merchandise next year in toys, trading cards, magazines and books.

Cliff Annicelli, editor of Playthings, a toy industry trade publication, estimated that specialty toys represent about 5percentt of the overall toy business in the United States, which was $22 billion in 2006.

Recently the toys have been picked up by Target.com and other online retailers, and at the Fall Toy Preview trade show this month, one2believe will show an expanded line of more than 75 products.