Miniso gets AI investment lift, as self-developed toys look for traction
The lifestyle retailer’s first-quarter report showed impressive headline profit growth, but a closer look reveals the increase owed to stock investment gains Key Takeaways: Miniso reported its first-quarter profit nearly…
Turtle tempest: Can Playmates Toys fight back after losing its prize Ninjas?
The toymaker will end its exclusive 37-year agreement to make products based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the end of 2026 Key Takeaways: Playmates will soon lose its exclusive…
Here Group challenges Labubu with Wakuku
The former adult education company has transformed to a pop toy maker, reporting its revenue from that business rose sharply in its latest quarter Key Takeaways: Here Group’s revenue nearly…
Will Top Toy knock Pop Mart off its throne?
China’s third largest pop toy seller, a spinoff of Japanese-style retailer Miniso, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO just five years after its founding Key Takeaways: Miniso spinoff Top…
VIDEO BRIEF: Toys for grown-ups, inside China’s $15 billion collectible toy boom
Last year alone, collectors worldwide spent nearly 2 billion US dollars on blind boxes from Chinese collectible toy sensation POP MART. That fueled a sales explosion that lit a fire…
BRIEF: Miniso hires underwriters for Top Toy IPO
Retailer Miniso Group Holding Ltd. (MNSO.US; 9896.HK) plans to spin off its Top Toy unit for a separate Hong Kong listing, and has hired JPMorgan and UBS to underwrite the…
Game time for another IPO hopeful in China’s booming toy market
A maker of collectible figurines, 52Toys, is lining up to test investor enthusiasm for play-related stocks after the runaway success of Pop Mart Key Takeaways: 52Toys has posted losses for…