Seems Mattel's not doing to hot lately and a small group of shareholders owning 4% are interested in it being sold to either Hasbro or a private equity firm to try to push the stock to $30 or take it off the market completely.>We know that Mattel and Hasbro have engaged in on-and-off talks for decades. At the moment, a deal between the two companies is possible in our view. Hasbro has done a better job executing on digital growth than Mattel and therefore has more credibility in this important part of the business. We believe synergies between the two companies would be material, creating a stronger player in a global industry.Since it's such a small percentage of shareholders, I doubt it'll amount to anything, but with all the toy companies we've seen go under in recent years, it's interesting that even one of the most famous toy companies in the world is in danger nowadays. Hopefully their DC line will be a success.
>>11785104>4%So what, like fifty guys?
>4% Thats literally less than nothing for a company like them.
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>>11785104This is literally nothing and I'm seeing it on every single fucking website so I'm assuming you're payed shills.
>>11785151Imagine paying someone to shill on one of the slowest boards on 4chan.
>>11785104I bet there's another 4% who are saying Mattel should buy Nintendo. You don't have to know anything about business to buy stock
kek I work for Mattel. They're doing just fine. Before anyone asks, I'm a warehouse checker. I just make sure the correct inventory is being loaded into the right trailers.
>>11785104Mattel owns Barbie, they could buy all your favorite import brands and not even notice a dip.
Do these 4%ers happen to also be marvel slopgen collectors? Mattel will be fine especially with the reacquisition of dc but idk about hasblow...
>>11785296>Mattel's Networth: $4.47 Billion>Bandai's Networth: $14.9 BillionBarbies also haven't been selling well after a temporary bump after the movie made them relevant again from what I've heard.
>>11785306You're such a disgusting retard.
>>11785104Mattel will do what the institutional investors tell them to do. Fuck everyone else.
>>11785452Be more of a loser faggot.
>>11785104If Mattel is not doing so great why are they spending so much on pushing MOTU, many different lines, getting the DC license back, etc?
>>11785213>I just make sure the correct inventory is being loaded into the right trailers.Tell whomever that they aren't sending enough stock to Target. I can't find the suited Mattel wrestling bodies I need for suited civilians at my local Targets and when I went to look for MOTU toys at the five largest Targets in my district (Metro LA), almost all of them had like 30-50% of the end cap display missing (from what people are showing in the MOTU General and elsewhere). When I asked the one toy lead I know well at the second largest store, he said they "put out all" the stock they "received." It's one fucking end cap in one fucking aisle. Meanwhile, Super Mario movie toys STILL look like they vomited all over the entire seven or eight aisles of toys at this particular Target. Even the LEGO section has one entire cabinet that looks like Mario vomited all over it.
Why would Hasbro buy them? I thought Hasbro was having financial problems and Mattel was doign well?
Hasbro is trying to get out of toys and into just being a content company that outsources, so I don't know why they would buy Mattel unless it's just for IPs
>>11785614Nothing I can do about that. If that's all Target ordered, that's all they get.
Why is this a thread>>11785677Why are Americans even in the toy industry its all outsourced to China where the actual work happens
>>11785798Because Americans hold the IPs. And I'm not even referring to contracting with Chinese factories. I'm talking outsourcing as in giving a license to another company and just collecting checks from them, not even being involved in the design or management of the line.
>>11785830>Because Americans hold the IPs
>>11785618This. Mattel is way more competently run than hasbro
They wish so hard it was 2012 again, before the Snyder massacre.
>>11785792>If that's all Target received, that's all Target can sell
