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GreenLight, LLC, together with its affiliate, Under the Hood Club, LLC, today announced that it has completed a significant equity investment from a group of individual investors. Net proceeds from this investment will be used to accelerate the development of new projects and to expand more aggressively into licensed die-cast collectibles and related products that appeal to the company’s auto enthusiast customers.

Challenge-Coin.info – an exclusive site that aims to store information about all types of challenge coins and military coins, is growing faster. More than 1000 entries registered already!

Palm Beach Puppies and Boutique has introduced grand sale offer scheme on different breeds of female puppies. This was done to provide dog lovers with an opportunity to buy healthy and quality puppies of their preference at lower prices.

Highly successful 1:64 Motor World introduces its third release and continues to shine the spot light on International Car Models

In 2009, influenced by the financial crisis, the global toy sales turned out to be US$80 billion, an increase of 3.6% compared with US$77 billion in 2008. Along with the gradual recovery of global economy in 2010, the toy industry also takes a turn for the better; promisingly, global toy sales in 2010 will be raised by 5.4% compared with the prior year, hitting US$84.3 billion. The USA, Japan, and China rank the Top 3 of toy sales worldwide with the respective sales of US$21.5 billion, US$5.8 billion, and US$4.9 billion, while Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, India, Australia, and Canada take the 4th-10th position. The Top 10 countries occupy 66% of the global total sales of toys.

Born Gifted, a leading UK supplier of baby gifts and toys in the UK, now have a huge range of Christening gifts available to buy from their website, including personalised gifts and keepsakes.

Net Price Direct, a leading UK supplier of cheap childrens toys and children’s party supplies, have increased their range of adult arts and crafts materials, available through the ‘Arts & Crafts’ section of their website.

Out of this World Costume has hired WideGroup Interactive to introduce their new line of products “QT Comfy” to the US market. QT Comfy consists of a variety of cozy, button-down suits designed in an array of lovable animals, affable creatures and iconic characters meant to be enjoyed at home, on the go or at play. They come in an assortment of sizes for toddlers, teens and adults.

Think-a-lot Toys has just released two new travel games, Think-ets Fairy Collection and Think-ets Sports Collection. The Fairy Collection, which comes in a bright pink pouch, has fifteen adorable, tiny trinkets with a fairy theme. The Sports Collection has trinkets with a sports theme. The game uses tiny trinkets to engage kids in their own "magical fairy-land" or "awesome sports-event" of stories, play, and imagination. The tiny trinkets are imported from around the world and come with instructions for ten different games to play.

Net Price Direct, a leading UK supplier of cheap childrens toys and children's party supplies, are increasing their range and stock of wooden toys available for customers to buy though their website.

Net Price Direct, a leading UK supplier of cheap childrens toys and children's party supplies, can also supply gifts for adults and have increased their stock of gifts for women with Mother's Day fast approaching.

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Strategic Vision, LLC announces that they will be offering people within the toy industry free thirty-minute consultations to jumpstart their marketing and publicity efforts for the holidays and Toy Fair 2010. The free consultation offering is part of the company’s Publicity and Marketing Jumpstart For The Toy Industry (PMJTI) program for the toy industry. For many the next five months will be some of the most critical months in their business year. Targeted marketing and publicity will make a crucial difference for holiday sales and a successful Toy Fair 2010, the premiere toy event held in New York on February 14-17, 2010.

Janlynn launches their Dolly Mamas™ contest open exclusively to those who purchase a Dolly Mamas™ item from www.janlynn.com. To enter the contest, one must:

Cut@Home online store releases the best scrapbooking adhesives for scrapbooking, card making, and papercrafting projects on the market by Beacon Adhesives, Inc. that will be a must have for all crafters.

Stacey Caron, owner and designer of Spellbinders Paper Arts received the innovation award from the Craft and Hobbby Association (CHA) for the Shapeabilities Pendants and Borderabilities Die templates.

Robin's Nest releases their brand new line of scrapbook embellishments called, "tear drops" and dazziling card makers across the globe.

Copic markers have always been popular among those who do architecture and those who love to color anime’ pictures, but there is a new market that Copic is reaching and that is the scrapbookers, papercrafters and especially the card makers.

A couple of months ago, instead of selling individual sheets like most scrapbook companies, Cut@Home online scrapbooking store introduced exclusively packaging My Mind’s Eye and Graphic 45 paper lines into their own kits with big success.

Just over 5 months ago, small business owner and single mom, Marcie Mower, wins 2008 Spellbinders Web Retailer of the Year award for her online scrapbooking and die-cutting store at the Craft and Hobby Association Show (CHA).

A brand new company, Inspired Crafts releases the first ever eco-friendly cleaning solutions for scrapbooking die-cuts and rubber stamps and it's gaining popularity really fast among the crafters.