WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TOY INDUSTRY.
What is The Toy Intelligencer Report?
Effective 11/1/2022
The Toy
Intelligencer will now be merged together with Global Toy News - Stay
tuned for updates and information on this change. We will be notifying
subscribers of the change with an email this week.
We designed the Toy Intelligencer Report for those who want to know what
happened, what is happening, and what will happen in the business of toys.
Rather than make The Toy Intelligencer Report a weekly, monthly, or
quarterly, we decided to make it a living document that changes every
day.
Researched and written by iconic toy
industry sleuths Chris Byrne and Richard Gottlieb, the Toy Intelligencer
Report provides unique perspectives, data, analysis, and insights on the toy
industry, toys, and the world of play. Chris and Richard call upon their
decades of toy industry experience, global relationships, and acute
intelligence to figure out what is changing and about to
change.
A
living document, the Toy Intelligencer Report provides up to the minute
data, analysis, and a comprehensive understanding of what is happening and
about to happen.
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Meet Your Toy Industry Insiders.
Richard Gottlieb
Global Toy Experts/Global Toy News
Richard Gottlieb is the Founder and
Chief Executive Officer of Global Toy Experts, a toy business consultancy
founded in 1994, and a partner at Global Toy Enterprises, a provider of
mergers and acquisitions services to toy companies. Richard is also
the founder and publisher of Global Toy News, where he writes and publishes
articles on all aspects of the business of play.
Richard has represented various toy companies, including Hasbro, D.C.
Comics, Warner Brothers, Rose Art, and Rockstar Games. He has also worked
closely with significant national toy industry trade associations in the
United States, China, Hong Kong, and Germany.
Richard regularly attends and participates as a guest speaker at
international toy industry events and trade shows in the U.S., Germany, Hong
Kong, China, and Brazil.
Due to his experience and expertise in the toy industry, he has been
interviewed at least 175 times by worldwide media outlets, including A.B.C.
News, CNN, M.S.N.B.C.C., the New York Times, and Newsweek, regarding toy
industry issues.
Mr. Gottlieb has an MBA in Global Management and is a long-time Toy Hall of
Fame selection committee member.
Chris Byrne
The Toy Guy®
As
an independent toy analyst, researcher and consultant, Chris brings more
than 30 years of industry experience in the toy industry to his role. He is
an acknowledged expert on toys and play in the culture and brings his
extensive knowledge of toys, education and child development to his work.
Chris began his career working on major toy brands in a variety of marketing
and operations positions. He was instrumental in the development and
merchandising of many successful products including those marketed under the
Gabriel, Child Guidance, Creative Playthings, and Ideal brands, among
others. He led the team that established the game Pictionary as one of the
most popular games of its era. In 1988, he formed Byrne Communications, with
broad-based consulting in the toy, children’s entertainment, financial
and consumer products industries. He was one of the founders and creative
director for the web site TTPM. Today, Byrne Communications works with
companies of all sizes and entrepreneurs, helping them to develop and launch
products. He consults regular to the analyst and investment community about
the international business of toys.
