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Toymaker Hasbro buys into TV with Discovery

Toymaker Hasbro is paying USD300m to join a joint venture with Discovery Communications, which will revamp and replace Discovery's existing Discovery Kids TV channel. The new venture, which has yet to be named, will pool Hasbro's popular brands such as My Little Pony and Transformers with Discovery Kids shows...

Tags: Hasbro Inc., Discovery Communications Inc., Hasbro-Discovery Venture, Business Structures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Branding, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, George Mitton

Articles 2009-04-29

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Hasbro Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We’ll have our first question from Margaret Whitfield with Stern Agee. Margaret Whitfield - Stern Agee Good morning, everyone. I guess first for Deb -- could you give us more information on the amortization, which you said would be lessened for a greater period...

Tags: Asset, Venture, Hasbro Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Amortization, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha

Earnings calls 2009-07-20

Hasbro Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question, we’ll hear from Tony Gikas with Piper Jaffray. Tony Gikas - Piper Jaffray A couple of questions -- could you review the entertainment slate for 2011, as preliminary as it might be? And you mentioned that Transformers looks like it...

Tags: Hasbro Inc., U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Cash Flow, Call Transcript, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Seeking Alpha

Earnings calls 2009-10-19

Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations

The Idea in Brief Why did toy and gaming giant Hasbro unload its new software division at a rock-bottom price just five years after launching it? Like many other established companies, Hasbro learned the hard...

Tags: Harvard Business Review, Vijay Govindarajan, Workforce Management, In Brief, Marketing, Leadership, Innovation, Performance, Human Resources, Management, Strategy, Marketing Research, Corning Inc., Business, Performance Management, Leader, Chris Trimble

Articles 2008-01-04

Kent heads high-profile P&G foray; Reflect.com executive leads bid for mass customization and profit.(Brief Article)

How much would a woman pay for a customized beauty care regimen with her own name on every bottle? Procter & Gamble Co., its partner Institutional Venture Partners and former Hasbro executive Virginia "Ginger" Kent are wagering more tha How much would a woman pay for...

Tags: Procter & Gamble Co.

Research articles 2000-11-06

What Is Private Equity?

The term private equity encompasses a range of techniques used to finance commercial ventures in ways that do not involve the use of publicly tradable assets such as corporate stock or bonds. Typical forms of private equity include venture capital, growth and mezzanine capital, angel investing, and private equity funds....

Tags: Financial Services, VC, Angel Investor, Business, BNET Briefing, Sue Troy, Investment, Finance, Investor, Venture Capital, Private Equity

Articles 2007-03-05