BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$11.2B
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
Toys & Games Retailer; Joint Venture of Vornado Realty Trust (33%); Bain Capital, LLC (33%); Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (33%)
Number of Employees 59,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Hobby, Toy, and Game Stores: 451120
Recent Events
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Hammes to take helm at Kirkland & Ellis
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Two Nintendo DS games for $40 + $6 s
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RIGHT AT HOME: The nursery gets back to basics
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Social Networking Sells
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• Cyber Monday: Hope for disappointed stores
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TRU Introduces Gaming Hardware Trade-In Program
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Retailers entering toy price war for holiday shopping season
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Getting back to basics
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Wal-Mart begins annual holiday price war
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At 40, 'Sesame Street' is in a constant state of renewal
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Summer Infant profit jumps 22%
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Frugality is a given this holiday season
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Pop-up stores help fill mall space during economic slump
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Toys "R" Us + Hot Topic + Twilight
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Toys R Us adding FAO Schwarz boutiques to its stores
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Toys R Us opens FAO Schwarz boutiques
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Toys R Us to open FAO Schwarz boutiques
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Toys “R� Us to open 585 in-store FAO Schwarz boutiques
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The nursery gets back to basics
News & Analysis
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Toys"R"Us Joins Walmart, Kmart in Holiday Exclusives After Thwarting Macy's
BNET
- 2009-10-02
Getting its own exclusive kids deal going for the holidays, Toys“Râ€Us is partnering with LEGO Systems in establishing "Bricktober," a month-long event at the retailer's stores across the United States and online, saluting the bricks that kids still use to build skyscrapers, planes, trains and even intergalactic warships. ...
Mass appeal: mass-market toy retailers strategize, conceptualize and categorize in order to capitalize.(special report)
- 2003-10-01
From something-for-everyone giants Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target, to the giant toy specialists Toys R Us and KB Toys, mass-market toy retailers are generating innvative product ideas and jumping market tracks to work with generalist retailers, grocery From something-for-everyone giants Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target, to...
Toy cash registers: sales increase in 2001 among Top 50 toy retailers despite closings.
- 2003-01-01
The toy 'giants'--the industry's 50 largest retailers--outpaced the industry in sales for 2001 according to exclusive research by PLAYTHINGS magazine. The giants had combined 2001 sales of $29.6 billion, a 7.7 percent increase over the group's 200 The toy 'giants'--the industry's 50 largest...
Wal-Mart - Retailer News - Mattel and Fisher-Price strike deals with Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us - Brief Article
- 2002-02-11
Mattel and Fisher-Price have struck online deals with the No. 1 and No. 2 toy retailers, Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us. Walmart.com has agreed to feature a Hotwheels.com link; in return, Hotwheels.com's "Shop" section will include a link to Walmart.com. Fisher-Price, the preschool toys division of Mattel, will also promote...
Jumping to console conclusions: Xbox, GameCube look like sure bets.(Nintendo of America to introduce GameCube; Microsoft Corp. to offer Xbox)(Brief Article)
- 2001-11-12
Rising unemployment and recession fears are not expected to impact holiday sales of either Nintendo of America's GameCube or Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox, according to major videogame retailers contacted one week before each system's launch. In fac Rising unemployment...
What lies within.
- 2001-10-01
A new trend is on the rise Toto, we're not in Toys R Us anymore. Oh, yes you are, Dorothy! You may have entered a cozy, carpeted sales section called Imaginarium and are now surrounded by specialty...
Distro for small retailers.
- 2000-11-01
Wholesale toy supplier Distributoys is gearing up for the holiday season by doubling the company's SKUs to 2000 units. Aimed at small to medium-sized retailers and e-tailers that do not have the same buying power as a Toys R Us or Walmart,...
Specialty's last holdout?
- 2000-10-01
With the exception of BRIO, virtually every other product we want to sell in the store, we do."--John Eyler, president, Toys R Us A major question under debate in the specialty toy world is over companies that once catered to the communit...
Toys paving way.(e-commerce expected to gain popularity)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2000-02-01
Competition is fierce in hot segment According to research firm Jupiter Communications, consumers were expected to spend a total of $6 billion on-line during the recent holiday season, a time of year when toy retailers do up to 50% of their ...
Understanding Internet toy sales.(Brief Article)
- 2000-01-01
The market, the players, the future With dazzling speed, online toy retailing has exploded, with toy manufacturers and retailers alike staking their claim on the Internet in record numbers. There are no specific rules in this...
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