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World toy industry will seek to move on after toxic toys crisis
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 31 - 01 - 2008


At the Nuremberg Toy Fair next week,
the world toy industry will be seeking to move on after the crisis
last year over Chinese-made toys tainted with toxic substances,
according to an industry expert on Thursday, according to dpa.
Werner Lenzner of Eurotoys, a consultancy that monitors the
industry, said the sector had been hurt by the rising cost of raw
materials and wages as well as the discovery of lead in some paints
which led to worldwide toy recalls.
The current signs of a downturn in the US economy, a major toy
importer, were also applying a brake to demand.
Lenzer said in Nuremberg, "2007 was definitely one of the more
difficult years of recent times for the toy industry."
The February 7-12 fair in Nuremberg, a city which was a centre of
European toymaking before China established itself as the world's
principal toy manufacturer, will this year highlight educational
toys.
The fair chief executive, Ernst Kick, said this reflected the
growing interest among parents in Germany and other European nations
in toys that teach children something while they play.
That was a key selling proposition with construction toys, science
kits, books, CDs, wooden toys, jigsaws, board games and many juvenile
computer games, he added.
"All good toys have an educational aspect about them," said
Lenzner. "They encourage social skills such as teamwork or being able
to cope with losing. What we are now seeing for the first time are
baby educational toys that teach motor skills."
The fair, which is not open to the general public, has booked
2,676 exhibitors from 61 nations and is expected to attract 80,000
professionals including buyers, importers and media people.
Experts told reporters Thursday at a briefing that European toy
sales were only rising slightly if at all, whereas emerging nation
sales were surging strongly. The emerging group includes Russia,
Poland, China and South America.
An arbitration panel specially constituted for the fair will
deliver instant rulings on complaints by manufacturers that other
exhibitors are offering copycat products.
Last year the panel adjudicated 23 such claims of piracy, Kick
said, adding that the difference between the Nuremberg event and the
major Hong Kong and New York toy fairs was that the German event
highlighted higher-priced, branded toys.


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