Article: Jobs threat as bidders target ailing toymaker; TOY TROUBLE: Smoby sells products such as mini diggers through top UK retailers.

Article: Smoby enters receivership under French court's ...
Plastics News;  October 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... has placed the country's top toymaker Smoby-Majorette SA into receivership, despite ... owns rotational molder Little Tikes Co. Smoby has accumulated debt of 277 million euros ... other potential buyers may now bid for Smoby, which is Europe's second-largest ...

Article: Grand Toys and Smoby Majorette Join Forces to Distribute ...
PR Newswire;  February 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... has entered into a letter of intent with Smoby Majorette to distribute the Smoby, Majorette and Berchet range of products in the ... significant expansion of Grand's distribution of Smoby products in North America. Grand already distributes ...

Article: Smoby International SA
International Directory of Company Histories;      700+ words ...Smoby International SA B.P. 7 39170 Lavans ... Children ’ s Vehicle Manufacturing Smoby International SA is France ’ s ... Posting sales of more than EUR 208 million, Smoby primarily targets the infant through age ...

Article: Simba Dickie buying Smoby.(News)(Brief article)
Plastics News;  March 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... will take over parts of French rival Smoby-Majorette SA, following a decision by a French court that was overseeing Smoby's future. Furth-based Simba Dickie ... attempting to come up with a plan to keep Smoby that would have been acceptable to the ...

Article: Bidders make play for Smoby.(Special ...
Plastics News;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... potential bidders for ailing French toy maker Smoby-Majorette SA have come forward, among ... commercial court administrators managing Smoby, Furth, Germany-based Simba Dickie ... buyers registered an interest in rescuing Smoby, based in Lavans-les-St.-Claude ...

Article: Smoby sells 2 plants to French companies.(News)(RPC Group ...
Plastics News;  December 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Richard Higgs French toymaker Smoby-Majorette SA has sold two of its plants ... packaging company RPC Group plc purchased a Smoby-Majorette extrusion blow molding plant ... packaging company based in Yvelines, France. Smoby-Majorette has been in receivership since ...

Article: Smoby stands up to Mattel in playground.
Sunday Business (London);  October 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... chief executive of French family toymaker Smoby Majorette has embarked on a break-neck ... months ago, Breuil, 37, has transformed Smoby into Europe's second-biggest toymaker ... t succeed in his ambition. For though Smoby is quoted on Euronext Paris, the Breuil ...