BBCNEWS Talking Business September 1, 2024
By 2030, and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we've seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers, and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, bigname companies report that sales have started to slip back once again. Let's have a look at some of those numbers. Global toy sales reached $108] billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022, with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional...