There are already 14 American Girl stores in the U.S., and more are planned.
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Unfortunately for my wallet, Katie is a fan of the American Girl doll series by Mattel.
He contends that stagnant sales of Barbie U.S. and American Girl and the difficulty replicating the Cars- and T.
U.S. sales of Fisher Price products make up 21% of revenue and the American Girl business accounts for about 5%.
Its posh, company-owned American Girl stores are as close as you can get to Apple Store profitability in the toy-selling business.
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So, it was not completely unexpected that word of a new American Girl movie resulted in a slew of squeals and pleading.
We have bigger fish to fry: the American Girl is apparently Canadian.
Edgell said one of the early investigators on the case who spoke with her friends and colleagues described Mirack as an all-American girl.
So I made my poor girls wait until the end of the credits so that I could verify: our American Girl was really Canadian.
American Girl gross sales increased 32 percent, while worldwide gross sales of other girls' brands which includes Monster High surged 56 percent.
Mattel built momentum in a number of key brands, including Barbie, American Girl, Hot Wheels and Batman: Dark Knight, says CEO Bryan Stockton.
Other people are praying you'll deliver Microsoft 's Xbox 360, Apple Computer 's iPod nano, or a doll and outfit from the American Girl store.
Evert was the All-American girl from sunny Florida, blonde and lithe.
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CDOs to a Hollywood madame masquerading as a wholesome, all-American girl.
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Barbie and American Girl grew sales 12% and 13%, respectively.
Case in point: American Girl Stores, Build-a-Bear Workshops, FAO Schwarz.
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Known for hit singles including American Girl, Learning To Fly and Breakdown, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are due to kick off their US tour in Colorado on Wednesday night.
Other segments include Fisher-Price Brands and American Girl Brands.
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But today, somewhere in the Midwest, there is a little Asian-American girl with the crazy idea she could be president one day, and because of Obama, she knows that idea is not very crazy at all.
The dolls have been around for over 25 years (originally sold by mail order) but now, as a subsidiary of Mattel, you can have the whole American Girl experience by walking into any number of mall stores in the country.
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Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.
Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, is the story of an abused, illiterate African-American high school girl who is pregnant with her second child by her father.
This is partly because popular support for American bases in Japan plummeted following the rape of a young girl in Okinawa by three American servicemen.
Girl Up encourage American girls to get involved raising awareness of the issues girls face around the world, and the U.N. programs addressing them.
Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards are the principal characters, All-American Johnny Rico and the over-achiever girl he loves more than she loves him, Carmen Ibanez.
The uncle was surprised when he learned that Tamerlan had gotten married to an American woman a "good Christian family girl, " who his nephew said was about to convert to Islam.
Like so many Pakistanis and people of goodwill around the world, the American people are shocked by this deplorable shooting of a girl who was targeted because she dared to attend school, and we reaffirm our commitment to working with the Pakistani people toward a future that delivers progress, justice and peace to all its citizens.
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