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No, according to Mattel, the company which manufactures Scrabble in Europe.
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Mattel was the only company represented at the hearing.
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Mattel is the parent company of Fisher-Price.
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Mattel claimed that Bryant, who freelanced for MGA, violated an employment agreement by helping the rival toy company develop its line of Bratz dolls while still employed by Mattel.
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There's a lot more to running a company than marketing pizzazz, as Mattel's Jill Barad found out.
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Judging a stock like Mattel, you have to look at how the company has performed in good and bad years.
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There are no employee motivation incentives provided by Mattel other than a desire to do good, though the company does maintain a matching gifts program.
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But to keep growing, Mattel needs a steady diet of fresh new hits, including, the company hopes, Max Steel.
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According to former Mattel designer Carter Bryant, messing with Barbie had become so taboo at the company that he took his idea for dolls with big heads and dressed in hip-hop clothes to competitor MGA in 2000--where they became Barbie's first true rival, Bratz.
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Determined to turn the stale brand around, Mattel head Robert Eckert hired Timothy Kilpin from Disney to head marketing and design for the company's girls division in 2003.
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