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Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer and holding company of retailers that was founded in 1900 and operated for more than 120 years. It started as an electrical novelties company. Lionel specialized in various products throughout its existence. Toy trains and model railroads were its main claim to fame. [1]
Lionel, LLC is an American designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads that is headquartered in Concord, North Carolina.Its roots lie in the 1969 purchase of the Lionel product line from the Lionel Corporation by cereal conglomerate General Mills and subsequent purchase in 1986 by businessman Richard P. Kughn forming Lionel Trains, Inc. in 1986.
Lionel resisted, and the fight drained the company of cash. Meanwhile, non-specialty discount stores expanded their toy sections and undercut the prices of specialty toy chains. Additionally, Lionel found it difficult to compete on price with the larger Toys "R" Us , and the chain attempted to expand too rapidly in a weakened economy.
Vintage manufacturers include Lionel Corporation, Ives, K-Line, Forney, Beggs, Bing, Bassett-Lowke, American Flyer (Lionel is now producing American Flyer), Marx, McCoy, Voltamp, Dorfan, Fandor, Howard, and many others. There are more than 300 different manufacturers many of whom have items on display at the NTTM.
Joshua Lionel Cowen (August 25, 1877 – September 8, 1965), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.
The suspect in the killing, Luigi Mangione, expressed anger at the insurance industry and “corporate greed, according to a New York City Police Department intelligence report obtained by CNN.
In the mid-1990s, as a bigger toy company, company headquarters was moved to Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. It purchased the Matchbox brand of scale model cars, in 1992. [5] [6] In 1984 Tyco produced its own interlocking brick product, "Super Blocks". Super Blocks were compatible with Lego, and were made following the basic Lego patent's expiry in ...
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