Hasbro
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Public (NYSE: HAS) | |
Industry | Toys and games |
Founded | 1923[1] |
Headquarters | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA |
Key people | Brian Goldner (chief executive officer) |
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Number of employees | 5,900 (2005) |
Website | www |
Hasbro is an American toy company. It is one of the biggest toy makers in the world (including board games), only Mattel is larger. Hasbro also makes Monopoly, a popular board game. Their main office is in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. The company is best known for their popular 1990's electronic audio game Bop It, which got re-designed in 2008 with a series of designs which one is released each year. Hasbro has also joined up with many other companies such as Tiger Electronics who made the following audio games: Brain Warp, Brain Bash, Brain Shift and Bogoey Ball. They also make a popular memory game called Simon which involves memorizing flashing lights and sounds. The game Simon Swipe was released in 2014 and was copyrighted in 2013. There is also a Micro Series version that was released in 2014. On October 12, 2021, Longtime Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner passed away.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ History of Hasbro Archived 2006-05-15 at the Wayback Machine from Hasbro's official website
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Company Profile for Hasbro Inc (HAS)". Retrieved 2008-10-01.