Hasbro facts for kids
Public (NYSE: HAS) | |
Industry | Toys and games |
Founded | 1923 |
Headquarters | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA |
Key people
|
Brian Goldner (chief executive officer) |
Revenue | 3.838 Billion USD (2007) |
333 Million USD (2007) | |
Number of employees
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5,900 (2005) |
Hasbro is an American toy company. It is one of the biggest toy makers in the world, 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 have 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.
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In Spanish: Hasbro para niños