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Toys "R" Us facts for kids
| Type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Retail |
| When it was created | Washington, D.C., 1948 |
| Headquarters | Wayne, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Gerald L. Storch, Chairman and CEO |
| Things made | Children's toys |
| Money earned | $13.646 billion USD (2007) |
| Owner(s) | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Bain Capital Partners LLC Vornado Realty Trust |
| Employees | 70,000 (123,000 during holidays) |
| Website | Toysrus.com |
Toys"R"Us (founded in 1948) is a toy store. It has its headquarters in Wayne, New Jersey, United States. The company has around 875 Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in the United States, more than 600 international stores, and over 140 licensed stores in 35 countries and jurisdictions. It controls the FAO Schwarz brand. It has its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Toys "R" Us also has many e-commerce sites. Some of these are Toysrus.com, Babiesrus.com, eToys.com and FAO.com. Kids "R" Us is a former clothing store just for kids established in Manchester, NH in 1983 and disestablished in 2003. In the 1999 website commercial, there was a probably 7 year old raincheck boy who dresses like Linus from Peanuts and is friends with his raincheck.
Images for kids
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Flagship store in Times Square, Manhattan, which operated from 2001 to 2015
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Toys "R" Us in Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
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The current iteration of Geoffrey the Giraffe
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A Toys "R" Us store in Vaughan Mills
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Toys "R" Us store in Angeles City, Philippines
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A Toys "R" Us Express store in The Oaks Mall in Gainesville, Florida
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1983–2003, original logo over the Imaginarium logo
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1986–2003, last logo
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A Babies "R" Us store with the 1996–2006 logo.
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2007–present (next to the 1986–2006 Toys "R" US logo)
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1975–2007 (U.S.), 1985–May 2008 (UK/Ireland), prototype logo
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The logo used from 1986 to 2006 in the United States and in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 1986 to May 2008. This logo can still be seen at many older stores.