Japan’s toycos spend more R&D dough to combat shrinking market

With a declining national birth rate steadily shrinking their target market, Japanese toycos are trying every trick in the book to reinvigorate demand for their products. Bandai and Takara are tackling the problem by pumping up their 2004 R&D budgets and giving their business strategies a tune-up.
January 1, 2004

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