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Right Start Award Winners
Following a Summer of awards success, Flair Plc is delighted to announce that five products have been selected as winners of the Right Start Best Toy Awards 2011.
The following brands from Flair all scooped places in the coveted awards:
• Plasticine Fancy Flowers
• Toffee the Pony
• Sylvanian Families Ambulance
• Remarkables Colour & Draw Travel Mat
• Geomag Wheels
The full list of winners and the breakdown of category awards will be announced by the magazine in October. Each winning brand will also be featured in the Right Start Best Toy Guide 2011, with a review and accompanying image.
The win follows previous awards success in the Tots to Travel Just Go! Awards, where Flair’s brands were named as must-have travel toys. A number of Flair’s creative play brands also gained recognition from real parents in the UKMums.tv Mum’s Choice Awards.
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Mum's Choice for Creative Play
As part of the Mum’s Choice Awards, a group of influential mummy bloggers teamed up with parenting website UKMums.tv to hand-pick their must-have toys from toy-specific press preview of the summer, Christmas in July
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In My Pocket® Brand Moves to Flair
MEG has today confirmed that GP Flair is to be the new UK and Eire distributor of the In My Pocket® brand. The detailed handover and agreement will take place as soon as possible.
The news comes after the previous distributor, Corinthian Marketing, went into receivership earlier this week.
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Etch A Sketch 50th Anniversary
50 years on and Etch A Sketch is pretty much the same now as it was then. The iconic red frame surrounds a silver screen which is the canvas for the etchings created by twiddling the two white dials.