Crude surge lifts toy prices ahead of summer rushToy prices are rising ahead of the summer holidays as the West Asia conflict pushes up crude-linked raw material costs, especially plastics...
13 Apr, 2026, 01.23 PM IST
Scheme to boost toy production soon: Piyush GoyalPiyush Goyal announced a scheme to boost toy production. The scheme will focus on enhancing design, quality, packaging, and brand building....
04 Jul, 2025, 08.54 PM IST
Govt, industry to discuss ways to promote growth of Indian toy sector on Jul 8Government and industry to meet for discussions on boosting toy manufacturing and exports.
08 Jul, 2024, 11.39 AM IST
Has India’s toy story started to falter?After hitting a high of $177 million in the financial year 2022, India’s toy exports are seeing a fall. To add to the pain, imports are als...
01 Jun, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
Govt, global retailers, domestic toy makers to discuss ways to promote toy exports from IndiaThis event brings together key industry stakeholders, renowned international companies, and leading Indian manufacturers to explore the imm...
07 Jul, 2023, 07.51 PM IST
Walmart looking at sourcing toys, shoes, bicycles from IndiaIn 2020, the government issued a Toys (Quality Control) Order. As per the order, toys have to conform to the requirements of relevant India...
21 May, 2023, 01.08 PM IST
Top global firms approaching Indian toy makers for sourcing goods: OfficialTop global retailers from the US and Europe have expressed interest in sourcing Indian toys and helping Indian toy manufacturers meet compl...
12 Apr, 2023, 04.24 PM IST
Is India’s renewed focus on ‘Toyconomy’ enough to take on China?A host of factors has given Indian manufacturers a lead in the domestic toys business. But as trade returns to pre-Covid levels, the govern...
16 Mar, 2023, 03.43 PM IST
Can India be a toy hub of the world, as PM Modi has exhorted? It’s a tough gameIndustry experts also say the PM’s call to develop India into a toy hub and the commerce ministry’s move to make BIS certification compulso...
20 Sep, 2020, 09.45 AM IST
UP govt receives 92 applications from domestic toy manufacturersThis comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat address said India could become a big toy production hub.
01 Sep, 2020, 04.42 PM IST
India’s biggest toy manufacturing hub to come in Greater NoidaThe domestic manufacturers have said that following the increase in import duty on toys from China in December 2019, they were eyeing bigge...
03 Aug, 2020, 04.38 PM IST
Tough quality norms hit imports of Chinese toysThis has hit supply and pushed up retail prices 8-14 per cent, while wholesale prices have risen about 30 per cent, executives said.
16 Oct, 2017, 11.38 PM IST
- India bans Chinese toys for six months
India on Friday slapped a ban on import of toys from China after cheap supplies from the neighbouring country upset the applecart of the do...
24 Jan, 2009, 01.23 AM IST
- Domestic toy makers to revive Rs 500 cr Toy City to survive Chinese onslaught
Domestic toy makers are set to revive Rs 500-crore Toy City project in Greater Noida to survive the Chinese onslaught. The 125-acre city of...
23 Jul, 2008, 02.05 AM IST
- Centre plans setting up toy designing centre in Mumbai
The central government, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the toy industry are toying with the idea of set...
08 Jan, 2008, 03.17 AM IST
- Toy design centre in Mumbai on the drawing board
The central government, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the toy industry are toying with the idea of set...
04 Jan, 2008, 02.04 AM IST
- It's fun and game time for Indian toy makers
The Chinese toy recall may have done the trick for India’s torpid toy and kids’ apparel industry.
14 Sep, 2007, 12.05 PM IST