Mattel Skip-Bo. Mattel purchased Fisher-Price, Inc. in 1993, Tyco Toys, Inc. (owners of the Matchbox and Dinky Toys brands) in 1997, and Pleasant Company (maker of the American Girl brand) in 1998. Mattel purchased The Learning Company in 1999 for $3.5 billion, but sold it in 2000 at a loss. The company had a $430.9 million net loss that year. Mattel earned the first grant for Disney Princess doll licenses in 2000. In December 2000, Mattel sued the band Aqua, saying their song "Barbie Girl" violated the Barbie trademark and turned Barbie into a sex object, referring to her as a
Retail Solutions Inc. the company’s platforms. The company holds semi-annual meetings for user groups that focus on retailer initiatives, customer user case presentations that leverage downstream data, and RSi’s product roadmap. The user group sessions also include interactive user case trainings-centric to the retailer initiatives. The user groups are held at Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Charlotte, Providence, and Bentonville. RSi introduced its first user group in 2009, and with the success of these events now hosts over 10 per year. Retail Solutions Inc. Founded in 2003, Retail Solutions Inc (RSi) is a software company based in Mountain View, CA that provides software-as-a-service products