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
Innisfree (brand) In the first half of 2014, Amore Pacific planned on boosting the brand's sales in Taipei and opened a second store only months after launching it in Taiwan, aiming to make Innisfree its biggest South Korean skincare and cosmetics brand. On December 5, 2014, Innisfree opened its first store in Malaysia. In its 15th year, the brand was launched in Thailand and Innisfree opened its largest flagship store at Hongyi Square in Shanghai, China with over 108 stores in the country by the end of the year. The first store in Vietnam was opened in November 2016, and in 2017,