On Friday, Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT)’s shares inclined 0.50% to $19.93.
American Girl is a premium brand for girls and a wholly owned partner of Mattel, Inc. (MAT) (www.mattel.com). American Girl has partnered again with pediatrician and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Cara Natterson, on a new go-to guide for moms and daughters. The new three-book set, The Care & Keeping of Us: A Sharing Collection for Girls and Their Moms, provides the tools to get the conversation going on topics most top-of-mind for growing girls—from body basics, hygiene, and healthy habits to friends, social media, clothing, and more. The new advice series is a follow-up to Natterson’s 2013 American Girl bestseller The Care & Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls, which has sold over 400,000 copies to date.
The collection, featuring two books—one for tween girls, one for moms—is filled with talking tips, conversation starters, and how-to-say-it scripts on a range of issues adolescent girls face growing up. The books are designed to inspire meaningful discussions and assist build close, trusting relationships at a time when girls need it most. The Care & Keeping of Us also comprises a hardbound keepsake journal filled with sharing tips and activities, in addition to simple prompts to keep the dialogue open. The journal also has space for photos and mementos, and two bookmarks to mark important pages the other reader needs to see.
Mattel, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a range of toy products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: North America, International, and American Girl. It offers dolls and accessories, vehicles and play sets, and games and puzzles under the Mattel Girls & Boys brands, counting Barbie, Monster High, Disney Classics, Ever After High, Little Mommy, Polly Pocket, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, CARS, Disney Planes, BOOMco, Radica, Toy Story, Max Steel, WWE Wrestling, and Batman.
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR)’s shares gained 9.56% to $25.91.
Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR) has planned its earnings conference call at 12:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT), on Thursday, October 29, 2015, to review third quarter 2015 earnings, which will be declared after market close on Wednesday, October 28, 2015.
Murphy Oil Corporation operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company worldwide. It explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company was formerly known as Murphy Corporation and changed its name to Murphy Oil Corporation in 1964.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT)‘s shares surged 0.03% to $79.53.
Walker & Company Brands, the company that makes health and beauty simple for people of color by developing products and services tailored to their unique needs, recently declared it has raised $24 million in a Series B round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Also participating in the round are Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, Daher Capital, Collaborative Fund, Google Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Melo7 Tech Partners. Individual investors comprise Earvin “Magic” Johnson, John Legend, King Bach, Ron Johnson, San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York, San Francisco 49ers President Paraag Marathe, Ryan Leslie, Andre Iguodala, Harrison Barnes, Anre and Paula Williams, Charles King and John Maeda.
The company also declared recently that it has signed a deal with Target® Corp (TGT) to sell its flagship product, Bevel, at select Target stores in the United States and on Target.com.
Target Corporation operates as a general merchandise retailer in the United States and Canada. It offers household essentials, counting pharmacy, beauty, personal care, baby care, cleaning, and paper products; music, movies, books, computer software, sporting goods, and toys; electronics, such as video game hardware and software; and apparel for women, men, boys, girls, toddlers, infants, and newborns, in addition to intimate apparel, jewelry, accessories, and shoes.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE:LVS), ended its Friday’s trading session with 10.52% gain, and closed at $40.87.
Sands China Ltd. (HK) joined Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) and international social enterprise Clean the World to complete an unprecedented 24-hour global volunteer effort Saturday, Sept. 26, building 200,000 hygiene kits to be distributed to populations in need worldwide, counting in Macao.
More than 4,000 LVS team members and community volunteers took part in the Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World - which was both organizations’ largest volunteer effort to date, resulting in the most kits ever built for Clean the World at one time. The build was held at LVS’ Singapore, Macao, Bethlehem and Las Vegas properties sequentially and all within a 24-hour period on Saturday. It all began at Marina Bay Sands, LVS’ property in Singapore, at 9 a.m. local time and culminated at 6 p.m. local time in Las Vegas. The effort was part of LVS’s global corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares, and its ongoing partnership with Clean the World.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. develops, owns, and operates integrated resorts in Asia and the United States. The company owns and operates The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, the Four Seasons Hotel Macao, the Plaza Casino, and the Sands Macao in Macau, the People’s Republic of China.
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