The world is full of naysayers and Scrooges, but when I look around this company I am inspired every day by the creativity, innovation, and passion of so many people. Together we've created a culture with play at its center and we inspire the wonder of childhood each and every day. If we continue to do this in the new year, I'm confident that we will evolve into the high performance, IP led toy company we were meant to be. With some of the strongest and most dedicated leadership we've ever had and remarkably passionate employees, we can move onward and have our best year yet. But along the way, we must continue to ask what if and why not, work together as one Mattel, be nimble, driven and entrepreneurial, and always be respectful of one another and our consumers. We've got this, my friends. So have a Merry Christmas and come back ready to rock and roll in 2019. Peace.
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LOL!
Good Bye Mattel!
It was written on the wall in capital letters when a desperate (mis)management moved the NAD ... from EA to ES so long ago!
Stupid, stupid, stupid. New dogs trying old tricks that have never, ever worked... Why?
Now they will just have to move it back when they sell off FP.
Old ideas that don't work aren't solutions but desperate uncreative middle management 'climbers' will try anything yet again to s--- up and impress the upper crust mis-management corporate theiving cult. Enjoy your paychecks you Losers. We know who you are.
Oh FP you’re screaming into the hurricane as you’re going down the drain. Accept your own failures. The street has no pity for the whiners.
FP is a joke at this point. They can't even fill their orders. Their sales are sinking double digits by the quarter. They've been replaced by the competition and if they went away no one would care at this point. The directors and VPs running that ship are as second rate as they come. There's no hope for that brand. Mattel chased away all the talented leaders there and they will sink with the Mattel ship.
FISHER PRICE DID NOT LOSE DISNEY. FISHER PRICE DID NOT LOSE DC. FYI. MATTEL IS HURTING ITSELF. LET FP GO. PLEASE.
Rather than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, Mattel is more akin to trying to clamber into a few lifeboats, that were themselves damaged by the iceberg, while in the middle of an Atlantic hurricane
Mattel has bred a culture where the only way you survive or get ahead is to kiss your boss's a$$ and praise them as a deity. All the buzzwords about being "nimble, driven and entrepreneurial" are a joke and completely removed from the reality of working at Mattel. That's why all the Directors and VP's still left are bottom of the barrel talent. Their only skill is a$$ kissing and playing office politics. That's why everything keeps getting worse and not better. Anyone who doesn't see this has no idea how corporate america works and will always be one of the sad worker bees wondering what happened when they're shown the door.
smile...
as the abyss stares back at you.
I agree - Mattel is a great company of great people. Times are tough, I hope we pull through because it's a great place to work with great products.
It’s only a matter of time that we lose Universal. And everyone continues to blame each other instead of creating solutions. Solutions don’t come from powerpoints. It requires someone actually doing something. It requires someone going to Asia to find a different factory and negotiate. It requires challenging the margin.
Mattel is lost Disney, just lost DC, losing a quarter a billion every quarter. It's all hands abandon ship.
“But along the way, we must continue to ask what if and why not, work together as one Mattel, be nimble, driven and entrepreneurial, and always be respectful of one another and our consumers.” Clearly the nimble, what if, why not, etc. approach Mattel leadership’s been preaching for years has not worked...hint: MAT stock is at $9.56
today. Bye Felicia...
Thank you for the inspirational post, with all the negativity on this site, it's refreshing to see some positivity. One question for the OP, it looks like Mattel's stock will be trading in the $8 by the end of the day. How does a future as a penny stock align with your cheerful outlook for Mattel in 2019?