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Welcome to industry focus. The podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Another Tuesday and another episode of the Consumer and Retail Edition of Industry Focus.

I'm your host, Vincent Shen, and the date is November 14th.

Joining me via Skype from Raleigh, North Carolina is senior full dot com contributor

Asset Sharma.

Thanks for joining us, Asset.

Thank you, Vince.

As always, what better place to spend my Tuesday afternoon than with you and our fellow investors?

Well, you mentioned you were a little bit under the weather, so I'm really glad you are braving through that, and we'll be able to join us on the show today because we have some pretty interesting news and a great company to cover that I pea in the past year. So first things first. I hope you don't mind if we start this episode by returning to a discussion that Danny

Vena and I had actually two weeks ago.

So on Halloween we talked about the toy industry, how Toys R Us is thinking about its business with the bankruptcy generally

in its rearview mirror, and then also how Mattel and Hasbro are dealing with changing consumer

trends and some of the successes and challenges that

they're facing themselves.

And we've seen previously in many industries that are struggling with lots of change or

upheaval.

Consolidation becomes a pretty popular way of surviving

or just enjoying a little bit more growth

and success in that industry.

So as of late last week, investors are reacting to the news that Hasbro has actually approached

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