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Subject:	Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:36:05 GMT
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Hi, I just read this in local newspaper (Le journal de Montréal) edition of Nov 8th 2004: ==liberal translation from french== "Montréal based compagny MegaBlock indicated in October that they will need to increase cost of their toys to compensate the higher price of the primary ingredients use in the fabrication process. "We have a big pressure on us since the petrol barrel got to 50$" said friday Eric Phaneuf, spokesman of MegaBlok. The compagny is dealing with the giants retail stores like Wal-Mart, Target and ToysRUS to convice them to increase the prices starting next year. Since those retailers will be "forced" to increase the price of MegaBlok products, many other makers would be in the same situation. "If you try to do it alone, I don't think it's possible, but when the the idea is accepted by the majority, consummers will sadly have to pay in the end" he said. ========= Wow, this is not good news. Do you think LEGO will want (will have) to follow that road? Yanick

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		Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
(...) You're worried about just Lego? Everything made out of plastic, from clothes to carpets to housing materials to cars to appliances to electronics to computers to decorative junk around the house will increase in cost. Plastic, its everywhere. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)

		Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
(...) I'm keeping this in lugnet.lego because it might actually be relevant there. Feel free to FUT as appropriate. Overnight, KMart has increased its prices for MegaBloks sets by about 15%. I happen to have been in this same store yesterday, so I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)

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