Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007
Meltdown: Mattel's China syndrome
smh: THE alarm bell sounded just as Mattel was preparing to announce it would recall 1.5 million Chinese-made toys tainted with lead paint.
THE alarm bell sounded just as Mattel was preparing to announce it would recall 1.5 million Chinese-made toys tainted with lead paint.
Surrounded by boxes of Barbies, Hot Wheels cars and other sample toys, Tom Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice-president for worldwide operations, was leading a tense, early-morning telephone conference with his team in Hong Kong, where it was 9pm. At the time, Mr Debrowski recalls, Mattel thought it was dealing with, at most, "a single failure, from a single vendor who made a big mistake".
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