: We・ve been in Hong Kong for 17 years with stores, and we use Hong Kong to be our base to elsewhere. We started out with a strategic alliance with Li & Fung, which we felt was essential, and we・ve given them more responsibility to really get it going in China.

:We believe that Hong Kong is great for us because it established our brand in Asia and helped us get started in our biggest country other than the United States, which is Japan.

:Probably 75 percent of the toys sold in the United States are manufactured in one way or another in China or Hong Kong. Chinese manufacturing is superb, and having Hong Kong for our people to use as a base for inspection and everything else is a wonderful system.;