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Kenner Products
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Toys
Founded
1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Founders
Albert Steiner Phillip Steiner Joseph L. Steiner
Defunct
2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Fate
Closed, properties and brand name sold. Product lines merged into Hasbro
Successor
Hasbro
Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio
Products
Action figures, Die-cast model vehicles
Parent
Independent (1946–1967)
General Mills (1967–1985)
Kenner Parker Toys, Inc. (1985–1987)
Tonka (1987–1991)
Hasbro (1991–2000)
Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy company founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the Kenner brand produced several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures like the original series of Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Batman as well as die cast models. The company was closed and merged by its corporate parent Hasbro in 2000.
KennerProducts, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy company founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the Kenner brand produced several highly...
that Kenner continued to have difficulty fulfilling demand. Shortages of the toys in the lead up to Christmas 1978 led some to claim that Kenner was deliberately...
was created by KennerProducts in the 1980s. In 1984, DC Comics awarded the master toy license of their characters to KennerProducts, hot on the heels...
headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of Kenner, Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, and Wizards of the Coast, among...
The Empire Strikes Back (KennerProducts toys). Disney's Hercules. ReBoot (Irwin Toy). Return of the Jedi (KennerProducts toys). Video Games Dr. Mario...
Interactive and released by Electronic Arts on September 30, 1998. KennerProducts (a subsidiary of Hasbro) produced a line of toys, which featured the...
Ruby-Spears, with a corresponding line of flower-themed dolls made by KennerProducts. The concept for Rose Petal Place was created by David Kirschner and...
American alternative rock band Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by KennerProducts in the 1970s Scottish Society of Playwrights, trade union E. W. Scripps...
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Grey Advertising, in order to develop products that were marketed for syndication. Some of the first products that were made were Not for Women Only...
Nerfuls. Nerfuls were produced by Parker Brothers in the United States, KennerProducts in the United Kingdom, and Cromy in Argentina from 1985 to 1987. These...
a magical world known as Strawberryland. In 1979, toy manufacturer KennerProducts licensed the character and released the first Strawberry Shortcake...
released in 2010. About 120 products were marketed with Batman Returns; they included action figures and toys by KennerProducts, Catwoman-themed clothing...
for $25,000 due to other companies declining the option, including KennerProducts and Ideal Toy Company, and sold over $16–25 million worth of merchandise...
broadening of the DC Universe, especially after the major toy-company, KennerProducts, judged them ideal for their action-figure adaptation of the DC Universe...
compete with Strawberry Shortcake (1979) when master license holder, KennerProducts would not allow wide usage of character rights throughout the toy industry...
one in the office could sign the deal, so Peders visited Kenner in the same building and Kenner president Bernie Loomis was in the office and signed the...
by KennerProducts. In 1987, Kenner was acquired by Tonka, which was later acquired together in 1991 by Hasbro. All of rights to Kenner'sproducts were...
Star Wars characters. An action figure of Bib Fortuna was released by KennerProducts in 1983, coinciding with the release of Return of the Jedi. The toy...
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