Larian told the Hub-Times in September 2006 the manufacturing facility will stay in Hudson.
Hudson City Communications Manager Jody Roberts said there was a meeting in 2006 shortly after Little Tikes was purchased and Isaac Larian, founder and chief executive officer of MGA Entertainment, indicated the company was staying in Hudson. purchased Little Tikes in November 2006 from Newell Rubbermaid, it employed 500 workers. When California-based MGA Entertainment Inc. In March of 2006, Little Tikes cut its workforce by 160 employees. In 2005, the company's 900 workers contributed approximately $500,000 to Hudson in income tax collection with sales of $250 million reported in 2005.ĭuring 2005, the workforce was cut from 893 to 665 employees. Little Tikes facility had three office buildings for headquarters, two manufacturing buildings and two storage facilities for a total of 1.3 million square feet on 122 acres in 2002, but its workforce had been cut by more than half by 2005. purchased Rubbermaid for $5.6 billion.īy 2002, Little Tikes had 2,000 employees and sales of $2.59 billion. Murdough resigned in 1989 and began a new company, Step2, in 1991 in Streetsboro. Sales continued to increase with $100 million in 1987, $270 million in 1989 and $400 million in 1995. Murdough sold Little Tikes to Rubbermaid in 1984 for $50 million but remained for five years in a leadership role. The Hudson facility employed 380 workers in 1983 but increased to 500 employees by 1985. Little Tikes sold 50 items including large riding toys, sandboxes, slides, wagons, building blocks, juvenile furniture and housekeeping products. In October 1983, Murdough broke ground on Barlow Road for a $7.5 million plant in Hudson Township.Ī 250,000-square-foot facility was built on 42 acres of land for Little Tike headquarters and manufacturing, and the operations at Macedonia and Twinsburg were moved to Hudson. Little Tikes' total sales totaled $23 million in 1982 and rose to $42.9 million in 1983. Its most famous product, the red and yellow Cozy Coupe ride-in car, was introduced in 1979, and Little Tikes sold 6 million by 1999. Murdough in 1970 to make large plastic outdoor play equipment, toy boxes, and children's furniture in an old barn in Aurora using rotational molding.īy the end of the 1970s, Little Tikes sales had grown to $15 million.
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