Whom You Know: Petite Peachy Has No Plans To Grow Up and Still is a Toys R Us Kid: Whom You Know Kicks Off Coverage of Toys R Us, Just in Time for the Christmas Season!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Petite Peachy Has No Plans To Grow Up and Still is a Toys R Us Kid: Whom You Know Kicks Off Coverage of Toys R Us, Just in Time for the Christmas Season!

One of Peachy's favorite commercials when she was growing up (and she is still working on that) is:

I don't want to grow up
I'm a Toys R Us Kid
There's a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with
From toys to trains to video games it's the biggest toy store there is
I don't want to grow up cause maybe if I did
I wouldn't be a Toys R Us Kid!

Yes, she has a good memory too we are not sure they still use this commercial. She personally went to the one in Corbins Corner which borders the towns of Farmington and West Hartford in Connecticut and even got the very first bike of her life there and it was green of course....we are not sure if it is still there but we do know that the one in Times Square is simply amazing and Peachy has not been there since last night...at Whom You Know we have looked high and low for the best toys to put the biggest smiles on the faces of little girls and boys everywhere and we will be telling you about the best of the best soon!!!

http://www.toysrus.com

Toys“R”Us, Inc. is the world’s leading dedicated toy and juvenile products retailer, offering a differentiated shopping experience through its family of brands. Merchandise is sold in 875 Toys“R”Us and Babies“R”Us stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, and in more than 520 international stores and over 200 licensed stores in 34 countries and jurisdictions. In addition, it exclusively operates the legendary FAO Schwarz^® brand and sells extraordinary toys in the brand’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

With its strong portfolio of e-commerce sites including Toysrus.com,Babiesrus.com, eToys.com, and FAO.com, Toys“R”Us, Inc. provides shoppers with a broad online selection of distinctive toys and baby products. The company also operates Toys.com, which offers customers exclusive deals from the company’s e-commerce sites.

Headquartered in Wayne, NJ, Toys“R”Us, Inc. employs approximately 70,000 employees worldwide. The company is committed to serving its communities as a caring and reputable neighbor through programs dedicated to keeping kids safe and helping them in times of need.

Toys“R”Us, Inc. operated as a public company from 1978 until July 2005. At that time, an investment group consisting of affiliates of Bain Capital Partners LLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Vornado Realty Trust completed an acquisition of Toys“R”Us, Inc. for $6.6 billion. The acquisition encompassed all worldwide operations of Toys“R”Us, Inc., including the Toys“R”Us and Babies“R”Us businesses. With the completion of this transaction, each of the investors owns an equal stake in Toys“R”Us, Inc.

TOYS“R”US, INC. HISTORICAL TIMELINE
1948 • Charles Lazarus opens his first baby furniture store, Children’s Bargain Town, in
Washington, D.C.
1950 • To meet customer demand, Lazarus begins selling toys
1957 • Lazarus adopts supermarket model for his stores and renames specialty toy chain,
Toys“R”Us®
1960 • Mascot and spokesanimal Geoffrey®
the Giraffe introduced in newspaper
advertisements
1966 • Four stores in the Washington, D.C. area reach total sales of $12 million;
• Lazarus sells chain to Interstate Stores for $7.5 million, but continues to run Toys“R”Us
1968 • Geoffrey the Giraffe begins making in-store appearances at Toys“R”Us stores
1974 • Interstate Stores files for bankruptcy; Lazarus appointed to run Interstate Stores
1978 • Lazarus leads Interstate Stores out of bankruptcy, changes name to Toys“R”Us, Inc.
and begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
1983 • Kids“R”Us®
premieres in Paramus, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York
1984 • Toys“R”Us opens its first international stores in Canada and Singapore
1985 • Charles Lazarus hosts the first Toys“R”Us benefit gala in New York City to raise funds
for children’s charities
1992 • Japan celebrates its first Toys“R”Us location with a visit by President George H. Bush
• Toys“R”Us, Inc. establishes the Toys“R”Us Children’s Fund, a non-profit organization
dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children
1994 • Michael Goldstein assumes Chief Executive Officer title from Charles Lazarus

1996 • Babies“R”Us®
makes its debut in Westbury, New York
1997 • Babies“R”Us acquires and merges with Baby Superstore
1998 • Robert Nakasone appointed Chief Executive Officer of Toys“R”Us, Inc.
Toys“R”Us, Inc. launches Toysrus.com
1999 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. acquires Imaginarium®
2000 • John Eyler joins Toys“R”Us, Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer
• Partial IPO of Toys“R”Us Japan completed
• Toys“R”Us, signs partnership deal with Amazon.com®
2001 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. establishes an international flagship store with the highly-anticipated
opening of Toys“R”Us Times Square, The Center of the Toy Universe®
2003 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. announces closure of stand-alone Kids“R”Us and Imaginarium stores
2004 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. announces strategic review of all business units
2005 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. becomes a private company after being sold to an investment group
consisting of Bain Capital Partners LLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and
Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VN) for $6.6 billion
2006 • Gerald Storch appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Toys“R”Us, Inc.
• Toys“R”Us, International celebrates 15th year in Japan
• Babies“R”Us celebrates 10 years as THE baby authority
2006 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. separates from Amazon; launches independent Toysrus.com website
2006 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. opens Side-by-Side stores on July 14 in Galleria, Texas; Baytown,
Texas; Chester, Minnesota; and Johnson City, Tennessee
2007 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. opens “R” Superstore in Elizabeth, New Jersey on November 2
2009 • Toys“R”Us, Inc. acquires eToys.com. Soon after, in another transaction, it acquires
Toys.com, one of the most commonly used URLs for online toy searches
• Toys“R”Us, Inc. acquires the KB Toys™
brand, including its URL, KBToys.com, its
trademarks and other intellectual property rights
• Toys“R”Us, Inc. acquires the legendary FAO Schwarz®
, including the store in
New York City, and its e-commerce and catalog businesses
• Toys“R”Us, Inc. opens nearly 100 Toys“R”Us Express locations across the U.S. in
malls and more than 260 toy shops within the company’s Babies“R”Us stores

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