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Osher: Overhead baby toy arches didn't exist before his Rainbow Toy Bar
“Every, every baby in the world uses some form of this now, but back then it did not exist.”
Osher: Spinbrush drove $21M profit on $44M revenue in first 8 months
“And in the first year, we did forty four million with a twenty one million dollar profit. ... It wasn't even a full year. It was probably closer to eight months. And as I said, we made a twenty one million dollar profit.”
Osher: Cap Toys generated $40M to $50M from interactive candy
“And we were probably in the interactive candy back then, we're probably doing 40, fifty million dollars of the candy.”
Osher: Oral-B's top manual toothbrush sold just 12 units per store weekly
“Oral-B was selling the best-selling toothbrush in the world at the time was their cross-section, which was three 95 expensive toothbrush manual, and they were selling 12 a week per store.”
Osher: P&G divested Spinbrush to clear Gillette antitrust hurdles
“Well, what happened is they, three years into it, they were trying to buy Gillette, and Gillette owned Oral-B and Braun. And the deal was being held up because the tooth, the oral B and the spin brush were a monopoly. It was well over 50% of all the toothbrush…”