Consumption Structure and Popular Trends of European Toy Markets

In last decade years, it took place a thorough changeAfter all, in next 5 years, traditional toys sales in
in European toys and games industry. The marketEuropean market will change little, however, with the
share increases gradually and has accounted for moregrowing purchasing power of some countries, it will
than one third of the whole world's toys and gamesgo up. Traditional toys combining electron and
market. In recent years, electronic toys rise greatly,interaction like early educational toys are being a
video games become more and more popular, andstable developing period. Video game products will
wooden toys still charm children a lot. Especially rckeep increasing strongly. And rc toys, such as nitro rc
toys in electronic toys market, such as nitro rc car,car, remote control helicopter, rc gas boat, rc
remote control helicopter, rc gas boat, rc helicopter,helicopter, remote control car, rc car etc will also
remote control car, rc car etc. increase rapidly.have large market in adult toys.
In past 1-2 years, European toys market hadTake a look at the main countries in EU, in U.K.
belowing features and trends:electronic toys will grow fastest and have the largest
The highly important factor still was price, althoughmarket, rc toys in electronic toys market, such as
most parents in rich countries such as U.K., Hollandnitro rc car, remote control helicopter, rc gas boat, rc
and France liked to buy large-scaled toys, those toyshelicopter, remote control car, rc car etc will become
had a rather cheap price usually under 8 EURO. Amost popular. And the total amount of toys market
great deal of European parents believed that woodenin U.K. will reaches 6 billion EURO by 2007.In France,
toys were educative and innovative, and woodenmarkets of infant toys and early learning toys will
toys were typical toys in children's rooms, and itgrow fast, and infant toys market is in process of
would keep growing in European wooden toysgrowing fast because of high birthrate in recent
market. Parents were always pleased to buy theyears. Video games will be very popular, and it will
toys of teaching while playing for their children, whichrise of 25% in next 5 years.
had caused educational toys white-headed in yearsComparing with other European countries, technical
of 2005 and 2006 in Europe. The European Union hadtoys for such as architecture, vehicle and electronic
imported toys from developing countries as many astraining toys will be more popular in Germany. Music,
50% of its total amount and were still on its way ofdancing and doll toys will be fully fashionable in
increasing. Among them 40% were carried out byBelgium. Mobile phones, voice recognition games and
importers, and the left were mostly accomplished byvirtual games will be in fashion in Spain.
agents and centralized purchasers.