Ohio Arts Company - OAR- Profile

Ohio Art Company, (The). The Group's principal activities are to manufacture and distribute toys, custom metal lithography and molded plastic products to other manufacturers and consumer goods companies. It manufactures and markets approximately 50 toy items Etch A Sketch(R) and Betty Spaghetty(R). The toys segment manufactures and distributes toys through major retailers in the United States and utilizes foreign toy companies to distribute their products throughout the world. The Diversified Products segments manufacture specialty plastic components and lithographic metal items such as parts for automobile trim, lithographed metal serving trays, replica metal signs, photofilm canisters, decorative tins and metal food containers. The Group's products are sold domestically directly to general and specialty merchandise chains, discount stores, wholesalers and mail order houses and in foreign countries both direct to customers and through licensees. Domestic Toy accounted for 48% of 2004 revenues; Ohio Art Diversified, 32%; Strydel Diversified, 16% and International Toy, 4%