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Ruth Handler holds a Barbie doll created for the 40th Anniversary party that was held in New York on 07 February 1999. Known as ‘Barbie’s mom’, businesswoman and inventor Ruth Marianna Handler (1916-2002) is best known for co-founding Mattel, Inc. and for inventing the Barbie doll. To date, Mattel has sold over a billion Barbie dolls, and ...
13 de mar. de 2023 · Jeff Christensen/Getty Images Barbie creator Ruth Handler circa 1999. Barbie is one of the most recognizable names in the world, and it’s all thanks to a woman named Ruth Handler. In 1959, when Handler invented Barbie, the doll quickly took the world by storm. Never before had a doll like Barbie been sold on store shelves — busty, blonde ...
21 de jul. de 2023 · Three years after his death, Ruth Handler published her 1994 autobiography, Dream Doll, in which she told her version of the Barbie doll creation story. “My father was dead and wasn’t around ...
5 de ago. de 2023 · Ruth Handler was the ambitious career woman who created Barbie and changed America's toy industry. But a tax fraud scandal ultimately saw her forced out of the company she co-founded, Mattel.
Ruth Mosko Handler, the youngest of ten children, was born in 1916 in Denver, Colorado, to Polish-born parents. Her father, Jacob Mosko, arrived at Ellis Island in 1907. Informing immigration officials that he was a blacksmith, he was sent to Denver, the center of the railroad industry. In 1908, Ida Mosko arrived in America with their six ...
16 de abr. de 2021 · In the first year, she sold approximately 350,000 units. Mattel went public the next year, and in 1961, Ken (named for the Handlers’ son), was introduced as Barbie’s boyfriend. Ruth, who described herself as a “marketing genius,” saw the advantages to constantly expanding the range of Barbie-related merchandise.
Leben. Ruth Handler wurde 1916 als jüngste Tochter der polnisch-jüdischen Einwanderer Jakob Joseph Mosko und Ida Rubenstein in Denver geboren. 1938 heiratete sie Elliot Handler. Das Ehepaar gründete 1945 zusammen mit Harold Matson eine kleine Firma, um Bilderrahmen und Puppenhausmöbel herzustellen. Da sich die Puppenmöbel gut verkauften, spezialisierte man sich auf die Produktion von ...
