January 6, 2015
Playtime Paris, 17th edition coming soon
Time to book the plane and train tickets for Playtime Paris, due on January 31 to February 2 at Parc Floral de Paris. The show will welcome 440 international brands around children's fashion/decor and maternity. Here's a quick preview of this 17th edition, the largest since the…
September 3, 2013
Shampoodle
Brand name : Shampoodle - Company name : Shampoodle AB Date of creation : 2006 Country of origin : Sweden - Countries of production : Mainly India, a few things made in France, Estonia and China. Name of the founders : Helene Stevenberg and Jakob Wästberg Number of employees…
November 8, 2012
On the success of Scandinavian Brands
Since I moved from the US to the UK four years ago, I was struck by the strong presence of Scandinavian brands, by their huge success - almost a cult thing one might say. I started asking around for the reasons of such a success; the words “comfortable, functional, fun, honest,…
December 21, 2010
Caspar, 5 years old & Tim Wästberg, 3 – Stockholm, Sweden
Shampoodle is the contraction of shampoo and poodle, which seems so logical; the name imposed itself to Helene Stevenberg & Jakob Wästberg, the founders of the funky Stockholm based children's brand, as a reminder that they once had the idea of creating a pet beauty salon in…
October 8, 2010
Interview of a blog author and magazine editor
Rachelle Wilde is the author of Kenziepoo blog and editor ofLa Petite Mag. Rachelle is nuts about everything related to children's design. She created her blog to help and inspire moms, or soon to be moms, about nursery decor and childrens items. "Moms everywhere want the best…
June 25, 2010
so-cute.biz
There are more and more great online stores of all kinds on the net, and it is a very nice thing to have so much choice, just a click away. Like in real life, one can wonder around large e-stores who carry hundreds of brands, or push the virtual door of smaller, more…