Get to Know Marianne Szymanski

Holidays provide good time to take stock of toys

My house holds one 3-year-old boy, one 1-year-old girl and hundreds of toys. They overflow...

Business Journal names Forty under 40 winners

Aaron Jagdfeld, president of Generac Power Systems in Waukesha, and Marti Wronski, vice president and...

Hot new toys from the toy tester

The 2009 International Toy Fair just ended and I know the first thing everyone wants...

Marianne Szymanski

Biography: Marianne Szymanski is founder and president of Toy Tips, Inc., an independent international child...

Playing for a living

At the Parents' Choice Foundation in Timonium, the winners -- brightly colored, neatly arranged --...

Creating a business out of love for toys

No one can fault Marianne Szymanski for being a kid at heart. It's part of...

Finding Your Passion

Marianne Szymanski discovered her passion as a young girl."I've always loved children and believed in...

Selecting Just-Right Toys for Gifts

Forget about the hot toys this holiday season. Scratch 'em off that commercially coerced gift...

A guided tour through TOYLAND

It's got to be tough to come up with new toys that keep kids playing...