Learning Curve Australia
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Company Ownership
RC2 (Australia) Pty Ltd | AUS | website | ||||
Learning Curve Brands Inc ![]() owns 100% of RC2 (Australia) Pty Ltd |
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Toys Founded in 1993. Bought by RC2 Corporation in 2003. | ||||||
RC2 Corporation ![]() owns 100% of Learning Curve Brands Inc |
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Toys Bought Learning Curve Brands in 2003. Acquired by Tomy in 2011. | ||||||
» TOMY Company Ltd ![]() owns 100% of RC2 Corporation |
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Toys Founded in 1924. About 90% of its toys and games are sold in Asia. |
Company Assessment
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RC2 (Australia) Pty Ltd | ||||
The ICTI CARE Process is the toy industry's ethical manufacturing program aimed at ensuring safe and humane workplace environments for toy factory workers worldwide. This company is a member of the 'ICP Committed Brands Program' which means they only contract from factories that have an ICP Seal of Compliance. However human rights groups including SOMO and China Labor Watch have criticised ICTI Care, with investigators finding serious labour rights violations occurring in ICTI-certified factories.
[Source 2018][More on Workers Rights] |
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Learning Curve Brands Inc | ||||
The ICTI CARE Process is the toy industry's ethical manufacturing program aimed at ensuring safe and humane workplace environments for toy factory workers worldwide. This company is a member of the 'ICP Committed Brands Program' which means they only contract from factories that have an ICP Seal of Compliance. However human rights groups including SOMO and China Labor Watch have criticised ICTI Care, with investigators finding serious labour rights violations occurring in ICTI-certified factories.
[Source 2018][More on Workers Rights] |
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RC2 Corporation | ||||
This 2007 investigative report reveals illegal sweatshop conditions at four factories in China producing wooden Thomas & Friends toys for RC2. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
[Source 2007][More on Workers Rights] |
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TOMY Company Ltd | ||||
This 2014 report by China Labour Watch investigates four Chinese factories supplying some of the largest toy brand companies in the world, including this one. The report reveals many labour violations in these factories, including long hours, excessive overtime, dangerous working conditions, low wages, and underpaid workers.
[Source 2014][More on Workers Rights]
This 2017 investigative report by China Labour Watch reveals labor abuses in four Chinese toy factories. One or more of these factories supply this company. Labor abuses include low wages, excessive overtime, dangerous work environments and humiliating living conditions.
[Source 2017][More on Workers Rights] |
Company Details
Company Structure | Wholly-owned subsidiary |
Contact Details
Address | Australia |
Phone | 03 9799 5500 |
Website | www.rc2aust.com.au/about_rc2.php |