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toy  stores  in  India,  however  the  love  for  children,   to get realtors to go for the same as here budget would
        the  satisfaction  on  seeing  the  genuine  happiness  on   go to approx. Rs40-50 Lakhs compared to the Rs.2-3
        a child’s face inspired us to develop this segment to     lakhs they were used to.  However, quality won and
        the fullest and as you can see above we cater to every    we had shipment almost every quarter for the same.
        possible  requirement  of  children  whether  indoors  or
        outdoors, whether at a school or at a resort.             Face of industry today:

        Initial struggle:                                         Today  the  scenario  for  the  toys,  sports  and  Play
                                                                  Equipment  business  is  very  shaky  because  of
        Manoj Stores was blessed with the best location and       Governmental interference which is causing increase
        good  supporting  clientele,  and  therefore  its  business   in costs of the above due to various reasons like costly
        was  expanding  well  without  any  problems  initially,   testing, probability that your shipment can be asked
        however when imports started for teaching aids, things    to be reexported, steps to stop imports from the only
        became more difficult to explain to the new preschools    Country known to produce major share of the world’s
        and IB schools that were coming up how experiential       production in the above industry, falling real estate
        learning would help the children understand better and    market prices and general low retail sales. However
        longer, as though the teaching aids were very focussed    the long term scenario of the Industry is very bright,
        they were costly and clients could not understand why     because at present there is lack of Good Quality Play
        they were so costly. Similar issues came up when we       Equipment Infrastructure in almost all cities, the local
        started Kompan Play Equipment as being one of the best    play equipment industry is never encouraged to make
        quality brand, prices were bound to be high compared      better quality systems but only to reduce its prices,
        to local playground equipment, so it was very difficult   leading  to  low  investment  in  developing  Heavy
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