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    Behind-the-scenes at Little Tikes in Ohio

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Kevin Howard visited one of those rare American companies still creating toys in jobs right here in the good old US saying she's over there.

With some beautiful kids who are very invoke at this hour they aren't -- about all the noise every -- says not so these are my kids and got some other friends of bars and you know a lot of these things will look really familiar to you little hikes is the company.

And they made these toys for more than forty years and America's heartland Hudson Ohio this company has chosen to stay in United States.

When other companies especially its competitors have gone overseas so we went to Ohio to find out why.

-- is our you have a top alert your kitchen looks a little like this.

This bright little car is called the cozy coupe and in the last 33 here -- little tyke has sold more than fourteen million worldwide.

80% of its products including the -- sandbox and the swings are made in America.

Nearly 1000 people work at the Hudson Ohio plant.

Tom Richmond it's general manager shows us how these tiny plastic beads are transformed into toys.

We're gonna for the last fifteen of them all we're -- heated up -- 700.

It helps them live they turned out powder machine -- now.

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It wasn't always this way twenty years ago the company made America's best selling swing in another country we.

Brandon burden to -- nine.

At about four or five years ago we look at the total cost of doing business that you -- line.

America behind productivity.

We have the wallet -- -- on the world we're the -- energy cost.

Let's look at how we could make this car.

And today the swing once again is made in the USA.

-- just a few years ago when the economy tanks little -- considered moving manufacturing elsewhere.

But ultimately they decided instead receiving close to four million dollars in tax incentives from the government.

We certainly appreciate the support of the state and federal.

But honestly it it's not enough to make a difference it's about the people it's about the productivity it's about the longevity.

At this plant -- make -- huge assortment of toys from seesaw rustic kitchen sets to barbecue grills everything oh my god obviously emulating quiet.

Parents do in the real world and that's moms are big part of the research today they're giving suggestions for the redesign of the cozy coupe.

DD pregnancies by themselves.

Became his Janet and walk along Alaska scoreboard at PIQ and I think Tyler's time merger on TV -- occurred to me a little bit ahead.

The colors are actually -- Hikes was kind enough to send us some of their items from their new spring line and not the kids are definitely having fun lonely nights game right there are.

-- Got a new little cozy coupe another cozy -- about the -- sandbox which a lot of us remember from our childhood and of course that's.

The slide right here.

I don't have these in our basement.

-- they they last forever if things last forever probably after hurricanes in the end of the world itself very developments.

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