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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Doll making |
| Founded | Meredith, New Hampshire, U.S. (1955) |
| Founder | Annalee Thorndike |
| Headquarters | Meredith, New Hampshire , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Annalee Thorndike Chip Thorndike Townsend Thorndike Charles Thorndike |
| Revenue | US$10 million |
Number of employees | 30 (2021) |
| Website | www.Annalee.com |
Annalee Dolls, Inc., also known as Annalee Mobilitee Dolls Inc., and AMD Holdings Inc.,[1][2] is a company located in Meredith, New Hampshire, that manufactures collectible dolls. The company was founded by Barbara Annalee Davis (later Thorndike), who died in 2002. The state of New Hampshire hired Davis to create dolls to help promote tourism to the state and, in the 1950s, the dolls started to appear in store windows of department stores in Manchester and Boston.[3] At the company's height, it filled over 14 acres (5.7 ha) of land, dotted with seven buildings containing 34,000 square feet (3,200 m2) of space, and had US$15 million in sales with 300 employees. The popularity of Annalee Dolls led R. Stuart Wallace to write that "the most famous manufactured item to come from New Hampshire in the 20th century is the Annalee doll."[4] Annalee Dolls have reached up to $6,000 at auction. In 2008, the company closed its museum and sold its Meredith factory while as of 2006, there were only 30 employees.[4]
- ^ AMD Holdings, Inc. Business Entity Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. New Hampshire Corporation Division. Last Report April 10, 2009 8:00:00 AM. Accessed January 28, 2010
- ^ Annalee Dolls Inc. Business Entity Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. New Hampshire Corporation Division. Last Report April 23, 2009. Accessed January 28, 2010
- ^ Carbone, Ray (2015). Legendary Locals of New Hampshire's Lakes Region. Legendary Locals. p. 71.
- ^ a b Amsden, Roger. Annalee downsizes, outsources its way back to profitability, New Hampshire Union Leader. Oct. 23, 2006. Accessed January 17, 2010.
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