| Action Products International, Inc. operates as an educational toy company. It engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of a portfolio of educational, positive, and nonviolent brands of toy products. The company offers educational toy product, such as wooden toys, action figures, play-sets, activity kits, and various other playthings with an emphasis on fun topics, such as space, dinosaurs, science, and nature. Action Products International uses approximately 29 contract manufacturers located in the United States, Hong Kong, and China to build its finished products. It offers products to various retailing channels, such as specialty retailers, museums, toy stores, theme parks, attractions, zoos, catalog companies, Internet retailers, and educational markets worldwide primarily in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Spain. The company sells its product lines through a network of manufacturer representative firms and an internal, direct-sales department. Action Products International was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida. |