The Topps Company, Inc. (Topps), incorporated on February 24, 1987, is engaged in two principle segments of business: Confectionery and Entertainment. In the Confectionery segment, Topps markets confectionery brands, including lollipops, such as Push Pop, Baby Bottle Pop and Juicy Drop Pop, Bazooka brand bubble gum and certain licensed candy items. The Company also manufactures and markets Ring Pop lollipops. In the Entertainment segment, the Company markets branded products, including trading cards and sticker album collections featuring professional athletes and popular television, movie and other licensed characters. The Company also markets branded collectible strategy games. Confectionery The Company markets lollipop brands and other non-chocolate confectionery products in the United States, Canada, Europe and parts of Asia, Latin America, New Zealand and Australia. The Ring Pop brand is candy molded into the form of a precious gemstone and anchored to a plastic ring. Push Pop is a cylinder-shaped lollipop packaged in a plastic container with a removable cap, designed to enable consumers to eat a portion of the pop and save the rest for later. Baby Bottle Pop is a miniature baby bottle filled with powder, candy juice or crunchy candies and topped with a candy nipple. Juicy Drop Pop is a lollipop in a plastic case, which contains candy juice to be squirted onto the pop for boosting its flavor. Topps also distributes and markets Bazooka brand bubble gum. Licensed confectionery products include containers replicating the Pokemon ball with candy and a Pokemon figure inside. In addition, the Company has marketed Yu-Gi-Oh! lollipops and containers and World Wrestling Entertainment lollipops. Confectionery distribution in Europe and Japan has been expanded to include Wal-Mart in the United Kingdom and Germany, Tesco in the United Kingdom, Norgen Gruppen and Narvisson in Norway, Coop, Kiosk and Volg in Switzerland, Albert Heijn in Holland, Inex in Finland and Aeon & Daiei in Japan. Entertainment The Entertainment segment consists of publishing products in the form of trading cards and sticker album collections featuring sports and non-sports licenses and strategy games created by WizKids, LLC, which is wholly owned by the Company. In the United States and Canada, publishing products are sold in the form of cards, while in the rest of the world, publishing products are sold in the form of sticker album collections. Topps markets cards in various size packages for distribution through a variety of trade channels. Sticker album products are designed so that stickers, which are sold in packages, can be placed in an associated album that contains detailed information on the subject. Sports card and sticker album products contain photographs of athletes, as well as other features, including player and team statistics, biographical material and, in certain cases, pieces of memorabilia and/or players' autographs. Sports card products have featured professional sports figures from Major League Baseball, National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL), while sports sticker album products have featured athletes from English Premier League Football. The Company also markets bubble gum with mini stickers and albums featuring Italy's professional soccer league (Calcio). The Company distributes sports card products in North America under brand names including, but not limited to, Topps, Topps Heritage, Topps Finest, Topps Chrome, Topps Pristine and Bowman. Internationally, the Company distributes sticker album collections under the Merlin and Topps brands. The Company has also marketed non-sports trading cards and sticker album products featuring The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Star Wars, Michael Jackson, Indiana Jones, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jurassic Park, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. During the fiscal year ended February 25, 2006 (fiscal 2006), the Company marketed non-sports trading card and sticker album products featuring licensed properties, includ