Any parent who lives near a mall with a Build-a-Bear Workshop will recognize the Dream Machine as looking almost just like the rig that stuffs bears, dogs, and all manner of animals for kids.

Build-A-Bear's emphasis on tourist destinations can also be gleaned from the decision to close its 22,000-square-foot Fifth Avenue store this summer and to move it to a 3,000-square-foot space on ...

Twenty-five-year-old Alyssa Karpinski estimates she owns between 150 and 160 Build-A-Bears. She has been collecting since she was little, and made her first bear with her dad.

ST. LOUIS — After two years of making maps of where children smile in the store and standing on their knees to see from a child’s vantage point, the folks at Build-A-Bear Workshop ...

Build-A-Bear Workshop offers kids the chance to make a lot of choices, which makes the process very satisfying for them. The key is to go prepared to drop about $50.

Price ranges from $30 to $50, which is comparable to Build-A-Bear’s prices. The startup says the design element of the site is designed specially so that children can interact with the site and ...

When the company originally opened its first stores, it had to modify a pillow-stuffing machine. 8. Build-A-Bear made a surrogate mother for a real monkey.

Build-A-Bear also co-brands with a number of heavy hitting licenses including Star Wars, NBA, NFL, Marvel, DC Comics and Disney, among others. “If there is a fandom that Build-A-Bear happens to cater ...