For Mega Bloks president and chief executive officer Marc Bertrand, the cash-and-stock deal is worth mussing up the company's clean balance sheet with about $300-million (U.S.) of debt.

Mega Bloks Inc., the construction-toy giant based in Montreal, said yesterday it has fired Lawrence Rosen -- the head of crafts and stationary subsidiary Rose Art Industries Inc. of Livingston, N ...

Mega Bloks owner Mattel Inc. will close its St-Laurent construction toy plant starting later this year, cutting about 580 jobs in a bid to reduce costs. Production will gradually be transferred to ...