The six reasons for “you” to buy Cute As A Button Babies®:

• MOLDS – What is the first thing you see?

Designed by the top designers in the USA that has proven successful sellers on National TV as well as in Europe! Many of our molds were designed by the same designer as Marie Osmond Dolls!  The hands and feet molds on many of our dolls are live cast from a real infant! A great mold cost not one penny more to manufacture than the plain Jane generic used by most of today’s doll makers!

• Value – RETAIL PRICES!

Many of our outfits are actual children’s clothing shrunk down to fit the doll. No maker offers this quality material for these prices!

• Messaging Brand Awareness

Tim Wilson was the very first in the USA many years ago to place Zapf dolls, Lissi Dolls, Engel Puppen, Stolli, and Steiff Dolls on the American Shopping Channels like QVC and Home Shopping Network to build the awareness of the German quality. This was total innovation to offer PVC dolls when never before offered in this medium! The Tim Wilson Family of Fine Dolls® is recognized for their innovation, quality, delivery, and value for over 18 years.

• Packaging- We have found that the customer likes to touch! That is the reason many of our packages are open touch! We are not ashamed of our quality materials and 100% DEHP FREE European PVC so, why hide it?
• Sales- We are currently or have recently successfully done business with virtually every major account in the USA from mail order accounts to big box stores to warehouse clubs either branded or private label! We can tailor a product and price point for your environment. We have designers in each country that can translate the packages and instructions in your language tailored to your customer! 

Innovation-We will be constantly monitoring the latest developments in the market to react immediately! We have teachers on staff that suggest what they see with their young students and parent’s wishes! Every product goes through extensive market research before you touch and feel!  We have several new and previous accounts around the world that have shown  over 60% increase through their merchandising Cute As A Button Babies®. We were the first to launch the full body Skelton unlike the competitors’ partial skeletons for fully pose ability! We secure designers in the country that is well versed in the demands and requirements of the country (example Canada, and Europe).

Best regards,
Tim Wilson

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About our Founder: Tim Wilson

1. First  American importer to introduce high end vinyl German dolls to the US market with the Zapf Dolls in the early 80’s, Steiff  and Engel dolls in the mid 80’s,  and Lissi Dolls in late 80’s.
2. First DOTY winner for vinyl play doll medium with Zapf toddler. 
3. First to offer non TV promoted vinyl dolls (ZAPF) over $20 retail in chain stores (JCP) and national catalogs. The dolls retailed in excess of $50.00
4. First to sell vinyl dolls over $20 on shopping channels. Tim met with Doug Briggs of QVC in mid 80’s and told him of the success with other shopping channels, chain stores, and national catalogs. Doug gave him the opportunity to show that quality vinyl dolls had a place on the shopping channel QVC with Tim presenting the dolls on air!
5. QVC progressed from merchandising $50-$100 vinyl price points to successfully selling Steiff vinyl dolls at $500 with Tim Wilson presenting the product on air!
6. After the successful introduction of  Zapf and Steiff to the American retailers, the partnership dissolved when the German makers each decided to merchandise in the USA with their own corporate distribution.
7. In the late 1980’S, the smallest of the German doll makers in the area of  Coburg, West Germany (Lissi Batz), asked Tim to introduce Lissi dolls on TV and to the US retailers. Arno, Lissi, and their son Manfred Batz, around their family dining room table in their German home, along with Tim and Susan Wilson came to an agreement to start Lissi Dolls USA. This was to be a new company in US with Tim Wilson as President! Tim Wilson (under the umbrella of his company Kacha International, LTD.) would develop and merchandise products geared to the American consumer as Lissi had very limited experience in the US market.
8. Tim spent his time on air promoting Lissi dolls on TV shopping channels while emphasizing the brand name through doll publications. Combined they won multiple national awards in Doll Reader and Dolls Magazine with American designed products.
9. Retail price points rapidly deteriorated as the success of the styles grew! Manufacturing from the Far East started for these fine dolls in  1990 as a result of these demanding price points! Asian makers had never produced dolls like this quality! The education process for the factories was long and tedious with Manfred and Tim spending many hours with the factories educating them to their specific needs and standards!
10. The American mass market became very interested in merchandising this new look and quality of doll!  Toys R’ Us, Wal-Mart and Target Stores,  introduced Lissi to the public. The vinyl TV shopping channel  market boomed and became a business in excess of millions of dollars as a result of quality dolls with the fresh new faces at great retail prices! In 1993 Tim Wilson personally appeared in excess of 100 hours on live TV presenting vinyl European dolls! Tim was named “Vendor of The Year” by “Home Shopping Network”.
11. 1994 Tim approached the largest seller of German made dolls in the US (Pleasant Company) to solicit their business to change to Asian production. They agreed to change from their existing German maker!  The quality of Asian production was up to their high standards.
12. The Lissi contract with Tim Wilson was up for renewal at the end of 1996. The US portion of  Lissi business had grown from less than $100,000 to more than $10 million under the direction of Tim Wilson designs made by Lissi. The US customers equated Tim with new innovations and quality dolls! The request from the customers became centered on realistic molds and features not familiar to the German makers!
13. Tim decided it was time for him to produce his own line of feature packed dolls. The extensive knowledge and relationships he had established in the Far East, combined with the “thousands” of customer requests, were the deciding factors for Tim to introduce Cute As A Button Babies™!   He terminated his contract with Lissi at the end of 1996.
14. January 1, 1997 “THE TIM WILSON FAMILY OF FINE DOLLS” ™ and CUTE AS A BUTTON BABIES™, were born under the umbrella of  KACHA INTERNATIONAL, LTD. The unique name was derived from the Wilson’s children, Kara and Chad. KACHA was a 15 year old company that provided consulting, product development, marketing, warehousing, and advertising services to European doll and toy makers!
15. Tim searched for  leading American artists and designers to produce the winning sculpts. The discovery of a packaging expert (Mr. Daniel Assael) to showcase the dolls with innovative fresh designs completed the beginning! The first artist developed molds from TW family children Kara and Chad. When the Wilson children were babies, friends and family often referred to them with the phrase (the babies were 11 months apart) as CUTE AS A BUTTON BABIES™. Thus the name of the line was trademarked. The first of many face molds were sculpted by Donna Vernal. Donna is a long time designer for many leading companies. Donna made the pilot images and did contract sculpting dolls for many companies with winners such as Hasbro (Princess Leia) and Disney (Pocahontas)!
16. The acceptance and success of CUTE AS A BUTTON BABIES™, as evidenced by an immediate nomination for Doll of The Year in 1998, proved The Tim Wilson Family of Fine Dolls ™ was what the public was wanting! The packaging for the products proved 100% successful with the total sellout each year by Thanksgiving during the prime Christmas selling season! The return rate was well below the industry standards which meant the discovery of a quality factory to manufacture the dolls was a successful find! The factory has not missed one shipping deadline since they began producing CUTE AS A BUTTON BABIES™ in 1996.
17. Tim has personally sculpted three play doll faces for the CUTE AS A BUTTON BABIES™  series. He searched and found award winning artists to design the newest “Designer Reproduction Series”. The theory behind the “DRS” series is to offer the award winning dolls (previously offered in very small limited edition pieces to less than 50 pieces and some dolls are editions of one) in the vinyl medium. The molds are winners but consumers have not been able to obtain or afford the dolls! They can be offered at retails less than $100!
18. Current artists in addition to Donna, include Beverly Storer, Rita Rich, and Fred McNeill. Beverly is the lead artist for the series. She has won numerous awards and is most noted for her work sculpting the Marie Osmond line of dolls.  There are currently in excess of 10 separate molds from Beverly finished or in the final production stage. Rita Rich won the IDEX one of a kind award in 1999 with one of her spectacular realistic size cernit baby doll. Mr. Fred McNeill won the “Best One of a Kind” doll in 1997 from IDEX with his doll Marissa!
19. The “DRS” series of dolls at retails under $100 is the first to offer to the public all the features in vinyl such as high end wigs, realistic skin tones, live cast hands and feet from real babies, jointed arms and legs, realistic bodies patterned after real 6 week old infants, weighted and scented bodies to feel and smell  like a real baby, real infant clothing, and glass eyes,  that were previously only available for retails in excess of $200. This is finalized to perfection with faces that are sculpted from dolls that are “winners”. The public makes their decision to buy dolls based  first on the retail price, face,  and eyes! They keep their purchase because of the features and quality they discover when they take the product out of the box!

Kacha International, LTD. pledges to keep quality and retail prices at points to make you successful and your customer anticipating the introduction of new designers and molds!