The Brazilian Association of Manufacturers of Toys – ABRINQ – is a non-profit class entity that officially represents the industry of the toy sector. It was founded in July 2nd, 1985, with the objective of defend the legitimate class’ interest in all forums, national or international within the best ethical principles.

Its management is of executive order: the president reports to a Management Board composed by executive entrepreneurs of the sector.

The Association represents the majority of toy manufacturers of the country with the broadest number of affiliates. More than 95% of the national production is a member of the Association.
The affiliates abide the Code of Ethics and Conduct of the Toy Industry.

On a yearly basis it has promoted the ABRIN; a Toy Fair considered as the largest event of the toy sector in Latin America. The 2008 fair was the 25th, marked by the constant efforts to foment business amongst entrepreneurs, manufacturers, distributors, retail, importers, wholesales and others that are part of the productive chain of the sector.

In 1989 the ABRINQ created, within its structure, a Board of Directors for the Defense of Child’s Rights and joined other organizations who lobby the Congress for the approval of the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA). The same year, in February 13th, 1990, the Abrinq Foundation for the Rights of the Children and the Adolescents (the social branch) became an organization with its own statute, born with the mission to defend the rights of the child and adolescent by means of social mobilization.

In 1991 a movement was formed to create a specific association of a group of entrepreneurs that fabricated the products and were part of the ABRINQ. In that year the ABRAPUR – Brazilian Association of Child Products to specify actions focused in the childcare sector.

In the following year the ABRINQ founded the Instituto da Qualidade do Brinquedo – IQB - Institute for the Quality of the Toy whose objective was to promote a better quality market, allowing the sector the creation of preventive measures with a closer scrutiny into the manufacture of toys. In that same year the toy certification became mandatory.

Since then, this has become a benefit for the manufacturers who are able to guarantee to the consumer that the fabricator follows the mandatory standards of safety and that respects the final consumer: the child.