TheRepublicangovernor of New Jersey had been pressedby party pooh-bahs over recent weeks tojump into the race, aftera series ofclangersbyRick Perry dentedhisfront-runnerstatus.
But now the 81-year-old company is learning a thing or two itself from its new purchase: how to better manage brands like Winnie the Pooh or the new pirate characters that crept out of Disney's successful 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean.