Home · Teddy bears and soft toys · Le Toy Van

Herbert the Hippo

Le Toy Van

£49.95

Meet Herbert the Hippo from the Adventure Pickles collection. Herbert is a gentle giant, loved for his large yet cuddly frame. He's not just a playmate at home, Herbert is the perfect companion for exciting adventures, always ready to join in the fun and create lasting childhood memories. While he's big enough for comforting bedtime hugs, Herbert is also compact and portable, fitting snugly into your child's bag for on-the-go fun.

Le Toy Van's own words, read from their page.

Buy from Le Toy VanPrice seen 2026-09-04. Affiliate link.

Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as LE TOY VAN LIMITED, number 03140293. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.