Read the excerpt below from an expository text; then answer the question that follows.
Remember the fun you had with your favorite toys and games while growing up?
Toymakers are hoping you do, and they are hoping that you are sharing the experience with your children. Toy companies have long used nostalgia to lure adults back to their childhood favorites while updating those same toys to attract a new generation of children.
Colorforms, created by a husband and wife in their New York apartment in 1951, turns 60 this year, and University Games is using the occasion to remind parents of a popular childhood toy and to entice them to buy one for their children. And Mattel is commemorating the 40th anniversary of Uno with a yearlong marketing campaign to promote the family card game.

This excerpt is most characteristic of which of the following types of expository text?

A. textbook chapter
B. newspaper article
C. research report
D. encyclopedia entry