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Month: August 2016

Brand Licensing TV Series Licensing 

ZEE sells Ten Sports to Sony Pictures for $385 million

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Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) have entered into definitive agreements to acquire TEN Sports Network and its subsidiaries for $385 million.  The acquisition will add five sports channels, TEN 1, TEN 1 HD, TEN 2, TEN 3, TEN Golf HD to SPN’s existing portfolio of channels. The deal also include TEN Cricket and TEN Sports that operate in several countries including the Indian sub-continent, Maldives, Singapore, Hong Kong, Middle East, Caribbean. TEN Sports holds broadcast rights to major cricket boards (South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,…

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Accessories Licensing Brand Licensing Fashion Licensing 

King Ice and WBCP to release Suicide Squad Jewelry

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Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, has teamed with men’s jewelry brand King Ice to release a collection based on the film Suicide Squad King Ice, a leading men’s jewelry brand, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, will release an 8-piece character collection based on Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure film Suicide Squad. The line will provide fans another way to interact with their favorite characters, including The Joker, Deadshot, Harley Quinn and more. “We felt doing a collection for Suicide Squad could give fans of…

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Food Licensing 

M&M partners with Camilla Staerk for New packaging to mark 75th anniversary

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Creating an nth degree of collaboration, the Danish fashion designer Camilla Staerk has joined forces with M&M’s to create the M&M’s by Staerk Designer Collection. The design upgrade is timed with the candy’s 75th anniversary and it will be introduced Sept. 4 exclusively at Target nationwide. The colorful M-stamped chocolates aren’t getting an overhaul, but Staerk has upgraded the packaging with abstract interpretations of animal print-inspired designs for the brand’s milk chocolate and peanut M&M’s. Staerk drew from Louise Nevelson sculptures for the milk chocolate print and from Mariel Hemingway’s…

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Food Licensing 

MasterChef and EatWith Enter Exclusive Partnership for Dining Experiences

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The former Masterchef contestants and Winners will host live dinners using the Eatwith Platforms, bringing fans and foodies together for the opportunity to dine EatWith, the company that brings chefs and foodies together one meal at a time and MasterChef America’s most watched cooking competition, on Monday announced first on its kind partnership to offer foodies and fan to dine with Masterchef contestants and winners. Former Masterchef contestants such as Claudia Sandoval, Luca Manfe will join the EatWith dining platform to host their own meals and events and bring the Masterchef…

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Brand Licensing 

Precious Moments renews licensing partnership

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Precious Moments has renewed its licensing partnerships with longtime licensees Designs by Gloria and Pat, Cherokee Child Caskets and The Bradford Exchange/Hamilton Collection Designs by Gloria and Pat is one of Precious Moments longest standing licensees, says the company, and are back on board to continue to publish branded digital cross-stitch books and patterns. The arts and crafts products will retail in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., France, Korea, the Philippines and Singapore. Cherokee Child Caskets, a manufacturer of children’s funeral industry products, has been renewed to produce branded…

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LIMA INDIA 

LIMA to host three new webinar series

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The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association will head into September with a trio of webinars focusing on several of the hottest topics in licensing Each session is designed to provide the most up-to-date information and help licensing and marketing professionals learn more about the topics currently trending in the industry. The webinars include: The Art and Science of Store Checks–Sept. 7 at 12 p.m. EDT Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf, Project Partners Network; Michelle Lamb, co-founder, Marketing Directions; Annalisa Ciganko, Iconix Brand Group; and Elisha Gordon, Jay Franco and Sons will share…

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Accessories Licensing Celebrity Licensing 

Freak Friday – 5 Bollywood Celebrities who entered the licensing biz

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The trend of celebrities floating their own brands of consumer products is picking up in India as licensing gains pace in the country. The power and pull of the Bollywood superstars is what makes licensing products successful. Many Bollywood star see licensing as way to launch their new line of products and connect to fans but it will make a huge success once celebrities see this as a way of making substantial money as well. For now, it is the licensee which is learning that a famous name can get…

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Paws Inc unveils Garfield Cat Merchandise

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The famous comic character Garfield inspires a line of pet products Paws Inc. has tapped International Pet Group to create and distribute a range of pet products inspired by Garfield. IPG’s new line of branded products includes three collections of Garfield cat scratchers and loungers including the @home collection that will aim to complement a number of home décor options, the casual collection that is designed for cats to enjoy both uphill and downhill scratching and lounging and the essential collection that will incorporate Garfield’s playful style. Additionally, all of…

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Event News Uncategorized 

Leading executives join License This! 2016 judging panel

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Brand Licensing Europe (BLE), the largest and most prestigious licensing event in Europe, has revealed the line-up of industry executives judging this year’s License This! Competition Kelvyn Gardner, Managing Director of LIMA UK will chair the panel. He is joined by Tom Gunn, Senior International Brand Director, Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products ; Jane Evans, Director, JELC ; Sam Ferguson, Senior Director of Licensing & Retail, Jazwares ;Pat Reading, Licensing Director, UU Ltd ; Max Lister, Senior Licensing Manager, Natural History Museum ;Clare Piggot, Director of Licensing and Merchandising, Larkshead Media. Now celebrating its seventh year,…

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Accessories Licensing Brand Licensing Character Licensing Entertainment Licensing Fashion Licensing 

Cath Kidston and Disney partners to launch Winnie the Pooh exclusives

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High Street retailer Cath Kidston has teamed with Disney to develop a special line of Winnie the Pooh themed products. Under the partnership between Cath Kidston and Disney, the fashion brand was given access to the studio’s archives to source original character illustrations in order to produce its limited edition collection. Cath Kidston will now launch a seasonal collection of womenswear, bags, homeware and kidswear. “Disney really admired our design credentials and I think it recognised that we are really serious about the way we approach quality, design and the…

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