licensing news
UK Greetings unveils GI
Joe card designs
The new GI Joe movie hits our scrT eens in August and is set
to be a global blockbuster.
UK Greetings has launched a range of 13 GI Joe
greeting cards featuring the stars of the fi lm: Duke, General
Hawk, The Baroness and Destro with a variety of captions
and general designs for GI Joe fans everywhere.
The new movie will be a modern day telling of the GI.
Joe storyline and the characters created by Hasbro 25
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yyears ago. The story is set ten years in the future and
shows the rise of the evil Cobra Organization and the
Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity (G.I.J.O.E) a
into new Fame
hi-tech force of special. The fi lm features an all-star cast
that includes Dennis Quaid, Sienna Miller and Christopher
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Eccleston.
The range of 13 designs feature photographs of the
With Fame set to once again take over the world with the
main characters set on bold and colourful backgrounds
September remake of the 1980s classic movie, Danilo has
with futuristic imagery form the fi lm. Price codes are 45-75,
unveiled its greetings lineup to support the release.
with the higher coded cards also include badges while one
Open birthday designs featuring the fi lm’s central
design features an ID card.
characters will be available for boys and girls - some with
button badges. A sound card is also being released and
Danilo’s Fame range is topped off with a 2010 calendar.
HIT for American
Greetings
Gemma feels
American Greetings, parent company of UK Greetings has signed licensing deals with HIT
the love for
Entertainments for its portfolio of brands including Angelina Ballerina, Barney, Bob the Builder and
Thomas and Friends!
Muppets
The deal also includes acquired properties including Chapman Entertainment’s Fifi and the
Flowertots™ and Roary the Racing Car™ and Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit™, Shaun
Gemma International is enjoying continued success for its
the Sheep™ and Timmy Time™.
range of Muppets licensed product despite the brand being
American Greetings will design, manufacture, distribute and market key social expressions
over 30 years old.
items, such as party supplies and decorations, greeting cards, invitations, stickers, gift packaging
The Muppets fi rst aired in 1976 and at its peak had 235
and seasonal items, including Valentine’s Day cards and Christmas ornaments, featuring HIT’s
million viewers across over 100 countries. It also attracted
brands.
over 100 guest stars like John Cleese, Elton John and Alice
The new product designs will be available at mass and speciality party goods retailers starting
Cooper.
in spring 2009 in the US and Canada.
“Everybody remembers key characters like Miss Piggy,
American Greetings has also signed a multi-year licensing deal with Paul Frank Industries for a full
Kermit and, of course, Animal!” says Gemma marketing
range of social expressions products including greeting cards, featuring Julius, the iconic monkey,
executive, Marie Guyader. “Our range is centred around
and the brand’s 200+ colourful characters. Products are set to launch in winter 2009 in the US.
the best-known
characters and
targets an adult
audience with a
Bridgeman adds new art
great touch of
Muppet humour.
It’s become one
.co.uk
library.
of our customers’
favourites.”
Bridgeman is now representing the US-based Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, giving it access to Gemma has
a signifi cant assortment of Renaissance to 19th century European and American painting and sculpture, new ranges in the
prints and English silver. Over 200 images are now available online at: www.bridgemanart.com. pipeline featuring
In 1955, Sterling and Francine Clark established a museum near Williams College in Williamstown, Barbie and The Three
Massachusetts to store their vast collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and porcelain. From their time in Musketeers, Tinker
eetingstoday Paris the Clarks accumulated a considerable collection of French impressionist works from Renoir, Monet,
Bell and The Lost
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Degas and Pissarro, among others. Today, the Clark houses one of the largest collections of impressionist Treasure, Toy Story
works within the United States. The Clarks also had an affi nity for 19th century American painting; John and a redesigned
Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer fi gure prominently within the collection. Disney Cars range.
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