License Global magazine, the licensing industry’s thought leader and leading news source, released its 2020 edition of the Top 150 Global Licensors report, which sees The Walt Disney Company rank at No. 1, reporting $54.7 billion in annual retail sales of licensed consumer products in 2019, which is flat against 2018’s sales. The ranked report is […]
Category Archives: Industry
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Jul
Jul
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) licensee Sitting Spiritually, a maker of bespoke wooden garden swing seats, rockabyes, rope swings, garden benches, tree swings and pergolas, has announced a one-off design to commemorate the NHS The Rainbow Bench, so-called because of the way the woods used in its design create a natural rainbow on the back of […]
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Apr
Masks have become of the face of the battle against the coronavirus and are taking a little more style and flair. source: www.licensinginternational.org And, inevitably, characters, logos and designs of all sorts have begun to pop up to cover mouths and noses. As far as we can tell, they’re rarely, if ever licensed – we […]
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Apr
Apr
VIZ Media Europe SAS, one of Europe’s most established licensors and distributors of Japanese content, has been renamed Crunchyroll SAS The leading company is in the process of transitioning the VIZ Media Europe brand to Crunchyroll, and all brands are starting to be communicated as Crunchyroll brands (KAZÉ, Anime on Demand, Anime Digital Network as […]
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Feb
Toymakers are looking to a mix of evergreen properties and a broad selection of IP based on streaming platforms, YouTube channels and influencers and videogames to drive their license-based sales, manufacturers told us at Toy Fair New York In the days before Toy Fair, Disney grabbed attention by unveiling a slew of “Baby Yoda” products, Hasbro gave financial analysts […]
