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Licensing Awards 2014 finalists are announced!

BRANDORA Editorial Staff - July 2014 		 
 
 

Finalists for The Licensing Awards 2014 have now been revealed for the Product, Retail, and Marketing Communication Awards. The finalists for the Property Awards categories will be announced by the end of July. The winners will be revealed at The Licensing Awards event on Tuesday 16th September – in The Great Room at London’s prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel. This year’s event is destined to be a memorable one for the 1,400 retailers, licensees, licensors and industry suppliers set to attend.



The Product Awards Finalists

Approaching 5,000 licensed products were entered into the Product Awards this year. The Judging Panel comprised of almost 100 top retail buyers, including those from Toys R Us, Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Next, The Entertainer, Waterstones, Lakeland, Asda, Mothercare, Joy, BHS, Paperchase, Paulton’s Park, Blue Inc, MiniClub `and River Island.



Best Licensed Toys or Games Range



Best Licensed Dress-Up or Partyware Range

    Finalists:
  • Despicable Me Dress-Up from Rubies
  • Disney Frozen Dress-Up from Rubies
  • Fisher Price Partyware from Amscan
  • Marvel Dress-Up For George@Asda from Christys’
  • Tetris Dress-up from Morphcostumes
  • Wall’s Partyware from Talking Tables


Best Licensed Preschool Apparel Range (0-5 years)



Best Licensed Children or Adult Apparel Range

    Finalists:
  • Beano Footwear Range from Dr Martens
  • The Gruffalo Eyewear from Specsavers
  • Lego The Movie Range from TV Mania
  • Monster High Essentials for Tesco from Aykroyds/TDP/Roy Lowe
  • Peanuts Ladies Wear for ASOS from Knitmania
  • Where’s Wally? Flip Flops from Haivaianas


Best Written, Listening or Learning Range

    Finalists:
  • Fifa World Cup Stickers And Sticker Book from Panini
  • Game Of Thrones ‘A Pop-Up Guide To Westeros’ from Inside Editions
  • Great British Bake Off Books from Random House
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Arts & Crafts Range from Copywrite Designs Ltd
  • Minecraft Book Range from Egmont
  • Peppa Pig Electronic Learning range from KD UK (InspirationWorks)


Best Licensed Paper Products or Stationery Range

    Finalists:
  • Despicable Me Cards & Calendar Range from Danilo
  • Doc McStuffins Stationery Art & Craft Range from Sambro
  • Frozen Birthday Cards from Moonpig
  • Marvel Stationery Range from Pyramid
  • Orla Kiely Stationery from Blueprint Stationery
  • Pickle Parade Stationery Range from Carte Blanche Greetings


Best Licensed Giftware Range

    Finalists:
  • Coca Cola Gift Range from Brand Packaging
  • Despicable Me Backpacks from Posh Paws
  • Gromit Unleashed Gifts Range from Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal
  • Guinness Gift Range from Beams
  • Happy Jackson Gift Range from Wild & Wolf
  • Peter Rabbit Gift Range from Rainbow Designs


Best Licensed Home Décor, Tableware or Housewares Range

    Finalists:
  • Great British Bake Off Kitchenware Range from Ethos
  • Marvel Art Deco Canvas Range from Pyramid
  • Mr. Men & Little Miss Cooking Sets from Creative Tops
  • Pantone Universe Range from Whitbread Wilkinson
  • Star Wars Kitchenware from Lakeland
  • VW Lunchbags from Monster Factory


Best Licensed Food or Drink Range

    Finalists:
  • Heinz Pastries from Peter’s Food Services
  • Jamie Oliver Ready To Eat Pulses from Fiddes Payne
  • Mr. Men and Little Miss Biscuits from Biscuiteers
  • The Snowman and Snowdog Range from Thorntons
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ‘Shell-ebration’ Cake from Finsbury Foods
  • Wahaca Range from Kimm & Miller


Best Licensed Brand Range

    Finalists:
  • Animal Planet Cycle Safety Equipment from Oxford Products
  • Jamie Oliver Kitchenware from Merison Retail
  • Lego Adult Watch Collection from Clic Time
  • Pizza Express Range from Eddingtons
  • Roald Dahl Bedroom Range from Ashley Wilde
  • V&A, Garden Of Love Bedroom Range from Bedeck


The Innovation Award

    Finalists:
  • Downton Abbey Board Game from She Who Dares
  • Iron Man Digital Morphsuit from Morph Costumes
  • Mickey Mouse Augmented Reality Duvet Set from Character World
  • Minnie Mouse Ears for ASOS from Icon
  • Peppa Pig Vitamin Gummies from DTP Europe
  • Star Wars Homewares from Bluwstuff


Best Licensed Marketing Communication Campaign Award

For this award category, a highly qualified panel of marketing and promotions experts judged the entries to the Best Licensed Marketing Communication 2014 Award to arrive at an impressive finalists line-up, each of which demonstrate strong partnerships forged between licensed properties and key FMCG brands.



The Retailer Award Finalists

The finalists of the Retailer Award categories were decided as a result of an online nomination process involving manufacturers, suppliers and importers of licensed products, inviting them to state which retailers have excelled in their retail delivery of licensed merchandise to the public over the last year. These results were then taken into account by a validation panel of industry experts to arrive at the final line-up.



Best Preschool Retailer of Licensed Products (age group 0-5)

    Finalists:
  • Argos
  • Asda (including George@Asda)
  • The Entertainer
  • Sainsbury’s (including TU)
  • Smyths
  • Toys R Us (including Babies R Us)


Best Kids Retailer of Licensed Products (age group 6-16)

    Finalists:
  • Argos
  • Asda (includes George@Asda)
  • Next
  • Primark
  • Smyths
  • Tesco


Best Retailer of Adult Licensed Products

    Finalists:
  • Argos
  • ASDA
  • Forbidden Planet
  • HMV
  • John Lewis
  • Tesco


The Radar Award

This award is for any UK based retailer (bricks and mortar/or online) that have ‘come on the radar’ by upping their licensing activities in the last year.

    Finalists:
  • ASOS
  • Halfords
  • Hobbycraft
  • Lakeland
  • M&Co (McKays)
  • Poundland


Top Retailer Award

All winners of the other categories are contenders for this award.



You can now follow The Licensing Awards on Facebook and twitter, become a fan and keep up with news as it happens. Tickets are also now on sale for The Licensing Awards event, which takes place in The Great Room in The Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday 16th September 2014at which the winners of the 2014 awards will be announced. Almost 1,400 retailers, licensees, licensees and industry suppliers will attend the event, with hundreds of tickets already bought.
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Tickets for The Licensing Awards 2014 event are available from Createvents - Tel: 01252 781178 or e-mail clare@createvents.co.uk