The leading licensing fair for Italy and Southern Europe is only three months away – and it’s generating even more excitement than usual, with a new format, new features and nearly 1,000 brands on show. Now reformatted as a two-day show to offer a more focused event for professionals and optimize …
Kit and Kate, the delightful blue kittens and stars of their very own animated series showing 12 times a day on Rai Yoyo, are on their way to a number of new publications from Edizioni PlayPress. The cartoon, aimed at preschool children, has a made a great TV debut and continues to have a very high …
Recognised children’s artist and illustrator, Nicoletta Costa, has signed a deal with leading European educational toy company, Ludattica, to create a range of sustainable games based on her instantly recognisable designs. Launching at Nuremberg Toy Fair, the educational games and puzzles are manufactured …
The Royal Horticultural Society has announced the arrival in 2020 of the RHS Flower Blooms Lavender Garden collection of toiletries and accessories – the latest range in a highly successful RHS partnership with leading British beauty and fine toiletries company Heathcote & Ivory. This collection, the third in …
On air in Italy since June 2019 on Rai Yoyo, the delightful preschool animation Zafari can already boast a strong licensee list. Zafari, an Ink Group property, is the beautiful new animated series in CGI produced by Zafari Holdings and distributed worldwide by NBC Universal/Dreamworks. Made up of 52 …
Italian boutique animation studio Enanimation, which last year secured the rights to develop – globally and on all platforms – the popular pre-school publishing property Olga the Cloud, has announced an agreement with a major international broadcaster for the forthcoming TV version of the much-loved …
The Elf on the Shelf phenomenon continues to go from strength to strength, as impressive 2019 sales-to-date show an uplift of an enormous 63 per cent year on year for The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition box set. Already a Christmas tradition in homes across the world, the brand has enjoyed…
Licensing Link Europe has announced a campaign, instigated by Louis Kennedy, for the IFLScience brand, with SHO, to launch two limited edition designs of their stainless steel reusable bottles. Ten per cent of the sales of the new SHO lines will be donated to One Tree Planted – a 501(c)(3) environmental …
An extensive Peanuts fashion collection has debuted at Riva stores in the Middle East, in a deal brokered by WildBrain CPLG on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide. The 50+ piece collection which spans kids and ladieswear, sees Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang feature across daywear …
Keyframe Studios, a creative full-service London-based animation studio for 2D and 3D character animation, has announced that it is working with Beyond Distribution on the sale and distribution of the recently launched 20 x 2” preschool animation Zeze Zebra. Keyframe has already secured a number of …
London-based baby and kidswear brand Cribstar, has launched two gender neutral Peanuts babywear ranges – Space and Superhero – in a collaboration brokered by WildBrain CPLG UK, on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide. The Space collection was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon …
Following the announcement earlier this year of the award of a licence to Hotter, the UK’s biggest shoemaker, for a selection of comfortable and stylish women’s shoes and sandals, the Royal Horticultural Society has now revealed the contents of the first Hotter-RHS collection, which will be available in …