P
R E S S C L I P P I N G S
Longmeadow,
Massachusetts
June 2, 2004
Nothing
gives me more happiness that trying to help the most vulnerable people in
society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life.
Diana,
Princess of Wales, June 1997
The
Partnership of London, England, announced today that it has agreed in principle
to a Licensing Representation Agreement with Bliss House, Inc., for the Diana,
Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Bliss House will be the representative for
licensing and commercial activity in North, Central and South America. The
Partnership represents the Fund worldwide.
The Diana, Princess
of Wales Memorial Fund exists because people, worldwide, recognized The Princess
of Wales’ compassion for others and have given money to create a living
memorial to continue her work. By buying products, consumers help the
international work of The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund with victims in
some of the poorest countries and war-torn communities around the world. A
percentage of products’ retail price goes to the projects supported by the
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
Diana, Princess of Wales - this attractive and regal young woman
touched the lives of American women in a unique and eloquent way. The Memorial
Fund allows each of us to celebrate her gift to our lives by bringing
reminiscences of her style and grace into our homes – while contributing to
her charitable aims.
Bliss
House has received interest from companies marketing products including infant
blankets, toys and bed linen; adult bed linens and silk dresser accessories;
stationery and gift wrap; table linens and placemats; picture frames;
needlecraft pillows, rugs and bags; candles, aromatic sprays, powders, potpourri
and other gifts and decorative accessories.
The
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is a registered UK Charity No. 1064238.
The Fund is a living memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, taking its
inspiration from her global humanitarian work. It helps people to change their
lives for the better, by giving grants to charities in the UK and around the
world, championing causes and raising new money to support this work.
Current
US licensees include:
·
Rosenthal
china
·
FTD’s
Diana, Princess of Wales Bouquet: a magnificent arrangement of flowers that
comes in a classic purple vase.
·
Jackson & Perkins Diana, Princess of Wales rose.
Jackson & Perkins is the world’s largest rose-grower.
·
Andrews McMeel
– publishing August 2004, a fantastic coffee-table art book entitled Diana,
The Portrait. This portrait is a wonderful tribute to Diana as a
humanitarian and is the first and only book to be authorized by her Estate.
It contains over 500 images many of which have not been published
before.
·
Diana,
Princess of Wales Tartan, a timeless design especially created by Lochcarron
of Scotland, manufacturers of the world’s largest range of authentic
tartans.
The
Fund has agreed in principle to licensing in a number of categories including:
·
Home Décor
·
Personal Accessories
·
Nursery/Baby
·
Certain Apparel using the
"Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Tartan" or the "Diana,
Princess of Wales Rose pattern"
·
Horticulture/
Garden & Outdoor
LIFE OF BRIAN
by
Hans ten Cate (special thanks to John Goldstone)
Tuesday, 23 March 2004
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Monty Python's The Life of Brian
will be re-released in theaters on April 30th in the United States
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Beware the
second coming... of Brian!
Monty Python
Producer John Goldstone wrote us over the weekend with some wonderful news.
“In view of the furor over Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ we
think it important to offer an alternative view from Monty Python and are
planning a theatrical re-release (or second coming) of Life of Brian.”
John said that the Pythons are doing this through Rainbow Releasing, the company
responsible for distributing Holy Grail theatrically in the US in 2001.
Rainbow Releasing will be distributing new prints of Life of Brian to
commemorate the film’s 25th Anniversary. “We are aiming for 30th April in
Los Angeles and New York and then depending on the response will spread out
across the USA.”
Specifically,
the film will open in Los Angeles and New York at the Laemmle Sunset 5 and
Landmark Sunshine Cinema respectively on April 30th and will expand across the
United States throughout the Spring.
“[We] will
expand once we have a sense of the initial reaction to the re-release,” said
John. “Sharon Lester got a really good feel from The Holy Grail re-release of
the best theaters around the country to play Monty Python and has been under
pressure ever since from the theater owners to bring Life of Brian back
so all this is very fortuitous. So after the first week we will be able to
assess which way to go and will keep [PythOnline] fed with dates and theaters as
they come up.”
“A lot of
people in America have said that they couldn't figure out a way to deal with the
public reaction to Mel's movie,” John Goldstone told Daily Variety yesterday.
“This is a kind of antidote to Mel.”
So, will it be "Mel
or Monty?... The Passion or the Python?" (as Rainbow's president Henry
Jaglom wants to market it). Stay tuned next month...
http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2004/
Longmeadow,
Massachusetts
February 2, 2004
Taggies, Inc., of
Spencer, Massachusetts, announced today that it had signed a Licensing
Representation Agreement with Bliss House, Inc., one of America’s premier
independent licensing agencies and consultancies.
Created by an early
childhood educator and mother of three, TAGGIES® are security blankets based on
the idea that babies and kids love to rub satin edges, clothing labels and tags.
Julie Dix watched her own child do this and invented the unique security blanket
that is at the heart of TAGGIES®.
TAGGIES offer babies and kids all kinds of tags that are both tactile and
visually stimulating. No two tags on a blanket are alike. Moms call TAGGIES an
"interactive blanket" because it provides the child with both an
exciting activity and is their cuddly, soft security blanket -- which as mothers
Dix and her partner, Danielle Ayotte, knew that all kids need.
TAGGIES received a
utility patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,427,265) for the concept and immediately
expanded the original idea to include pillows, Take-A-Long TAGGIES and in 2003,
soft dolls. Last year, TAGGIES signed their first license with Scholastic, one
the world’s largest children’s book publishers, to launch – My First
Taggies ® Book: Sweet Dreams. The
initial print run was 125,000! This
would make Sweet Dreams either #1 or #2 on the cloth book bestseller list, if
there were a list for cloth books. In
2004 TAGGIES is launching a line of Wristies™
– toy characters that attach to the child’s wrist. TAGGIES has also expanded
distribution to Canada, England and Ireland.
Bliss House has helped
TAGGIES with marketing and product strategy and was instrumental in getting them
into toys and the license with Scholastic. Jerry Houle, President of Bliss House
is also a member of TAGGIES’ Board of Advisors. It was at one of these Board
meetings that the topic of expanding the TAGGIES brand through licensing first
became a reality. Bliss House has been given worldwide responsibility for
licensing and has targeted the following categories:
·
Apparel: T-shirts, onsies,
headwear, scarves, vests, pajamas, belts, footwear and more
·
Bed and bath linens
·
New toy classifications
·
Infant and juvenile furniture
and equipment (strollers, chairs, car seats, etc.)
and
·
Videos, DVD's, and music products/productions.
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House, Inc.
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