Brand Licensing Europe, the Advanstar organised licensing exhibition, has announced that its License This! Challenge is now open for entries at www.brandlicensing.eu. Launched in 2010 to great acclaim, this ‘Dragon’s Den’ style challenge offers those with brand new creative concepts the ... more

Turner CN Enterprises (TCNE), in association with the European Licensing Company (ELC), is proud to announce that it will be hosting a licensee day in the CEE region. The event, which will be held at Hotel La Regina in Warsaw on Tuesday 24th April 2012, will showcase new opportunities from within ... more

Full service merchandising company, Global Merchandising Services (www.globalmerchservices.com), has become the latest organisation to join LIMA UK, the licensing trade association (www.licensing.org). As a member of LIMA, it will have access to a significant number of benefits including ... more

Brand Licensing Europe, the Advanstar organised exhibition, has announced the number of retailers participating in its 2012 Retail Mentoring Programme has tripled since its launch three years ago. 40 buying professionals from retail giants Avon, Boots, John Lewis, Mothercare, Sainsbury’s and Tesco have ... more

One of the funnier guides to the licensing industry – The Licensing Phrase Book – has been made available on Kindle to help raise money for industry charity, the Light Fund. First published in 1999, the book has only ever existed before as a micro-size digital print. Now anyone with Kindle reader software ... more

Nickelodeon, Belgium based production partner Studio 100 and UK based co-producer Lime Pictures today announced plans to produce a third season of the daily hit, mystery-adventure series House of Anubis. The series will resume production in the UK with Studio 100 and Lime Pictures. House of Anubis ... more

The m4e production MIA AND ME will premiere in German television on August 6th 2012 on KiKA. The exciting mix of live action and animation will be broadcasted Monday to Friday at 7 pm, one of the best children's broacast slots in Germany. The series has already been sold to more than 50 ... more

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a division of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), has reached an agreement with leading French national broadcaster and long-time partner, TF1, that will see MTV’s global hit series, Jersey Shore, air on TF1 Group’s DTT channel, NT1, from this month. NT1 ... more

Alphanim’s adventure series THE GREEN SQUAD (52x11’) was acquired by German broadcaster KIKA. The deal was brokered by Alphanim’s German coproducer Europool. The show already airs in France on France 5, RTBF in Belgium, Minimax in Central and Eastern Europe, Noga in Israël, Al Jazeera ... more

Nickelodeon, one of the most globally recognized and widely distributed multimedia entertainment brands for kids and family, and Movie Park Germany, a premier film and entertainment theme park, today announced the renewal of their strategic partnership around NICKLAND, the popular NICK-themed ... more

Studio 100 Media GmbH, a subsidiary of Belgium’s leading family entertainment group Studio 100 has sealed a license deal with Turkey’s leading kids network Minika. The newly launched Turkish children’s network has acquired the animation series Woodlies (26 x 24 mins). The agreement gives Minika free ... more

Studio 100 Media GmbH, a subsidiary of Belgium’s leading family entertainment group Studio 100 have signed a license deal with children’s channel KI.KA. The German broadcaster has acquired the pre-school series Florrie’s Dragons (52 x 10 mins). The agreement gives KI.KA. all exclusive German television rights … more

Chupa Chups is delighted to announce that Bandai Asia Co., Ltd, has come on board its licensing universe to develop a range of surprising gadgets that are distributed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Korea. The products were launched this month, shedding … more

Due to company growth and many new exciting product lines, this forward thinking toy company is offering a unique opportunity to incorporate a Marketing & Licensing Manager at our Barcelona office (alternatively Amsterdam) to assist and manage the international Licensing and Marketing ... more

MTV’s iconic reality series, Pimp My Ride and One Bad Trip, and brand new transformational docu-series, I Used To Be Fat, will be adapted and created for local audiences across Northern Europe in four separate deals with key broadcasters and producers in 2012. The news comes as Viacom ... more

The German brand management and media company m4e AG has secured worldwide TV and home entertainment distribution rights (excl. North America and Australia) to March Entertainment’s, Canada, new animation feature films „Dex Hamilton“ and „Tossed in Space“. m4e’s international distribution arm ... more

Due to company growth and many new exciting product lines, this forward thinking toy company is offering a unique opportunity to incorporate a Licensing & Sales Manager to manage the Benelux and international Licensing business as well as having an active sales role in toys and promotions. As a ... more

GfK, one of the world’s largest research companies, has become the latest high profile organisation to join LIMA, the trade association for the $180+ billion licensing industry. Joining LIMA UK are two of its group companies - GfK Retail & Technology UK (GfK RT) and GfK Chart-Track. As a member of LIMA, GfK ... more

m4e/Telescreen and Kidobi today announced a new digital distribution partnership that will bring several animated series from the extensive m4e/Telescreen catalogue to Kidobi’s rapidly expanding online library. The agreement gives the preschool-targeted streaming video platform SVoD ... more

LIMA UK has finalised the panellists for its Legendary Licensing Debate 2012, starting at 5pm on Thursday 17th May at the five-star Wyndham Grand Hotel in Chelsea Harbour, London. The debate follows LIMA’s popular one-day Licensing Essentials Course and kicks off its annual Spring Fling networking ... more