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Bulldog Appoints Alex Salisbury as Senior Licensing Manager and Promotes Sophie Yates to Brand Manager

Bulldog Licensing, one of the licensing industry’s leading agencies, has welcomed Alex Salisbury to its team as Senior Licensing Manager, covering categories such as Publishing and Toys for all brands. Alex Salisbury joins Bulldog fresh from a three-month trip travelling around Southeast Asia. Before her well-earned break, she had been at Paramount since 2017, where she held roles as Retail Licensing Manager (UK and Eire), Senior Category Manager (Hardlines, UK and Eire) and Senior Category Manager (Toys, EMEA and ANZ, part of the Global Toy Team). Prior to that, Alex’s roles at Wicked and Mattel ensure that she has a wealth of experience to bring to her new role at Bulldog.

Creative Fold Brings In Edoardo Kulp as Director of Business Development, Co-Owner

Creative Fold is happy to announce that Edoardo Kulp has joined the company as its Director of Business Development and co-owner. Edoardo has consulted with Creative Fold for over a year and, together with his duties in Business Development, will continue to be a part of Creative Fold’s product development team, helping create amazing results for Creative Fold clients. “As we head into 2023, we look forward to Edoardo further developing our client base, expanding Creative Fold’s reach within the toy and game industry and beyond,” says Katie LaSeur, Creative Fold’s COO and Creative Director.

PBS KIDS Announces New Animated Series, Lyla in the Loop, Premiering Early 2024

At the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS KIDS announced the production of Lyla in the Loop, a funny and engaging animated series for kids ages 4-8 from Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios. The show stars Lyla, a dynamic 7-year-old Black girl, her close-knit family, fantastical blue sidekick Stu, and a host of relatable and quirky characters living in her community, who together spotlight creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills while working collaboratively with others.

Godzilla Fashions Hit the Runway at Milan Fashion Week for Dhruv Kapoor Autumn/Winter 2023 Collection

India’s leading contemporary brand Dhruv Kapoor launches a Godzilla collaboration as part of their Autumn/Winter 2023 menswear collection on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week. Dhruv Kapoor’s work remains an exuberant reflection of contemporary society upholding values of liberty, vitality, eternity, and the realization of our highest potential as individuals and community. Through collaboration with the Godzilla brand, this transgressive message explores “Awakening.” At the intersection of high fashion and pop culture, Dhruv Kapoor x Godzilla includes iconic character art such as Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Mechagodzilla, uniting cutting-edge contemporary design with the rich heritage of Godzilla first appearing on the silver screen in 1954 in Japan’s Gojira. Since then, over 35 films have been made spurring a multi-billion-dollar franchise and global fandom that has continued to grow over several decades.

Nocopi Technologies Appoints Jackie Goldman to the Board of Directors

Nocopi Technologies, Incorporated (OTC Pink: “NNUP”), a developer of specialty reactive inks, announced that Jackie Goldman has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors to replace Philip B. White, who resigned from the Board of Directors on January 11, 2023. Ms. Goldman currently serves as the CEO and President of Puzzles Plus, Inc., which she founded over 33 years ago. Puzzles Plus, headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, designs and manufactures custom puzzles for museums, corporations, children’s products catalogs, resorts, national parks, and non-profit organizations. Puzzle Plus’s custom designed puzzles have garnered national attention from newspapers, magazines and television, with a wide range of customers including the White House Historical Society, The Metropolitan Museum in NYC, Los Angeles Museum of Art, NY Public Library, Dale Chihuly Art, Porsche Worldwide, and various universities.

MetLife Pet Insurance Has a New Top Dog: Snoopy

As pet ownership levels in the United States continue to reach new heights, MetLife Pet Insurance announced it will partner with one of the world’s most legendary pets, Snoopy, to build greater awareness of the critical importance of pet health insurance. While there are over 90 million families with pets in the U.S. today, less than 3% of those pets are insured. The company’s partnership with Charlie Brown’s iconic dog aims to change this by educating the nation’s pet parents about the benefits of pet protection for safeguarding their personal finances and improving animal well-being.

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Metallic Dice Game Announces Rebranding to FanRoll

Metallic Dice Games, founded in 2014 and recently sold to toy industry veteran Neal Hoffman has “rolled” into the new year with a new name. The company announced its decision to rebrand the company as FanRoll and has launched its new website, FanRollDice.com. Shark Tank Alum, Neal Hoffman led a group of investors to purchase Metallic Dice Games, a leading tabletop dice company, this past summer. Hoffman states, “While the company started with a focus on metal dice, today we have over 300 SKUS ranging from liquid core dice to tabletop accessories. Because of this, we felt a new name would better represent who we will be in the future.”

The Insights Family Appoints Former BBC Executive Rachel Bardill as SVP of Marketing & Partnerships

The Insights Family – the global leader in kids, teens, parents, and family market intelligence – has announced the appointment of former BBC Executive Rachel Bardill to lead their marketing and partnerships team as part of its future growth strategy. The award-winning company which works with clients such as Amazon, BBC, Disney, Hasbro, and Warner Bros has established itself as a global leader in market intelligence on kids, teens, parents, and families as well as receiving a number of awards, and being cited in 2022 as the number one UK mar-tech company outside of London.

Toymint to Launch its Next Generation of Minted Teddy Metaverse Toys

Toymint, a web3 toy company on a mission to build a better world by creating high-quality, sustainable children’s toys, is announcing that it is releasing its next generation of Minted Teddy NFTs and accompanying collectible toys on January 30, 2023. The first collection of 100 teddies launched in December 2021, followed by 1,000 Series 1 NFTs in January 2022. All collections released to date have sold out immediately. Only 11,111 Minted Teddies will be created. This new collection introduces space-themed teddies with over 130 unique objects and over 20 unique styles of space flight gear, including MoonCats-themed teddies that were born from a collaboration with the MoonCats team.