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Catching Up With David Reeder, Vice-President, GreenLight

At the end of last year, Muhammad Ali Enterprises selected GreenLight, a global media licensing, talent negotiation, and rights representation consultancy, to represent the iconic boxer. GreenLight will handle advertising and promotional opportunities for personality rights and trademarks, including Muhammad Ali’s name, image, likeness, signatures, and characterizations on an exclusive basis in Europe and Asia Pacific. David Reeder, vice-president of GreenLight, talks about the types of opportunities the company is seeking for Muhammad Ali.

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Catching Up With Eric Karp, Head of Licensing Americas, Mind Candy

Since its debut in 2008, 50 million users worldwide have registered on MoshiMonsters.com. The massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for 6–12 year olds continues to add 100,000 new registered users per day. By the end of 2011, Mind Candy, the company behind Moshi Monsters, estimates that there will be 60 million registered users worldwide, with half of them in the U.S. Licensing programs in the UK and Australia have already proven successful for the brand. Eric Karp, head of licensing Americas at Mind Candy, explains how the company will bring a Moshi Monsters licensing program to the U.S. this summer.

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Catching Up With Andrew Kerr, Founder and Commercial Director, Aoh!K Commerical Limited

Driver Dan’s Story Train, a preschool series with an emphasis on storytelling, debuted in the U.S. on PBS Kids Sprout in November 2010. Andrew Kerr, founder and commercial director, Aoh!K Commercial Limited, the brand’s UK-based licensing and merchandising agent, is looking to leverage Driver Dan’s Story Train’s success on Sprout by adding key consumer product partners in the U.S. throughout the year.