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...McNamara added that Authentic is focused on finding “a new partner” in an effort to grow the brand in the UK and Europe after it ended a brand licensing partnership with AARC, a Dutch company, earlier this...
...New York-based Authentic, which has invested in fashion and brand licensing, including retailer Forever 21 and magazine Sports Illustrated, already owns the brand rights to boxer Muhammad Ali, singer Elvis...
...(Chapek isn’t worried about this, pointing to internal research showing that ESPN’s ties to sports betting aren’t going to harm the Disney brand.)...
...Apple stole the software show from Microsoft under Steve Jobs, when he undermined Windows’ expensive licensing strategy with annual announcements of free updates to the Mac operating system....
...In clinching a global licensing deal with Google on Wednesday, the digital ad machine must now make “significant payments” to use content from the Australian tycoon’s News Corp empire....
...Alden has come to embody the extreme austerity that has gripped traditional newspaper brands....
...These include the option of binding arbitration for licensing agreements....
...Whatever the outcome from Australia, news executives are not expecting the licensing income from Google and Facebook to transform a struggling business model for publishers....
...The management team that succeeded them in 1995 included Messrs Lourd, Huvane and Lovett: they diversified the company into sports representation, brand consulting, licensing and investment banking....
...But it has privately acknowledged to French publishers that it wants to extend its support for journalism, potentially through new products that would give some brands greater prominence and reach as well...
...Big index firms such as S&P Dow Jones and MSCI, it is alleged, stand in the way of this race because of their basis point and licensing fee structure....
...As the company faces declining popularity among young people, analysts point to music as a way to rebuild its brand with that demographic....
...It took another step in reducing its reliance on licensing characters and franchises from third parties this week with the acquisition of comic book publisher Millarworld....
...But some index brands really can’t be substituted,” says the father of two grown-up children....
...Nobody has done that better in terms of passionate superfan brands than Scripps.”...
...The company pays more than half its advertising revenues to its label owners as licensing fees, with a smaller cut to YouTube....
...“We are moving to a new reality as to what index licensing costs should be,” he says....
...Critics say Mr Ecclestone’s expansion damaged the brand....
...In his presentation to investors, Mr Dubin laid out a vision to “build a world-class lifestyle brand, become the largest online-only brand for personal care” and packaged goods and claimed that “razors were...
...Playboy has hired bankers to explore a sale of the adult entertainment group, which includes its magazine, a licensing business and Hugh Hefner’s mansion, people familiar with the matter said....
...He also earned $2.5m last year from licensing his brand to the Trump Hotel and Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, a development owned by the oligarch Anar Mammadov....
...He detects little pressure on the best known index “brands” such as the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 indices....
...The market for image licensing has become more competitive since Shutterstock was founded....
...When Apple unveils a new music streaming service at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, it will largely leave behind its 15-year-old iTunes brand....
...Such inspiration is separate from the world of licensing, where an artist’s work is officially sanctioned to be used on products....
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