Competition Inside October 2007

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Win a Tabaluga VISA Card!
With a little luck, you could be a winner. EM.Entertainment is
raffling off 10 prepaid Tabaluga VISA cards, and is even paying the first annual fee. The card can be
used by anybody over 12 years old. If
you would like to be one of the lucky
winners, just send an e-mail to:
[email protected]
The winner from the
01/1007 newsletter was
Katja Lux from Brandora
AG. We congratulate Katja,
and wish her lots of fun at the Europa Park!
Licensees stick with
strong brands
Our customers GlaxoSmithKline, Synpart and
Panini will continue to benefit from the enduring popularity of our classic brands.
GlaxoSmithKline has extended its contract for
oral hygiene products featuring Vicky the Viking
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while
Synpart has renewed its agreement in the
same product category for Maya the Bee and
Tabaluga, also within the German-speaking
countries. And in addition, publishing house Panini Verlags
GmbH has extended its 2005 license contract for publication of
the Maya the Bee magazine.
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Maya in the US
Ship Ahoy!
Brand news:
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Stage show at Sat.1
tutti cuti™ charm
Dive, Olly, Dive!
EM.Entertainment is setting sail with a new top
show.
Dive, Olly, Dive! is a adventure CGI animation
series for children aged between three and eight,
and follows the adventures of a young submarine
called Olly and his friend Bess. The series celebrates its German TV premiere October 15 on
KI.KA and will air Monday thru’ Friday at 10.00
am. Dive, Olly, Dive! was produced by multiple
international award winning US production house
Dear Inside Reader,
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LIMA 2007
Competition
Contact
EM.Entertainment is raffling
off 10 Tabaluga VISA cards
Marketing/Brand Management
Licensing/Merchandising
John Morris
President Distribution
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-200
[email protected]
Liane Pieper
Toys & Games/Home & Living
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-222
[email protected]
Gerd Rußwurm
Head of Merchandising
Promotions/Retail
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-220
[email protected]
Judith Böhnke
Food & Beverages
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-223
[email protected]
Corinna Renkawitz
Personal Care/
Stationery/Publishing
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-221
[email protected]
Content
Markus Neulinger
Consumer Electronics
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-224
[email protected]
Rainer Saemann
Textile/Accessoires
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-225
[email protected]
Alissa Navazio
Marketing/Brand Manager
Tabaluga/Dive, Olly, Dive!/Vicky
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-252
[email protected]
Alexandra Bonchor
Junior Marketing/Brand Manager
Maya the Bee/Heidi/Nintendo/
tutti cuti™
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-253
[email protected]
Nora Suranyi
Marketing/Brand Manager
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-254
[email protected]
EM.Entertainment GmbH
Beta-Straße 11
D-85774 Unterföhring
Tel: +49 (0) 89 960 855-0
Fax: +49 (0) 89 960 855-466
www.em-entertainment.com
Imprint
Publisher: EM.Entertainment GmbH
Editorial staff: Alexandra Bonchor
Michael Röhrig
Design:
Creation Club (CC) GmbH
Gabriele Geißler
© 2007 EM.Entertainment GmbH
October 2007
Mike Young Productions together with our Australian subsidiary Flying Bark Productions. We are
looking forward to telling you more about Dive,
Olly, Dive! and to working together with you on the
development and implementation of new, creative merchandising ideas.
At the Licensing Market in Munich’s
Bayerische Hof Hotel you will have the opportunity to dive into the spectacular underwater
world of our new top license Tauch, Timmy,
Tauch!. The series, which is all about the entertaining adventures of an adorable submarine
starts airing in October on KI.KA. We are also
presenting you with two internationally successful brands in the form of tutti cutiTM and
Nintendo, the latter of which has just been
voted one of the ten coolest brands in the
United Kingdom. I am already looking forward
to welcoming you onto our stand at the 2007
Licensing Market.
Yours truly,
Susanne Schosser
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Brand news
Highlights
Ship Ahoy!
Tabaluga VISA Card
Put it all on one card – the Landesbank Berlin (Berlin
Regional Bank) is issuing the Tabaluga VISA card in collaboration with EM.Entertainment.
Put it all on one card – the Landesbank Berlin (Berlin
Regional Bank) is issuing the Tabaluga VISA card in collaboration with EM.Entertainment. In
keeping with Tabaluga’s motto “Glück verschenken” (the gift of happiness), the Tabaluga
VISA card is also for a good cause. For every 10 Euro spent on each card, a fixed percentage
is donated to the Tabaluga Children’s Foundation. In co-operation with EM.Entertainment
GmbH, the Landesbank Berlin AG (LBB) has been issuing the Tabaluga VISA card since
August 2007. Applications for the card can be made online at www.tabalugaland.de, where
customers can choose their own design, selecting from images of Tabaluga and his friends,
as well as of Peter Maffay.
The Tabaluga VISA card is available in three versions:
Tabaluga VISA Card prepaid
12 years an up, with parental approval
Prepaid balance
Free until the age of 18
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Annual fee of 28 Euro
Full VISA card
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Tabaluga VISA Card young
18 years and up
Annual card fee of 12 Euro until age 23
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Tabaluga VISA Card premium
18 years and up
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“The poppy field is in danger”
In playful mood, the cheeky little bee
wants to win over the US games market.
In October this year, Midway Games GmbH
is introducing the Maya the Bee game for
the Gameboy Advance and brand new for
the Nintendo DS. In “The Bee Game” the
poppy field is surprised by a severe storm
that throws its inhabitants into turmoil.
Inseparable friends Maya the Bee and
Willie must now put everything right, and
go through lots of exciting adventures in
the process.
Further information on the game can be
found at:
http://www.midway.com/images/BuzzBeeBuzz/
LIMA 2007
EM.Entertainment at the
2007 Licensing Market
On November 6, 2007,
EM.Entertainment will again be represented at the Licensing Market in Munich’s
Bayerische Hof Hotel. As part of the Licensing Market, that evening will see the
presentation of the 2007 LIMA Awards.
EM.Entertainment has been nominated
in two categories – as “Best Licensing
Agency/Licensor” and for the Tabaluga
VISA Card in the “License Product of
the Year” category.
Oooh…so cute!
tutti cuti™ – Girlies bewitch with their own unmistakable
charm.
“The Ultimate Girlie Brand“ – – the name says it all: tutti cuti™
appeals primarily to the female fan base and “the little girl in all of us”.
With their unmistakable charm, the 30 sweet and individually unique characters are
especially popular among girls and women within the teenager and twen age group,
while tutti cuti mini™ is aimed at girls aged between two and eight.
We are marketing tutti cuti™ exclusively within Germany,
Austria and Switzerland on behalf of licensor the Santoro
Group.
As its first licensee, tutti cuti™ has bewitched L. Püttmann
GmbH & Co. KG. The tutti cuti™ girls will adorn a new collection
from renowned children’s clothing manufacturer Paderborn.
Maya the Bee: Life On Stage bei
Maya the Bee comedy event for the whole family
Germany’s best known bee and her goodThe big stage for the little bee.
natured friend Willie are flying in from their
EM.Entertainment and
poppy field onto the Sat.1 TV stage – with
Sat.1 present, for the
an absolute dream cast of Dirk Bach as
very first time on
her dozy friend Willie and Annette Frier
German television,
the Maya the Bee
(from “Schillerstraße”) as Maya the Bee.
Sat.1 commissioned EM.Entertainment
stage show – a
subsidiary Life On Stage GmbH with the
comedy event for the
adaptation of the children’s book and TV
whole family and a
classic.
major TV highlight for 2008.
The joint adaptation with Sat.1 into a
comedy event and the top-level casting
underscore the enduring popularity of
Maya the Bee. The stage adaptation of the
TV classic by Life On Stage promises to
provide excellent entertainment for the
whole family.
tutti cuti™ © 2001, 2007 Santoro tutti cuti™ is a trademark of Santoro. All rights reserved. Licensed by Santoro
Popular figurehead Vicky the Viking is
supporting the communication activities of
Viking Flusskreuzfahrten (Viking River Cruises).
Vicky the Viking, from the popular TV series of the same name, has already
begun helping out with the B2B communications of Viking Flusskreuzfahrten.
He is meeting regularly with travel agencies in newsletters and in online training
sessions at www.viking-reisebuero-online-schulung.de. His main task is to provide users
with interesting tips and advice. Vicky can now be found on the internet with his own
website: www.wickie.tv.
“The Bee Game“
Maya flies across
the pond