Richard Pink, Ashley Holman, Nikki Samuels, Gabrielle Sims, and Asda/George children’s buyer, Ruth Golightly, are among the licensing experts taking part in a specially curated panel session at next week’s Festival of Licensing, exploring the topic of brand longevity and the multitude of factors that need to be aligned in …
Read More »Rugby League World Cup 2021 is ‘biggest project the sport has ever seen’, and there’s no better time to brand build
As the world waits for sporting events across the globe to open their doors to the crowds once again, the Rugby League World Cup 2021 brand has its own, additional project underway – developing and rolling out a comprehensive licensing programme designed to ‘transcend the sport’ itself and tap into …
Read More »The Entertainer partners with Riverside Brands for ELC brand extension programme
The UK’s family owned high street toy retailer, The Entertainer has partnered with Riverside Brands to lead its brand extension strategy for Early Learning Centre. Under the new partnership, both the Happyland and core ELC brand will look to build out wider brand extensions into categories such as apparel, nightwear, …
Read More »Licensing chatter: 10 questions with Riverside Brands’ Ashley Holman
In these unprecedented times for the global community, it’s nice to keep connected – and for an industry as reliant on peer to peer networking as the licensing business, maintaining those connections with our industry colleagues is paramount. That’ why Licensing.biz is kicking off a new series of interviews to …
Read More »Riverside Brands grows portfolio with Katie Kirby’s Hurrah for Gin
Riverside Brands is building on its portfolio of brands with the addition of the popular online parenting series, Hurrah for Gin, a comedic pastiche of modern day parenthood survival by the artist Katie Kirby. Based on the digital marketer Kirby’s own trials and tribulations of parenting, her Hurrah for Gin …
Read More »Ashley Holman launches Riverside Brands and secures Zuru’s Rainbocorns IP
Having served 12 years as part of Nickelodeon's consumer products division, Holman's new venture aims to offer a dynamic approach to bringing brands to the UK and EMEA.
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