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  • Viacom18 & E&Y partner licensing expo, Fashion TV & Universal, etc. to participate

    MUMBAI: India Licensing Expo (ILE), India’s first business-to-business brand licensing show, will kickstart in August at Sahara Star in Mumbai and see participation of over 100+ global and domestic brands for retail industry. The show sponsors are Viacom18, Orian Installations, Dream Theatre and Bradford License India.

    Ernst & Young are process tabulation partners for India Licensing Awards, concurrent event of ILE 2017.

    Viacom 18, Fashion TV, Marie Claire, Universal Music, Mondo TV, JCB, Polaroid, NBA, Sesame Street, Authentic Brands Group, Green Gold Animation, are a few amongst list of top brands participating at the first ever licensing show to be held in the country.

    The show will be organised by exclusive licensing media company, License India, and is supported by global licensing body, Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association (LIMA), Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI) and Sports Goods Foundation of India.

    “We intend to position India Licensing Expo as a dedicated hub where the industry unifies to shop brands for business across all industries. We bring together brands of every kind – sports, character, corporate, music, art, entertainment, for retailers to embed in their business / products,” License India chairman Gaurav Marya said.

    The exposition displays all kind of licensing opportunities for manufacturers & retailers across products, such as in characters, Chhota Bheem, Peppa Pig, PJ Masks, Dora, Popeye, Motu Patlu, Toki Doki, Jungle Book, Ben 10, Power Puff Girls, Mighty Raju, Sponge Bob, Jumanji movie, Emoji Movie, Sesame Street, and much more. In corporate brands, the galore offers brands like Juicy Couture, Aeropostale, Spyder, Misook, Airwalk, Lamborghini, Compaq, JCB, Fashion TV, University of Oxford, Marie Claire, Absorba, Shell, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Route 66, Polaroid, Femina Flaunt, Kuber, Mechanix, and much more. Music & Art brands would be Universal Music with wide pool of top artists, MTV, Billboard, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Romero Britto and much more; and sports properties would be NBA, Delhi Daredevils, Extreme Sports, VOIT, Mancity FC, FC Barcelona, Roland & Garros, Cycle Polo Federation of India, Maui & Sons, Muhammad Ali, Shaq and much more.

    Bradford license India director Chitra S. Johri said, “This would be a bigger movement in our domain of licensing, benefitting each product category in actual sense.”

    ILE has also tied up with Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI). “We look forward to enabling multiple French licensors eyeing Indian market to capitalize and leverage this show,” said IFCCI secretary-general Payal. S. Kanwar.

    The conference puts forth a strong panel with industry stalwart’s like Dan Frugtniet (VP-Licensing & Business Development, Nickelodeon, Viacom Consumer Products), Saugato Bhowmick (Head of Viacom18- Consumer Products), Yannick Colaco (MD-NBA), Siddharth Chury (Senior Director – NBA India), Manan Mehta (VP-Marketing & Merchandise, Yashraj Films), Sandeep Dahiya (Director – Brand Extensions, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd), Samir Jain (ED & COO, Green Gold Animation), Shivram Saran (AVP & Head Consumer Products, JCB), Roberto Bre (Director, Private Collection, Marie Claire), Rajan Madhu (President, FTV India), Maura Regan (Sr. Vice President, LIMA), Manish Mandhana (CEO, Mandhana Retail – Being Human), Jason Sutton (Director, Polaroid), Jiggy George (Head, LIMA India & CEO, Dream Theatre), Ishmeet Singh (Country Manager, Mattle Toys India), Anurag Sachdeva (Director, Rovio, Angry Birds), Afsar Zaidi (MD, Exceed Entertainment, HRX) and many more. Witness the veterans of licensing industry coming together to discuss the challenges, explore the kind of engagements and further work towards uplifting of the L&M industry as a whole in India.

    ILE 2017 ‘exclusively’ also hosts India’s foremost licensing recognition platform, India Licensing Awards 2017 partnered with Marie Claire. Celebrating the best in Indian Licensing Industry, these awards would remain to be one of its kind recognition where the whole fraternity will come together to celebrate excellence, right from the brand owners, brand custodians to entrepreneurial retailers, latest licensees on the block, to raise a toast to outstanding achievements in the industry so far. Judged, curated and tabulated by panel of experts, the awards are supported by Ernst & Young as process partners. With 21 focused categories for licensing fraternity, the awards would acknowledge top brasses of the industry. To name a few categories – Licensor Of The Year (Entertainment, Celebrity, Sports, Corporate, Bollywood, Art, Character, Music), Licensee Of The Year (Apparel, Fashion Accessories, Toys & Games, Gifts & Novelties, Back To School, Electronics, Retail Innovation & Business Concept, Home Décor, FMCG, New Media & Publishing), along with Special Categories like IP Firm Of The Year and Licensing Agent Of The Year.

  • Licensing royalty revenue stands at $5.065 bn in 2010: Survey

    Licensing royalty revenue stands at $5.065 bn in 2010: Survey

    MUMBAI: Year-to-year royalties generated from the sale of licensed merchandise remained fairly stable in 2010 at $5.065 billion despite ongoing softness in consumer spending, according to an annual Licensing Industry Survey released by the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association (LIMA).

    Although the amount of royalties collected in 2010 from the sale of licensed product declined slightly, the positive retail results at the end of last year give cause for optimism and set the tone for 2011.

    The survey results were released at the opening session of the LIMA-sponsored Licensing International Expo 2011, the industry’s global event taking place this week in Las Vegas.

    Lima’s numbers are derived from results of its annual survey of companies directly involved in the licensing business, examination of public financial documents, and interviews with licensing industry executives, with the goal of providing reliable data to help licensing professionals identify trends and growth opportunities.

    Lima president Charles Riotto said, “The Lima 2010 royalty revenues survey underscores our industry’s continuing strength and resilience against a backdrop of unsteady retail sales. Despite a 1.9 per cent decline last year, licensed products clearly hold an appeal for consumers.”

    Anecdotal responses to the survey indicate a more positive business environment with indications that 2010 was a transitional year as the country started to rebound from the recession. Respondents noted that especially in the second half of 2010, decision making and deal making began to increase. They also saw a steady increase of retail sales, licensing opportunities with new kinds of retailers and a broader array of channels with significant progress seen with mid-tier, department stores and specialty/big box retailers.

    Nearly half (47 per cent) of licensing industry royalty revenues are generated in the Character segment, which includes characters from all portions of the entertainment business. This segment declined by just one per cent in 2010.

    Other major segments of the licensing industry include Corporate Trademarks/Brands, accounting for 16.7 per cent of the business, Fashion (13.6%), and Sports (12.7 per cent).

    The music sector is the only category that showed an increase (4.5 per cent), a result of strong sales of music merchandising tied to concerts and events as well as revenue from online and mobile devices.