
February 28, 2022

Cloudco Entertainment has grown with each new bear, product and iteration of the Care Bears brand, welcoming new intellectual property and tasking its compact but impactful team with new challenges with each step. What started as Those Characters from Cleveland in 1981, the company would become AG Properties and American Greetings Entertainment before being rebranded as Cloudco Entertainment in 2018.
While a division of American Greetings, its
What’s more, the company’s long history gathered unique intellectual properties as it continued to snowball. With in-house properties including “Hollie Hobbie,” “Buddy Thunderstruck,” “Madballs,” “Tinpo,” “BOY GIRL DOG CAT MOUSE
CHEESE” and, of course, “Care Bears,” Cloudco today develops multi-platform entertainment franchises and extensive consumer merchandising programs that immerse children and parents in the brands they love.
This children’s entertainment company not only builds, distributes and expands brands but uses the art of licensing to give those brands new life through well-thought-out touchpoints and consumer products.
To truly understand the history and the trajectory of Care Bears, one must first understand the approach of its
rights holder and brand curator, Cloudco.
“Regardless of whether it’s the reinvention of a classic brand, a completely new concept, a TV series or a consumer product, everything generally passes through a minimum of three internal filters,” says Robert Prinzo, head, global licensing, Cloudco Entertainment. “One, as a company, do we at least like – but ideally love – the IP or consumer product? Two, do we think it’s commercially viable in the competitive landscape? Finally, three, do we have a way to
produce it that delivers on its full potential?”
The full potential of the Care Bears isn’t just steeped in heritage. Today, the brand crosses mass retail, multigenerational audiences and a long line of consumer products and content that celebrates its past and sets up an exciting new era.
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