In 2009, Fisher-Price bought all toy rights to Thomas & Friends except for the Wooden Railway line. Through Mattel's 2012 acquisition of HIT Entertainment, which subsequently became a division of Fisher-Price, Mattel now owns the property outright. With this, toys based on Mike the Knight and Bob the Builder have been subsequently released.
HIT Entertainment Ltd. (styled "HiT") is a British-American entertainment company owned by Mattel and originally established in 1982 as Henson International Television (formerly styled "hit!"). It was founded as the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions. HIT owns and distributes children's television series such as Barney & Friends, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends, Pingu, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina.
Henson International Television was founded in 1982 by Jim Henson, Peter Orton and Sophie Turner Laing as a distribution company for children's, teens' and family television.[1] Orton had met Henson when he was at the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), handling distribution of Sesame Street. Henson hired Orton in 1981 to set up the company..Jim Henson Productions started negotiations with The Walt Disney Company regarding a possible purchase of the company in the late 1980s...
In 1998, HIT formed its own animation production company, Hot Animation, Katherine Yung and Julie Hinds, and its Consumers Product Division. Also, BBC signed on as the broadcaster for Bob the Builder. HiT signed a series of USA broadcasting deal starting with Nickelodeon for Kipper and expanded to Starz/Encore (Brambly Hedge and Percy the Park Keeper series),
Sophie Henrietta Turner Laing, OBE (born 7 September 1960) is a British businesswoman and media executive. She has been chief executive officer of global content creator, producer and distributor Endemol Shine Group since December 2014. Prior to taking up her current role, she held a number of senior positions at Sky in the UK, including director of movies and managing director of content. She had previously worked for the BBC as acting director of television and, along with Peter Orton, was a founder of HiT Entertainment.
ISS A/S (International Service System) is a Facility Services company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1901. ..2012 Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Teachers') and KIRKBI Invest A/S make EUR 500 million investment in ISS. 2016 ISS enters a commercial agreement with IBM to use IBM Watson's Internet of Things platform to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the world.. Chairman - Charles Allen, Baron Allen of Kensington.. Lord Allen was chief executive of Granada Group from 1996 to 2000, executive chairman of Granada Media plc from 2000 to 2004, chief executive of ITV plc from its formation in 2004 until 2007, and chairman of the music company EMI. He was chairman of Endemol, a non-executive director of Tesco plc and Virgin Media. He has been chairman of the British Red Cross...From 2006 to 2008, Allen was previously Chief Advisor to the British Home Office. He has also been a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs Private Equity..
LONDON - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, together with management, has completed the acquisition of Acorn Care and Education Ltd. (Acorn) from Phoenix Equity Partners. ..Acorn, established in 2005, is a leading provider of special needs schools and independent fostering services in the U.K. It operates 10 specialist schools across the U.K., providing day and residential care and education for children with special educational needs. Through Fostering Solutions, it also manages foster placements across seven regions of the country.
Ynon Kreiz is an American-Israeli businessman and current CEO of Mattel.[1] He served as Chairman and CEO of Fox Kids Europe from 1997-2002,[2] Chairman and CEO of television and digital production company Endemol from 2008 to 2011,[2][3] and as Chairman, CEO and President of web video network Maker Studios, Inc. from 2012 to 2016.
in 2001, when Rupert Murdoch and Haim Saban sold their joint venture, Fox Family Worldwide, to Michael Eisner, the C.E.O. of Disney: Saban made one and a half billion dollars...
By far his most important relationship is with Bill and Hillary Clinton. In 2002, Saban donated five million dollars to Bill Clinton’s Presidential library, and he has given more than five million dollars to the Clinton Foundation...
..Ynon Kreiz, an Israeli who was the chairman and chief executive of a Saban company and Saban’s closest associate for many years, attended the conference, and when I commented that his former boss appeared to be positively smitten with Bill Clinton, Kreiz replied, grinning broadly, “No! No! I remember once Haim was talking to me on the phone, and he said in Hebrew, without changing his tone so Clinton would have no idea he was speaking about him, ‘The President of the United States, wearing his boxers, is coming down the stairs, and I am going to have to stop talking and go have breakfast with him.’ ”
https://imgur.com/a/yZeiMz4 Ynon Kreiz attends Save the Children's "Centennial Celebration: Once In A Lifetime" Presented By The Walt Disney Company
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Vindicator ago
Who owns Fisher Price?
@MercurysBall2, they ever come up in your research?
MercurysBall2 ago
No, but.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher-Price
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIT_Entertainment
Sophie Turner Laing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Turner_Laing
Why would Podesta and Sara Latham be interested in a cleaning company at La Guardia? ISS is connected to British security company G4S
https://www.otpp.com/news/article/-/article/24689
See:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fostering-giants-400m-merger-lj987l7vd
National Fostering Group is owned by private equity firm Stirling Square, owned by Stefano Bonfiglio. His wife's father is a good friend of Clinton. They live in Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. https://www.vogue.com/article/carolina-gonzalez-bunster-stefano-bonfiglio-wedding-dominican-republic
darkknight111 ago
So the short hand is that you can connect the Podesta’s and Acorn to Fisher Price?
MercurysBall2 ago
Lol, yeah. Here's the shorthand. CEO Ynon Kreiz. Look at that smirk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynon_Kreiz
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/10/the-influencer
Deleted voat post, still a good question : Should we be worried that Ashton Kutcher, head of child trafficking tracking company THORN, is cosy with Haim Saban and Israeli intelligence?
Haim with Ashton https://imgur.com/a/s5YvXO0
Actually you can find images of Haim with just about everybody. Evil SOB.
So, Ynon > Haim Saban > pedo network
@Vindicator
Vindicator ago
I wonder why the author deleted that Voat post?