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Hello Kitty

“Happiness comes in all colours of the rainbow!” – Hello Kitty

  • Hello Kitty is a licensed, cartoon-style character created as an icon and promotional device for Sanrio, a Japan-based company, and it has become the biggest seller for the company, as well as having been one of the top grossing characters in Japan.
  • ‘Hello Kitty’ is known as ‘Harōkiti’ in Japanese-rōmaji and her complete name is ‘Kitty White’ or ‘Kiti Howaito’ in rōmaji; her birthday is the 1st of November; and she is known as a ‘symbol of friendship’.
  • Hello Kitty has the appearance of a clothed, upright, white, Japanese bobtail cat with a red or pink bow on the left ear and  human personality traits, and she is as tall as 5 apples and weighs as much as 3 apples.
  • Hello Kitty is described as a kind and happy British girl from London, that loves to bake, make new friends, listen to music, travel and read, and she has a twin sister named ‘Mimmy’, a pet hamster named ‘Sugar’, and a pet cat named ‘Charmmy Kitty’.
  • Hello Kitty was originally designed by Japanese designer, Yuko Shimizu, for Sanrio in 1974, due to the company noticing that cute designs increase sales, while the second designer was Setsuko Yonekubo, and the third designer was Yuko Yamaguchi.
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  • Hello Kitty’s image was first sold on a purse in 1974, increasing company profits significantly, and appearing in the United States in 1976, although by the late 1970s she had lost popularity.
  • Hello Kitty does not have a mouth, which means she can portray a variety of emotions, and consumers can relate differently to her, depending on their mood.
  • Hello Kitty overcame her significant slump in the late 1970s after Yuko Yamaguchi, her third designer, took over, as she created a story for her, and improved the appearance and style of the character.
  • Hello Kitty was originally designed for young girls, although this market was enlarged to encompass teens and adults by the 1990s, and in 2008, Hello Kitty was featured on 50,000 products, and was worth $7 billion on the icon’s 40th anniversary in 2014.
  • Hello Kitty has been depicted on products ranging from clothing, personal items, credit cards, cafes, household items and transport, and she has been featured in video games and a number of television series, as well as a music album.
Bibliography:
Hello Kitty, 2014, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty
Hello Kitty, My Melody, Badtz-Maru and other Sanrio characters at SanrioTown.com, 2011, Sanriotown, http://hello-kitty.sanriotown.com/
Interview: Third Hello Kitty Designer Yuko Yamaguchi, 2014, Tokyo Otaku Mode, http://otakumode.com/news/53856f4a935d07d66400069c/

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Universal Studios

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Universal Studios

“A Comcast Company” – Universal Studios slogan.

  • The Universal Studios is a major film studio that produces motion picture films, and the main production studios are located in Universal City, California in the United States.
  • ‘Universal Studios’ has also been known as ‘Universal Pictures’ and is officially known as ‘Universal Studios Incorporation’, and its parent company is ‘NBCUniversal Incorporated’.
  • Universal Studios was founded in 1912 as the ‘Universal Film Manufacturing Company’, which was a merger of a number of other studios, making it the oldest United States film studio, and it ranks fourth oldest among the studios of the world that are still producing.
  • The Universal Studios has released three films during its history that have been the top grossing film at the time: ‘Jaws’ in 1975; ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ in 1982; and ‘Jurassic Park’ in 1993.
  • The Universal Studios was originally founded by 8 people, with Carl Laemmle as the first company president, who later bought out his partners.

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Universal Logo from 2012
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  • During its hundred years, Universal Studios has been owned by or merged with many organisations, including International Pictures, Music Cooperation of America, Matsushita (now Panasonic), Seagram, Vivendi and in 2004, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) which is now owned by Comcast Corporation.
  • The Universal Studios have studios and theme parks in California’s Hollywood and Florida’s Orlando in the United States, and Japan and Singapore in Asia, and have more planned for the future in other locations around the world.
  • In 2011, the Universal Studios had a revenue of US$4.239 billion, and its 100th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 with a new improved logo and a project of restoring and reviving thirteen of its films.
  • According to legend, the Universal Studios original name was named by the original president based on a wagon he saw with the printed words on it, ‘Universal Pipe Fittings’.
  • The Universal Studio logo in 1914 originally resembled the planet Saturn, and its concept is still used today, with the planet being Earth and the text wrapping around it.
Bibliography:
Gallagher B, Universal Pictures Celebrates 100th Anniversary with Restoration of 13 Classic Films, 2012, Movieweb, http://www.movieweb.com/news/universal-pictures-celebrates-100th-anniversary-with-restoration-of-13-classic-films
The Story Behind… The Universal Pictures Logo, n.d, My Film Views, http://www.myfilmviews.com/2012/02/16/the-story-behind-the-universal-pictures-logo/
Universal Studios, 2014, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Studios

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FOXTEL

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FOXTEL

“See something, feel something” – Slogan of FOXTEL

  • FOXTEL is a company that supplies customers with a payed television channel service; broadcasting in many Australian cities and towns.
  • FOXTEL is owned equally by Telstra and News Corp Australia, telecommunication and mass media companies respectively.
  • The name ‘FOXTEL’, was derived from a blend of ‘Fox’, from the original News Corporation’s Fox Broadcasting Company, and ‘tel’, from Telstra.
  • The most popular entertainment program broadcasted with FOXTEL is ‘The Simpsons’, with approximately 110,000 people watching the show each week night.
  • FOXTEL is the current holder of the record of the most views of a single program in one day on paid television, and set the record in 2007, 2011, and, most recently, with nearly 950,000 viewers, for the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

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  • FOXTEL was formed in 1995, with 20 channels, broadcasted by Telstra, while the connections and channel negotiations were organised by News Corp.
  • In 2012, FOXTEL had over 1.68 million people subscribed to its service and 70% of homes in Australia would have been able to access the network once they had paid for the service.
  • FOXTEL was not permitted to include advertising during programs for the first two years of broadcasting, and still can not earn over 50% of its income via advertising.
  • FOXTEL broadcasts hundreds of different programs, and popular channels include entertainment, sport, documentaries and news.
  • In the 2009 to 2010 financial year, FOXTEL boasted an income of AUD$2.2 billion and a profit of AUD$258 million.
Bibliography:
Foxtel announces integration progress and earnings growth, 2012, FOXTEL, http://www.foxtel.com.au/about-foxtel/communications/foxtel-announces-progress-on-austar-integration-and-solid-ea-194907.htm
Foxtel, 2014, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtel

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Google

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“Don’t be evil.” – Google Inc.

  • Google is an online, public, international search engine that also owns many other companies, programs and utilities.
  • Google was created in 1996 at Stanford University in Stanford, United States by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as part of their PHD project.
  • Google was incorporated in 1998, when a check was sent to a nonexistent company ‘Google Inc.’, with the ‘office’ being located in the garage of a friend.
  • Google originally existed at the domain ‘google.stratford.edu’, and the current domain was purchased in 1997.
  • ‘Google’ is a commonly spelled version of the mathematical word for 10100, ‘googol’, but the search engine was originally named ‘BackRub’.
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  • Google was used by 1 billion people in one month, for the first time in May 2011, and in 2012, Google earned $50 billion, which was $12 billion more than 2011.
  • Google moved its offices to California, United States in 2003, calling the complex ‘Googleplex’, which came from the mathematical term ‘googolplex’, 10googol.
  • Google owns YouTube, Blogger and Android and has created programs including Gmail, Maps, Drive, social network (Google+), Earth, News, Chrome (browser), Translate, Apps and Adwords.
  • ‘Google’ became an official word in 2006, meaning ‘to search on Google’.
  • The Google logo is typically the name in blue, red, yellow and green, which sometimes changes appearance for certain days and these special logos are called ‘doodles’.

 

Bibliography:
Company, 2013, Google, http://www.google.com/about/company/
Google, 2013, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

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The Walt Disney Company

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The Walt Disney Company

Mickey Mouse, the hero of the Walt Disney Company.

  • The Walt Disney Company is an American mass media company, and has become one of the largest film companies in all of the film industry.
  • The ‘Walt Disney Company’ is also known as ‘Disney’, and has number of divisions or segments within the company itself, which include Disney Media Networks, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Consumer products and Disney Interactive.
  • The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney, although the company was originally named the ‘Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio’.
  • The first films produced by the Walt Disney Company were a series called the Alice Comedies, which were silent films.
  • The Walt Disney Company owns the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network, as well as other cable networks, a number of Disneyland theme parks and resorts, and a fleet of cruise ships.
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  • The Disney cartoon character, ‘Mickey Mouse’ (originally ‘Mortimer’), was created in 1928, and is a popular mascot of the Walt Disney Company.
  • The first full-length animation film produced by the Walt Disney Company was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsreleased in 1937, with production starting in 1934, and was a huge success at the box office.
  • In 2012, the Walt Disney Company had a total revenue of over $42 million USD.
  • The Walt Disney Company studio is located in Burbank California, United States.
  • The first Disneyland, a fun theme park created by the Walt Disney Company, opened in 1955 which eventually became a success for the company, and within a few years it also housed the first monorail system in America.
Bibliography:
Disney History, The Walt Disney Country, n.d, <http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/disney-history/1920-01-01–1929-12-31>
The Walt Disney Company, 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company>

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Paramount Pictures

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“Famous Players in Famous Plays” – Paramount’s slogan.

  • Paramount Pictures is a motion picture film company and has its film studio in Hollywood, California, United States.
  • ‘Paramount Pictures’ is also known as ‘Paramount Pictures Corporation’ and ‘Paramount’.
  • Paramount Pictures was founded by Adolph Zukor, a Hungarian, in 1912, originally named the ‘Famous Players Film Company’ which merged to form Paramount in 1916.
  • Paramount Pictures bought DreamWorks SKG, in 2005, for $1.6 billion, although DreamWorks became independent only a few years later.
  • The mountain featured on the Paramount Pictures’ logo, has been used in some form in the company’s logo since it was founded, and is the longest, existing, original icon in Hollywood film industry.
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  • There are only four other studios on earth that are older than Paramount Pictures, that are still in operation.
  • Paramount Pictures hold two-hour tours every day of the week, with visits around the studio premises, and four and a half hour tours are also offered with a more extensive look into its history and current production processes.
  • Paramount Pictures celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012, which is a milestone that no other significant Hollywood studio had obtained by that time.
  • Since the economic difficulties of Paramount Pictures in the 1960s, the film company has produced some of the best films, including Titanic (1997) and the Transformers series.
  • The first Paramount Pictures film was a French silent film named The Loves of Queen Elizabeth, in 1912.
Bibliography:
2012 Years of Paramount, 2013, Paramount Pictures, <http://www.paramount.com/100-years-paramount>
Paramount Pictures, 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures>

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