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Best Retailer of Adult Licensed Products sponsored by Open to: Any UK based retailers of any discipline selling licensed products aimed at adults. (These could include retailers selling branded licensed merchandise such as those based on sports, celebrity, heritage, art & design or FMCG brands). This is for activity over the last year.
Retail
category winner & finalists
Winner
HMV Retail Initial Reaction: “We’ve worked so hard on our licensed offer so I’m delighted” Gary Williamson, books, clothing & merchandise manager, HMV.
Above: (Right-left) Rachel Wakley, Warner Bros’ general manager of Consumer Products UK presented the trophy to HMV Retail’s Mark Hooper, Gary Williamson and Erwan Chairaham. Right: As category sponsor, Rachel Wakley, Warner Bros’ general manager of Consumer Products UK announced the winner.
Other finalists were:
ASOS
Forbidden Planet
Game
Primark
Tesco
LICENSING SOURCE BOOK EUROPE 2018
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