American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic expressive content (e.g. , ringtones and images for cellphones). In addition to the American Greetings brand, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts and Gibson brands of greeting cards.

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  • American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic expressive content (e.g. , ringtones and images for cellphones). In addition to the American Greetings brand, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts and Gibson brands of greeting cards. American Greetings is also famous for their toy design and licensing division, Those Characters From Cleveland (now American Greetings Properties). The most-popular copyrighted properties owned by this division include Strawberry Shortcake, the Care Bears, The Get-Along Gang and Holly Hobbie. American Greetings also holds an exclusive license for Nickelodeon characters. In 2008, American Greetings announced the sale of its Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears properties to DIC Entertainment (now part of Cookie Jar Entertainment). However, on January 9th, 2009. it was announced that the planned sale had been called off. As a result, the properties remain under American Greetings' ownership as the company searches for a new buyer. On March 24, 2009, MoonScoop offered to pay $95 million for the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake properties and related rights held by Cookie Jar. Under that deal, American Greetings would pocket $76 million for the animation assets while Cookie Jar would get $19 million for its own rights. On March 30, 2009, Cookie Jar made a $76 million counter bid for Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. Cookie Jar has until April 30 2009 to complete a deal. If Cookie Jar fail to close a deal, MoonScoop had until June 7 2009 to complete its own deal with American Greetings. In May 2009 American Greetings filed a $100 million lawsuit against Cookie Jar with Cookie Jar filing a $25 million countersuit against American Greetings over the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake deal. In August, 2009 MoonScoop filed a lawsuit against American Greetings over the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake deal.
  • American Greetings (englisch für „Amerikanische Grüße“) ist der größte Herausgeber von Grußkarten der Welt. Das Unternehmen hat seinen Sitz in Cleveland im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat Ohio und verkauft Grußkarten, Party-Produkte, wie zum Beispiel Geschenkpapier und Dekorationen, und elektronische Angebote, wie zum Beispiel Klingeltöne und Bilder für Handys. Neben der Marke American Greetings gehört dem Unternehmen auch die Grußkarten-Marken Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts und Gibson. American Greetings ist außerdem bekannt für seine Spielzeugdesign- und -lizenzierungssparte Those Characters From Cleveland. Die bekanntesten urheberrechtliche Eigentümer dieser Sparte sind Strawberry Shortcake, Die Glücksbärchis, The Get Along Gang und Holly Hobbie. American Greetings besitzt außerdem Rechte an Nickelodeon-Charakteren.
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  • Jacob Sapirstein (1885-1987)
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  • Name changed in 1938 from the Sapirstein Greeting Card Company to American Greetings Publishers; went public in 1952.
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  • ...says it best
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  • American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic expressive content (e.g. , ringtones and images for cellphones). In addition to the American Greetings brand, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts and Gibson brands of greeting cards.
  • American Greetings (englisch für „Amerikanische Grüße“) ist der größte Herausgeber von Grußkarten der Welt. Das Unternehmen hat seinen Sitz in Cleveland im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat Ohio und verkauft Grußkarten, Party-Produkte, wie zum Beispiel Geschenkpapier und Dekorationen, und elektronische Angebote, wie zum Beispiel Klingeltöne und Bilder für Handys.
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