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GB eye nominated for this year’s Licensing Awards
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GB eye are very excited this week after learning that they have been nominated for the 2010 Licensing Awards. GB eye have been shortlisted for the Best Licensed Home Decor Range for their superb framed 3D range of James Cameron’s Avatar wall art.
The prestigious Licensing Awards are recognised throughout the worldwide licensing community. Winners will be announced at the Licensing Awards Ball on Thursday 9th September at The Lancaster London Hotel.
James Cameron’s pioneering 3D movie with its incredible landscapes, colours and creatures translated extremely well onto the 3D lenticular poster format recreating the depth of vision and realism of the cinema experience. The success of the movie coincided perfectly with GB eye’s focus on improving their 3D range; coupled with a push on GB eye’s own range of quality frames this collection proved extremely popular with chains and retailers worldwide.
“With Avatar being such a huge worldwide success it is fantastic to be recognised for our work on this license. Avatar has complimented our 3D range perfectly and we’ll continue to focus development in this area.” Max Arguile, Licensing Manager.
This accolade strengthens GB eye’s resolve to continue developing new and existing product ranges to maintain its position as a market leader of licensed products.
Click here to view the Avatar range |
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GB eye raise over £4000 in charity 5-a-side football tournament
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Friday 16th July saw the overwhelming success of GB eye's first ever charity event. Despite looming clouds and showers throughout the day a festive crowd turned out to watch 10 teams battle it out for supremacy on the field at Aurora Sports Centre near Sheffield.
To coincide with their annual summer party, GB eye invited suppliers and partners to take part in a 5 A Side football tournament in support of Sheffield based charity, Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. Each of the teams were asked to contribute a donation to the charity in order to take part, further fund raising activities followed including an impressively stocked raffle and auction which saw a framed signed Chelsea shirt go for £255.
A marquee and grandstand area provided cover for the spectators as GB eye's own DJ created a festival atmosphere with a superb sound track and score announcements throughout the day.
Following a gruelling afternoon of tense qualifying matches, the final witnessed the host team GB eye take on the Bluebell Wood Allstars charity team. Fittingly Bluebell Wood took the only goal of the match and walked away with the trophy.
"The event went better than anyone could have expected, we had a superb turnout, everybody had a fantastic time and importantly everyone donated generously to Bluebell Wood. A big thanks to all contributors and individuals who made this happen!" Steven Birks, National Sales Manager and Event Manager
With the event so well attended and generous contributions received from key partners such as HMV, 20th Century Fox, Nickelodeon, Liverpool FC, Evolution Print and Deeset, GB eye have considered the event a resounding success and are already looking forward to plans for 2011.
Click here to view the Bluebell Wood Hospice website.
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GB eye Summer Supplement released
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Our Summer Catalogue Supplement is now available to download in PDF format or available as a hard copy. The supplement showcases our latest releases and is a companion to our 2010 catalogue.
Please contact enquiries@gbeye.com for a copy
The Summer Product Supplement 2010 (12.8Mb) can also be downloaded as a PDF from here |
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GB eye secures Glee license
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GB eye are very excited to announce the signing of a new license with Fox to supply posters, prints and badges for the massive TV phenomenon Glee. Already a huge brand in the USA, the American musical comedy-drama TV series has proved to be a massive success in the UK as well.
The license couldn’t have come at a better time, with the second part of the first series starting on E4 the brand is set to reach fever pitch over the coming weeks. This is soon to be followed in May by ‘Glee The Music Vol. 3’, Volumes 1 and 2 went to No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in the UK album charts. The first single ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ reached No. 2 in the singles charts.
Forthcoming shows include cameos from current well known pop-stars as well as a highly anticipated episode, ‘The Power of Madonna’, which will feature exclusive Madonna performances.
“Glee is already a big success on TV and that looks likely to translate to sales on our products - we are of course delighted to have secured this major license, as are our long-established customers.” Max Arguile, GB eye Licensing Manager
2010 is set to be a huge year for Glee with boom sales expected for all Glee branded products. For further information about forthcoming products from GB eye please contact the sales team by going to the contact us tab.
The GB eye Team
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GB eye Ltd to be exclusive poster supplier to Merlin Entertainment Group
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Following a relationship spanning more than a decade, GB eye are thrilled to announce that they have secured supply to the Merlin Entertainment Group on an exclusive basis.
Previously known as the Tussaud’s Group, the British leisure giant is responsible for some of the UK’s most popular theme parks including Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Sealife, The Dungeons, Chessington World of Adventures as well as Madame Tussaud’s in the UK and overseas.
This exciting new development will see posters, prints, 3D products and badges in retail outlets across most Merlin Entertainment brands and marks a big step forward in GB eye’s distribution within children’s retail in the UK and beyond.
Max Arguile, Licensing Manager for GB eye states, "Distribution to these outlets underlines GB's position in pre-school and under-ten licensing and is part of how we continue to secure those licenses"
This move further secures GB eye as the leading supplier of posters and prints across Europe and the UK. GB eye continues to extend long standing relationships based on trust, experience and great service alongside an ever-growing selection of the world’s most popular licenses.
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GB eye secures Pan-European and Australia license for Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time.
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GB eye is proud to join in the amazing success story of Avatar. The advanced 3D effects in the movie will look especially vibrant on the range of 3D posters that GB eye has developed over the past two years which have taken the poster market by storm.
Export Director for GB eye, Danny Whiteley stated, “This is really exciting news for GB eye. We have a proven track record of bringing the biggest movie licenses to our customers from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter, and Avatar continues this. Our customers in Europe and Australia have been asking for this property for weeks now and I’m really pleased we will be able to have a great choice of images over a wide variety of formats including posters, prints and badges”.
Max Arguile, GB eye’s Licensing Manager added “We are very pleased to be working with Fox on what has been another amazing success story for James Cameron. We had tremendous success with Titanic ten years ago and are looking to repeat this again, with the highest grossing movie of all time”.
Sorrel Dryden, GB’s HMV Account Manager continued, “HMV, as the high street’s Number One destination for posters have been patiently waiting for this property to become available through GB, and we’re delighted not to disappoint.”
The granting of a Pan-European and Australia license also shows GB eye’s distribution credentials and our ability to maximise on global licenses. |
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GB eye secures England FA 1966 framed photographic deal
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As part of GB eye's strategy to bring the best images from the biggest brands on a wide variety of formats. GB eye is launching a new product range in 2010.
The England products are photographic images produced on high quality Fuji photographic paper, and then framed to create a superior quality product which will appeal to fans and collectors.
Licensing Manager for GB eye Max Arguile stated, "We are extremely pleased to secure an England FA and 1966 deal in this world cup year. This deal compliments our other framed photographic deals with Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Star Wars, WWE, and Disney."
Joanne Copley-Dunn commented, "We are very excited about this new deal and the new product launch. Customer feedback and initial sales have been very promising and we expect it to open up new areas of distribution for us to further cement our leading market position."
GB eye will be exhibiting at the NEC from February 7th -11th hall 3 - k33. |
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GB eye expands its SpongeBob SquarePants license and secures new deal for South park with Nickelodeon
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As one of the first licensees of the ever popular SpongeBob SquarePants brand with a partnership spanning over 7 years, GB eye are pleased to announce the extension of their license into framed photographic prints and badges.
Max Arguile, GB eye's Licensing Manager says, "SpongeBob has been a very successful license for us over the years. We continue to see growth adding badges and framed photographic prints to the property, which complements our poster range, and further add to what we can offer our customers."
GB eye have also secured a renewal of their South Park license allowing for further expansion into new product ranges.
Joanne Copley-Dunn, Commercial Director says, "Securing South Park for posters, prints, badges, and framed photographic images will give us more options to drive sales in HMV and specialist stores. Our relationship and sales continue to grow at HMV and securing South Park will open up ever more opportunities."
GB eye will be exhibiting at the NEC Spring Fair from February 7th - 11th Hall 3 K33. |
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2010 edition of the GB eye Catalogue Supplement released
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Our latest Catalogue Supplement is now available to download in PDF format or available as a hard copy. The supplement showcases our latest releases and is a companion to our 2010 catalogue.
As we step into the new decade we celebrate 2009 as our best trading year in the last 10 years. With sales up 10% on 2008 we are looking to smash this figure in 2010 by extending our range further across the world’s biggest brands, celebrities, movies, photographic art and premiership football teams.
Our latest product supplement includes our exciting new range of framed photographic products which are showing excellent early results. With over half a million units sold globally we have also extended our successful 3D range with the introduction of the new A3 format. We have further extended our product range with the introduction of high quality wooden picture frames in a variety of sizes to compliment our range of posters and prints.
Our mission for 2010 is to build on our success by continuing to offer the best products, image and service whilst focusing clearly on developing new products and markets.
Please contact enquiries@gbeye.com for a copy
The new Product Supplement 2010 (5.5Mb) can also be downloaded as a PDF from here |
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2010 edition of the GB eye Framed Photographic Prints Catalogue released
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Our new Framed Photographic Prints Catalogue is now available to download in PDF format or available as a hard copy. The catalogue showcases our latest releases and is a companion to our 2010 catalogue.
Please contact enquiries@gbeye.com for a copy
The Framed Photographic Prints catalogue (5Mb) can also be downloaded as a PDF from here |
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