Oct 21, 2009 12:21 PM
MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon has acquired the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise, for $60 million. The bulk of the payout goes to The Mirage Group—the company founded by the franchise’s creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird—but embattled media company 4Kids Entertainment will get roughly $11 million from the deal, in…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Movies, Media & Publishing, Kids & Teen Content, TV, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Viacom, MTV, 4kids, nickelodeon
Aug 5, 2009 6:11 PM
As I first reported yesterday, NYC-based kids media company 4Kids Entertainment has put itself up for sale, and today the company has announced it officially. It has hired Montgomery & Co. to help it evaluate options, it said in a release. “Given recent developments in our business and in the…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, 4kids, montgomery
Aug 4, 2009 12:50 PM
4Kids Entertainment (NYSE: KDE), the NYC-based kids entertainment media firm, has put itself up for sale, paidContent has learned. The company is going through a selective bidding process, and speaking to a few interested parties, according to a source familiar with the situation. 4Kids, founded in 1970 as Leisure Concepts…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Kids & Teen Content, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, 4kids
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