Golden Bear recently launched a TV advertised range of plush and plastics for the hugely popular CBeebies show Hey Duggee, including Woof Woof Duggee, the Soft Toy Talking Squirrels, and the Squirrel Club Playset. In July BBC Worldwide partnered with mobile games developer, Scary Beasties to create the first pre-school app. For publishing, Penguin created range of companion books that launched earlier this year. In November 2015, the second, and Christmas themed Hey Duggee DVD, will launch into all major accounts. Lastly, Golden Bear will launch a Talking Duggee Soft Toy, Set of Duggee & Squirrel Figurines with Badges plus some brand new jumbo squirrel plush, all new for SS16.
Hotly anticipated CBeebies Show Go Jetters will make its debut at BLE this year. BBC Worldwide recently secured Fisher-Price as the global master toy licensee for the innovative new animated pre-school series. The series is packed with discovery and teamwork with pre-school geography concepts driving the humour and dialogue throughout. The Fisher-Price product line will debut in A/W 2016 in the UK with the roll-out in other markets, including the US, expected to follow. In A/W 16, publishing partner Penguin will release a range of companion books.
Doctor Who returns to BLE with Master Toy licensee Character Options, featuring new additions; the Hovering Dalek, Cyber Attack! Sonic Blast Game and Walking Talking Cyberman. Most anticipated Doctor Who product of the year is the brand new Doctor Who Lego set, will arrive at retail in December, as well as LEGO Dimensions, the new Toys To Life game from WBIE. New licensee Black Milk Clothing is developing a clothing range with new products from Universal Poster, Moonpig, Legends Wall Art, Zeon, Funko, Vibe and publishing from Panini and Titan.
Something Special increases product lines and licensees for 2015. New product and licensees for 2015 include, HTI, for Move and Groove scooters, Quad skates, bikes and Balance Bikes. Books from Egmont, an Electronic Learning Aid from KD Group, home wares from Zak. New licensees for the brand include Danilo, DreamTex as well as a renewal with Jumbo. The is a new Mr Tumble album launching this Autumn from Sony Music will be featuring classic Christmas songs sung by Justin Fletcher with Mr Tumble, Grandad Tumble, Lord Tumble and Aunt Polly also appearing. BBCW are also representing our brands featuring Justin Fletcher, Justin’s House and Gigglebiz.
Popular CBeebies show Sarah & Duck’s merchandise line features plush toys from Posh Paws, a planner from Carousel Calendars, with further BBC DVDs of the funny pair and a CBeebies Special Magazine from Immediate Media following later this year. Dreamtex for bedding will go into retail for this AW15 as well as the Legends Wall Art, for bedroom decoration.
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In 2014/15, BBC Worldwide generated headline profits of £138.6m and headline sales of £1,001.8m and returned a record £226.5m to the BBC. For more detailed performance information please see our Annual Review website:
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