Despite Hello Kitty's feline features, Sanrio maintains the character is not a cat but a girl - a perpetual third-grader ...
Iconic character Hello Kitty turned 50 in 2024. The story of how the Japanese brand Sanrio created and marketed her is simple ...
Fifty years ago in March 2025, the Japanese company Sanrio introduced Hello Kitty to the world. Designed by Yuko Shimizu, the familiar anthropomorphised cat character has transcended cult status and ...
McDonald's Japan reveals a new Happy Meal toy winter release, featuring an adorable collection of characters from San-X's ...
Hello Kitty might be the most famous cat in the world — with a round face and a red bow tied to her pointed ears. She celebrated her 50th birthday on Nov 1.
Sanrio Co. shares tumbled the most since May 2014 after the brand owner of Hello Kitty said holders including its president will sell shares in the open market. The Tokyo-based company sank as ...
Sanrio, the Japanese entertainment company that ... Her TV appearances required co-stars, including a pet cat named Charmmy Kitty that made its debut 20 years ago. “She is supposed to be Kitty ...
Instead she’s an eight-year-old girl and she has her own pet cat of her own called Charmmy Kitty. Yuko left Sanrio just two years after creating Hello Kitty, at the age of 27, to have a family.
Former Sanrio staff Naoko Madokoro with Hello Kitty producst she designed. Sydneysider Nobuko Burnfield used to work for Sanrio as an animator (upper right). Hello Kitty's first product released ...
Sanrio says a unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba will have exclusive rights in China to make and sell merchandise of its 26 characters. The deal comes after Sanrio's imp-like rabbit Kuromi featured ...