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Global Icons Brings Katie Brown Home

Household Icon Katie Brown Signs With Global Icons

Katie Brown, one of America's most recognizable household personalities, has chosen Global Icons, a premier licensing and brand merchandising agency, to develop a comprehensive lifestyle merchandise program which extends Katie Brown's imaginative yet user-friendly sensibility into all facets of the home.

Katie Brown hosts the A&E series All Year Round With Katie Brown, in which she takes the typical home through the year in real time, making the most of each season and each holiday. New York Times says "This Midwesterner poised to take over... is as solid and unpretentious as her cherry red clogs and pockmarked dining table." People Magazine hails Katie as "TV's meat-and-potatoes Martha Stewart," and USA Today calls her "the doyenne of domesticity for Generation X." Katie has been featured on the Lifetime and Style networks, has made popular regular appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show and Live With Regis and Kelly, and has acted as spokesperson for Lipton, Kodak, Microsoft, Absolut, MasterCard, Lenox, and Procter & Gamble, which has chosen her to lead its campaign to win over the homemakers of Japan. Katie has also written a pair of best-selling books -- "Katie Brown Entertains" and "Katie Brown Decorates" -- and recently signed a four-book deal with Bullfinch Press (the first title will hit stores in Fall 2005). "Design, cooking, gardening, entertaining, managing a household, and now parenting: Katie does it all, like nobody else. We at Global Icons are extremely thrilled to be adding her to our family of clients," said Mike Gard, COO of Global Icons.

Global Icons will assemble a broad domestic licensing program comprised of: Home Furnishings, Tabletop, Housewares, Gardening, Arts & Crafts, Infant, Outdoor Patio, Seasonal, Hardware, Food, and Apparel. "I selected Global Icons as my licensing agent due to their vast experience and creative approach to licensing. They understand my style and sensibility as it applies to family and the home, and I am confident they will find licensing partners that will translate this into product," said Katie Brown.

About Global Icons

Global Icons is a licensing, merchandising and consulting agency, specializing in the development and extension of corporate brands, trademarks, and entertainment properties. On behalf of its ever-expanding roster of clients, the company's goal is to drive profitability and increase brand awareness through the establishment of new products, distribution channels, and revenue streams. Select clients include Airstream, Baileys, Beverly Hills Shield, Captain Morgan, Chuck E Cheese's, Delta, Duncan Hines, Elvira, Hollywood Sign, Humvee, Igloo, Pep Boys, Postobello, Richard Simmons, and Ronald McDonald House Charities, among others. Please visit www.globalicons.com for more information.

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