Sanrio is combating counterfeit goods and strengthening IP protection. While this campaign is targeting Southeast Asia, Sanrio is making a huge mistake by not making the campaign worldwide. Hear in Portland Orgon I personally know of a store and a booth that sells knockoff Sanrio items. If you are one of the stores, stop it now, and go to Sanrio to stock your shelves with authentic items. Sanrio needs to do a better job informing the consumer how to spot fake Sanrio items.
For those have not heard the news, Shintaro Tsuji, the owner, founder and driving force of Sanrio has stepped down as CEO and handed resigns to his grandson. Tomokuni Tsuji.
We have a lot to thank Mr. Tsuji for, but I feel the time for new blood has come, especially the missteps Sanrio took in closing down US retail business and over relied on big box stores like Target , Best Buy and Toys r Us to carry the load. The plan worked for a while until Target and Best Buy gave Hello Kitty the boot and replaced her with the next big thing. (out Hello Kitty: in Monster High.) In addition, the bankruptcy and liquidation of Toys r Us in the US did not help and poor service for Sanrio.com
I Richard Brown as a natural American of African descent have a authority to appoint my Hello Kitty plush as my assistant and to act on behalf of Walter E. Williams to offer a Pardon and Amnesty to the Company Sanrio, all Sanrio Fans world wide. Those of European and Asian descent for all crimes actual and implied against Americans of African descent and release them form any shame and obligations to support any activist group including Black lives Lives Matter.
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Last December 27th I was at the Hello Kitty Around the world pop up tour in Bellevue Washington. The pop-up more like Hell Kitty events held in Singapore and Taiwan but with little interactive pieces and not like museum type exhibit as was the Hello Kitty Super cute museum exhibit four years earlier to the date. still it was something to do.
