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4 Kids Entertainment Inc. (KDE)On Nov 25: 1.42  Down 0.11 (7.19%)  
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4 Kids Entertainment Inc.
1414 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
United States - Map
Phone: 212-758-7666
Fax: 212-980-0933
Web Site: http://www.4kidsentertainmentinc.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Services
Industry:Consumer Services
Full Time Employees:214

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
4Kids Entertainment, Inc., together with the subsidiaries, operates as a diversified entertainment and media company. It operates through four segments: Licensing; Advertising Media and Broadcast; Television and Film Production/Distribution; and Trading Card and Game Distribution. The Licensing segment engages in the business of licensing the merchandising rights to popular children’s television series, properties, and product concepts. It acts as merchandising agent to grant licenses for third parties to manufacture and sell various merchandise, including toys, videogames, trading cards, apparel, housewares, footwear, books, and other published materials in the United Kingdom and European marketplaces. The Advertising Media and Broadcast segment, through an agreement with Fox Broadcasting Corporation, leases Fox’s Saturday morning programming block, as well as provides programming content to be broadcast on 4Kids TV. It also has an agreement with The CW Network, LLC, to program CW's Saturday morning children's programming block. The Television and Film Production/Distribution segment produces and adapts animated and live-action television programs and theatrical motion pictures for distribution to the domestic and international television, home video, and theatrical markets. It also composes original music for incorporating into television programming, and markets and manages such music, as well as distributes home videos associated with television programming. The Trading Card and Game Distribution segment comprises the company’s 55% interest in TC Digital Games LLC, which produces, markets, and distributes the ‘Chaotic’ trading card game. In addition, the company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, 4Kids Websites, Inc., owns 55% interest in TC Websites LLC, which owns and operates chaoticgame.com. a companion Website for the Chaotic trading card game. 4Kids Entertainment was founded in 1970 and is based in New York, New York.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    4 Kids Entertainment Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 77.6% of CGQ Universe companies and 63.8% of Media companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Alfred R. Kahn , 62
    Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer
    $ 900.00K $ 281.00K
    Mr. Bruce R. Foster , 49
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Exec. VP
    $ 600.00K $ 0
    Mr. Norman Grossfeld , 45
    Pres of 4Kids Productions Inc
    $ 700.00K $ 0
    Mr. Samuel R. Newborn Esq., 54
    Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel
    $ 700.00K $ 0
    Mr. Brian Lacey , 58
    Exec. VP of International
    $ 600.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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