American Greetings Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of greeting cards and other social expression products worldwide. It offers social expression products, including greeting cards, gift wrap, party goods, giftware, and stationery, as well as custom display fixtures; and DesignWare party goods, Plus Mark gift wrap and boxed cards, and AGI In-Store display fixtures. The company distributes social expression products comprising electronic greetings, physical products incorporating consumer photos, and a range of graphics and digital services and products through various electronic channels, including Web sites, Internet portals, instant messaging services, and electronic mobile devices; and creates and licenses its intellectual properties, such as the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake characters. In addition, American Greetings Corporation operates an online photo sharing space and provides consumers the ability to use their photos to create physical products that include greeting cards, calendars, online photo albums, and photo books. Its domestic greeting card brands comprise American Greetings, Recycled Paper Greetings, Papyrus, Carlton Cards, Gibson, Tender Thoughts, and Just For You; and Internet brands consist of AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, Egreetings.com, Kiwee.com, Cardstore.com, and Webshots.com. The company distributes its products through, mass merchandisers, discount retailers, chain drug stores, and supermarkets, as well as card and gift retail stores, department stores, military post exchanges, variety stores, and combo stores. American Greetings Corporation was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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