About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners, is one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT's portfolio includes properties, such as Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Fireman Sam™, Angelina Ballerina™ and Rainbow Magic™. HIT represents Chapman Entertainment's Fifi and the Flowertots™ and Roary the Racing Car™ in North America and Japan, as well as Wallace & Gromit™, Shaun the Sheep™, Timmy Time™ and Aardman Classics from Aardman Animations. HIT also acts as a worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company's library of classic family brands and as representative for The Wiggles® in the UK.
Launched in 1989, HIT's lines of business span television and video production, content distribution, publishing, consumer products licensing, live events and attractions and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. HIT is a part-owner of US preschool channel, PBS KIDS Sprout℠, and international preschool channel JimJam, (outside of the US, UK and China).
For more information, visit http://www.hitentertainment.com.
Jorge Ferreiro Joins HIT Entertainment As Senior Vice President, Creative Resources
04/12/2006NEW YORK, NY
HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality preschool entertainment, today announced the appointment of Jorge Ferreiro as Senior Vice President, Creative Resources. In this newly created role, Ferreiro will be responsible for creative services to support licensing, home entertainment and overall brand activities for HIT Entertainment's stable of premiere properties, including Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Angelina Ballerina™ and The Wiggles®, among others. Ferreiro is based in the Company's New York office and reports to Pat Wyatt, President, HIT Entertainment, North America.
Ferreiro joins HIT Entertainment with more than 20 years of experience in creative direction for the Entertainment and Licensing industries. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Global Creative at Sesame Workshop where he oversaw the creative work of all internal divisions, external partners, as well as the Sesame Street, Dragon Tales and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat brands. Previously, Ferreiro spent six years at Fox Family Worldwide, where he was the department head for all creative and marketing services. Prior to Fox, Ferreiro served as Creative Director for Disney Consumer Products.
"HIT Entertainment is thrilled to have Jorge Ferriero join us in the role of Senior Vice President Creative Resources. He brings a wealth of experience in the children's entertainment industry," said Wyatt. "His expertise, coupled with his energy and creative mind, makes him the perfect fit for HIT and its classic collection of top preschool brands."
About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners since June 2005, is one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT’s portfolio includes internationally renowned children’s properties, such as Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Rubbadubbers™ and Angelina Ballerina™. HIT acts as a representative for The Wiggles® in the UK, US and Canada and as worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company’s library of classic family brands, including Fraggle Rock™. HIT also owns the Guinness World Records™ publishing and television property and Fireman Sam™, a joint venture with S4C. Launched in 1989, HIT’s lines of business span television and video production (including studios in the US and the UK), publishing, consumer products licensing and live events. With a catalog of more than 1,000 hours of young children’s programming, HIT sells its shows to more than 240 countries worldwide, in more than 40 different languages and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2005, the Company joined Comcast Corporation, PBS and Sesame Workshop to launch PBS KIDS Sprout℠, a 24-hour digital cable channel and VOD service for preschoolers. For more information, visit www.hitentertainment.com.
