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Hallmark Parent Crown Media's CEO Departs Month After Same-Sex Ad Controversy
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 1:07am | 240Read More...The President and CEO of Hallmark Channel's parent Crown Media Holdings Inc., Bill Abbott, is leaving the company, Hallmark Cards Inc. announced Wednesday. What Happened The decision comes a month after the channel was embroiled in a controversy over pulling advertisements featuring same-sex...
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Hallmark Channel Reverses Decision To Pull Ad Featuring Same-Sex Couple
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 3:49am | 393Read More...The Hallmark Channel has decided to reinstate commercials featuring same-sex couples that were earlier pulled from the network, according to CNN. What Happened Mike Perry, the CEO of parent company Hallmark Cards, apologized Sunday for the company's earlier decision to pull the...
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Column: Mother's Day Is More Than Cards
Sunday, May 10, 2015 - 12:23pm | 707Read More...Hallmark has spent the last century warming people's hearts, while making a few bucks doing it. The privately-held greeting card company saw revenues around $4 billion in 2014. Mother's Day is one of the biggest seasons for the company, right behind Christmas. This year the National Retailers...
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The Fastest-Growing Holiday In America Is … Spooky
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 4:40pm | 770Read More...According to the National Retail Federation, Americans said they planned to spend a whopping $7.4 billion on Halloween in 2014. That’s a 5.87 percent increase over the $6.99 billion spent last year, making Halloween the fastest-growing holiday in America. Utilizing NRF data the University...
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Has Apple Sentenced American Greetings Corp. to Death?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 2:06pm | 630Read More...If Lazy Joes and Lazy Janes can pick and send cards from home, they won't ever leave the house again. What about Americans who weren't the inspiration for the humans in Wall-E? They will still leave the house. They can't help it; it's who they are. But if you were to give them a superior card-...
