The average licensed item is priced 32.9% higher at retail than its non-licensed equivalent, according to a new research report by The Licensing Letter. All told, 63% of the licensed products studied were priced higher than their non-licensed counterparts. Is this a good or bad thing?

We really enjoyed the recent Licensing Awards night and as usual it was brilliantly organised. The award nominees and recipients are always contentious but we felt that many were well deserved especially the Lifetime award for Trevor Jones. We are interested to hear if you felt any awards were undeserved.

A French climber known as spiderman for his amazing feats has climbed one of the world’s tallest buildings, in Malaysia, on his third attempt. Witnesses said it took Alain Robert, 47, just over two hours to complete his ascent of the 88-storey Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. You didn’t expect us [...]