The major birthdays of Hello Kitty (who was “born” on November 1, 1974) coincide uncannily with the performance milestones of her creator, Sanrio. In the fiscal year that ended in March 1999, in which ...

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TOKYO (CBS/AP) -- When she came to life in 1974, she was a kitty without a name, sitting sideways in blue overalls and a big red bow, on a coin purse for Japanese girls. On Saturday, fans around the ...

Sanrio, the Japanese company that defined cute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Its star, Hello Kitty, and more than 400 other cartoon characters continue to be popular with adults and ...

So goes the unspoken mantra for Hello Kitty, one of global pop culture's most successful, most ubiquitous and, after three decades, most durable brands. For Japan's Sanrio Company Ltd., the worldwide ...

MOST HAVE to wait until their centenary to receive birthday wishes from the king of Britain. But King Charles III made an exception for “a self-made entrepreneur worth billions of dollars and a unicef ...