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Schutz and Blue Mountain Arts came to wider attention with the founding, in 1996, of the bluemountain.com website. One of the earliest experiments with the electronic greeting card medium, the site was widely adopted by web users. In 1999, the dot-com venture Excite@Home bought bluemountain.com in a deal valued at $780 million. [6]
Marcus Ward and Co. was an Irish publishing company known for its illustrated books for children and adults, as well as its decorative greeting cards. It had its beginnings in 1802, with a partnership between John Ward, James Blow and Robert Greenfield.
Some of the cards hold special significance, for example Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card [2] dating from 1843. [3] The collection is catalogued in Laura Seddon's book A Gallery of Greetings. [4] Another section of the collection includes 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early 19th century, which Seddon also ...
Established in 1919, owned by its membership and run on a not for profit basis, the association is the trade body for the greeting card industry. The GCA resources include free specialist industry information for publishers, the press, artists and writers, students and the general public. The GCA's official magazine is Progressive Greetings ...
Blue Mountain Arts, a greeting card company founded by poet Susan Polis Schutz and physicist/illustrator Stephen Schutz in 1971; Blue Mountain, a logo used by Paramount Pictures and its companies; Blue Mountain Pottery, a Canadian company; Blue Mountain State, an American comedy series
The beginnings of Me to You started in 1987 when Carte Blanche Greetings chairman and Founder, Stephen Haines, approached Mike Payne to create a group of 'cute' characters to appear on a series of greeting cards. This led to the creation of various cartoon animals called the Miranda gang, which notably included a brown bear with patches.
Celebrations Group was a chain of British greeting cards stores. Most of their stores traded under the names of Cardfair and Card Warehouse. [ 1 ] Celebrations Group was formed in 2006, when it purchased part of the Greeting Card Group from administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers .
American Greetings Corporation is a privately held American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. [2] [3] Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, gift packaging, stickers and party products.