The Good day Kitty experiential retail expertise is heading for America.
Sanrio, the Japanese international way of life model which owns the favored, mouthless pop icon Whats up Kitty, has partnered with Common Parks & Resorts to develop Hey Kitty interactive retail shops at Common Orlando Resort and at Common Studios Hollywood.
The outlets will mark Whats up Kitty’s official retail debut at theme parks in North America and supply specialty merchandise together with stationery, residence items, attire, equipment and collectibles.
The Orlando retailer will open later this yr, whereas the Hollywood retailer opening date has but to be confirmed.
Nearly all of merchandise shall be dedicated to Hiya Kitty; Sanrio properties Chococat, My Melody, Badtz-Maru, Purin and Keroppi will even have a presence. Good day Kitty confectionery and specialty co-branded Hiya Kitty Common park-exclusive merchandise may even be obtainable.
Sanrio has confirmed the Howdy Kitty shops at Common Studios will supply enhanced interactive retail experiences. Clients can store for customized merchandise, take pleasure in photograph alternatives with Sanrio properties, create memento variations of Good day Kitty’s signature bow, and even meet Hey Kitty herself.
“Our partnership with Common brings Sanrio’s experiential leisure presence to a brand new degree,” stated Janet Hsu, president and COO of Sanrio, Inc.
“We look ahead to this introduction into Common theme parks to supply new connection factors to Sanrio followers of all ages.”
Sanrio’s partnership with Common Parks & Resorts highlights the model’s continued enlargement into way of life leisure. Current tasks embrace the efficiently unprecedented ‘Hey Kitty Con’ fan conference and ‘Howdy! Exploring the Supercute World of Hey Kitty’, a record-breaking museum exhibition on the Japanese American Nationwide Museum in Los Angeles.
Hey Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Pageant, a reside leisure present and interactive fan pageant that has reinvented the idea of a reside character present, is at present touring choose cities within the US and Canada. Sanrio’s distinctive strategy to way of life leisure has confirmed an efficient means of connecting with their legions of followers of all ages throughout the nation.
Hiya Kitty lately celebrated her 40th anniversary. Her picture adorns greater than 50,000 merchandise in additional than 130 nations – and upwards of 15,000 US retail places alone, together with 80 Sanrio boutiques.