BOCA
RATON, Fla. , March 24,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.
(NASDAQ: GROM) and its recently-acquired Curiosity Ink Media,
have engaged the services of veteran brand builder and design
expert Richard Manville's Richard
Manville Studio, to guide design for the company's holiday
entertainment and shopping hub, Santa.com. The engagement
with Manville was announced today by Darren
Marks, Chairman & CEO, Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. and
Jared Wolfson, CEO of Curiosity Ink
Media.
Manville has held leadership positions for
companies such as Mattel, Time Warner and Turner
Broadcasting.
Manville is founder and head of design consultancy for Richard
Manville Studio and textile design studio R.B. Manville in Los
Angeles. With expansive experience in global brand, product
and packaging development in all tiers of the consumer spectrum,
Manville has held leadership positions for companies such as
Mattel, Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting and luxury
brands
Agraria San Francisco, Baccarat, Harrod's and Louis Vuitton.
Manville will team up with Curiosity Ink Media to drive general
design, layout and functionality, as well as craft the overall user
experience (UX) for the site, a virtual North Pole featuring
immersive content, curated gifting ideas, decor and entertainment
tips. Additionally, Manville will lend his expertise to Grom
Social, the parent-supervised and fully monitored safe social app
for kids under 13, who are not permitted on most other social media
without parental consent.
Accomplished in creating, building and growing some of the
world's most iconic brands, Manville is recognized as an innovator
with work featured in influential publications such as the Wall
Street Journal, The Washington Post, Fast Company,
Architectural Digest and Elle Décor. While
at Mattel, Manville oversaw global brand identity development
for the Barbie franchise and the invention of over 70 design and
development patents for the company's break-through toy category,
Ello. At Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Turner/Hanna-Barbera,
he was responsible for brand identity development of Cartoon
Network and Hanna-Barbera Classic Characters, classic film
properties including Wizard of Oz and Gone with the
Wind, and the action properties Batman and Robin, and
Superman. After graduation from Parson's School of
Design, Manville began his career in New
York at the design firm Manville, Bakacs, Santana developing
product concepts and branding for Estée Lauder, Elizabeth Arden, Liz
Claiborne, Macy's and The Gap.
About Santa.com
Santa.com was born
out of the simple idea of removing the stress from the holidays to
bring more joy. With busy parents and caregivers in mind, and those
who love the spirit of the holidays, Santa.com is a one-stop
holiday hub, filled with curated gifting ideas, decor and
entertainment tips and easy solutions to the many holiday needs.
Santa.com is also an opportunity for a shared experience
with kids, where the magic of the holidays lives and any child
(whose parent has opted in) can safely engage in a digital North
Pole environment and send their wish list to Santa.
About Curiosity Ink Media
Curiosity Ink Media is a
global media company that develops, acquires, builds, grows and
maximizes the short, mid, and long-term commercial potential of
Kids & Family entertainment properties and associated business
opportunities. Driven by a best-in-class leadership team, Curiosity
Ink Media's multi-faceted I.P. library is designed to amass ongoing
value through strategic stewardship, partnerships, and highly
targeted market entry.
About Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.
Grom Social
Enterprises, Inc. is a growing social media platform and original
content provider of entertainment for children under 13 years of
age, which provides safe and secure digital environments for kids
that can be monitored by their parents or guardians. The Company
has several operating subsidiaries, including Grom Social, which
delivers its content through mobile and desktop environments (web
portal and apps) that entertain children, let them interact with
friends, access relevant news, and play proprietary games while
teaching them about being good digital citizens. The Company owns
and operates Top Draw Animation, which produces award-winning
animation content for some of the largest international media
companies in the world. Grom also includes Grom Educational
Services, which has provided web filtering services for K-12
schools, government and private businesses. For more information,
please visit gromsocial.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements.".
Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief,
or current expectations of Grom and members of its management team
as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Such
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance
and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may
differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking
statements. Important factors currently known to management that
may cause actual results to differ from those anticipated are
discussed throughout the Company's reports filed with Securities
and Exchange Commission which are available at www.sec.gov as well
as the Company's web site at www.gromsocial.com. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking
statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of
unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.
For Investor Relations
John
McNamara
TraDigital IR
+1-917-658-2602
john@tradigitalir.com
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