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Cinar

DHX Cookie Jar Inc.
In-Name Unit of DHX Media
Industry Television
Animation
Puppetry
Predecessor Cinar
Successor DHX Media
Founded 1976 (as Cinar)
2004 (re-branded as Cookie Jar Group)
Headquarters

266 King St. West, 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON M5V 1H8, Canada
International offices
London, United Kingdom
Paris, France
Burbank, California, United States

Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Co-founder & CEO:
Michael Hirsh
Co-founder & President:
Lesley Taylor
Products Cookie Jar TV
Cookie Jar Toons
Cookie Jar Kids Network
KidsCo
Divisions Cookie Jar Entertainment
Cookie Jar Education
Cookie Jar Consumer Products
Horn Rims Productions
Subsidiaries Copyright Promotions Licensing Group
Website www.cjar.com
Cinar
Company
Industry Television
Animation
Puppetry
Fate Scandal, Renamed "Cookie Jar Group" in 2004.
Predecessor FilmFair
DIC Entertainment
Successor Cookie Jar Group
Founded 1976; 41 years ago (1976)
Defunct 2004; 13 years ago (2004)
Website www.cjar.com

266 King St. West, 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON M5V 1H8, Canada
International offices
London, United Kingdom
Paris, France
Burbank, California, United States

DHX Cookie Jar Inc. (doing business as Cookie Jar, and formerly known as Cinar) is a Canadian producer of children’s entertainment, consumer products and educational materials. Cookie Jar Group is one of the world’s largest independent children’s entertainment, consumer products and education companies with ownership and licensing rights to some of the most recognizable character brands. It is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Burbank, California, Paris, London, and Tokyo among other places. In 2012, it merged with DHX Media and became DHX Cookie Jar Inc.

In its previous incarnation as Cinar (pronounced Sen R and stylized as CiNAR), the company enjoyed an illustrious existence that ultimately ended in a scandal which, over a decade later, would result in criminal charges, convictions, and fines for co-founder Ronald Weinberg, and three other suspects. Cinar was an integrated entertainment and education company involved in the development, production, post-production and worldwide distribution of family entertainment programming and educational products.

After their 1976 meeting in New Orleans, future spouses Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg organized an event for a women's film festival, and worked at distributing foreign films to US theatres. The couple moved to New York City and formed Cinar, a film and television distribution company.

In 1984, Cinar changed their focus from media distribution to production and moved operations to Montreal, where they concentrated on children's television programming (including Animal Crackers, Emily of New Moon, Mona the Vampire, and The Wombles), as well as the English and French dubs of the anime series Adventures of the Little Koala and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Spain-originating TV series The World of David the Gnome, and the English dub of Ultra Seven. As a production company, Cinar was also involved in the work of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Madeline, The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Space Cases, The Shoe People and its most famous work, Arthur, Zoboomafoo, Caillou and Plumo. The firm became a public company in September 1993. By 1999, Cinar boasted annual revenues of $150 million (CAD) and owned about $1.5 billion (CAD) of the children's television market. In 1993, Cinar bought the rights to all the shows owned and made by British animation company FilmFair, which was formerly Central TV's animation division since 1987, and closed it in 1998. In February 1999, Cinar acquired the film library of Leucadia Film Corporation.


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