Fifty years ago in March 2025, the Japanese company Sanrio introduced Hello Kitty to the world. Designed by Yuko Shimizu, the familiar anthropomorphised cat character has transcended cult status and ...

This character, designed as a British girl rather than a cat, appears on around 50,000 products in 130 countries. Created by the Japanese company Sanrio, Hello Kitty has generated billions of ...

Sanrio says a unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba will have exclusive rights in China to make and sell merchandise of its 26 characters. The deal comes after Sanrio's imp-like rabbit Kuromi featured ...