Bulldog appoints Laury Howat as Retail Licensing Manager
Bulldog Licensing has announced the appointment of Laury Howat as its new Retail Licensing Manager.
Laury’s responsibilities will include managing the apparel, accessories, footwear and home categories as well as looking after several of Bulldog’s key retail relationships.
Laury will be bringing a strong background in retail and soft lines to helping Bulldog manage its continuing portfolio growth and category diversification with the care and attention for which the company is known.
In fact Laury brings over 15 years of experience in the licensing business to her new role, including posts at a number of major names in entertainment such as Walt Disney, Warner Bros. Entertainment and the BBC.
At Walt Disney Company’s Consumer Products division she was the UK DTR lead for soft lines from 2014-2017. Prior to this she spent seven years at Warner Bros. Entertainment as Senior Category Manager, working across all apparel and accessories categories for all ages and collaborating with a diverse range of retail, from mass market to high-end designers.
Her career began with four years as an account manager for BBC Worldwide. She has also worked as a specialist consultant in soft lines.
Laury brings to her new role not only category and retail expertise but experience with a huge portfolio of global brands from both film and television, including In the Night Garden and Frozen.
Now, following a break to focus on her young family, she has returned to an industry that she knows well, supporting one of the leading agencies in Europe in the key areas in which she made her name.
Laury Howat says: “I’m very excited to be bringing my knowledge of soft lines, retail and major brands to a leader in its field. It’s wonderful to be working with Bulldog, its fantastic roster of properties and its highly regarded and dynamic team at this key time in its development. This is a great opportunity to work in a field I know well with a universally admired licensing agency and I’m looking forward to it enormously.”
Bulldog Licensing Group MD Rob Corney says: “The growth of the business has always been in the hands of a great team of people I’m privileged to work with – and Laury fits that mould perfectly. With her strong experience and connections she will help Bulldog to continue building the reach of its business in general and brands in particular with the high level of excellence with which the company has become synonymous. We’re delighted to welcome her to Bulldog.”
