Hallmark is a family-owned company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Hallmark cards with specialized processes, such as die cut, glitter, flock and foil stamp are produced in Lawrence. Most of Hallmark wrapping paper, ribbons and bows are made at our manufacturing plant in Leavenworth, Kansas. American Greetings is a Hallmark competitor mentioned in some of the social media posts. The company is headquartered in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and its domestic operations include facilities in Greeneville, Tenn.
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During the mids small greeting card companies began competing for Hallmark's market position with a diverse array of cards that became favorites. In the mids Hallmark fought back with its Personal Touch and Shoebox Greetings series the latter debuting in Many of these cards, however, bore a resemblance to rival designs that some found too striking. In Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. The initial decision went against Hallmark, which appealed ultimately to the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court refused to hear the case in , Hallmark agreed to discontinue its Personal Touch line.
Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Hallmark's biggest challenge during the early s was confronting its continuing loss of market share to the number two and three companies in the greeting card industry, American Greetings Corporation and Gibson Greetings, Inc.
From to , it was estimated that Hallmark's market share fell from 50 to 45 percent. In the mids, some industry experts were even suggesting that American Greetings would overtake Hallmark sometime between and The reason for Hallmark's decline rested in the very backbone of its empire--the specialty card and gift shops that sold the Hallmark brand, which by the early s numbered more than 10, Over a long period, these shops had fallen victim to changing buying patterns in particular among women, who still bought 90 percent of all cards sold.
Pressed for time, more and more consumers were opting to purchase cards at one-stop shopping outlets--supermarkets, drugstore chains, and large discounters--such as Wal-Mart. In the early s more than half of all cards were sold in specialty shops; by the early s only about 30 percent were.
American Greetings and Gibson, which did not have such extensive ties to the card shops, were able to recognize the trend and shift to accommodate it. Hallmark, however, was in a bind.
Continuing to rely so heavily on specialty shops would do nothing to halt its market share decline, but it could not simply abandon the shops, for doing so would bankrupt many of them, not something a company as paternalistic as Hallmark could seriously consider. One strategy was to diversify away from greeting cards even further. In Hallmark acquired Willitts Designs, a maker of collectibles, but then sold the company only three years later.
Cable television was Hallmark's next foray with the formation of a Crown Media Inc. During this period Hallmark also updated its product line, offering a more high-tech approach to card purchasing. In the "Personalize it! The following year Hallmark filed suit for infringement of its kiosk patent against American Greetings and its Creata-Card kiosk. The suit was settled in with each company receiving a worldwide, nonexclusive license to use the technology; no other details on the settlement were provided at that time.
Moreover, in , Hallmark developed recordable greeting cards in partnership with Information Storage Devices. Also in came the debut of the Hallmark Gold Crown Card, a frequent-buyer reward program for customers at selected Hallmark retail stores. In addition to the frequent-buyer program, the Gold Crown stores differed from regular Hallmark stores in several respects; they had their own lines of cards and exclusive merchandise, and they were all owned by individuals and were not franchises.
In the face of declining profits brought on by declining market share, Hallmark went through a series of reengineering and restructuring efforts in the early s in an attempt to hold costs down. Additional diversification moves in the area of entertainment were made in the mids. Hallmark thus acquired the world's leading producer of family-oriented entertainment, which it promptly renamed Hallmark Entertainment, Inc.
Then in , Hallmark purchased a 9. Flextech and Hallmark created a family-oriented international cable television network, the Hallmark Entertainment Network, which commenced operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom in Next, Hallmark Entertainment, Inc.
Also in , Hallmark purchased a significant stake in the Odyssey channel, a cable network that had been launched in as a religious channel and that was in the process of being transformed into a family-oriented entertainment channel. Given the uneven success of Hallmark's other ventures, greeting cards remained the company's most important endeavor.
New promotions of Hallmark cards in the mids included a "sneak-a-peek" advertising campaign, comprising a series of commercials in which people were caught looking at the backs of the cards they had received, just to make sure they were Hallmarks. Continuing to seek ways to reverse the decline in its share of the greeting card market, the Hallmark brand was introduced into the mass merchandiser market for the first time with the launch of Expressions from Hallmark.
The cards featured the Hallmark logo on the back and were initially marketed though more than 5, discounters, supermarkets, and drugstores. This move angered many owners of Hallmark retail stores, who feared that their sales would suffer.
In came the debut of yet another new line called Warm Wishes, which featured cards priced at 99 cents and aimed at increasingly value-conscious consumers. The Warm Wishes line debuted in more than 17, retail outlets across the United States. The new initiatives appeared to be working, as Hallmark reported that its share of greeting card sales in the U.
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