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The scope of 4Kids Entertainment’s Pokémon agency

FY2002

FiledA filed statement, read directly.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

The scope of 4Kids Entertainment’s Pokémon agency: it represented merchandising and TV/film distribution rights outside Asia, under an agreement from 1998 to 31 December 2005.

How it’s built

  1. Read from 4Kids Entertainment’s annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2002.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

This states the contract term as of 2002; it does not say whether the agreement was later renewed or ended early.

Where it comes from

4Kids Entertainment Form 10-K FY2002 SEC / 4Kids Entertainment · March 2003 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

The term of the representation agreement for "Pokemon" began in 1998 and expires on December 31, 2005.