{"id":11628,"date":"2017-01-23T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/asian-firm-acquires-talking-tom-creator-outfit7\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:14:12","slug":"asian-firm-acquires-talking-tom-creator-outfit7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/asian-firm-acquires-talking-tom-creator-outfit7\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Firm Buys Talking Tom Creator Outfit7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Outfit7, creator of\u00a0the global hit\u00a0<em>Talking Tom and Friends<\/em>, has sold 100 percent of the company to a consortium of investors from Asia, represented\u00a0by United Luck Group Holdings, for $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Outfit7 employees across companies in the U.K., Slovenia, China and Cyprus are continuing to expand the popular <em>Talking Tom and Friends<\/em> franchise, which originally launched as an app in 2010 and now includes an animated series on YouTube. The <em>Talking Tom and Friends<\/em> apps have amassed more than 5.6 billion downloads since their release, with over 300 million active monthly users, according to Outfit7.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs International was the exclusive financial advisor for the acquisition by\u00a0United Luck Group Holdings, which is led by\u00a0Ou Yaping. 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