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Herman "Kay" Kamen (January 27, 1892 – October 28, 1949)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Disney Legends: Kay Kamen )〕 was a merchandising executive, noted primarily for his work with the Walt Disney Company. Kamen was born January 27, 1892 in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent his early life working as a merchant and an advertising man.〔 Kamen's firm, the Kamen-Blair company, negotiated merchandising agreements for a number of prominent animated figures. In 1932, after a meeting with Walt and Roy O. Disney, Kamen secured the licensing agreement for all Disney merchandising, a contract his firm would hold for the next two decades.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kpolsson.com/disnehis/disn1932.htm ) sources: *Walt Disney - An American Original, by Bob Thomas, 1994. Page 107. *Disneyana: Walt Disney Collectibles, by Cecil Munsey, 1974. Page 108. *Building a Company - Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire, by Bob Thomas, 1998. Page 70. *Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler, 2006. Page 197.〕 Kamen's firm quickly monetized Mickey Mouse's image, providing a much-needed line of cash to the struggling Disney firm through its Walt Disney Enterprises division. The following year, Kamen's firm developed the Mickey Mouse watch, which was produced by Ingersoll-Waterbury and soon became the bestselling watch in the United States. By 1948, revenue of licensed Disney products totaled more than $100 million.〔 Kamen and WDE developed product lines for many of Disney's films and franchises, particularly ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Kamen died in a plane crash over Portugal in 1949. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kay Kamen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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