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Pretty Ugly™ Grants License to Chasing Fireflies, LLC

Green Brook, NJ - June 12, 2014 - Pretty Ugly™, LLC owner of the UGLYDOLL™ brand, is pleased to announce their recent partnership with Chasing Fireflies, LLC, a leading manufacturer of children's costumes.

UGLYDOLLS are fun and quirky. Fans have spent timeless hours making costumes of their favorite UGLYDOLL characters. "We are so excited to now work with Chasing Fireflies in putting their magical touch to bring life-size character appeal to our favorite UGLYDOLL characters," says Teresa Fazio, Director of Licensing.

"Chasing Fireflies is thrilled to be working with Uglydoll to create an exclusive line of costumes for 2015. We have loved and admired the creativity and uniqueness of Uglydoll, for many years. Being able to bring them to life through our exclusive costume designs will allow both brands to continue their commitment to create products that are fun, whimsical, inventive, and that excel in design and quality," says David Niggli, President, Chasing Fireflies.

UGLYDOLL& Pretty Ugly, LLC

David Horvath & Sun-Min Kim created the first UGLYDOLL hand-sewn plush toy in 2001. Since the inception of the first character, Wage™, who David drew on a love letter to Sun-Min, UGLYDOLL has grown into an entire universe of characters, stories, and products for all ages.

The UGLYDOLL brand was launched in 2002 by Pretty Ugly, LLC in New Jersey. The property is distinguished by David & Sun-Min's unique aesthetic and voice defining 'ugly' as distinctive and unique. The award-winning UGLYDOLL characters appear in a variety of toys, books, apparel, and other licensed products that are available in thousands of stores, worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.uglydolls.com

Chasing Fireflies

Founded in 2006, Chasing Fireflies is a leading children's and family lifestyle brand offering keepsake-quality apparel, gifts, accessories, and unique treasures through both digital commerce and traditional catalog sales channels. Chasing Fireflies has rapidly developed a market reputation as the go-to provider for premium, differentiated, unique and novel children's clothing, costumes, and celebration categories. Chasing Fireflies' mission is to "charm, surprise, and delight" by taking the customer on a treasure hunt within its vast merchandise offering.