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Cake Entertainment

Cake Entertainment Limited (stylised as CAKE, formerly Cake Distribution) is an independent company specialising in the production, distribution, financing and development of kids’ and family entertainment brands.

CAKE works with producers of animation and live-action content, including Rovio Entertainment Ltd, Ragdoll Productions, Fresh TV, Channel X and Animation Collective.[citation needed]

In addition, CAKE partners with production companies such as Anima Estudios (Space Chickens in Space for Disney EMEA), Paper Owl Films (Pablo for CBeebies), TeamTO (Angelo Rules, Mighty Mike), Thuristar (Mush-Mush and the Mushables), Cheeky Little Media and Kickstart Entertainment co-producing new entertainment material and developing these brands.[citation needed]

In late-March 2006, Cake Entertainment had enterted the distribution activities by partnerning with Dutch development & production company Hoek, Line & Thinker to form a joint-venture distribution division called Cake Distribution with Tom van Waveren becoming president of the new distribution arm.

In December 2009, Cake Entertainment enterted the video platform service by partnering with young animator Junior Jesman and London-based animation production studio Blue Zoo Animation Studio to develop & produce an animated web series entitled If I Was... for French streaming network Dailymotion with Blue Zoo Animation Studio would provide & develop animation services while Cake Entertainment would distribute the series online.

At the start of September 2010, Genevieve Dexter who had co-founded British entertainment & distribution company Cake Entertainment had sold her majority stake of the distirbution company Cake Entertainment to co-founder & co-director of the company Tom van Waveren.

In 2011, Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment acquired a 51% majority stake in CAKE, who became the licensor for various Zinkia properties including Pocoyo. The stake was purchased back by the Cake's management in July 2014 after Zinkia Entertainment entered administration.

In March 2017, Cake Entertainment teamed up with Australian animation production company Studio Moshi to establish a joint-venture Irish animation production company based in Dublin called Gingerbread Animation with the new Irish joint venture animation production studio would produce & develop its own animated series whilst Cake Entertainment would handle distribution to Gingerbread Animation's productions as the new joint venture animation studio would also handle production services for third-party companies.

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