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New EPE marketing campaign for 2006-2007

Source: www.Elvis.com

ELVIS IS

ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES UNVEILS 2006 ADVERTISING, MARKETING AND LICENSING BRANDING CAMPAIGN

Elvis is the king. Elvis is sexy. Elvis is Rock & Roll...Elvis is a lot of things to a lot of people but basically, Elvis just IS.

Fifty years since Elvis Presley’s career exploded into the mainstream culture of America and almost 29 years since his death, Elvis Presley Enterprises announced its latest advertising, marketing and licensing branding campaign: Elvis Is

The Elvis Is branding will begin in August of 2006 and will be in place for 18 months.

As with the most recent campaign proclaiming Elvis Lives, the new logo and statement will be utilized by EPE online on Elvis.com, on billboards, banners and merchandise and as the branding for the summer 2006 tourism campaign. This will include print travel ads in People, Better Homes and Gardens, Reader’s Digest and many others.

The campaign evolved while the EPE licensing, marketing and communications team was developing their new branding campaign, and could not find the appropriate word to complete the statement, "Elvis is…" Ultimately, it was decided to let licensees complete the sentence for themselves or let it stand alone, and to utilize the phrase for all marketing and communications efforts, allowing the consumer to complete the sentence.

In addition to being used on a wide range of licensed products, the Elvis Is campaign will also appear in EPE and Graceland’s marketing and PR efforts. "When Elvis fans all around the world see our branding online, in ads, on billboards and other places, they are thrilled that they can also find merchandise featuring those same designs," said Carol Butler, Director of Worldwide Licensing for EPE. "We witnessed that with our current campaign Elvis Lives, and anticipate the same consumer reaction to Elvis Is. The response from our licensees has already been very enthusiastic."

The graphic for the branding was chosen after extensive research and focus groups with Graceland visitors, and features a classic Elvis illustration with a pop, modern feel. It was designed by Memphis award-winning graphic designer Billy Riley, owner of Combustion Design.

The Elvis Is campaign will be used by EPE to support their branding strategy, which is to establish and build business relationships that enable them to provide Elvis's millions of current and future fans around the world with products and services that allow them to experience Elvis in music, movies, pop culture, online and in other forms of entertainment and merchandise.

Elvis continues to be the most recognized name in entertainment and the top-seller of number one records, movies and memorabilia today. Forbes magazine once again recently named him the most successful and highest earning deceased artist, and over 600,000 people visit Graceland annually.

NEW BOOK: Elvis Decoded

Press Release: Available July 2006

"Elvis Decoded" A Fan's Guide to Deciphering the Myths and Misinformation

Click here: Elvis Decoded


Hi All My Elvis Friends,

This is the exhaustive work and research of my friend, author Patrick Lacy. I think many in the Elvis world and Elvis fans will enjoy and understand the importance of this work, which is an examination of the information, and misinformation, in many of the Elvis books. Patrick also addresses the many rumors and myths surrounding the “Elvis is alive” theories. This endeavor not only will dispel these types of rumors and stories but will also tell the facts and explain why these stories and rumors are wrong with rational explanations. This is a definitive work that will explore this topic, and many other topics, and hopefully put an end to all the misinformation and rumor.

Enjoy this fascinating and important read.

All The Best,

Cory Cooper

Breaking News: Graceland softens up on ETAs !

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AP Wire | 05/18/2006 | Graceland softens up on Elvis impersonators

Cirque du Soleil to build new shows around Elvis

SOURCE: REUTERS

By Steve Gorman
Fri May 19, 10:29 AM ET



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Elvis may have left the building, but in a couple of years fans of Cirque du Soleil may find the King of Rock 'n' Roll swiveling his hips and singing "Jailhouse Rock" from a trapeze.

CKX Inc., which owns rights to Elvis Presley's name, likeness and music publishing, has teamed up with the famed troupe of acrobats and contortionists to produce Presley-themed shows around the world, the company said on Thursday.

Dubbed the "Elvis Presley Projects," the joint venture will incorporate Cirque du Soleil touring shows and permanent Cirque productions at fixed venues, all incorporating the name, image, likeness and music of Presley.

Cirque will also produce an interactive multimedia presentation of music, audiovisual works and memorabilia featuring the life and times of Elvis.

The shows are all slated to debut in 2008.

While production plans were still murky, CKX Chairman Robert Sillerman said he expected the shows would involve a mix of "original recordings and new performances" of Presley's music and that Cirque du Soleil "will create an extravaganza, a spectacle to that."

Sillerman said some kind of Elvis Presley character might be part of the shows.

A separate deal will have to be reached with RCA Records parent Sony BMG for permission to use recordings of Presley's music because that label still owns the masters to his songs, he added.

The new Presley production will be added to the repertoire of 13 shows that Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil is now presenting around the world. Its latest extravaganza, the first incorporating music not composed for Cirque, opens next month in Las Vegas featuring the music of the Beatles.

CKX bought a controlling interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises from the rock legend's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, in December 2004 in a deal valued at $100 million.

Sillerman's company struck a similar deal for the rights to boxing great Muhammad Ali's image for about $50 million in cash last month.

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Sold: Elvis Presley's house goes for $905,100

source: yahoo.com/reuters

By Michael Conlon
1 hour, 39 minutes ago


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Psychic Uri Geller and two partners have bought the Tennessee house Elvis Presley lived in before moving to Graceland, with a winning bid of $905,100 (480,000 pounds) on eBay, he said on Monday.


"We are unbelievably pleased. This is a piece of history," Geller said by phone from England.

"We intend to restore it to its old glory. We would like to bring sick children there (for tours), Palestinian children, Israeli children, American children," the Israeli-born Geller said. "Hopefully one day we might get approval to turn it into a museum."

Presley bought the four-bedroom, two-bath house at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis in 1956 with a down payment of $500. He lived there for 13 months before moving to Graceland, the now-famous Memphis estate where he died in 1977.

During his time in the white, ranch-style house with an outdoor swimming pool, Presley's career took off with hits such as "All Shook Up" and "Don't be cruel."

Geller identified the sellers as Mike and Cindy Hazen, who bought the house some years ago, though not from Presley, for about $180,000.

Geller had original bid $300,000 last month but a bidding war ensued and the price ballooned, he said. During the process he was approached by dozens of people wanting to go in with him, he said. He chose two, New York lawyer Jim Gleason and Lisbeth Silvandersson, a Swedish-born jewellery maker who lives in England, as equal partners.

He had set a ceiling price of $1.11 million, said Geller, who acknowledges a paranormal fascination with the number 11.

"As the clock closed on the bidding Sunday," Geller said, "I felt intuitively I got the price. I was text messaging Gleason and it was exactly 11 on my mobile phone and suddenly the radio started playing an Elvis song. That was Elvis telling me we got the house!"

Geller met Presley in Las Vegas in the 1970s after the "King of Rock and Roll" asked him to perform his "spoon bending" trick for him, he said. Since then he has amassed a large collection of Presley memorabilia, he said.

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