396:'s Ahmed Rehab wrote that he found a NobleWorks greeting card in a Chicago store that featured a hijab-wearing doll and the captions "Hope your birthday is a blow out!", "She’ll Love You To Death” and "Pull string for message — if you dare!" The card, which was first released in 2011, parodies "Aamina, the Muslim Doll", which helps children learn how to say "Peace be unto you” and “If God wills it" in Arabic.
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Ron Kanfi, who became an employee in 1983, was made a partner in 1987. Purvis left NobleWorks in 1986, and Kanfi and Noble purchased Purvis' ownership in NobleWorks. NobleWorks started its inaugural batch of "Talk
Bubbles" cards, which had talk bubbles and humorous messages placed on top of vintage
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grown. Bush, who exudes perplexity, inquires, "What happened to Santa?" Another card depicted a wife who is in bed is retrieving an object from her nightstand, saying, "How dare he falls sound asleep on
Valentine's Day. I'll just set his side of the electric blanket on roast!" The card received a
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When independent merchants began to be displaced by malls in the 1990s, NobleWorks changed its business focus by licensing its content to other products and starting an ecommerce platform to sell the products. In addition to greeting cards, NobleWorks creates and sells calendars, posters, and
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NobleWorks develops several lines and licenses properties to other greeting card companies, publishers, and manufacturers. NobleWorks also licenses artwork from various cartoonists and designers who are based in the United States as well as in other countries.
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Christopher Noble died in 2002, after which Ron Kanfi purchased the company. Kanfi became the president and creative director of NobleWorks. A couple years following Noble's death, NobleWorks was in debt and underwent a reorganization after it filed for
228:. It shuttered its warehouse in 2010 and moved to "on-demand printing" of its cards, which led to a higher per card expense but saved the company money since it no longer needed storage space for when it printed more cards than there was demand for.
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and needed to attract some of their cards like one that had "a cartoon of a pilot relaxing on a beach, using a walkie-talkie to contact a plane flying overhead. It said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking....'"
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to create designs for the greeting cards. It then sends the cartoons to several dozen wordsmiths who come up with the text. NobleWorks had ceased making cards related to airplanes, bombs, and armaments after the
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called "the greeting card industry's equivalent of an Oscar". NobleWorks had received four Louies by 1992. NobleWorks enlisted seven cartoonists to produce content for it in 1992, including the quadriplegic
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