The marketing company needed someone to get the vomit out of the Tony the Tiger mascot costume. They’d hired the wrong guy — a modeling agency actor, but not someone accustomed to moving around in a ...

SAVANNA, Ill. — Every day there's something new happening at one Savanna business. There's always lots of sewing, gluing and shaping foam at Facemakers. The company is responsible for making hundreds ...

When Napa-based Wine.com wanted to create a walk- around Wine.com character to make appearances at industry events, the e-commerce company's vice president of special events, Dave Harmon, called ...

A large-scale company devoted to creating corporate mascots -- those outsized and sometimes outlandish characters intended to further a brand by instantly being recognized by the public -- is based in ...

Racine resident Keith Janick can make all these haute couture dreams come true. For more than three decades, Janick has been creating foam plastic costumes of sports mascots, animals, birds, holiday ...

What do you do for a living? I own Birdie Mascots and Costumes, a business that specialises in making mascots and costumes. Mascots and costumes are used for entertainment, advertisement and ...

RACINE - A Racine native who has made mascot costumes ranging from Chuck E. Cheese to Bucky Badger has opened a new workshop in Downtown. Sheila Wells is founder and sole owner of Classique Creations, ...

POCATELLO — When Pocatello High School closed the door last year on its controversial mascot, another door opened and college student and entrepreneur Ann Stokes walked through it. Stokes, who has ...

When an enthusiastic person in an eye-catching costume shows up to an event in central Ohio, Adam Bonner likely is involved. The Thomas Worthington High School alumnus has been a mainstay in the ...

In late May as Chicago was still phasing into a new stage of a world-stopping pandemic and before protests roiled the country, Barry Anderson was putting in a full day at the mascot factory. At the ...

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