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Santa Barbara Design Studio Acquires Stephan Baby PHOENIX (June 8th, 2017) -- Creave Brands of Phoenix, AZ has acquired the Stephan Baby Company of Pierceton, IN. Stephan Baby was founded by Jan Campbell in 1987 and is a family owned and operated company focused on providing exceponal baby products and accessories to both the giſt and baby apparel markets. For the last thirty years Stephan Baby has solidified its posion as the market leader in baby apparel, blankets, plush and toy sets that differenate the firm in the marketplace. Core products include Boo Bunnies, Swaddle Blankets, Plush Chairs and Chewbies. In addion Stephan Baby has had great success with lovable licenses like "The Rainbow Fish" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." "We are very pleased to have a new strategic partner who will share our vision for Stephan Baby and help us grow our business in the future. This team is well versed with the needs of our industry and can help strengthen our markeng posion in baby markets across all channels of distribuon," said Ms. Campbell, President of Stephan Baby. "With their resources, and the help of their field sales force, telemarkeng staff and sophiscated web presence, we firmly believe Stephan Baby will connue to grow profitably and offer our customers the highest quality products and superior customer service that our industry has come to expect." Creave Brands, founded in 1948, is a distribuon, imporng and manufacturing firm with six disnct catalogs selling to an assortment of retailers across the country. Recent acquisions include Hearelt, Santa Barbara Design Studio and Michel & Co. in the giſt industry in addion to their Faithworks brand that distributes inspiraonal products to the Chrisan retail channel. Paul DiGiovanni, President of Creave Brands, said, "We are thrilled to be a part of this wonderful Stephan Baby brand. The Campbell family has combined vision and hard work to build this unique baby giſt brand and we look forward to offering this unique grouping of quality products to our customer base while geng to know all the new customers of Stephan Baby." Creave Brands is headquartered in Phoenix Arizona with manufacturing facilies, a call center and a distribuon center in Lewisburg; TN. hp://www.cb-giſt.com MEDIA CONTACTS: Brian Schroeder Vice President, Sales & Markeng (513) 608-3080 bschroeder@cg-giſt.com Santa Barbara Design Studio is a Creave Brands Company

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Page 1: Santa Barbara Design Studio Acquires Stephan Baby€¦ · Santa Barbara Design Studio Acquires Stephan Baby PHOENIX (June 8th, 2017)-- Creative Brands of Phoenix, AZ has acquired

Santa Barbara Design Studio Acquires Stephan Baby

PHOENIX (June 8th, 2017) -- Creative Brands of Phoenix, AZ has acquired the Stephan Baby Company of Pierceton, IN.

Stephan Baby was founded by Jan Campbell in 1987 and is a family owned and operated company focused on providing exceptional baby products and accessories to both the gift and baby apparel markets.

For the last thirty years Stephan Baby has solidified its position as the market leader in baby apparel, blankets, plush and toy sets that differentiate the firm in the marketplace. Core products include Boo Bunnies, Swaddle Blankets, Plush Chairs and Chewbies. In addition Stephan Baby has had great success with lovable licenses like "The Rainbow Fish" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

"We are very pleased to have a new strategic partner who will share our vision for Stephan Baby and help us grow our business in the future. This team is well versed with the needs of our industry and can help strengthen our marketing position in baby markets across all channels of distribution," said Ms. Campbell, President of Stephan Baby. "With their resources, and the help of their field sales force, telemarketing staff and sophisticated web presence, we firmly believe Stephan Baby will continue to grow profitably and offer our customers the highest quality products and superior customer service that our industry has come to expect."

Creative Brands, founded in 1948, is a distribution, importing and manufacturing firm with six distinct catalogs selling to an assortment of retailers across the country.

Recent acquisitions include Heartfelt, Santa Barbara Design Studio and Michel & Co. in the gift industry in addition to their Faithworks brand that distributes inspirational products to the Christian retail channel.

Paul DiGiovanni, President of Creative Brands, said, "We are thrilled to be a part of this wonderful Stephan Baby brand. The Campbell family has combined vision and hard work to build this unique baby gift brand and we look forward to offering this unique grouping of quality products to our customer base while getting to know all the new customers of Stephan Baby."

Creative Brands is headquartered in Phoenix Arizona with manufacturing facilities, a call center and a distribution center in Lewisburg; TN. http://www.cb-gift.com

MEDIA CONTACTS:Brian SchroederVice President, Sales & Marketing(513) [email protected]

Santa Barbara Design Studio is a Creative Brands Company