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The new controlling owners of the Agatha Christie
estate have signed with William
Morris Endeavor for exclusive representation of all facets of
the estate, "expanding its reach across television, film and digital
media." Acorn Productions acquired the
64 percent stake in Agatha Christie Ltd that had been owned by Chorion in
February 2012, calling it "the most important deal in the company’s history."
The Agatha Christie family owns the remaining 36 percent. Christie's literary
works include over 80 novels and short story collections and 19 plays, which
they say continue to sell at a rate of over three million books per year
worldwide.
Harvard Common Press is
opening a small office in downtown San Francisco as a "footprint" for
their expanding activity in "engaging with food startups and acting as a
strategic content and investment partner" to new players from the San
Francisco food and technology community. Just as "ed-tech" is a hot
investment area, they see "food + tech" as an emerging space with a
lot of potential. Associate publisher Adam
Salome will oversee the new office--primarily a meeting
space--as the company "looks to expand its presence in the food innovation
arena." They were investors in the recipe search engine Yummly
in 2010, which "has led us to more serious conversations, interactions and
other investments with food startups."
Their latest investment was
in Caviar,
which powers take-out delivery for restaurants that don't have their own
delivery drivers, and are actively"talking with a number of different
companies that are tackling various avenues of food + tech."
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