Avon

Avon Products, Inc., simply known as Avon and originally known as California Perfume Company until the early-1930s, was an American-British multinational makeup and perfume supplier founded in 1886 and based in New York. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the company had a licensing agreement with Disney to supply makeup products based on various Disney characters. Later during the mid and late 1980s, it had a licensing agreement with GoodTimes Home Video to co-distribute various releases on VHS, among them the 1985 ABC animated TV special, "The Velveteen Rabbit," direct-to-video Muppets programs, and miscellaneous Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In 1988, the company signed licensing agreements with various home video distributors and began a new duplication contract with Technicolor Videocassette, Inc. and from that point on, the company was notorious for putting out generic typewriter-like labels on subsequent video releases. Some of their post-1988 video releases of titles licensed from various companies carry the actual distributor's logo on the product label, including a couple of Random House Home Video titles sold through the company. The actual distributor's logo is also retained on the packaging, but the actual distributor's stock number is replaced with Avon's own stock number, beginning with "F.S.C.", similar to the bracket number on the back of Disney video releases. Many of the company's post-1988 video releases were duplicated in SP mode, though after 1992, some are in either LP or EP/SLP mode, and lack previews. Avon never packaged their video releases in clamshells, nor did they sell titles rated any higher than PG-13. In 2003, Avon exited the video business.

List of licensing distributors

 * MGM/UA Home Video (1991-1997)
 * Fries Home Video (1989-1992)
 * Orion Home Video (1990-1997)
 * GoodTimes Home Video (1985-1997)
 * Kids Klassics (1985-1996)
 * Live Home Video (1991-1997)
 * Family Home Entertainment (1991-1997)
 * Vestron Video (1991-1993)
 * Anchor Bay Entertainment (1995-1998)
 * Video Treasures (1990-1998)
 * Media Home Entertainment (1990-1993)
 * Burbank Video (1991-1995)
 * Jenal Entertainment (1991)
 * Starmaker Entertainment (1990-1998)
 * R&G Video (1990-1998)
 * J2 Communications (1989-1991)
 * Warner Home Video (1997-2003)
 * Turner Home Entertainment (1992-1997)
 * Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1989-1992)
 * Universal Studios Home Video (1991-2003)
 * PolyGram Video/USA Home Entertainment (1991-1999)
 * Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (1992-2003)
 * Sony Music Entertainment (1997-2003)
 * Sony Wonder (1997-2003)
 * Random House Home Video (1989-2003)
 * Golden Books Family Entertainment (1991-2000)
 * ClassicMedia (2000-2003)
 * Wood Knapp Video (1989-1992)
 * Alpha Video Distributors (1994-1996)