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, 1980s and 1990s, 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 formed Avon Home Video, 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-font labels on subsequent video releases; tapes prior to 1990 have a Jeopardy-style font used for the lettering on the label, while tapes post-1990 have a typewriter-like font on the label. Some of their post-1988 video releases of titles licensed from various companies carry the regular distributor's logo on the product label, including a couple of Random House Home Video titles sold through the company. The regular distributor's logo is also retained on the packaging, but the regular 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 post-1982 Disney video releases. Many of the company's post-1988 video releases were duplicated in SP mode, though some are in either LP or EP/SLP mode, lack previews and otherwise reuse the print masters provided by the regular distributor.

Avon never had their video releases packaged in clamshells, nor did they sell titles rated any higher than PG-13. In addition, Disney was one of the few companies that never sold their video releases through Avon.

In 2004, once the deals with the following home video distributors expired, Avon exited the video business.

List of licensing distributors

 * MGM/UA Home Video (1991-1997)
 * Fries Home Video (1989-1992)
 * MCEG Virgin Home Entertainment (1989-1990)
 * Virgin Vision (1988-1989)
 * Forum Home Video (1988-1989)
 * Orion Home Video (1990-1997)
 * Hemdale Home Video (1991-1995)
 * GoodTimes Home Video (1985-2000)
 * Kids Klassics (1985-1996)
 * Lionsgate Home Entertainment
 * Prism Entertainment (1988-1997) (limited to self-distributed tapes and tapes co-distributed by Turner Home Entertainment)
 * Trimark Home Video (1988-2001)
 * Sterling Home Entertainment (1998-2001)
 * Artisan Entertainment (1991-1998)
 * Family Home Entertainment (1991-1998)
 * Vestron Video (1991-1993)
 * Hallmark Home Entertainment (1997-1998)
 * Cabin Fever Entertainment (1989-1998)
 * Anchor Bay Entertainment (1995-1998)
 * Video Treasures (1990-1998)
 * Media Home Entertainment (1990-1993)
 * Burbank Video (1991-1995)
 * American Video (1988-1991)
 * Strand Home Video (1990-1994)
 * Starmaker Entertainment (1990-1998)
 * R&G Video (1990-1998)
 * Warner Home Video (1994-2004)
 * New Line Home Entertainment (1991-2004)
 * Nelson Entertainment (1988-1991)
 * Turner Home Entertainment (1992-1997)
 * Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1989-1992)
 * HBO Home Video (1988-2004)
 * WarnerVision Entertainment (1990-1997)
 * Warner Reprise Video (1988-2004)
 * Lorimar Home Video (1989)
 * Universal Studios Home Video (1991-2004)
 * PolyGram Video/USA Home Entertainment (1991-1999)
 * Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (1992-2004)
 * Sony Video Software (1988-1991)
 * Sony Music Entertainment (1997-2004)
 * BMG Video (1988-2004)
 * Sony Wonder (1997-2004)
 * Random House Home Video (1989-2004)
 * FUNimation Entertainment (1996-2004)
 * Golden Books Family Entertainment (1991-2000)
 * ClassicMedia (2000-2003)
 * Wood Knapp Video (1989-1992)
 * Alpha Video Distributors (1994-1996)
 * Paramount Home Entertainment (1988-2004)
 * Republic Pictures Home Video (1991-1999)
 * Worldvision Home Video (1986-1995)
 * 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (1989-2004)
 * Celebrity Home Entertainment (1989-1998)
 * Saban Home Entertainment (1993-1996)
 * York Entertainment (1992-2004)
 * Dualstar Video (1993-1998)
 * Academy Entertainment (1988-1994)
 * PM Entertainment Group (1990-2001)
 * Spartan Home Entertainment (2000-2003)
 * Full Moon Releasing (1995-2002)
 * First Look Home Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * ABC Video (1993-1996)
 * Summa Video (1993-1996)
 * Rhino Home Video (1991-2004)
 * Public Media/Janus Films (1988-2004)
 * Image Entertainment (1998-2004)
 * Kultur (1988-2004)
 * Kino on Video (1989-2004)
 * WinStar Home Entertainment (1997-2001)
 * Fox Lorber Home Video (1990-2001)
 * BWE Video (1996-2000)
 * New Yorker Video (1989-2004)
 * National Geographic Video (1988-2004)
 * AnimEigo (1991-2004)
 * Water Bearer Films (1988-2004)
 * Media Blasters (1997-2004)
 * Central Park Media (1991-2004)
 * WWE Home Video (1997-2004)
 * Coliseum Video (1988-1997)
 * ESPN Home Video (1988-1996)
 * Major League Baseball Home Video (1991-1996)
 * A&E Home Video (1993-2002)
 * Goldhil Video (1995-2001)
 * New Concorde (1991-2004)
 * A-Pix Entertainment (1993-2002)
 * Showtime Entertainment (1995-2004)
 * Avalanche Home Entertainment (1998-2001)
 * Studio Home Entertainment (2000-2001)
 * ADV Films (1993-2004)
 * Monterey Home Video (1991-2004)
 * VCI Home Video (1988-2004)
 * PBS Home Video (1989-2004)
 * Public Arts (1989-1994)
 * Acorn Video (1993-2004)
 * World Wide Pictures Home Video (1988-2004)
 * World Artists Home Video (1992-1996)
 * MPI Home Video (1988-2004)
 * The Vista Group (1988-1994)
 * PPI Entertainment (1988-2004)
 * New Video (1992-2004)
 * J2 Communications (1988-1991)
 * Screen Media Films (2002-2004)
 * Trinity Home Entertainment (2002)
 * Big Idea Productions (1993-2004)
 * Word Entertainment (1991-1999)
 * Everland Entertainment (1992-1999)
 * Brentwood Home Video (1991-2004)
 * View-Master Video (1988-1995)
 * Feld Entertainment (2003-2004)
 * Bridgestone Multimedia Group (1988-2004)
 * WGBH Boston Video (1993-2004)
 * HiT Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * Lyrick Studios (1989-2001)
 * DEJ Productions (1998-2004)
 * Trans World Entertainment (1988-1989)
 * KingWorld Direct (1992-1998)
 * Cloud Ten Pictures (2000-2004)
 * SouthGate Entertainment (1989-1991)
 * SGE Home Video (1989-1991)
 * Imperial Entertainment (1988-1996)
 * Cannon Video (1988-1994)
 * Xenon Entertainment Group (1989-2004)
 * Fisher-Price (1988-1993)
 * KVC Home Video (1989-1993)
 * Barr Entertainment (1993-1995)
 * Unicorn Video (1989-1990)
 * Learning Corporation of America (1989-1990)
 * Magnum Entertainment (1988-1992)
 * Complete Entertainment (1988-1991)
 * AIP Home Video (1989-1996)
 * Best Film & Video Corp. (1988-2001)
 * Axon Video (1989-1992)
 * Edde Entertainment (1989-1998)
 * Connoisseur Video Collection (1988-1994)
 * Warren Miller Entertainment (1988-1994)
 * New Star Video (1988-1990)
 * Platinum Productions (1988-1991)
 * Panorama International (1988-1996)
 * Price Stern Sloan (1990)
 * Studio Entertainment (1988-1991)
 * Radeon Home Video (1988-1990)
 * Arena Home Video (1990-1997)
 * Al Taylor Company (1990)
 * Wonderworld Cartoons (1990)
 * Direct Video (1989-1990)
 * First Run Features Home Video (1989-1998)
 * Summit Media (1988-1992)
 * Milestone Film & Video (1992-1995)
 * Pioneer Entertainment (1993-2003)
 * Geneon Entertainment USA (2003-2004)
 * Feature Films for Families (1991-2004)
 * Sinister Cinema (1989-2002)

Locations

 * New York City, New York