History

The company was founded in 1955 by Helmut and Barbara Klein as the first company in the world selling reproduction rights as Helmut Klein INTERLITHO. The business has grown very fast due to strong suppliers in Europe, the USA, Latin America up to Australia and a continously growing network of artists for the own collection.
In addition the business region has been extended from Europe to the States as well as to Latin America and later on also to the Far East.
Recently the business has been taken over by Andreas Klein, who started already way back in 1984 and his wife Anke, who is the licensing director and also a lawyer, she joined in 1997.
Within a short time representatives for Latin America, Great Britain, Australia & New Zealand, Japan, as well as a Licensing Agency in the USA were added to the team at the main office in Cologne.
The customers range from smaller printers to big publishers like Hallmark licensees, Ravensburger Spiele Verlag, Enesco, etc. with products covering greeting cards, albums, stationery, puzzles & games, textile products,tin articles to name just a few.
Now with a collection of about 40.000 designs and 20.000 sold licenses with a value of more 30 Mio. US$, INTERLITHO LICENSING (formerly INTERLITHO de COLOGNE) has a solid base for the future to cover and to capture the design needs of the industry and publishers.