Cookie Jar Group

Cookie Jar Group
Trade name	Cookie Jar Group
Formerly	CINAR Enterprises Inc.; (1976–2004); CINAR Films Inc.; (1976–1999); CINAR Corporation; (1997–2004); Cookie Jar Group Inc. ; (2004-2012); DHX Cookie Jar Inc.; (2012–2014);
Company type	Subsidiary
Fate	Acquired by, merged with, and folded into DHX Media
Headquarters	Official office: 266 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; International offices: 1055 René-Lévesque Blvd. East, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Burbank, California, U.S.
Number of locations	3 (2006)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Michael Hirsh (CEO); Lesley Taylor (President)
Parent	DHX Media
Divisions	Cookie Jar Entertainment; Cookie Jar Education; Cookie Jar Consumer Products; Horn Rims Enterprises; KidsCo; Copyright Promotions Licensing Group
Website	www.thecookiejarcompany.com

Cookie Jar Group is a Canadian media production and distribution company. Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg started it in 1976 in the United States as just a distributor. In 1984 they moved to Montreal and started to make children's TV series.^[1] The company made series including Papa Beaver's Storytime, The Cat Tales, The Babaloos, Wimzie's House, The Little Lulu Show, Miffy: Colors, Numbers and Shapes, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, The Animal Crackers, The Secret World of Santa Claus, Mumble Bumble and Mona the Vampire. DHX Media bought the company in 2012.

Other names

The company's original name was CINAR Enterprises. It changed its name in 2004 to Cookie Jar Group. In 2014 it became DHX Cookie Jar Inc.

CINAR logo used from 1984 to 2004, shown here is the 2000 variant, consisting of the 1994 wordmark on a blue oval.

↑ Brenda Branswell. Cinar Films (Profile). Macleans (April 28, 2003). Retrieved January 22, 2024.