The Evergreen Group was established to identify licenses, brands and companies that have the potential to become evergreen properties in family entertainment. By applying innovative marketing and distribution strategies, stagnant or early stage businesses can experience new levels of commercial success.
The firm consists of a network of professionals with broad experience in operations and M&A. These professionals have backgrounds in the entertainment, gaming, technology, and leisure sectors.
TEG brings together this variety of disciplines featuring:
- deep domain expertise
- broad network of relationships in the C-suite
- extensive operating experience in our core focus sectors
- re-structuring and re-financing dexterity
This team of professionals has been involved with M&A activity related to numerous transactions including:
Heading up the West Coast office as Managing Director is Jim L. Wagner. Wagner has over 20 years experience in marketing, sales, licensing and corporate mergers. He possesses an extensive background in entertainment, technology and sports marketing that includes stints at Mattel, The Los Angeles Lakers, Ogilvy & Mather, and Belkin International.
Specifically, Wagner has personally managed leading brands in the youth & family entertainment space including Scrabble, Pictionary, Tetris, Fisher-Price and the Hot Wheels brand – where his team grew the worldwide revenues from $200 million to over $1 Billion annually.
Other brands he has led his teams to build & grow include:
