Our clients have successful product placements in many prominent retailers, including:

The Buffalo Works, LLC represents artists and intellectual property owners. We are a full-service agency offerring brand planning, marketing, product development and strategic planning for our clients. Our high-level experience in all three sides of the retail business – retail buying, manufacturing and licensing representation – allows us to deliver extremely effective results will little overhead.


Joanne Olds

Joanne is an accomplished licensing professional with twenty years of experience in diverse retail product environments. She places an emphasis on building brands through licensing, marketing and product development. Joanne's experience includes retail buying (responsible for $100 million in annual purchasing), manufacturing (VP of $70 million dollar company) and licensing ($350+ million in retail sales last year). She is a seasoned licensing executive who has built a career and reputation based on initiative, strategic thinking, strong leadership and results oriented brand management. Before founding The Buffalo Works in 2000, Joanne worked in all aspects of brand marketing and licensing with NordicTrack, Musicland, Anagram, and Minnetonka Brands.    jolds@thebuffaloworks.com

Mamie Haas

Mamie brings to The Buffalo Works a deep background in trend identification and management, fashion strategies, and consumer purchasing behavior analysis. Her background includes 12 years of retail purchasing for Target, with a focus on product develoment and management.    mhaas@thebuffaloworks.com

The Buffalo Works has successfully placed and managed client work with the following licencees:

• Certified International
• Boyd's Beard
• Evergreen Enterprises
• Enesco
• Current
• The Danbury Mint
• Lang
• Manual Woodworkers & Weavers
• Springbok
• Kay-Dee
• CR Gibson
• Marian Heath
• All American Crafts
• Blonder
• Custom Direct
• Fundex Games
• Low Country Luxe
• Peking Handicraft

• Pavallion Gift Company
• Seagull
• A.D. Lines
• Avanti
• Creative Co-Op
• Blossom Bucket
• Franco Manufacturing
• Hindostone
• Legacy Press
• Mowhawk Rugs
• Sunset Vista
• Cranston
• Wichelt
• Andrews McMeel
• Editions Limited
• Microthin
• Time Factory

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