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Penthouse brings magazine, trademarked assets back home

on Feb 22, 2016 | 0 comments

By Doug Zanger

In a move, philosophically counter to Playboy, newly-formed company Penthouse Global Media Inc. (PGMI) has acquired the Penthouse brand, and all licensed assets from FriendFinder Network (FFN), an Internet-based social network, best known for its hook-up, dating and adult sites such as AdultFriendFinder.com.

While Playboy has become more demure in its approach to being more in line with today’s culture and sensibilities, especially with millennials, PGMI, led by Kelly Holland (also known as Toni English), a veteran pornographic film director, is obviously defiant in its position and offered a mildly veiled shot across the bow.

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Source: The Drum