March 26--Margie A. Younger, a lively retiree who acted in local theater, wrote a Placer County newspaper column and appeared in Chia Pet ads on national TV, died March 19 after a brief illness, her ...

More than 30 million units have been sold since Chia Pets first debuted in 1977 Chia Pets are officially headed to the screen after their media rights were acquired by Rakia Media and Crystal City ...

Joseph Pedott was ahead of the wave on ch-ch-ch-chia seeds, TV advertising, and plants as the new pets. Who is he? Joseph Pedott was an advertising executive and entrepreneur, best known for ...

If you picked up gardening over the pandemic like I did, we're not alone. Google searches for the term houseplants hit an all-time high in 2020. And so many young ...

It's the IP that grows! The media rights behind the Chia Pet brand have been acquired by writer and producer Adam Jay Epstein and producers Ari Daniel Pinchot and Jonathan Rubenstein via their IP ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Joseph Pedott, the man behind the Chia Pet, The Clapper ...

The commercials he created, with their “ch-ch-ch-Chia” jingle, became as much a vivid part of American consumer life as the goofy product they sold. By Alex Traub Joseph Pedott, whose decades of ...

Those fuzzy green sprouts that once turned terracotta figurines into pop culture punchlines are officially Hollywood-bound. Chia Pets, the long-running novelty brand known for its instant “hair growth ...

Chia Pets are officially headed to the screen after their media rights were acquired by Rakia Media and Crystal City Entertainment The team told Variety that an animated film or series inspired by the ...