Andrews McMeel Universal engages in book and calendar publishing and gift and stationery merchandising. The company publishes calendars, gift ideas, cartoon, cook, humor, general, board, picture, and gift, and kids books, and journals, as well as Mary Engelbreit, Anne Geddes, Bradley Trevor Greive, Becky Kelly, Thomas Kinkade, and Olivia. It also provides hand puppets, science series, and toys for kids. Inaddition, the company packages and distributes comics and word games on the Web for portal sites, news delivery sites, content aggregators, online newspapers, and dot com businesses. Further, it develops UPS and AMP properties from the page to the screen, as well as represents other individuals in TV and film. The company was founded in 1970 as Universal Press Syndicate and later changed its name to Andrews McMeel Universal in 1997. Andrews McMeel Universal is based in Kansas City, Missouri.