Cynthia Littleton Business EditorLaura Kennedy took the reins of management-production firm Avalon as CEO about five months before the global pandemic upended all of the company’s businesses: talent representation, content production and live comedy tours.The bumpiness of the past year has reinforced her faith in the company’s business model, which benefits from having a diverse mix of revenue streams, and operations spread in London, New York and Los Angeles.On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Kennedy says Avalon takes good advantage of beneficial policies in the U.K., including pandemic insurance that was recently made available by the government and the broad copyright ownership protections granted across the.
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