The Japanese company Sanrio that created Hello Kitty has announced a new store returning to the Bay Area. Friday, the grand opening of the Sanrio store will commence in the Cupertino Marketplace.

In Hello Kitty’s early years, the company had sold products door-to-door in the US, before setting up the first overseas branch of its retail store, Gift Gate, in San Jose in 1976. But following ...

Hello Kitty, the popular anthropomorphic white cat with a red bow, has arrived in El Paso with its new store. The Hello Kitty store opened Oct. 23 at the Shoppes at Solano, 750 Sunland Park Drive.

Hello Kitty and Build-A-Bear: Celebrating a New Era of Friendship Build-A-Bear and Sanrio will celebrate the store’s grand opening on November 15 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Hello Kitty ...

An in-store photo op is also available at the Sanrio Smile Shop. The Hello Kitty and Friends mural and mini statue of Hello Kitty driving a convertible make for a supercute picture. This ...