About

A licensee
built like a category owner.

Operation Fandom is the operating spine of a proven wholesale-first licensed-merchandise engine — extended into a turnkey partner brand for rights holders, retailers, and investors.

Design studio interior with product samples on an oak worktable and a corkboard of color swatches, fabric samples, and printed product concepts.

Origin

The category we already know how to run.

Where the operating model came from.

Operation Fandom is built on the working operating spine of Just Funky — a Fan Fiction Merchandise Manufacturer of the Year with a decade-plus of licensed-goods experience, over 10,000 active retail doors globally, and a wholesale-first model that has scaled programs across every mainstream and specialty channel in North America.

What Operation Fandom does is repackage that engine — the design team, the licensor relationships, the retailer relationships, the compliance stack, the factory network — as a turnkey partner brand that rights holders, retailers, and investors can transact with directly.

Why now.

Licensed-merchandise is a $389.8 billion global market growing at 5.5% year-over-year. Anime alone is a $13.4 billion segment compounding at 8.9% to 2035. But the buyer landscape has fragmented — mass retailers are dedicating aisle space to collectibles, specialty retail is deepening, and international demand is now real revenue. The market needs a licensee that can serve all of those channels from one program.

What we're building.

A category owner in fandom. Not a manufacturer, not a licensing agent, not a design studio — the whole stack, one contract, one accountable partner. That's the "turnkey" claim. Everything on this site is engineered to prove it.

Competitive moats

Four things that are hard to copy.

01 / Distribution depth

10,000+ doors across every relevant channel.

Direct buyer relationships across mass, specialty, home, DTC, subscription, and international. A new licensee spends 3-5 years earning what already exists here.

02 / Creative-to-manufacturing engine

Design, licensing, and factory in the same room.

Concept-to-shipping SKU in a single accountable team. Iteration cycles measured in weeks, not quarters — a compression most licensees cannot replicate without a full internal build.

03 / Recurring IP-driven revenue

Royalty economics, portfolio-durable.

Long-tail franchises (Dragon Ball, Naruto, The Office) supply steady baseline sell-through. Fast-moving new IP (JJK, Chainsaw Man, Spy × Family) provides growth. The portfolio never depends on a single hit.

04 / Turnkey partner position

One contract, not four vendors.

Rights holders and retailers get a single-throat-to-choke partner. That's not marketing — it's how the internal ops are physically structured, and it's why programs actually ship on time.

Market

A permanent category, not a moment.

$389.8B
Global licensed-merch market
5.5%
Annual market growth (YoY)
$13.4B
Anime segment
8.9%
Anime CAGR to 2035

Mass retailers now allocate dedicated shelf space to fandom collectibles. Specialty retail continues to deepen. International demand — especially European anime — is now committed revenue. The category is structural, not cyclical.

Recognition

Independent proof, on the record.

Top 150 Leading Licensee — four consecutive years
License Global
Fan Fiction Merchandise Manufacturer of the Year, 2023
New World Report
Best in Business, 2022 (2nd consecutive year)
Inc. Magazine
Entrepreneur360 — Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America
Entrepreneur Magazine
Licensing Expo exhibitor — Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Multi-year, 2024 confirmed
Toy Fair — anniversary showcases & brand launches
30-year Dragon Ball Z exclusive showcase

Leadership

Operator-led. Not a licensing consultancy.

Operation Fandom is operated by JMTD Holdings from West Palm Beach, FL. The company holds and manages the operating relationships, licensor agreements, and retailer accounts behind every program.

Founder & CEO

Pranav Arora

Operator behind JMTD Holdings and the fintech, IP, and consumer-brand programs housed under it. Direct experience running licensed-merchandise programs, offshore financial infrastructure, and consumer-product P&Ls at scale.

Based in West Palm Beach, FL. Available for licensor, retailer, and investor conversations directly.

Get in touch
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JMTD Holdings
West Palm Beach, FL

The ask

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