About Us

Kozikidz:

Kozikidz is a brand name of Buttercross Trading Ltd., set up by Management Team  Linda & Tomas Torstensson. Linda and Tomas have 20 years of Marketing and Sales experience from several different countries (including  the UK and Sweden) and from several different industries including Film, Toys, Food & Drink and Technology. They returned to the UK in 2007 to establish the UK company and the brand Kozikidz.

THE FOUNDERS

Linda Kennedy Torstensson
Marketing and Co-Managing Director

Having graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree from Birmingham University Linda went on to carve out a successful Marketing career, working with established brands such as Guinness, Tonka/Hasbro, IBM, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Dreamworks before taking time out to build a family. It was whilst working with Universal and Paramount that her career took her to Sweden where she met her now husband and business partner Tomas.

Tomas Torstensson
Sales and Co-Managing Director

Tomas’ career spans over 20 years in the Film and Media world,(except for a brief  interlude with Procter and Gamble helping to establish their Eukanuba brand in the Nordic region).  This includes working with and for most of the major names in the industry.   In  1999 he was headhunted to Universal Studios to help them establish their Nordic office before being approached to join Paramount  Pictures as Nordic Manging Director in 2004.  During the 3 years to 2007 at at time when industry revenues were beginning to fail Thomas steered Paramount through a period of impressive growth before leaving at the end of 2007 to establish his own company in the UK together with his wife Linda.