Olsens launch assault on Aussie market

September 26 2002

The world's most successful television twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, have announced their billion-dollar empire was poised for an assault on the Australian market.

The mary-kateandashley brand is already a hit in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States where the twins, now 16, rose to fame in the hit series Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995.

Since then, they've built a billion-dollar empire that includes clothing, movies, television shows, videos and books.

The pair flew into Sydney on Tuesday and...

FULL HOUSE'S TYCOON TOTS

The Olsen twins of Full House are normal 7-years-olds, except they're rich, rich, rich!

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the cute-beyond-measure, sparkle-eyed twins who share the role of Michelle on ABC's Full House, act just like any other 7-year-old girls. They are shy around strangers, giggly when left to themselves. They share secrets. They like ice cream and ponies and swimming-pool slides. And, like most little girls, they fidget when they're sleepy and pout when they're angry.
"I want a tiger, Daddy," Mary-Kate kept saying, over and over, squirming in the back seat of...