Founded in 1926 by a man with an eye for recycling and a belief in human potential, The Antioch Company is a multinational organization with business units located in Ohio and Minnesota.The company’s direct-selling division, Creative Memories, is an industry leader in the manufacture and sale of digital and traditional memory-celebration products. Creative Memories operates in the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, with expansion planned in other European countries.

Founded 1914 in New York City, Beacon Looms, Inc. has been designing, manufacturing and supplying quality goods to the Home Textile industry for over 90 years. Originally producing trimmings, the company quickly outgrew its Manhattan facilities and moved to Beacon, New York where it incorporated to Beacon Looms, Inc. and extended into the design and manufacturing of curtain and draperies products.Today, the innovation tradition continues in both window and bedding. The company InsuldarkTM panels, targeted at today's energy-conscious consumer, are designed to block out light, retain heat yet maintain a supple luxurious feel not available in older "foam-backed" curtains. The company versatile 3-way panel top construction allows customers to get multiple hanging looks in one curtain with no extra cost. And in bedding, the innovated DuverletTM, combination duvet cover and coverlet, was designed to satisfied a void observed by our intuitive staff.

Celebriducks is hatched by an animation artist and his product design major daughter, doesn't make a rubber ducky you'd see bobbing around in Ernie's bathtub. The firm offers rubber ducks with eerily detailed features that mirror James Brown, Mae West, Shakespeare, Betty Boop, Elvis, Bill Clinton, Mr. T, and The Osbournes. They're sold through major department stores, smaller specialty shops, and its Web site. These fowl are also commissioned by major sports teams for game giveaways. Its Allen Iverson duck, made for the Philadelphia 76ers and complete with cornrows and tattoos, was Celebriduck's most difficult design yet. The nontoxic-vinyl ducks are manufactured in China.

Great American Products was co-founded in 1972 by Roger Tuttle, the current President & CEO. Initially the company was a entrepreneurial mail order firm selling into to the motorcycle market, and then emerged as a manufacturer specializing in the production and sale of hand crafted pewter buckles, which were sold to specialty shops throughout the country.On February 1, 2002 GAP acquired Fort U.S.A., a fifty-seven year old souvenir company from Providence, Rhode Island. The synergistic acquisition of Fort U.S.A. for 1.25 million gives GAP a valued customer base and a sales representative force with cross selling opportunities of the GAP line of products.2007 marks the 35th Anniversary of Great American Products; the company has realized annual sales in excess of $17 million, and has emerged as a leader in the Licensed Sports industry. New products are constantly being developed and new channels of distribution are opening up to provide further growth.

D&M Holdings manages a portfolio of companies that manufacture high-end audio, video, and home theater equipment. Its subsidiaries include Denon Electronics, Marantz Japan, and McIntosh Laboratory. Digital Networks North America (DNNA), also a subsidiary of D&M, manages digital home electronics divisions, including Rio (MP3 players) and Escient (digital convergence products). Other brands owned by the company include Boston Acoustics (loudspeakers), Snell Acoustics (speakers), and Denon DJ (MP3 players). Founded in 2002, D&M Holdings was acquired by the US investment firm Bain Capital Partners for about $460 million in 2008.

Virco Mfg. Corporation engages in the design, production, and distribution of furniture in the United States. The company offers seating products, including cantilever chairs, tablet arm chairs, rockers, hard plastic seats, backrests, work surfaces, task chairs, classroom chairs, stack chairs, folding chairs, upholstered stack chairs, plastic stack chairs, and upholstered ergonomic chairs; folding and banquet tables, activity tables, office tables, and mobile tables; and tables, desks, and workstations for computing applications. It also offers chair desks and combo units, teachers desks, and tablet arm units; mobile tables, cabinets, and chairs; and handling and storage equipment, including stackable storage trucks for convention center, arena, and auditorium customers. In addition, the company provides vendor-supplied items, such as wood and steel office furniture, early learning products for pre-school and kindergarten classrooms, science laboratory furniture, library tables, chairs, and equipment. Further, it offers PlanSCAPE project management software that allows its sales representatives to provide CAD layouts of classrooms, as well as classroom-by-classroom planning documents for the budgeting, acquisition, and installation of furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF and E); and support services, including package solutions for the FF and E line item on school budgets, computer-assisted layout planning, transportation planning, product delivery, installation, and repair. The company primarily serves educational institutions, convention centers and arenas, hospitality providers, government facilities, and places of worship. Virco Mfg. Corporation was founded in 1950 and is based in Torrance, California.

Musicorp is a leading wholesale distributor of musical instruments, accessories and lighting equipment owned by KMC. Musicorp partners with music retail customers to help them strategically grow their business, providing the industry’s widest product selection, broadest marketing reach and national distribution networkMusicorp is equipped to meet the needs of retailers, offering quality, cost-effective, self-manufactured brands such as Barcus-Berry, J.B. Player, J. Reynolds, Percussion Plus, Stageline, MBT Cases, Arbor Guitars, Amigo, Lauren and MBT Lighting & Sound. Musicorp also partners with international brands such as Yamaha portable keyboards and guitars, Dean Guitars, Remo Crown Percussion, Samson, Zoom, Hartke and Luna Guitars in exclusive distribution arrangements to better serve the industry.

Amana Society Inc., operates the businesses of the Amana community of Iowa, which include The Amana Furniture & Clock Shop, Amana General Store, Amana Woolen Mill, Amana Meat Shop & Smokehouse, Little Amana General Store & Woolens, Amana Holiday Inn, Amana Colonies RV Park, and Amana Woolen Mill. The Amana Society's mission is to collect, preserve, and interpret the heritage of the Amana community. About 20% of the company's furniture is commissioned and designed specially to a customer's request.

Charisma Brands, LLC, is an Irvine, California-based creator, developer, and marketer of award-winning collectible, toy, gift, jewelry, and specialty products. A partial listing of the premier brands of Charisma include Marie Osmond, Kenneth Jay Lane-Jewelry’s Living Legend, Nolan Miller, Dennis Basso, Lunch At The Ritz 2 Go, Francesca Visconti, Bob Mackie, Kewpie, Penny Brite, Artista, and Charisma Brands exciting new addition, Paradise Galleries.The Company’s name, Charisma Brands, comes from its Rhode Island design and manufacturing center – known for over thirty years as Charisma Manufacturing Co. The Rhode Island center was formed by European artisans to create beautiful, high quality, handmade products, a tradition that continues to this day. Since the spirit of artistic design and skillful craftsmanship established in Rhode Island applies to all of the Company’s products, it was natural to adopt this name for the Company.

Wild Planet Toys company develops and manufactures toys, including its best known Spy Gear line and popular Spy Video ATV. Other products include pirate toys , pool toys , creature construction kits , and flashlights that transform into toys . Its toys are distributed in more than 50 countries at mass-market retail stores. The company was founded in 1993 by CEO Danny Grossman. Wild Planet is working to expand its toy collection through licensing agreements.

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