Dorel Industries Inc. (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) is a world class juvenile products and bicycle company. Established in 1962, Dorel creates style and excitement in equal measure to safety, quality and value. The Company’s lifestyle leadership position is pronounced in both its Juvenile and bicycle categories with an array of trend-setting products. In the Juvenile segment, Dorel’s powerfully branded products such as Quinny, Maxi-Cosi, Safety 1st and Bébé Confort have shown the way to safety, originality and fashion. Similarly, its highly popular brands such as Cannondale, Schwinn, GT, Mongoose and SUGOI have made Dorel a principal player with both independent bicycle dealers and mass merchants. Dorel’s Home Furnishings segment markets a wide assortment of furniture products, both domestically produced and imported. The Company exerts relentless innovation and marketing flair across all of its divisions. Dorel is a $2 billion company with forty-six hundred employees, facilities in seventeen countries, and sales worldwide.US operations include Dorel Juvenile Group USA; the Cycling Sports Group; Pacific Cycle; Ameriwood Industries which produces ready-to-assemble furniture; Altra Furniture; and Cosco Home & Office. In Canada, Dorel operates Dorel Distribution Canada, Dorel Home Products and SUGOI. Abroad, operations include Dorel Europe and IGC in Australia, a manufacturer and distributor of juvenile products. Dorel Asia sources and imports home furnishings products. Dorel China has eight offices which oversee the sourcing, engineering and logistics of the Company’s Asian supplier chain.

Long before Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins showed us how to improve our lives, Nightingale-Conant pioneered the publishing of self-development audiotapes. Its Psychology of Winning, produced in 1978, is one of the best selling audio self-improvement programs in history. Nightingale-Conant markets its motivational tapes by mail order, at business seminars, and through resellers. Its recordings offer advice from business authors, inspirational speakers, and personal skill trainers and are grouped under categories such as personal development, business strategy, wealth building, mind and body, spiritual growth, and sales training. Nightingale-Conant distributes the work of authors including Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar.

Oreck Corporation began as a company manufacturing upright vacuum cleaners for the hotel industry in the U.S. The concept was to design a lightweight yet powerful and durable vacuum that hotel housekeepers would prefer to the very heavy models available to them. The idea proved so successful that now over 50,000 hotels throughout the world use Oreck vacuums. After a short time, hotel personnel asked to buy the machines for their own use, which gave the Oreck Corporation the idea to sell its unique products to the general public.Oreck now sells throughout North America and South America, as well as in Europe and Asia. It has the reputation of being the manufacturer of the very finest cleaning equipment available anywhere. It concentrates on lightweight cleaning machines of every style, each model having exceptional durability and ease of handling. An example of its success is that the only vacuum cleaners sold by the American Express Company are Orecks.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of firearms in the United States. The company offers its products under Ruger name in four product categories, including single-shot, autoloading, bolt-action, and lever action rifles; over and under shotguns; rimfire autoloading and centerfire autoloading pistols; and single action and double action revolvers. It also manufactures and sells accessories and replacement parts for its firearms. In addition, the company manufactures and sells investment castings made from steel alloys. It sells its firearms through a network of selected licensed independent wholesale distributors, as well as markets investment castings through manufacturers representatives to commercial, sporting goods, and military sectors. The company was founded in 1948 and is based in Southport, Connecticut.

First Act is a lifestyle music brand enriching people’s lives through all things musical. The company create innovative, high-quality musical products with the end user in mind, designed to stimulate, entertain, and inspire.

Roku, Inc., is a privately held company located in Saratoga, Calif., and founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, the inventor of the digital video recorder (DVR). Roku is a leading supplier of innovative and easy to use digital media products. ROku best known consumer products are the Roku digital video player and the stylish SoundBridge Internet radio line.

Helen of Troy Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, import, and distribution of brand-name consumer products worldwide. It operates through two segments, Personal Care and Housewares. The Personal Care segment offers hair dryers, straighteners, curling irons, hair setters, shavers, mirrors, hot air brushes, home hair clippers and trimmers, paraffin baths, massage cushions, footbaths, body massagers, brushes, combs, hair accessories, liquid and aerosol hair care and styling products, men’s fragrances, men’s deodorants, liquid and bar soaps, foot powder, body powder, and skin care products. The Housewares segment provides kitchen tools, cutlery, bar and wine accessories, household cleaning tools, food storage containers, tea kettles, trash cans, storage and organization products, hand tools, gardening tools, kitchen mitts and trivets, barbeque tools, and rechargeable lighting products. The company sells its products primarily through mass merchandisers, drug chains, warehouse clubs, catalogs, grocery stores, and specialty stores, as well as through beauty supply retailers and wholesalers. Helen of Troy Limited was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in El Paso, Texas.

Daiwa's first spinning reel rolled off the assembly line in 1955. Since then, the company has grown into one of the largest and most influential tackle companies in the world today.To handle sales and distribution in the United States, Daiwa Corporation first opened its doors on September 26, 1966, operating from a small facility in Culver City, California. Today, based in Cerritos, California, Daiwa Corporation sells tackle throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America.From the very beginning, Daiwa's emphasis has been upon innovation and quality. The result is a long list of product features, design and materials that have become standards for the fishing tackle industry. It is a long-standing record of innovation, the type of innovation that has left a visible mark on the majority of tackle manufactured today, innovation that continues to advance the sport of fishing.

PianoDisc is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of player piano systems, with a dealer network that literally spans the globe. The company was founded in 1988, and in very short order became one of the most successful, innovative and influential companies in the music products industry.PianoDisc systems are in private homes, hotels, restaurants, music schools, recording studios and a host of other places, bringing the joy of live music to anyone who hears them. The company has over 600 dealers and distributors in 40 countries around the world. Wherever it’s shown everyone agrees: PianoDisc is one of the most exciting music products to come along in decades, and an important component in modern home entertainment.

Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc., an investment holding company, manufactures consumer electrical products primarily in Australia, Europe, North America, and Asia. The company operates in three segments: Home Appliances, Electronic Components, and Others. The Home Appliances segment manufactures floor care products, including hand-held steam vacuum cleaners, upright vacuum cleaners, and extractors; and kitchen appliances, such as blenders, breadmakers, coffeemakers, electric knives, espresso machines, food choppers, food processors, food steamers, ice cream makers, and indoor grills. The Electronic Components segment produces complementary metal oxide semiconductor camera modules (CCMs) for cellular phone manufacturers. The Others segment provides Intellicorder, a home security device, utilizing its CCM technology. The company distributes its products through mass merchandisers, specialty retailers, warehouse clubs, drug store chains, direct marketing organizations, and department stores. It was formerly known as Global-Tech Appliances Inc. and changed its name to Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc. in December 2008. The company was founded in 1963 and is based in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Wing Shing Holdings Company Limited.

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