Some 35 years after Dave Longaberger founded The Longaberger Company with five basketmakers, the company reflects early roots and family tradition of handmade artisanship. When you purchase a Longaberger basket, you are sharing in the Longaberger story and family tradition.The company is family-owned company with a family-friendly environment.Today, The Longaberger Company is America's premier maker of handcrafted baskets and offers other home and lifestyle products, including pottery, wrought iron, fabric accessories and specialty foods. The company is based in Newark, Ohio, and there are approximately 45,000 independent Home Consultants located in all U.S. states who sell Longaberger products directly to customers.

Breakfast is served by Wells Bloomfield. Breakfast makes and markets products such as coffee grinders, coffee and tea brewers, and hot water dispensers. It also manufactures small kitchen appliances, including waffle makers, griddles, and toasters, as well as large appliances the likes of convection ovens and fryers. Wells Bloomfield, which caters to foodservice and beverage systems businesses, boasts a network of 1,200 distributors worldwide. Founded by Samuel Bloomfield in 1933, the firm was bought by Beatrice in 1964 and became part of UTC in 2000 through its Carrier Commercial Refrigeration. The Middleby Corporation eventually bought Wells Bloomfield in August 2007.

Alex Panline USA, Inc., started in 1986 with a line of high quality basic arts and crafts products for children. Over the years, ALEX has grown and today produces over 1,000 items in expanded categories of toys: imaginative and dramatic play, fashion and jewelry, whimsical children’s furniture, Rub A Dub® and Tub Tunes® bath toys, ALEX Little Hands® preschool products and ALEX Jr.®, developmental, plush and bath toys for baby!

Hamilton Beach Brands peddles the products that blend strawberry daiquiris and brew the piping hot coffee that's necessary the morning after. It's a leading marketer of small electric household appliances (blenders, coffeemakers, air purifiers, food processors, humidifiers, irons, and toasters) under the Hamilton Beach, Proctor-Silex, Eclectrics, and TrueAir brands. It also offers General Electric-branded appliances for Wal-Mart and caters to the foodservice and hospitality markets with drink mixers, glass washers, and hair dryers. Citing unfavorable market conditions, parent NACCO Industries reversed its decision to spin off Hamilton Beach Brands (HBB). It's replacing its president and CEO in 2010, as well.

Pure Digital Technologies is the maker of the revolutionary Flip Video family of camcorders. Flip Video is a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. Flip Video camcorders are the world's first with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and seamless video uploading to YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video and other video sharing sites. As part of its Flip Video Spotlight Program, the company pledged to deliver 1 million camcorders to help non-profits use the power of video to change the world. Flip Video is available in over 10,000 retail locations including Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Sears, Kmart, and TheFlip.com. Flip Video products are also available in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Princess House, Inc is a direct seller of a variety of household goods, including cookware, lighting products, textiles, home accents, and flatware. Princess House designs and markets its products through more than 15,000 "Lifestyle Consultants" that organize in-home parties throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada, and Mexico.

Pentland Group plc was founded in the early 1930s in Liverpool, England. It was then called the Liverpool Shoe Company because it dealt purely in shoes; first a wholesale shoe business, then expanding into a manufacturing business. Always displaying innovation and creativity, Pentland was one of the first companies to manufacture from Asia, forming a division in Hong Kong in the early 1960s. In 1981 Pentland purchased the majority share of a tiny US company called Reebok. After a 10-year period of growth, Reebok was sold. In the 1990s Pentland bought brands and now proudly has a portfolio of some of the greatest international sports, outdoor and fashion brands globally.

Niles is a company focused on providing high–quality products that integrate and distribute home entertainment for the residential and light commercial markets. Throughout its history, Niles has played a major role in transforming whole–house audio/video and home theater from a hobbyist pastime into a thriving, highly professional industry. Niles has grown by continuously refining its existing products, inventing new ones, and always delivering extraordinary value.Since 1978, Niles has been a solutions–based company. The company’s first product was a switching system designed to help audio retailers demonstrate speakers and amplifiers. These switchers were highly effective at simplifying the retail selling process. The salesperson no longer had to manually disconnect and reconnect wires every time a customer wanted to audition a different component.

Gree likes to keep things cool. The world's number one household air condition maker manufactures and distributes about 10 different types of air conditioners from small window units to large commercial systems. Gree has three manufacturing facilities in China, one in Brazil, and one in Pakistan capable of producing 10 million air conditioning units per year. It has been expanding its manufacturing facilities for several years and continues to explore new areas. Gree appliances are sold in more than 180 countries. Gree president Mingszhu Dong regularly makes Fortune magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in business. Gree Group Comp. owns Gree.

Berghaus Limited is a leading manufacturer of outdoor clothing, footwear, and backpacks in the UK, specializing in mountain- and rock-climbing equipment. The company, which also owns retail locations in Europe and Asia, plans on expanding further internationally. Berghaus (which means "mountain hut" in German) works with some of the world's greatest climbers including Sir Chris Bonington and brothers Alex and Thomas Huber. The Pentland Group bought Berghaus in 1993.

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