Goebel Porzellanfabrik is the name behind figurines found on collectors' shelves around the world. Goebel Porzellanfabrik designs and manufactures porcelain and earthenware products. Goebel's collectible figurines and tableware, which are based on artists' renderings and made by on-site artisans, draw visitors from near and far to the company's factory in Bavaria. Goebel Porzellanfabrik products are also sold through retailers around the world and through its e-commerce Web site. Franz Detleff and William Goebel founded the company in 1871, initially producing toy marbles, slates, and slate pencils. In 2007, Merrill Lynch and Strategic Value Partners took over ownership of the company after it became insolvent.

Waves began in October 1992 with the introduction of the first audio plug-in, the Q10 Paragraphic equalizer. The Q10 broke new ground in three major areas. First, it was the debut of the audio signal processor plug-in, a tool commonly used today. Second, its graphic user interface gave users unprecedented control and eliminated the requirement for a DSP engineering background since it automated the filter coefficient calculations. Finally, the revolutionary Q10 offered sound quality equal to or better than many of its hardware counterparts.Another highlight of Waves’ first decade of success was the development of the L1 Ultramximizer™, which established a new benchmark for dynamic controls. Still considered innovative over a decade later, countless L1s are an integral part of studios all over the world. Propelled by an increasingly comprehensive product line, Waves quickly became a favorite of engineers worldwide and the choice of recognized audio masters.

Rosco, founded in 1910, is still best known for the products it originally manufactured: filters for entertainment lighting.The company now offers products in more than a dozen categories. These include gobos (or patterns), correction filters for film lighting, fog and haze machines, dance floors, scenic paint and backdrops for theatre and film/video.Rosco also has innovated a number of lighting equipment products, including rotators, projectors, intelligent mirrors and LitePad, a remarkable LED-based fixture.

Great Lakes Media Technology duplicates and brands DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs, and VHS tapes for corporate, marketing, educational, and entertainment media clients. Great Lakes Media Technology offers custom packaging, warehousing, and fulfillment services, including kit assembly, distribution, graphic design, and Web site development. The firm produces its DVDs, CDs, and other products from a facility in Mequon, Wisconsin, the only operations of its kind in the state.

In 1849 John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited the Castlecaldwell estate, which encompassed the village of Belleek, from his father. Mindful of the plight of his tenants in the aftermath of the potato famine he sought to provide some form of worthwhile employment. An amateur mineralogist, he ordered a geological survey of his land. To his delight it revealed the necessary raw materials to make Pottery - feldspar, kaolin, flint, clay and shale.The village of Belleek, whose name in Gaelic, beal leice, translates to 'Flagstone Ford' was a natural choice to locate the business especially the part of the village known as Rose Isle. This small isle provided the best opportunity to leash the yet untamed power of the River Erne - power to drive a mill wheel strong enough to grind components into Slip, the term applied to liquid potters clay.

Wilton Enterprises, based in Woodridge, Illinois, and founded in 1929, is the leading food crafting company in the industry, with the number one position in cake decorating, bakeware and tea kettles. Today, Wilton Enterprises offers the industry´s most comprehensive and innovative selection of baking, cake decorating, candy making, cookie making, wedding, baby, party, seasonal, kitchen and hydration products. These products are designed to make it easy for anyone to enjoy the thrill of serving something special and utilizing unique style and design while doing it. Consumers trust Wilton brands such as Performance Pans™, Candy Melts® brand confectionery coating, Cupcakes ´N More® dessert stands and Copco® Housewares to help make celebrations more exciting. Along with great products, Wilton classes and publications have helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world create impressive party desserts, served with flair. Celebrating its 80th year, The Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionery Art still educates 1,400 students a year who have come from 88 countries and all 50 states while Educational Marketing with its almost 4,000 teachers across the US taught 262,000 people the art of cake decorating in 2008. Wilton Enterprises is a major name in the specialty home products industry through Copco. Copco is the premier designer and marketer of tea kettles and quality kitchenware, including a line by Mario Batali The Italian Kitchen. With a history that spans almost 50 years, Copco has taken its experience and knowledge of creating functional yet stylish teakettles and has evolved into offering thermal mugs, hydration, kitchen storage and organization plus food preparation tools. Although ever-changing in product offerings, Copco remains constant in providing products that are trend-correct in color and style while incorporating the latest technologies to provide the highest quality products. With these fundamentals, the Copco brand represents the true meaning of style, design and function.

Founded in 1987, Funrise is an adventurous innovator of superior toys and an industry leader in the manufacturing and distribution of the most popular children's toys.Funrise's core property portfolio includes Gazillion® Bubbles, HEADBANGERS™, Home Arcade, Tub Town®, Play 'n Pretty®, Truly Charmed™, Lil' Rockstar™, Shelcore's Shake 'N Bobble® and Sound Beginnings® with leading licensed power brands such as Tonka®, Disney©, Sesame Street© and more, making the company product offerings diverse and full of fun for kids of all ages! Funrise Toy Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matrix Holdings Limited.Funrise U.S. headquarters are located in Van Nuys, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and France and with additional showrooms in New York City and Bentonville, AR. Funrise is operated by Arnie Rubin, vice chairman of Matrix and president of Funrise who also serves as Chairman of the Toy Industry Foundation (T.I.F.) and past Chair of the Toy Industry Association (T.I.A.). Funrise's success results from its commitment to quality manufacturing, progressive marketing and a values-based corporate culture.

Dorcy International, located in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker foreign trade zone Dorcy is the leading manufacturer and distributor of flashlights and lanterns in the U. S. Dorcy is the fastest growing of the flashlight companies and includes Sears, Kmart, Wal-Mart, and most major retail chains as customers. Dorcy has been in the flashlight business for 35 years and is privately owned.

The company makes and markets production and custom-built basses, guitars, and seven-string electric guitars. Bands the likes of The Cure and Papa Roach have been know to use its products. Schecter Guitar Research's instruments and strings are sold across the country and internationally at specialty music retail stores, such as Guitar Center, Hermes Music, Best Buy, Music Mart, Music Centre Canada, and Steve's Music Store. Owner and president Michael Ciravolo's wife Trish spun off Daisy Rock Guitars, which makes guitars in whimsical designs in 2003.

German cars are known for their engineering excellence, and the high-style appliances made by Miele are no different. Miele is the US arm of Miele & Cie. KG, which has been run by the Miele family (now in its fourth generation) since it was founded in 1899. Miele USA was established in 1984 and operates showrooms in about a dozen states, but Miele's products are sold nationwide through specialty retailers. Miele makes vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, coffee makers, ovens, cooktops, ventilation hoods, washers, dryers, and professional-grade appliances. Its products are also sold in 36 other countries. Miele plans to start selling refrigeration and wine storage units by 2009.

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