Indesit is in the house! Formerly Merloni Elettrodomestici, the company produces home appliances (refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, and ovens) at 17 manufacturing plants spanning Italy, Poland, Russia, the UK, Turkey, and China. Its products are made and sold under the Hotpoint-Ariston, Indesit, Scholts, and Stinol brands, with the first three being its most popular. Western Europe accounts for more than half of Indesit's sales. One of Indesit's innovations was its launch of a line of Hotpoint appliances designed for the blind, which features Braille controls and an audio instruction booklet. The 30-year-old company is controlled by the Merloni family.

Poof-Slinky makes and sells polyurethane foam toys, including airplanes, rockets, and balls for basketball, football, volleyball, and other activities. The company also makes Slinky-brand toys (which originated in 1945 when Slinky inventor Richard James watched a spring fall off a desk) and Slinky Science toys. Its more than 250 toys, made mostly in the US, are sold through retailers nationwide and online. President Ray Dallavecchia and COO Douglas Ferner own Poof-Slinky.

Audio & Video Labs, doing business as Disc Makers, provides CD and DVD manufacturing and related services, including CD and DVD replication and duplication, custom design, printing and packaging, and distribution and financing. Audio & Video Labs is outfitted with graphic, printing, and duplication equipment, as well as in-house studios for mastering and post-production services. It operates its own production plant in New Jersey. Disc Makers targets independent artists and record labels, as well as corporate, government, educational, and religious organizations. Corinthian Capital Group owns the company.

Jarden Corporation engages in the manufacture, sourcing, marketing, and distribution of consumer products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Outdoor Solutions, Consumer Solutions, and Branded Consumables. The Outdoor Solutions segment provides consumer lifestyle products, including camping and outdoor equipment, such as air beds, camping stoves, coolers, foldable furniture, gas and charcoal grills, lanterns and flashlights, propane fuel, sleeping bags, and tents; water recreation products consisting of tow-behinds, boats, and kayaks; fishing equipment; team sports equipment; skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and in-line skating products; and water sports equipment, personal flotation devices, and all-terrain vehicle gears. It distributes its products through mass merchandisers, sporting goods and outdoor recreation stores, club stores, and wholesalers, as well as owned factory outlet stores and the Internet. The Consumer Solutions segment offers clippers and trimmers; electric blankets, mattress pads, and throws; household kitchen appliances, such as blenders, coffeemakers, irons, mixers, slow cookers, toasters, toaster ovens, and vacuum packaging machines; personal care and wellness products, including fans, humidifiers, heaters and air purifiers; hospitality products; and scales for consumer use. It sells its products through department stores, specialty retailers, and mass merchants. The Branded Consumables segment provides household staples, including arts and crafts paint brushes, children’s card games, clothespins, collectible tins, cordage, firelogs and firestarters, home safety equipment, home canning jars and accessories, kitchen matches, other craft items, plastic cutlery, playing cards and accessories, storage and workshop accessories, toothpicks, and other accessories through club, drug, grocery, hardware, mass merchant, and specialty retailers. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Rye, New York.

For more than a century, GUND has been creating unique teddy bears and other soft toys recognized the world over for their quality and innovation.The leading soft toy manufacturer in the U.S., and also the oldest, GUND was founded by German immigrant Adolph Gund in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1898. GUND was one of the first companies to design and produce teddy bears in the early 1900’s.Today, the company manufactures an extensive collection of unique characters and licensed plush under the GUND, GUNDbaby and GUNDKids brands.

For 30 years Maitland-Smith has been in the business of creating exquisite and unique decorative accessories, lighting and accent furniture. Maitland-Smith design roots, however, go much deeper. Antiques from 17th and 18th Century England have always played an important role early in the history; inspiring designs that captured the appearance and quality of the originals. Over time, however, the company designs have successfully evolved and today incorporate style, materials and methods found in many other parts of the world.Today Maitland-smith is an industry leader well known for its world-class quality and innovative design. Their areas of expertise include metal casting, finely executed porcelains, sophisticated finishing techniques, detailed hand painting, beautiful inlaid marquetry and the finest hand carved woodwork. Leather, penshell and eggshell are just a few of the multitude of materials that are used to create Maitland-Smith treasures. Maitland-Smith take great pride in the quality of materials and the highly skilled artisans, who fashion these unique pieces each year in the company-owned workshops. Main office and showroom are located in High Point, North Carolina, where company's design, marketing, sales and administrative staff are located.

Bosch Communications Systems - a business unit of Bosch Security Systems - is one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of professional audio, wireless, life safety and communication equipment. Bosch Communications Systems offers complete system solutions for the world's most critical, high-profile installations and events.

Rawlings Sporting Goods Company is a heavy hitter in baseball equipment. The company makes and distributes equipment and protective gear for baseball, softball, football, basketball, soccer, and volleyball. Rawlings sells through mass merchandisers, sporting goods retailers, and online. Rawlings Sporting Goods Company licenses its name for an array of merchandise, including apparel, toys, and shoes. Rawlings equipment is used in Major League Baseball (MLB) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) games, as well as by interscholastic and amateur organizations. It is also the exclusive supplier of baseball helmets to the MLB. In 2007 the company was acquired by consumer products manufacturer Jarden.

IMAX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment technology company worldwide. The company specializes in motion picture technologies and large-format film presentations. It engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and lease of large-format digital and film-based theater systems; and the conversion of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) Hollywood feature films for exhibition on such systems. The company's theater systems are based on proprietary and patented technology for large-format digital projectors and large-format 15-perforation film frame, and 70mm format projectors. It serves theater exhibitors that operate commercial theaters, such as multiplexes; and museums, science centers, and destination entertainment sites. The company also engages in the production and distribution of original large-format films; provision of post-production services for large-format films; operation of a small number of IMAX theaters; and provision of services in support of IMAX theaters and the IMAX theater network, as well as rents 2D and 3D large-format analog cameras. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 351 theater systems comprising 231 commercial and 120 institutional operating in 42 countries. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Learning Resources® is a leading manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational materials for classrooms and learning toys for the home. For more than 20 years, the company has been a trusted source for educators and parents for quality, award-winning educational products. Headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL with a European office based in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, Learning Resources markets and distributes its products in over 80 countries around the globe.

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