American Derringer owner Elizabeth Saunders is a real pistol. She stars in her own ads clad in a bustier while brandishing her signature handgun and the company's best-seller, the Lady Derringer. The tiny pistol of Wild West fame fits a petite palm with its faux ivory grip engraved with the image of a Victorian lady. American Derringer peddles a variety of pistols and accessories, such as holsters, perfume, scarves, and ties. The gun manufacturer targets women in need of a shooting iron and collectors looking for an item with a history. Company founder Robert Saunders hired Elizabeth for his sales staff. They married, and when he died in 1993, she took over the company.

Bernhardt Furniture Company, Inc., located in the foothills of Western North Carolina, is one of the largest family owned and operated marketers of fine wood and upholstered furniture in the United States.Committed to high business standards and the principles of fine craftsmanship, the Bernhardt family has led this American enterprise to its current ranking among the top U.S. furniture companies in annual sales worldwide. Bernhardt collections have won multiple awards for outstanding product design, and Bernhardt brand loyalty is one of the strongest in the industry.The company employs more than 1,000 people in the U.S. and abroad, with six facilities in Western North Carolina and five offices overseas. The company’s 75,000 sq. ft. showroom is located in High Point, NC

Olympus Corporation gadgetry gods at Olympus Corporation of the Americas are counting on shoppers to stay crazy for digital cameras, binoculars, and other imaging products. The company also markets such items as audio recording equipment, specialty photo lenses, and other consumer electronic goods. Olympus Corporation of the America's Scientific Equipment Group sells professional products including microscopes, chemical diagnostic equipment, and medical imaging devices for the scientific and health care industries. Olympus Corporation of the Americas, established as Olympus America in 1977, is the sales subsidiary of Tokyo-based parent Olympus Corporation for the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Since it was founded in 1984, Corporate Disk Company has been committed to being a leading multimedia production company. Corporate Disk Company offers state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities providing full service media replication/duplication, printing, packaging, warehousing and media distribution. From individual customers to Fortune 500 corporations, our clients depend on our outstanding customer service, technical competence and superior product quality. As a leading multimedia production company, Corporate Disk goal is always to provide the customers with the highest quality production, on time and on budget.

Located in Easley, S.C., Confluence Watersports is the result of blending the unique watersports brands: Wilderness Systems®, Perception®, Dagger®, and Wave Sport® kayaks, Mad River Canoe®, Adventure Technology® paddles, and Harmony® accessories. With a full representation of canoes, and kayaks ranging from touring and recreational to high-performance whitewater boats, the Confluence brands are well suited to outfit all paddling enthusiasts. People passionate about the outdoors run the company today: advocates who are dedicated to bringing more people to the water.

WestPoint Home, Inc heritage began almost 200 years ago with the startup of one of their predecessor companies, J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., in Massachusetts, followed by Pepperell Manufacturing Company in Maine and West Point Manufacturing Company in Georgia - three of the most famous names in the textile industry, known for the quality and integrity of their products. Today, as WestPoint Home is the nation's premier manufacturer and marketer of bed and bath home fashions...sheets, towels and bath accessories, comforters and down comforters, blankets and throws, decorative pillows and bedding accessories, mattress pads, feather and fiberbeds, and bed pillows. The company brands are some of the most trusted and well-known in home fashions - Martex, Baby Martex, Grand Patrician, Utica, Chatham, Vellux, Lady Pepperell and several others.

Sealy Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of various bedding products. Its products include mattresses and mattress foundations. The company offers its products under the Sealy, Sealy Posturepedic, Stearns & Foster, and Bassett brand names. It also manufactures and markets latex and visco-elastic bedding products under the PurEmbrace, TrueForm, SpringFree, Stearns & Foster, Reflexions, Carrington Chase, and MirrorForm brand names. In addition, the company licenses its brands, technology, and trademarks to other manufacturers, including international independent licensees. Sealy Corporation offers its products to furniture stores, specialty bedding stores, department stores, warehouse club stores, and hospitality customers. It operates in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Puerto Rico, as well as in western Europe. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Trinity, North Carolina.

There's more than seven years of bad luck if you break a Barovier&Toso. Barovier&Toso's a leading glassware maker that creates designer vases, chandeliers, and light fixtures. Barovier&Toso works with architectural types to produce custom-made pieces -- supplying hotels, public buildings, and more. Barovier&Toso's main showroom is in Milan. It also has franchised showrooms in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Tokyo. The Barovier family, which has produced glassware for centuries, merged its business with the Toso family's (fellow glassmakers on the island of Murano) in 1936. Its history reaches back so far that the Guinness Book of World Records named the Baroviers as being the oldest family of glassmakers in the world.

Adams Wood Products started making wood parts with two employees for the furniture industry in a rented garage of 2400 square feet in 1975. In 1981 Adams built 6000 square feet at present location. The company building program completed in 2005 gave them over 100,000 square feet and now company employ 80 skilled Tennessee woodworkers.This growth was needed to fill various component requirements for many well known manufacturers of "fine quality furniture."In addition, the company knowledge of woodworking has been used to make wood parts for health care, medical, hotel/motel, institutional, and store display furniture.

MartinLogan has put a premium price on quality sound systems. MartinLogan manufactures luxury-priced (ranging from about $600 to more than $100,000) electrostatic audio speakers for stereos and home theater systems. It's ELS Series (loudspeakers and subwoofers), Design Series (loudspeakers and subwoofers), and Custom Installation (in-wall and in-ceiling speakers) products are made for stereo and home theater use. Products are sold in the US and internationally through specialty retailers, such as Tweeter Home Entertainment and Magnolia Audio Video (a division of Best Buy). MartinLogan was founded in 1983. In 2005 it was acquired by a unit of investment firm ShoreView Industries Inc.

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