NoBrainer was created by the folks at Laura's Draperies, Bedspreads & More, a window coverings design firm established in 1937. So you'll get 70 years of experience, by competent design experts. Give NoBrainer a try and see for yourself. The NoBrainer concept is simple; low prices made possible by mammoth buying power, streamlined order processing using the latest technology. NoBrainerBlinds work helped to eliminate all the usual overhead incurred by their mail order competitors. No costly catalogs, low Internet overhead and no commissions to employees-that's how the company manages tiny cost of the product.

The company makes fine porcelain and bone china tableware, including dinner plates, cups, and serving trays, plus small collectibles. A leading maker of ceramics in Italy, it offers new designs each year, but it also uses some that are more than 200 years old. Exports account for about a quarter of sales, but Richard-Ginori 1735 plans to grow by forming alliances with other European manufacturers of luxury goods. Formerly owned by tableware maker Pagnossin, the struggling company was bought and saved by the Italian investment company Starfin in 2007.

The institutional customer, among several others, saw the dawn of a new vendor with American Dawn. American Dawnm anufactures textile products (including industrial aprons and towels, bed linens, blankets, and surgical towels and patient gowns, as well as chef and butcher uniforms) that are distributed to wholesale, commercial, and retail markets. The company was founded as Overseas General Business in 1972 and caters to the health care, home fashion, laundry and institutional, and salon industries. American Dawn has expanded its operations through the years by acquiring Ambassador and KWB/Calco Manufacturing in 1989 and Tres Manufacturing in 1994.

Pelican Products is a global manufacturer of advanced lighting systems, rugged protector cases and shipping containers with annual sales in excess of US $300 million. Pelican Products facilities include 6 manufacturing plants, 6 distribution centers and numerous sales offices around the world. Beginning in 1978, Pelican Products was founded by an avid sport diver named Dave Parker, who introduced the first O-ring sealed injection molded case and also developed a line of high performance dive lights. Pelican flourished throughout the 80s and 90s, and was purchased by Berhman Capital in 2004. In 2005 Lyndon Faulkner was appointed CEO, and a new era of management and exceptional growth began. Manufacturing automation, performance metrics and a global expansion are a few examples of the positive changes introduced under Faulkner’s leadership.

Fossil, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes fashion accessories, including apparel, belts, handbags, jewelry, small leather goods, sunglasses, and watches worldwide. It offers a line of fashion watches under its proprietary brands, such as FOSSIL, MICHELE, RELIC, and ZODIAC; and through licensed brands, including ADIDAS, BURBERRY, DIESEL, DKNY, EMPORIO ARMANI, MARC BY MARC JACOBS, and MICHAEL Michael Kors. The company designs and markets, as well as arranges for the manufacture of watches and accessories on behalf of certain mass market retailers, companies, and organizations as private label products or as premium and incentive items for use in various corporate events.The company offers various fashion accessories for men and women, including handbags, belts, small leather goods, jewelry, and sunglasses under the FOSSIL, FIFTY-FOUR, EMPORIO ARMANI, DIESEL, DKNY, and RELIC names through company owned stores, department stores, and specialty retail stores, as well as over the Internet and through catalogs. Fossil, Inc. also sells a line of cold weather accessories comprising hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as a handbag collection. In addition, the company offers apparel, including outerwear, tops, bottoms, and tee shirts for men and women through company-owned stores located in malls and retail locations in the United States, as well as over the Internet and through catalogs. Further, it provides footwear products, such as sport court sneakers, authentic casuals, dress classics, and boots for men. The company, through a license agreement with the Safilo Group, manufactures, markets, and sells optical frames under the FOSSIL and RELIC names in the United States and Canada. Fossil, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.

Thomson, together with its subsidiaries, provides video technologies, systems, finished products, and services to businesses and professionals in the media and entertainment industry. It operates through three divisions: Technicolor, Thomson Connect, and Technology. The Technicolor division offers content services in the content creation process; and physical media services through film services and DVD services, including content preparation, planning, manufacturing, physical distribution services for video content, theatrical release, and release on DVD and Blu-ray. This division also provides physical distribution services for theatrical digital releases; broadcast services and media networks, which assembles video programming and/or manage distribution of video content through video networks to broadcasters, retailers, cinema exhibitors, and other enterprises; and electronic distribution services. The Thomson Connect division supplies access and home networking products, such as set-top boxes and advanced service gateways to satellite and cable network operators and telecom operators; and broadcast and network systems and equipment in hardware and software technology. The Technology division involves in various activities, such as corporate research and licensing of patents and trademarks. It offers its products and services in the United States, rest of Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Thomson was formerly known as Thomson Multimedia. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. On November 30, 2009, Thomson S.A. obtained approval of the opening of a sauvegarde proceeding from the Tribunal de Commerce de Nanterre.

In 2008, Arçelik A.Ş. continued reinforcing its position in the Turkish market with over 4,500 authorised dealers and more than 600 authorised services, finishing out the year with consolidated revenues reaching 6.8 billion TL. Under tough market conditions in 2008, Arçelik A.Ş. sustained its top position in the domestic market with a 54% share, made even tighter by 3.5%.Despite constraints in the Turkish white goods industry, the company gained a business profit of 440 million TL in 2008, thanks to its making even greater improvements in its products and services.In 2008, Arçelik A.Ş. made 143 international applications, climbing 35 ranks higher and landing at 101st among the top 500 companies with the highest rate of applications around the globe to become the only Turkish company on the list of the top 500, as published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Thus, outpacing several important international companies, Arçelik carried its domestic achievements to the international arena as the only Turkish company taking a place beside the giants in the Patent Champions League, shoring up the success of Koç Holding, the only Turkish company among the top 1,000 allocating resources to R&D, according to a European Commission report.

Ballantyne Strong, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, services, and distributes theatre and lighting systems. The company's Theatre segment offers digital equipment, such as cinema projectors; and motion picture projection equipment comprising motion picture projectors, xenon lamphouses and power supplies, a console system combining a lamphouse and power supply into a single cabinet, soundhead reproducers, and related products, such as sound systems. This segment also distributes film handling equipment consisting of cinema screens, replacement parts, and digital and film projection lenses, as well as offers cinema services, including film and digital projector maintenance, repair, installations, and site surveys. The Theatre segment sells its products directly to end users, and to theatre exhibitors through a network of dealers in the United States and internationally. Its Lighting Segment offers followspots; and promotional searchlights and lighting systems for the motion picture production, television, live entertainment, theme park, and architectural markets. This segment sells its lighting products directly, as well as through commissioned representatives to arenas, stadiums, theme parks, theatres, auditoriums, and equipment rental companies. Ballantyne Strong sells its products and services in the United States, Canada, Asia, Mexico, South America, and Europe. It markets its commercial motion picture projection equipment under the Strong, Simplex, Century, and Ballantyne trademarks; followspot products under the Strong, Super Trouper, and Gladiator trademarks; high intensity promotional searchlights under the Sky-Tracker and the Strong Britelight trademark. The company was formerly known as Ballantyne of Omaha, Inc. and changed its name to Ballantyne Strong, Inc. on June 3, 2009. Ballantyne Strong was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Classic Medallics Inc. is a third generation family business spanning over 60 years of product leadership in manufacturing a wide variety of awards and gifts. Started in 1940 as a manufacturer of religious jewelry under the name of Frederick Singer & Sons. The company soon after became a dominant player in the religious gift industry. In the late 1950's, the Singer family saw a golden opportunity to bring it's manufacturing and design experience to the rapidly growing awards industry, which at that time was just beginning to adopt production methods to mass-produce awards. Classic Medallics quickly became one of the leaders and innovators in developing a wide variety of quality metallic products, mass-produced at affordable prices. To this day, Classic Medallics hand craftsman and designers continue to produce numerous stock and custom products. To name a few, medallions, medals, coins, key chains, jewelry, pins, plaques, trophies, ribbons, figures, pen sets, and clocks. In order to produce this variety of products we employ several manufacturing processes, including die striking, die casting, centrifugal casting, electroplating, etching, enameling, silk screening, multiple color printing, and wood working. The metals that Classic Medallics work with include brass, bronze, copper, aluminum, zinc, pewter, silver and gold. The wood products are made from walnut, oak, ash, rosewood and simulated wood finishes.

The company primarily manufactures upright and grand pianos and sells them through retail partners worldwide. Among the 6,000 components used by the company are numbered and certified soundboards from Italy (Stradivari reputedly used wood from the same region for his violins), actions from the Renner factory in Stuttgart, and a grey cast-iron frame that is stable and less likely to resonate. Wilh. Steinberg, which was established in 1877, exports pianos throughout the world.

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