Viking is the brand best known for being the crowning touch to kitchens. Viking Range Corporation began by adapting commercial stoves for use in the home. Viking manufactures and markets upscale, professional-grade appliances, such as dishwashers, disposals, refrigerators, freezers, ovens, blenders, mixers, outdoor grills, cookware, cutlery -- and, of course, stoves. The company, which also makes and markets its owned branded cookware and cutlery, counts St. Charles Cabinetry as one of its divisions. Viking's products are manufactured in the US and are sold worldwide through a network of appliance distributors. Viking sold three of its US distributorships to specialty appliance distributor HADCO.

Guitar building is an ongoing process of discovery. The company is devoted to the guitar's rich heritage while committed to new technologies that will enrich the products with uncompromised tone, playability and beauty.The company makes electric guitars and basses in more than 30 variations. PRS also sells guitar accessories such as pickups, strings, and straps. Founder and owner Paul Reed Smith began making guitars in the mid-1970s to earn extra credits from his college music professor. He then began hawking his wares backstage after area concerts. Finally, he took to the road visiting music dealers with two prototypes. By the time he returned, he had collected enough orders to make a go of the business. PRS guitars are made from woods such as maple, ash, mahogany, and rosewood and are bone-dried in custom kilns.

Blue Box Holdings makes infant and preschool toys, as well as video game action figures and military action figures. Blue Box brands include Nature's Own Jungle and Blue Ribbon Ranch. The company's popular video game figures include Perfect Dark and Legend of Dragoon characters, and its Elite Force military action figure line depicts various military organizations from different time periods. The company has a strong presence in the US market, selling products at mass retailers such as Toys "R" Us, Target, and Wal-Mart.

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes accessories for videogame platforms, personal computers (PC), and iPod and other audio devices. Its products include videogame, PC, and audio accessories, such as control pads, video cables, steering wheels, joysticks, memory cards, light guns, flight sticks, dance pads, microphones, car adapters, carry cases, mice, keyboards, and headsets. The company also markets videogame enhancement products; and publishes videogames. It markets its accessories under the Mad Catz, Saitek, Joytech, GameShark, and AirDrives brand names. The company sells its products to retailers of interactive entertainment products directly in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well as through distributors. Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Aldila, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of graphite golf club shafts primarily in the United States. The company's golf shafts are composite structures consisting principally of carbon fiber and epoxy resins, as well as boron or fiberglass. In addition, it offers composite prepregs and other related composite materials. The company sells its graphite shafts to golf club manufacturers, distributors, custom club shops, pro shops, and repair shops; and composite materials to manufacturers of composite products. Aldila also sells its products in England, China, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Poway, California.

Yorkville Sound provides the stuff that gets audio geeks sufficiently amped: it manufactures and distributes professional audio equipment, such as loudspeakers, amplifiers, mixers, and studio monitors. The company was established in 1963 with the invention of a bass amplifier rugged enough to survive abuse as rental equipment. In 1986 Yorkville expanded its product line into mixing boards and concert loudspeakers and soundboards. Based in Pickering, Canada, it distributes its products throughout Canada, the US, and Europe. The company is owned by Jack Long.

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.

Kaz is a state of the art, dynamically-managed, global leader in healthcare devices and home comfort products that operates in over 65 countries on six continents with a brand portfolio that includes Vicks, Honeywell, Braun, and more. Kaz was founded on innovation by Max Katzman in 1926. Katzman was a man of vision who saw a better way. In the hundreds of products that have followed since its first electric vaporizer, Kaz has continued in its innovative tradition with the goal of improving people's lives with new insights on everyday products. Providing quality products that delight you and enhance your world are the focus at each phase of development, from in-house consumer research to operational excellence and superior consumer care.

The Chilcote Company makes and markets presentation and promotional products targeted to professional photographers, scrapbookers, and the hospitality industry. It operates Crown Photo Products, D. Davis Kenny Company (custom presentation and packaging products, Topflight-brand wedding albums), Wooden Nickel Albums (professional photo albums), and Winthrop-Atkins (promotional products). Other units include A La Carte (custom presentations for the hospitality industry), Complements (scrapbooks), Flora Albums (professional photo albums), Graphic Imaginations (promotional advertising, custom products, packaging), and Taprell Loomis (professional photo packaging).

The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It’s their name and it’s their ideal.The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The Company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder.It has come a long way over the past almost 80 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of toys.

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