If your home needs to be cooled off or heated up, Backwell's has your back. Backwell IXL and its IXL Appliances division manufacture home appliances. Its inventory includes such products as evaporative coolers, fans, portable heaters, and ventilation systems. The Australia-based company also makes landscape lighting, towel racks, and electric and gas cooktops. Products are distributed through large general department stores as well as specialty appliance and lighting stores throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Candy spends all day -- every day -- cooking food, cleaning carpets, doing laundry, and washing the dishes without complaint. Candy makes and markets thousands of models of major appliances, including washing machines, washer dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, ovens, and vacuums. Its brands include namesake Candy, Hoover, Rosiares, Iberna, Hoover Grepa, Jinling, Hoover Helkama, Vyatka, and Zerowatt. The firm has grown through acquisitions, including its purchase of Hoover European Appliance Group. More than half of its revenue comes from sales of washing and flooring appliances. The founding Fumagalli family still owns and runs the company, which made its first household appliance around 1945.

Stevie Ray Vaughn may have died more than a decade ago, but GHS still makes the Nickel Rocker electric guitar strings that helped give him his distinctive sound. GHS also is a leading maker of strings for acoustic and electric guitars, basses, mandolins, banjos, and ukuleles. The company produces all its strings at its Battle Creek plant and sells them through retailers worldwide. Its Rocktron division produces electric guitar amplifiers and related equipment. Founded in 1964, the company is owned and operated by the McFee family.

Walker Greenbank PLC is an international group of companies which design, manufacture, market and distribute wallcoverings, furnishing fabrics and associated products for the consumer market. Walker Greenbank designs and manufacturers wallcoverings and furnishing fabrics. Its Zoffany and Harlequin brands are marketed globally. In 2003 Walker Greenbank bought Arthur Sanderson & Sons, gaining the Sanderson and Morris & Co brand names. In 2005 Walter Greenbank announced plans to sell off its Norwegian subsidiaries Borge Holdings and John O Borge, distributors of the company's wallpapers, to Swedish Eco Borastapeter. The acquisition will not affect the distribution of its three aforementioned wallpaper brands.

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.

Mag Instrument was born from a bright idea. In the 1970s Mag Instrument invented the anodized aluminum flashlight, targeting police officers, firefighters, and mechanics as its audience. Mag products appeal to a broad audience with some models as long as police night sticks and others the size of a pencil, as well as rechargeable flashlight systems and accessories. The lights are sold at outdoor goods retailers (Oshman's), hardware stores (Sears), and discounters (Target) worldwide. Mag Instrument donated thousands of flashlights to aid in the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. Founded in 1955, Mag Instrument is still run by founder Tony Maglica.

Peavey Electronics makes amplifiers, complete sound systems, microphones, mixers, and recording equipment, plus musical instruments such as drums and guitars. The company's sound systems are used in more than a quarter of North America's NFL stadiums and in venues from the Sydney Opera House to New York's Apollo Theater. Products are distributed through music stores in the US and Canada and exported to about 140 countries. Peavey, founded in 1965, is owned and managed by Mississippi Music Hall-of-Famer Hartley Peavey.

Portmeirion was founded in 1960 by the legendary pottery designer Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis. Susan sadly passed away in November 2007 but her philosophy of creating collections that are not only beautiful but also functional and affordable lives on at Portmeirion.Always at the forefront of contemporary design, Susan Williams-Ellis was renowned for her originality in both design and manufacturing techniques. This has led to her enviable reputation for producing striking shape and pattern designs that were trend setting and had worldwide appeal – designs that are now seen as iconic.

Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment helps the movies move. The company rents motion picture equipment such as camera cranes, dollies, and tracks to producers of feature films, commercials, television series, music videos, and infomercials. The company operates from three US locations (California, Florida, and Texas) and two international ones (Canada and the UK). Chapman/Leonard was formed in 1965 when Chapman Studio Equipment (itself founded in 1945) teamed up with Leonard Studio Equipment.

GCI mission at Gemini Sound Products is to enhance your experience through function and performance. GCI have built the business over the last 30 years on understanding what you really want and value in a DJ or Pro Audio product, accompanied by a level of service unparalleled in the industry.Every Gemini product employs the latest advances in materials, technology and carefully considered highly functional design innovations. And each Gemini product is backed by the experience and commitment of engineers and professionals whose passion for excellence is matched only by their passion for using their products.

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