History & Heraldry's own history spans little more than a decade. History & Heraldry makes personalized gift items for retail, including pens, mugs, key rings and covers, greeting cards, plaques, and holiday decorations. Although H&H's products are exported to more than 50 countries, its biggest customers are UK tourist attractions, such as castles. History & Heraldry's Paper Island Greetings subsidiary produces greeting cards. CEO Malcolm Ogg founded History & Heraldry with Diane Clothier in 1994. It originally made commemorative genealogy items, such as posters outlining family histories and stationery with heritage crests.

Waterford Wedgwood is toasting its position as the world's premier maker of luxury crystal and fine china. Formed by the 1986 merger of the two iconic brands, the company's Waterford Crystal Group produces handcrafted crystal stemware, lamps, and giftware under the Waterford and Stuart brands. The Wedgwood Group makes fine bone china giftware and tableware under the Wedgwood brand. It also includes the brand Royal Doulton. Still, after several years of losses, Waterford Wedgwood entered administration (the British equivalent of bankruptcy in the US) in 2009 and was acquired by the New York-based private equity firm KPS Capital Partners.

Whirlpool Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of home appliances worldwide. Its principal products include laundry appliances, refrigerators, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers, and other small household appliances. The company also produces hermetic compressors for refrigeration systems. It markets and distributes its products under various brand names, which include Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Roper, Estate, Admiral, Magic Chef, Amana, Inglis, Acros, KIC, Ignis, Bauknecht, Brastemp, Consul, Eslabon de Lujo, Laden, Polar, and Supermatic. Whirlpool sells its products to retailers, dealers, distributors, builders, and other manufacturers. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Rosco, founded in 1910, is still best known for the products it originally manufactured: filters for entertainment lighting.The company now offers products in more than a dozen categories. These include gobos (or patterns), correction filters for film lighting, fog and haze machines, dance floors, scenic paint and backdrops for theatre and film/video.Rosco also has innovated a number of lighting equipment products, including rotators, projectors, intelligent mirrors and LitePad, a remarkable LED-based fixture.

Samsung Electronics (UK) is taking Blu-ray to Britain. The latest in disc players is just one of many products made and distributed by Samsung Electronics (UK), however. It also sells mobile phones, memory chips, consumer electronics (TVs, DVD players, camcorders, home cinema systems, digital still cameras, digital audio players), notebook computers and printers, and appliances (microwave ovens, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners). Samsung Electronics, a subsidiary of microchip and electronics manufacturing giant Samsung Electronics, was formed in 1984.

General Magnetics Limited located in the heart of Singapore, is a boutique manufacturer of optical media and audio cassette under its label General®.The company began in 1973 with audio cassette assembly and in the 80's vertically integrated its manufacturing include injection moulding. In the late 1980s, it became Singapore's first CD manufacturing facility. Eventually expanding its production to recordable CD and DVDs.

Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of musical instruments. It operates in two segments, Pianos, and Band & Orchestral Instruments. The Piano segment offers grand pianos and upright pianos under Steinway & Sons, Boston, and Essex brand names. It offers baby grand pianos, concert grand pianos, ebony pianos, pianos with special veneers, and art case pianos. This segment also provides repair, replacement part sales, tuning and regulation of pianos, and restoration services. In addition, it operates as an online retailer of classical music recordings. It sells its products to professional artists and amateur pianists, as well as institutions, such as concert halls, universities, music schools, houses of worship, hotels, and retirement homes in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries. The Band & Orchestral Instruments segment produces a line of brass, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments. It offers piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, French horns, tubas, and trombones; acoustical and tuned percussion instruments, including outfit drums, marching drums, concert drums, marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, orchestra bells, and chimes; violins, violas, cellos, and basses; and mouthpieces and accessories, such as music stands, batons, mallets, straps, mutes, reeds, pads, chin rests, strings, bows, cases, and instrument care products. It sells its products to students, amateur and professional musicians, and institutions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. It sells its products through independent dealers, distributors, retail showrooms, district sales managers, and telemarketing representatives. The company, formerly known as Selmer Industries, Inc., was founded in 1993 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Charisma Brands, LLC, is an Irvine, California-based creator, developer, and marketer of award-winning collectible, toy, gift, jewelry, and specialty products. A partial listing of the premier brands of Charisma include Marie Osmond, Kenneth Jay Lane-Jewelry’s Living Legend, Nolan Miller, Dennis Basso, Lunch At The Ritz 2 Go, Francesca Visconti, Bob Mackie, Kewpie, Penny Brite, Artista, and Charisma Brands exciting new addition, Paradise Galleries.The Company’s name, Charisma Brands, comes from its Rhode Island design and manufacturing center – known for over thirty years as Charisma Manufacturing Co. The Rhode Island center was formed by European artisans to create beautiful, high quality, handmade products, a tradition that continues to this day. Since the spirit of artistic design and skillful craftsmanship established in Rhode Island applies to all of the Company’s products, it was natural to adopt this name for the Company.

The company, established in 1934, operates an accordion repair shop. It also sells accessories and spare parts, as well as repaired and refurbished used accordions. Affiliated companies Titano Accordion and Pancordion manufacture new accordions, and Ernest Deffner Publications distributes more than 6,000 titles of accordion sheet music.

Samsung SDI wants you to want one of those huge flat-screen televisions. Samsung SDI, 20% owned by Samsung Electronics, specializes in the dazzling world of display technology, manufacturing such prized consumer products as plasma display panels and liquid-crystal display panels. Bigger is always better in such things, so Samsung SDI offers screens as large as 102 inches. Its technologies also find applications on a smaller scale, such as in computer monitors, cell phones, and other handheld mobile devices. Established in 1970, Samsung SDI also produces rechargeable batteries and is working on next-generation displays. It formed a joint venture in 2008 with Robert Bosch GmbH to make lithium-ion batteries.

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