Whirley Industries is the company behind those collectible cups and mugs filling kitchen cabinets. The company designs and manufactures promotional drinkware for theme parks, sports venues, convenience stores, and other businesses. The company's Toppers line casts colorful animals and licensed characters atop the lids of plastic cups. In addition to its cups and straws, Whirley Industries creates specialty lunchboxes and popcorn buckets for children, and insulated coffee containers and barware for adults. The company also produces self-serve slush stands that can be installed at festivals, water parks, and zoos.

Hooker Furniture Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, imports, develops, and markets residential wood, metal, and upholstered furniture products in North America. Its wood furniture products include home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, bedroom, and bath furniture. The company also offers motion and stationary leather furniture, and occasional chairs. In addition, it specializes in leather reclining and motion chairs, sofas, club chairs, and executive desk chairs. The company offers its wood and metal furniture under the Hooker Furniture and Opus Designs by Hooker brand names, and upholstered furniture under the Bradington-Young and Sam Moore brand names. It serves retailers of residential home furnishings, including independent furniture stores, specialty retailers, department stores, catalog merchants, interior designers, and national and regional retail chains. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Martinsville, Virginia.

Irwin Toy successor iToys is spinning happily again. Once a publicly traded company, Irwin Toy filed for bankruptcy protection with the Canadian courts in 2002, 18 months after being sold to a Canadian investment firm in 2001. Banking on the Irwin Toy name's 75 years of brand recognition, brothers George and Peter Irwin, sons of the company's founder, re-purchased the rights to the Irwin Toy name in 2003. They have taken it back to basics as a newly formed, private company. iToys's best-known products include I-Top (an electronic-spinning top programmed with four games), Baby So Real, and Girl Zone. iToys launched a new toy line in 2009 named Biggest Loser.

Ganz deliver some of the best gifts in the world - loveable plush animals, giftware, fashion accessories, fragrant candles, and finishing touches for the home. Bella Casa, Heritage Collection, and Time & Again are some of the lines that make up their extensive family of products.Established by Samuel Ganz and sons Jack and Sam in 1950, this privately-held family company is now headed by the founder's grandson, Howard Ganz. Corporate Headquarters are located in Toronto, Canada, with U.S. offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles, and overseas offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Disco lights? Check. Fog Machine? Of course. Lasers? Those too. American DJ Supply has everything a DJ needs to get the party started. The company sells professional sound equipment and effects lighting equipment through its Web site and products catalog. It specializes in fog juice and machines, strobe and rope lights, disco mixers, helicopters, oscillators, controllers, beacons, starlights, border lights, and more. American DJ Supply also retails and wholesales its products through local retailers in the US, as well as in Europe and Latin America. American DJ products are found at stores such as Guitar Center, Hermes Music, and Sam Ash Music.

Founded in 1902 as Norwalk Furniture, the firm was resurrected in September 2008 and added Custom Order to its name when local investors provided needed funds to stay afloat. The company makes upholstered furniture under the Norwalk, J. Raymond, and Hickory Hill names and sells its wares through its own and other retail stores. Its retail unit, Norwalk-The Furniture Idea, spans some 45 states, as well as Canada. Its fleet of 65 tractors and 100 trailers helps Norwalk honor its 30-day delivery policy. It operates manufacturing plants in Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee.

Zapf Creation AG is Europe's leading manufacturer of play and functional dolls and accessories. The company is worldwide represented by own subsidiaries and employs 242 people (31.12.2008). Zapf Creation reported sales of € 104.4 million for the fiscal year 2008.Headquartered in Roedental/Coburg (Germany), Zapf Creation markets branded play concepts that consists of dolls and a world of matching accessories that are developed to a high standard of quality, design, safety and play value.The branded play concepts of Zapf Creation set no limits to a girls' imagination, following the Company's philosophy, "Setting free a child's imagination". Playing with dolls also addresses social skills such as loving, caring, empathy and accepting responsibility, thereby supporting a child's personal development.

A series of successive mergers and takeovers have resulted in the Tecnica Group being the world’s leading Group today in the sectors of ski boots (1.2 million pairs), “outdoor” footwear (2.1 million pairs), after-ski and winter footwear (320.000 pairs), in-line skates (1 million pairs) and ski (330.000 pairs). Tecnica is the parent company to which the following brands refer: Nordica (skis and ski-boots), Blizzard (skis), Dolomite (ski-boots, outdoor clothing and footwear), Lowa (outdoor footwear and ski-boots), Rollerblade (in-line skates), Think Pink (sportswear). The Group is currently present on all the main world markets, employs over 1560 persons and more than 10,000 sales outlets worldwide.

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.

Indesit Company is Europe’s second biggest producer of home appliances by market share. It leads the market in Italy, the UK, Russia, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria and the Ukraine and is one of the leaders in France, Poland, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Greece. Founded in 1975 by the current chairman Vittorio Merloni and listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1987, the Group posted sales of €3.2 billion in 2008, having turned out 15 million appliances (washing machines, dryers, washer-dryers, dishwashers, fridges, freezers, ovens and hobs). Indesit Company operates through 16 production facilities (Italy, Poland, the UK, Russia and Turkey) and 24 commercial branches worldwide and has 17,000 employees. The Group’s main brands are Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston and Scholtès.

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