Daewoo Electronics is one of South Korea's largest consumer electronics manufacturers and exporters. Daewoo makes home and kitchen appliances (microwave ovens, refrigerators, washing machines). Daewoo Electronics sells its products in more than 105 countries. Backed by the Korean government, the company is restructuring in an effort to return to profitability and eventually find a buyer. To that end, in 2009 it sold four of its businesses: TV, air conditioning, vacuum cleaners, and electronic motors. The firm retained its refrigerator, washing machine, and kitchen appliance units.

Jarden Corporation engages in the manufacture, sourcing, marketing, and distribution of consumer products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Outdoor Solutions, Consumer Solutions, and Branded Consumables. The Outdoor Solutions segment provides consumer lifestyle products, including camping and outdoor equipment, such as air beds, camping stoves, coolers, foldable furniture, gas and charcoal grills, lanterns and flashlights, propane fuel, sleeping bags, and tents; water recreation products consisting of tow-behinds, boats, and kayaks; fishing equipment; team sports equipment; skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and in-line skating products; and water sports equipment, personal flotation devices, and all-terrain vehicle gears. It distributes its products through mass merchandisers, sporting goods and outdoor recreation stores, club stores, and wholesalers, as well as owned factory outlet stores and the Internet. The Consumer Solutions segment offers clippers and trimmers; electric blankets, mattress pads, and throws; household kitchen appliances, such as blenders, coffeemakers, irons, mixers, slow cookers, toasters, toaster ovens, and vacuum packaging machines; personal care and wellness products, including fans, humidifiers, heaters and air purifiers; hospitality products; and scales for consumer use. It sells its products through department stores, specialty retailers, and mass merchants. The Branded Consumables segment provides household staples, including arts and crafts paint brushes, children’s card games, clothespins, collectible tins, cordage, firelogs and firestarters, home safety equipment, home canning jars and accessories, kitchen matches, other craft items, plastic cutlery, playing cards and accessories, storage and workshop accessories, toothpicks, and other accessories through club, drug, grocery, hardware, mass merchant, and specialty retailers. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Rye, New York.

H.B. Williamson Company manufactures traditional and contemporary frame mouldings in black, silver, gold, wood, and color. H.B. Williamson distributes its frame collections to custom frame retailers nationwide. Also called The Williamson Company, it was founded in 1956 and is still family-owned and -operated. Laura Schaubert, wife of president Terry Schaubert, is the granddaughter of the company's founders.

Smoby company's toy subsidiaries manufacture creative playthings for children ages 0-12, including play strollers and other role-playing and creativity toys, stacking and building toys, balloons and balls , and football tables. Another unit makes plastic packaging products, bottles, flasks, and containers for industrial customers. Sales outside France account for more than half of the total. Germany-based toy rival Simba Dickie acquired the company in 2008 and made Smoby Toys a subsidiary.

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.

Head N.V. company manufactures and markets branded sports equipment -- including Penn-branded tennis balls and racquets -- in more than 85 countries. In a bid to boost its presence in a low-growth sector, the company has expanded by buying new brands and entering the snowboard market. The company has also expanded its brands through a variety of sportswear licensing agreements. Tennis great Andre Agassi uses Head racquets. Head was founded in 1950 by Howard Head, inventor of the first metal ski. The company is about 49% owned (and effectively controlled) by chairman and CEO Johan Eliasch and his family.

Bravo Sports, headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California, is a global leader in the recreational and sporting goods markets. With offices, factories and warehouses in the United States, Italy, Thailand and China, the Company’s operations truly span the globe. Since 1965, Bravo has provided the highest quality and most innovative products to enthusiasts worldwide. With a stable of market-leading brands including Quik Shade™, Quik Chair™, Moto Shade™, Airzone™, World Industries™, Kryptonics™, Hyper™ and Variflex™ to go along with industry leading licenses with outstanding partners like Nickelodeon, Mattel and Cartoon Network, Bravo consistently seeks to exceed the expectations of its consumers and customers alike.

Thomastik-Infeld, the company they founded in 1919, still manufacturers steel and nylon strings for bowed and plucked instruments including aoud, cello, guitar, mandolin, and violin. In all the company produces more than 3,000 types of strings annually. The company also manufactures tailpieces and rosin for members of the violin family. The company sells its products worldwide through various retail outlets;John M. Connolly & Co. is the exclusive US importer of Thomastik-Infeld strings.

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.

DECATHLON SA company operates as the Oxylane Group, designs and manufactures athletic apparel and equipment for some 65 sports, including cross-country cycling, diving, horseback riding, hunting, martial arts, rugby, running, street soccer, and table tennis. The company operates some 400 Decathlon, Tobogan, and Decat sporting goods superstores in about 15 countries. Its outlets offer services such as tennis racket stringing, ice skate sharpening, and bicycle tune-ups and repairs. DECATHLON was founded in 1976 by president Michel Leclercq and is owned by the Mulliez Group.

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