Mattel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of various toy products worldwide. Its products include fashion dolls and accessories, vehicles and playsets, and games and puzzles. The company offers its products under various brands, including Barbie, Polly Pocket, Little Mommy, Disney Classics, Pixel Chix, High School Musical, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Speed Racer, Tyco R/C, CARS, Radica, Speed Racer, Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Fisher-Price, Little People, BabyGear, View-Master, Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, Winnie the Pooh, Go-Diego-Go!, See Say, Power Wheels, Just Like You, and Bitty Baby. Its product portfolio includes Blokus and Whac-A-Mole games. Mattel, Inc. also offers various game properties under Apples to Apples, Snorta, and Blink names. In addition, the company publishes advice and activity books, as well as magazines, such as the American Girl. It sells its products to retailers, including discount and free-standing toy stores, chain stores, department stores, and other retail outlets; wholesalers; and distribution centers. The company also markets its products directly, as well as through its Web site, and agents and distributors. Mattel, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Ballantyne Strong, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, services, and distributes theatre and lighting systems. The company's Theatre segment offers digital equipment, such as cinema projectors; and motion picture projection equipment comprising motion picture projectors, xenon lamphouses and power supplies, a console system combining a lamphouse and power supply into a single cabinet, soundhead reproducers, and related products, such as sound systems. This segment also distributes film handling equipment consisting of cinema screens, replacement parts, and digital and film projection lenses, as well as offers cinema services, including film and digital projector maintenance, repair, installations, and site surveys. The Theatre segment sells its products directly to end users, and to theatre exhibitors through a network of dealers in the United States and internationally. Its Lighting Segment offers followspots; and promotional searchlights and lighting systems for the motion picture production, television, live entertainment, theme park, and architectural markets. This segment sells its lighting products directly, as well as through commissioned representatives to arenas, stadiums, theme parks, theatres, auditoriums, and equipment rental companies. Ballantyne Strong sells its products and services in the United States, Canada, Asia, Mexico, South America, and Europe. It markets its commercial motion picture projection equipment under the Strong, Simplex, Century, and Ballantyne trademarks; followspot products under the Strong, Super Trouper, and Gladiator trademarks; high intensity promotional searchlights under the Sky-Tracker and the Strong Britelight trademark. The company was formerly known as Ballantyne of Omaha, Inc. and changed its name to Ballantyne Strong, Inc. on June 3, 2009. Ballantyne Strong was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

The company provides an array of professional-grade photographic equipment, including film processors, digital imaging equipment, software, and online bridges (which are used to link film processors to electronic imagesetting equipment). Its astronomical unit deals in a wide range of telescopes and related accessories. Through the Bray Plastics unit, the firm also offers various plastic manufacturing services, including fabrication, machining, enclosures, assembly, and forming.

Founded in 1926 by a man with an eye for recycling and a belief in human potential, The Antioch Company is a multinational organization with business units located in Ohio and Minnesota.The company’s direct-selling division, Creative Memories, is an industry leader in the manufacture and sale of digital and traditional memory-celebration products. Creative Memories operates in the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, with expansion planned in other European countries.

Bushnell® has been the industry leader in high-performance sports optics for over 50 years. Bushnell guiding principle is to provide the highest quality, most reliable and affordable sports optics products on the market. And, their commitment to outstanding customer service and strong retailer partnerships is unmatched.Bushnell boasts leading market share in all of the sports optics categories, and their products have consistently won design and performance awards from prestigious organizations. The company product lines enhance the enjoyment of every outdoor pursuit from spectator sports, nature study, hunting, fishing and birding to stargazing. Indoors, binoculars bring the audience closer to the action in fast-moving sports or the fine arts at theaters and concerts.Bushnell constantly explores emerging technologies to market sports optics that combine leading edge design with performance innovation. It is this dedication that has made Bushnell the most recognized and reputable sports optics brand in the world.

Gemmy Industries was founded in 1984 in Dallas, Texas. Since then, Gemmy has been a groundbreaker in the fields of novelties and animation. Gemmy’s animation expertise has created such names as Pete the Repeat Parrot, Douglas Fir and, of course, the Big Mouth Billy Bass sensation. Over the years, Gemmy has been equally successful in the seasonal decorations market, creating new categories and performing brilliantly in others. Gemmy were the originators of Airblown® Inflatables, which have since become a staple of holiday decor. Gemmy has also pioneered the way in life-sized figures for Christmas and Halloween, and blazed new trails in lighting solutions and technology – most notably with their LightShow™ brand.

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.

RIC's 35 plus models of guitars are sold through catalogs and authorized dealers in the US and nearly 60 other countries worldwide. The company, which still makes every guitar in the US, has bucked the industry trend of offering a lower-priced line of instruments made overseas. Its standard guitars range in price from $1,500 to $5,000; custom models more than $10,000. It produces about 10,000 a year with a two-year waiting list. Famous rockers from The Beatles to U2 have helped give RIC guitars their mystique and make them a must-have for any serious player.

In 1995, the founders of Coast Spas shared a vision to become a manufacturer of hot tubs whose quality would be recognized around the world. Today that vision is a reality — Coast Spas leads the industry in innovation, design and quality and has blossomed into a world network of almost 200 dealers.With over 20 models of hot tubs available in over 65 configurations, Coast has a hot tub for every lifestyle and budget. As a result, their dealers are very competitive in their markets. company technological advancements are unmatched; from the 17-inch LCD Screen, AM/FM/CD/MP3 player and Extreme subwoofer to their DVD player, 24-inch waterfall and fiber optic headrests, They are the one other manufacturers keep their eye on to see what’s next.

Few companies in the entire world have touched the lives of more people than The Franklin Mint. For more than 40 years, the world’s leading private mint has created works of fine art, magnificent objets d'Art, and treasured collectibles that not only bring us joy, but that enhance the lives as they share their beauty and significance with family and friends.The Franklin Mint was founded in 1964 when it began striking legal tender coins for foreign countries, as well as commemorative medallions, casino tokens and precious metal ingots. Eventually, the product line was expanded to include the sculptures, deluxe games, precision die-cast models, beautiful collector dolls, and more sought-after collectibles for which the Mint is now world famous.

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