Long before Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins showed us how to improve our lives, Nightingale-Conant pioneered the publishing of self-development audiotapes. Its Psychology of Winning, produced in 1978, is one of the best selling audio self-improvement programs in history. Nightingale-Conant markets its motivational tapes by mail order, at business seminars, and through resellers. Its recordings offer advice from business authors, inspirational speakers, and personal skill trainers and are grouped under categories such as personal development, business strategy, wealth building, mind and body, spiritual growth, and sales training. Nightingale-Conant distributes the work of authors including Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar.

Toy Quest company makes outdoor toys, as well as robotic pets, such as Tekno the Robotic Puppy. Other products include Planetcare eco-conscious toys, Stretch Screamers, role-play costume sets, and its Banzai Falls line. Toy Quest makes toys under license with Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers, Sesame Street, and Jeep. Toy Quest's products are sold by toy retailers, discount stores, and online. Founded by Chinese businessman Sampson Chan in 1975, Toy Quest is owned by Chan and president Brian Dubinsky.

Ty company behind Beanie Babies and their worldwide cult following -- popular with kids and adults alike. Since 1993 Ty has produced more than 365 different Beanie Babies with colorful names such as McLucky the bear and Cheeks the baboon. Other products include Beanie Buddies , Ty Classics, Ty Girlz, and Bow Wow Beanies. Beanie bucks enabled Warner to buy a half-dozen luxury hotels.

Lace Music Products is a division of Actodyne General Inc., founded in 1979 by the late Don Lace Sr., an innovative electronics designer with a passion for solving problems using creative solutions. The company was started in the family garage and quickly grew to become one of the most respected companies in the music industry.Don Lace Sr. had an extensive background in high intensity lighting, speakers, and magnetics. This included linear motors, solenoids, alarms, radios, and other highly complex magnetic devices. His expertise in speaker design brought him to Fender Musical Instruments in 1967. There he consulted on speakers and various issues regarding pick-up manufacturing. It was here that Lace was exposed to the fascinating world of the music industry while working with Fender and people like Don Randall.

For almost half a century, the Fitz and Floyd hallmark has become synonymous with excellence in design, quality and style. From style-conscious homes to corporate boardrooms and royal palaces, the Fitz and Floyd look is easily recognized throughout America and much of the world.Over the past 49 years, Fitz and Floyd has evolved into the undisputed leader in the design and manufacture of hand-painted ceramic giftware, dinnerware, tableware, decorative accessories, home fragrance and collectibles. From the drawing board to the sculpting wheel and the kiln, all Fitz and Floyd products are distinctly designed and hand-crafted by skilled Fitz and Floyd artisans. From its renowned studios in Dallas, the Fitz and Floyd design team creates the company’s exclusive designs- nearly 500 new and unique designs each year.

Crosman was founded in 1923 in Rochester, New York, as Crosman Arms Company. Its credo then, as now, was quality and innovation. From its inception, Crosman's principal products have been products for the shooting sports, primarily airguns and airgun ammunition.During the 1950's, significant growth occurred, driven by national accounts such as Sears Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, and Western Auto. All sold Crosman's products under their respective brand names. Then, in 1966, Crosman introduced its own Crosman branded airgun, the Pumpmaster 760, selling for $27.95. Today the ever-popular Crosman Pumpmaster Model 760 still sells in the same price range, with more than 13 million rifles sold.Today, Crosman Corporation is an international designer, manufacturer and marketer of Crosman pellet and BB rifles and pistols, Copperhead ammunition, high quality Benjamin pellet rifles and ammunition, airsoft rifles and pistols, crossbows and precision optics. The company employs more than 300 people domestically, markets its products around the world and is seen as a leader in the airgun industry.

Hot introductions for the year include from Zizzle the master toy line for Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 - Dead Mans Curse. From Jakks Pacific come revolutionary new iPets combining the handheld virtual pets craze with Jakks Plug & Play technology. The MGA division is offering the strongest line of Bratz product ever. Vivid developed product includes Doodle Doug, MXD's, Fifi & The Flowertots and seven new Vivid Games. Reinforced by the new Crayola Division, Vivid Group gross sales targets for the year are US$248 million.Vivid turnover £123m and launched new preschool hit TV show from Chapman Entertainment ‘Roary the Racing Car’.Vivid acquire company in France launching Vivid Europe gaining the rights to sell Crayola across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

American Achievement Corporation (AAC) is the leading provider of products that forever mark the special moments of people’s lives. As the parent company of well-known brands such as ArtCarved®. Balfour®, Keepsake®, and Taylor Publishing, AAC legacy is based upon the delivery of exceptional, innovative products, including class rings, yearbooks, graduation products, achievement publications and affinity jewelry through in-school and retail distribution.In business for more than 90 years and employing more than 2,500 people in more than eight facilities, AAC is recognized as one of the nation’s oldest and largest distributors of commemorative jewelry and recognition products. AAC’s products are available through a variety of distribution methods, including direct sales to students in high schools and college bookstores, national jewelry retailers, independent jewelry stores and mass merchandisers.

Gree likes to keep things cool. The world's number one household air condition maker manufactures and distributes about 10 different types of air conditioners from small window units to large commercial systems. Gree has three manufacturing facilities in China, one in Brazil, and one in Pakistan capable of producing 10 million air conditioning units per year. It has been expanding its manufacturing facilities for several years and continues to explore new areas. Gree appliances are sold in more than 180 countries. Gree president Mingszhu Dong regularly makes Fortune magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in business. Gree Group Comp. owns Gree.

Rowe Fine Furniture makes upholstered sofas, love seats, and chairs in traditional, contemporary, and transitional styles under the Rowe, Robin Bruce, and Clayton Marcus brands. The company operates manufacturing centers in Virginia and a showroom in the furniture Mecca of High Point, North Carolina. Its offerings are sold through major and independent home furnishings retailers across the US and overseas, in such countries as Ireland, the Netherlands, and Taiwan. The company was founded in 1946 by Ronald Rowe Sr., Ralph E. Bentz, and Donald Jordan under the name Rowe-Jordan Furniture. An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners acquired Rowe in 2007.

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