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.

Ashley Furniture's Worldwide Headquarters in Arcadia, Wisconsin continues to be the core manufacturing and distribution center for the Ashley Companies. Founded by Carlyle Weinberger in 1945, the company started as a sales organization with branches in Chicago,IL and Goshen, IN. In 1970, the Arcadia, WI factory opened. Specializing in occasional tables and wall systems, the building encompassed 35,000 square feet of space and 35 employees.Under the vision, direction and leadership of Ashley's owners, Ashley has become a "WorldClass Furniture Manufacturer". Ashley has grown to become the largest home furniture manufacturing company. Ashley has a rich history of success stories that illustrate its dramatic transition from a ‘virtual unknown’ to a significant force in the industry.

Audio Research is one of the oldest continually operating manufacturers in American audio.The company was founded in 1970 in Minneapolis with one goal in mind: to advance the state-of-the-art in music reproduction. Today, Audio Research remains a performance-oriented company by philosophy and design. New product introductions are driven only by genuine advances in technology and performance -- the HIGH DEFINITION that is the hallmark of the company's products. The company has grown steadily over the last quarter-century, with a network of top audio specialist retailers across North America and country-by-country distributors throughout Europe, Asia and South America.The company occupies a 48,000 square-foot, technically-advanced production plant and administrative headquarters in Plymouth, Minnesota, where approximately 50 technical, assembly and support staff guide the product line from concept to finished goods. A research-only facility has also been established in Palm Desert, California.

JAKKS Pacific, Inc. develops, produces, and markets consumer products worldwide. It offers various traditional toys, including action figures and accessories, such as licensed characters based on World Wrestling Entertainment, The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian, and Pokemon franchises; toy vehicles comprising Road Champs, RC Racers, and MXS toy vehicles and accessories, as well as those based on Nascar; and electronics products that include Plug It In & Play TV Games, EyeClops Bionic Eye products, and Laser Challenge. The company also provides role-play and dress-up products featuring entertainment and consumer products properties, such as Dirt Devil, Subway, Pizza Hut and McDonalds pretend play products, Disney Princess, Hannah Montana, Barbie and Dora the Explorer playsets for girls, and Black & Decker and Pirates of the Caribbean playsets for boys; infant and pre-school toys and plush toys featuring Care Bears, Barney, The Wiggles, Curious George, and slumber bags; and dolls and related accessories based on Cabbage Patch Kids, Hannah Montana, The Cheetah Girls, Puppy in My Pocket and Friends, Hairspray the movie, and Disney Princess dolls and private label fashion dolls. In addition, it offers seasonal and outdoor toys and leisure products consisting of Go Fly A Kite, Air Creations, Funnoodle pool toys, The Storm water guns, and Fly Wheels XPV and Flight vehicles; junior sports and toy paintball products, including Gaksplat and The Storm; baby dolls and baby doll pretend play accessories based on Graco, Fischer Price, and Disney Princess; indoor and outdoor kids furniture, accessories, and room decor; and Halloween and costumes based on Spiderman, Power Rangers, and Disney Princesses, as well as home decor product for Halloween. Further, it provides craft, activity, and writing products, as well as pet products comprising toys, consumables, beds, clothing, and accessories. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Malibu, California.

NoBrainer was created by the folks at Laura's Draperies, Bedspreads & More, a window coverings design firm established in 1937. So you'll get 70 years of experience, by competent design experts. Give NoBrainer a try and see for yourself. The NoBrainer concept is simple; low prices made possible by mammoth buying power, streamlined order processing using the latest technology. NoBrainerBlinds work helped to eliminate all the usual overhead incurred by their mail order competitors. No costly catalogs, low Internet overhead and no commissions to employees-that's how the company manages tiny cost of the product.

Delivering more bang for a lot more buck, electronics manufacturer Bang & Olufsen has made a name for itself in the high-end audio/video industry. Known better as B&O, it sells its high-tech televisions, telephones, DVD players, loudspeakers, digital music players, and other items in more than 100 countries (the UK and Denmark are its largest markets) worldwide. The speaker maker operates more than 1,100 outlets worldwide. Its manufacturing is outsourced and products are finished at facilities in Denmark and the Czech Republic. B&O's futuristic designs have landed its products in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. B&O was founded in 1925 by engineers Svend Olufsen and Peter Bang.

Sharper Image Corporation operates as a multi-channel specialty retailer in the United States. The company sells its products through the Sharper Image specialty stores, the Sharper Image catalog, and the Internet. It also engages in wholesale operations; licenses its brand name to third parties; and provides customer list-rental programs. As of January 31, 2007, it operated 187 Sharper Image stores in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Sharper Image was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. On February 19, 2008, Sharper Image Corporation filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

The company that now bears the name Avalon Guitars came into being in the 1980's. The company's reputation for producing the very highest quality acoustic guitars using traditional methods has remained unsurpassed.Avalon's excellence is firmly rooted in our highly skilled team of luthiers whose innovativeness, abilities and know-how is renowned.Avalon Guitars exists to make possible their contribution to the acoustic guitar world with their passion for acoustic guitar design, quality and above all, tone.

Monster Cable Products, Inc. was founded in 1979 by Noel Lee, who was then a laser-fusion design engineer at Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory, as well as an audiophile and professional drummer. Lee discovered that wires of different constructions produced varying degrees of audio performance when hooked up to loudspeakers. From this discovery, he developed a high performance speaker cable, named it Monster Cable, and literally created an industry. The invention of Monster Cable created a new product category that revolutionized the audio market. Prior to Monster Cable, most stereo systems were wired with ordinary "zip-cord," the same cable used for electrical household and lamp wire. Their inferior construction and cheap materials restricts power, dynamic range and clarity in the lows, mids, and highs.Lee chose the name "Monster" because it sounded strong and powerful. It became an immediate hit with consumers. In fact, the name Monster Cable is so synonymous with high quality and high performance, customers often assume that any cable they purchase in reputable stores would be Monster even though there are other cable brands.

TOMY Company, manufactures toys and games, including video games, and apparel for children and infants and is one of Japan's leading toymakers. About 90% of its toys and games are sold in Asia, with Europe and the US accounting for the rest. TOMY's key toy product lines include baby & toddler, bath, preschool, and Transformers. TOMY also makes such game products as Screwball Scramble, Pop up Pirate, and Rumble in the Jungle. TOMY acquired another toy maker, Takara, in 2006 as part of an initiative to extend the reach of its brand. Founded in 1924, TOMY operates in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, France, the UK, and the US.

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