Coinstar, Inc. provides a range of solutions for retailers storefronts, including self-service coin counting, entertainment services, and e-payment services. It owns and operates self-service coin-counting machines; entertainment services machines, such as skill-crane machines, bulk vending machines, and kiddie rides; and e-payment-enabled coin-counting machines. The company offers e-payment services, including money transfer services, activating and reloading value on prepaid wireless accounts; selling stored value cards; loading and reloading prepaid debit cards and prepaid phone cards; prepaid phones; and providing payroll card services. It also offers self-service DVD kiosks that enable consumers to purchase or rent movies, as well as provides point-of-sale terminals, stand-alone e-payment kiosks, and e-payment enabled coin-counting machines in drugstores, universities, shopping malls, supermarkets, and convenience stores. As of December 31, 2008, Coinstar owned and operated approximately 18,400 coin-counting machines, approximately 145,000 entertainment services machines, 23,000 point-of-sale terminals, 400 stand-alone e-payment kiosks, and 11,000 e-payment-enabled coin-counting machines. It has operations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Ireland. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

A leader in introducing Japanese toy trends to the United States, Bandai America Incorporated is a subsidiary of NAMCO BANDAI Holdings (USA) Inc., an entity that resulted from the integration of Namco Ltd. and Bandai Co. Ltd. of Japan. Global interests encompass six strategic business units: toys, hobby (toys, models, apparel and sundries), amusement facilities, game content (home and arcade console gaming), network (mobile phone and PC content), visual and music content (including home entertainment), and an affiliated business group. Bandai America is the manufacturer and master toy licensee of some of the most popular brands in children's toys and entertainment today, including Power Rangers, Ben 10™, Dragon Ball Z®, Digimon, Tamagotchi® and Girlz Connect. The company is headquartered in Cypress, California and information is available at www.Bandai.com.

North American Bear Company began as a creative business enterprise of a new mother, Barbara Isenberg, starting a family in New York City in the mid-1970’s. Her desire to find a teddy bear with the nostalgic charm of an antique toy and a contemporary sense of whimsy for her own small son prompted the start of a toy company creating unique, high quality plush bears that would appeal to both children and adults alike. In 1978, after perfecting a variety of sample bears, assembling a sales force and locating a small NY factory to produce bears, Barbara teamed up with her brother, Paul Levy, a Chicago-based lawyer and real estate developer, to form North American Bear Company, Inc. Barbara continues as the company’s Creative Director, running the New York Studio in the heart of Manhattan’s toy district where she and the closely-knit design and production team develop each season’s rich and varied collections. Paul Levy serves as CEO in the company’s corporate headquarters in Chicago, managing the administrative, financial and warehousing aspects of the business.

Al Buck revolutionized the knife industry in 1964 with the Model 110 Folding Hunter. The folding “lockblade” knife made Buck a leader. A position Buck Knives proudly hold today.Hoyt and Al Buck's ingenuity may have put the company on the map. But it is Buck Kniveswe ongoing commitment to developing innovative new products and improving what Buck Knives have by third and fourth generation Buck family members that have made Buck the successful knife maker it is today.

Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. toys, created by Bandai, include the Tamagotchi virtual pet and the Digimon, Gundam, and Power Ranger collections of characters and action figures. Related products include clothing, stationery, and accessories. Namco Bandai's home computer game titles, developed primarily by Namco, include Tekken and Ridge Racer. Namco Bandai also operates a chain of amusement facilities, develops animated and live-action content for film and mobile phones, and sells coin-operated game and amusement machines.

There's more than seven years of bad luck if you break a Barovier&Toso. Barovier&Toso's a leading glassware maker that creates designer vases, chandeliers, and light fixtures. Barovier&Toso works with architectural types to produce custom-made pieces -- supplying hotels, public buildings, and more. Barovier&Toso's main showroom is in Milan. It also has franchised showrooms in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Tokyo. The Barovier family, which has produced glassware for centuries, merged its business with the Toso family's (fellow glassmakers on the island of Murano) in 1936. Its history reaches back so far that the Guinness Book of World Records named the Baroviers as being the oldest family of glassmakers in the world.

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.

Headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ, Hunter Douglas is the leading manufacturer of custom-made window fashions in North America. For more than 60 years, HunterDouglas have been making a big difference at the window and in homes across America. In 1985, Hunter Douglas invented energy-efficient Duette® honeycomb shades—the first product of its kind—in response to the energy crisis of the late 1970s. More recently, Hunter have introduced the latest generation of honeycomb shades—the Duette® Architella® Collection—which offer superior energy efficiency thanks to their patented honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb construction.

Founded in 1969, Imperial Toy LLC is the worldwide leader in the sale and manufacture of Bubbles and Novelty Toys. Our brands include Super Miracle® Bubbles, Miracle®Bubbles, Buddy-L®, Legends of the Wild West®, Cap Cars ®, Googly ®, Optrix ® and Runway Pink™. Our licenses include Nickelodeon®, SpongeBob SquarePants®, Dora the Explorer™, Go, Diego, Go!®, Backyardigans®, Ni Hao Kai Lan ®, Little Tikes®, Marvel ®, Strawberry Shortcake ®, Care Bears ®, Transformers ®,Thomas the Tank Engine®, Batman®, Ford® and Jeep®. Imperial distributes products in over 50 countries worldwide, from locations in Hong Kong, Memphis, TN, and San Diego. Imperial has offices in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Modena, Italy.

Lung Cheong International Holdings started making toys in 1963 with a second-hand plastic injection machine. Today its OEM customers include some of the biggest names in toys, including Mattel and TOMY. The US is the company's largest market with radio control and electronic toys accounting for the majority of sales. Lung Cheong also makes PC hardware for children, video games, and its own brands of digital cameras and electronic baby-monitoring systems. The company distributes licensed toys through more than 400 outlets in China and has made acquisitions including Kid Galaxy (creator of Bendos bendable action figures) and Standard Tooling and Products.

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