Oneida Ltd. is one of the world’s largest marketers of stainless steel silverware / flatware, and offers a complete range of tabletop products. Its operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia market stainless, silverplated, and sterling silverware / flatware products, china dinnerware, and crystal and glassware items. Oneida is the #1 Brand in silverware / flatware with the top 5 designs in the entire industry.The company originated in a utopian community established in the mid-nineteenth century, and has had a strong reputation for quality since that time.

"At no cost to you, I'd like to vacuum and shampoo your carpet." Representatives of The Kirby Company have been using that line since the first Kirby vacuum, the Model C, was manufactured in 1935. (Its predecessor, the non-electric Vacuette, was developed by Jim Kirby in 1914.) New Kirby machines have always been sold exclusively door-to-door; the upscale vacuums cost about $1,800 and come with a lifetime warranty. Kirby items are sold through independent dealers and distributors in the US and 70 other countries. The company, named for Jim Kirby, who designed his first vacuum cleaner in 1906, also sells a line of cleaning products. Kirby is part of Scott Fetzer Company, which operates more than 20 businesses.

Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of musical instruments. It operates in two segments, Pianos, and Band & Orchestral Instruments. The Piano segment offers grand pianos and upright pianos under Steinway & Sons, Boston, and Essex brand names. It offers baby grand pianos, concert grand pianos, ebony pianos, pianos with special veneers, and art case pianos. This segment also provides repair, replacement part sales, tuning and regulation of pianos, and restoration services. In addition, it operates as an online retailer of classical music recordings. It sells its products to professional artists and amateur pianists, as well as institutions, such as concert halls, universities, music schools, houses of worship, hotels, and retirement homes in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries. The Band & Orchestral Instruments segment produces a line of brass, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments. It offers piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, French horns, tubas, and trombones; acoustical and tuned percussion instruments, including outfit drums, marching drums, concert drums, marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, orchestra bells, and chimes; violins, violas, cellos, and basses; and mouthpieces and accessories, such as music stands, batons, mallets, straps, mutes, reeds, pads, chin rests, strings, bows, cases, and instrument care products. It sells its products to students, amateur and professional musicians, and institutions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. It sells its products through independent dealers, distributors, retail showrooms, district sales managers, and telemarketing representatives. The company, formerly known as Selmer Industries, Inc., was founded in 1993 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

The company produces Guitars, Knilling violins, violas, and cellos. St. Louis Music has manufacturing plants in St. Louis and in Yellville, Arkansas, and an R&D facility in St. Louis. The family-owned company was founded by Bernard Kornblum, an Austrian immigrant who began the company in 1922 by selling violin parts. In the 1980s, son Gene Kornblum launched the Crate brand of electric guitar amplifiers and professional sound equipment that pump up the volume of bands such as Megadeth and Limp Bizkit. St. Louis Music was acquired by LOUD Technologies in 2005.

Johnson Outdoors, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of outdoor recreation products worldwide. Its Marine Electronics segment provides battery-powered fishing motors for trolling or primary propulsion; sonar and GPS equipment for fishfinding and navigation; downriggers for controlled-depth fishing; chartplotters for navigation; and marine autopilot systems for large boats. It offers its products through outdoor specialty retailers, retail store chains, marine distributors, international distributors, and original equipment manufacturers. The company’s Outdoor Equipment segment provides tents, sleeping bags, and other recreational camping products; field compasses and digital instruments; and performance measurement instruments. It offers its products through independent sales representatives, primarily to sporting goods stores, catalog and mail order houses, and camping and backpacking specialty stores, as well as through Internet retailers and general rental stores. Johnson Outdoors Watercraft segment sells canoes and kayaks, paddles, and personal flotation devices through specialty stores, marine dealers, sporting goods stores, and catalog and mail order houses. The company's Diving segment manufactures and markets a line of underwater diving and snorkeling equipment, including regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers and gauges, wetsuits, masks, fins, snorkels, and accessories for technical and recreational divers. It markets its equipment in diving magazines, via Web sites, and through dive specialty stores. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.

SafetyTots International develops CD-ROM and flash cards addressing children's safety issues. SafetyTots's cartoon characters (such as the SafetyTots and Betsy the Butterfly) teach children strategies for handling dangerous situations. The company traces its roots to 1983, when president and CEO Paula Geonie founded the children's safety program Playing it Safe.

Stuart Spector Design makes electric basses. The company's basses range in price from about $600 to more than $5,000. The company also sells guitars and guitar accessories such as bags, cases, and strings. Products are sold at specialty guitar stores and national music retailers, including Brook Mays Music, Guitar Center, and Sam Ash. Founder Stuart "Thumbslinger" Spector has been designing and manufacturing Spector basses since 1976. In the 80s the company was acquired by Kramer.

IMAX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment technology company worldwide. The company specializes in motion picture technologies and large-format film presentations. It engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and lease of large-format digital and film-based theater systems; and the conversion of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) Hollywood feature films for exhibition on such systems. The company's theater systems are based on proprietary and patented technology for large-format digital projectors and large-format 15-perforation film frame, and 70mm format projectors. It serves theater exhibitors that operate commercial theaters, such as multiplexes; and museums, science centers, and destination entertainment sites. The company also engages in the production and distribution of original large-format films; provision of post-production services for large-format films; operation of a small number of IMAX theaters; and provision of services in support of IMAX theaters and the IMAX theater network, as well as rents 2D and 3D large-format analog cameras. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 351 theater systems comprising 231 commercial and 120 institutional operating in 42 countries. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Janitors with wood-handle mops and tin buckets dream about Minuteman International. Janitors makes commercial vacuums, floor and carpet care products, cleaning chemicals, and bio-hazard vacuums, as well as carpet sweepers, scrubbers, and accessories. Minuteman is made up of several segments: Minuteman, PowerBoss, and Multi-Clean. The company was founded in 1951 as American Cleaning Equipment Corporation. German cleaning equipment maker Hako-Werke International acquired Minuteman International in 2004 and took it private.

As the Woodstock era stretched and opened its eyes, it gave birth to much more than just acid rock and tie dye. A new generation of entrepreneurial spirit was emerging, founded in the counter-culture, anti-establishment ethos of the day. These were companies whose start-up capital was measured not in dollars or stock options, but in innovation, ambition and a desire to mold their own destiny. The refusal to simply accept the status quo, to challenge convention, brought a fresh perspective to a generation that would forever change the rules of Business As Usual.Certainly, not every endeavor was a success. Many young entrepreneurs were quickly overwhelmed by the harsh realities of the marketplace, and the stark realization that the rules of economics bent only so far. Others became victims of their own success stories, too naïve or ignorant of the disciplines of management and organization to sustain their momentum. Only a few have managed to grow and prosper, and even fewer have maintained the essence of that independent, innovative spirit.

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