FUJIFILM brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries, including electronic imaging, photofinishing equipment, medical systems, life sciences, graphic arts, flat panel display materials, and office products, based on a vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company was among the top 15 companies around the world granted U.S. patents in 2008. Fujifilm is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship.

Daiwa's first spinning reel rolled off the assembly line in 1955. Since then, the company has grown into one of the largest and most influential tackle companies in the world today.To handle sales and distribution in the United States, Daiwa Corporation first opened its doors on September 26, 1966, operating from a small facility in Culver City, California. Today, based in Cerritos, California, Daiwa Corporation sells tackle throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America.From the very beginning, Daiwa's emphasis has been upon innovation and quality. The result is a long list of product features, design and materials that have become standards for the fishing tackle industry. It is a long-standing record of innovation, the type of innovation that has left a visible mark on the majority of tackle manufactured today, innovation that continues to advance the sport of fishing.

Distinctive Appliances (dba Dacor) makes and distributes high-end stoves, grills, ventilation equipment, and other cooking appliances and accessories. The manufacturer boasts showrooms in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and Baltimore and also sells its products through specialty appliance retailers nationwide. Stan Joseph, who later founded Dacor with his wife Florence in 1965, created the first complete kitchen ventilation system, which became an essential feature of modern homes by the late 1950s

The company primarily manufactures upright and grand pianos and sells them through retail partners worldwide. Among the 6,000 components used by the company are numbered and certified soundboards from Italy (Stradivari reputedly used wood from the same region for his violins), actions from the Renner factory in Stuttgart, and a grey cast-iron frame that is stable and less likely to resonate. Wilh. Steinberg, which was established in 1877, exports pianos throughout the world.

Avesco Group is primarily a service business with a "we make it happen" philosophy and an international structure that enables us to offer our customers a global reach. Avesco Group plc comprises distinct companies with a common culture, each an expert, a leader and above all trusted by its clients to deliver. These companies work separately, or together, to deliver the highest quality service and production to all our customers from the smallest project to the largest live event.

Majestic Athletic story began in the 1950s, when Mary Capobianco endeavored to open her own sewing mill. After working in the booming garment industry of Bangor, Pennsylvania, she realized she could work just as hard for herself, and get much more in return. She started with women's clothing, mainly blouses. Maria Rose Fashions, as it was then known, served well-dressed women from coast to coast. It was a far cry from athletic apparel, but it demanded the same attention to detail. After learning the garment business first-hand, her son Faust Capobianco, III, followed in her footsteps. In 1976, he founded the Majestic Athletic you know today, almost. Additionally, Majestic Athletic has licensing agreements with such sporting entities as the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and a number of colleges and universities. The company was acquired by VF Corporation in 2007 and is part of its VF Imagewear division.

Viking is the brand best known for being the crowning touch to kitchens. Viking Range Corporation began by adapting commercial stoves for use in the home. Viking manufactures and markets upscale, professional-grade appliances, such as dishwashers, disposals, refrigerators, freezers, ovens, blenders, mixers, outdoor grills, cookware, cutlery -- and, of course, stoves. The company, which also makes and markets its owned branded cookware and cutlery, counts St. Charles Cabinetry as one of its divisions. Viking's products are manufactured in the US and are sold worldwide through a network of appliance distributors. Viking sold three of its US distributorships to specialty appliance distributor HADCO.

Sanrio Company, Ltd., primary business is making and marketing what the firm calls social communication gifts. The company also operates restaurants and two theme parks in Japan, produces movies, and publishes books and magazines -- all based on its multitude of cute characters. Sanrio licenses or sells thousands of items -- including Hello Kitty stationery, school and desk accessories, clothing, cosmetics, and room decor -- that turn up for sale around the world. Over 4,000 stores sell the products in the Americas alone, including some 200 Sanrio boutiques. CEO Shintaro Tsuji founded Sanrio in 1960.

Products made by Rodin (formerly Phoenix Gold) produce enough throbbing bass to rock your media room and maybe even make your neighbors call the authorities. The company makes high-end audio electronics (amplifiers and equalizers), speakers, and accessories for the home theater market. Its products, originally made in Portland but now overseas, are sold through specialty retailers worldwide under the Phoenix Gold, Carver Professional, and AudioSource brand names. In late 2003 PG Holding (controlled in part by former chairman and CEO Timothy Johnson) purchased a majority stake in the company. Phoenix Gold was acquired, in turn, by a group of investors in July 2006 and changed its name in late 2007.

For more than a century, GUND has been creating unique teddy bears and other soft toys recognized the world over for their quality and innovation.The leading soft toy manufacturer in the U.S., and also the oldest, GUND was founded by German immigrant Adolph Gund in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1898. GUND was one of the first companies to design and produce teddy bears in the early 1900’s.Today, the company manufactures an extensive collection of unique characters and licensed plush under the GUND, GUNDbaby and GUNDKids brands.

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