Candy spends all day -- every day -- cooking food, cleaning carpets, doing laundry, and washing the dishes without complaint. Candy makes and markets thousands of models of major appliances, including washing machines, washer dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, ovens, and vacuums. Its brands include namesake Candy, Hoover, Rosiares, Iberna, Hoover Grepa, Jinling, Hoover Helkama, Vyatka, and Zerowatt. The firm has grown through acquisitions, including its purchase of Hoover European Appliance Group. More than half of its revenue comes from sales of washing and flooring appliances. The founding Fumagalli family still owns and runs the company, which made its first household appliance around 1945.

Princess House, Inc is a direct seller of a variety of household goods, including cookware, lighting products, textiles, home accents, and flatware. Princess House designs and markets its products through more than 15,000 "Lifestyle Consultants" that organize in-home parties throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada, and Mexico.

Pool Corporation operates as a wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products. It offers approximately 100,000 national brand and private label products, including maintenance products. The company sells maintenance products, such as chemicals, supplies, and pool accessories; repair and replacement parts for cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights; packaged pool kits, including walls, liners, braces, and coping for in-ground and above-ground pools; pool equipment and components for new pool construction and the remodeling of existing pools; and irrigation and landscape products, such as professional lawn care equipment. It also offers complementary products, including building materials used for pool installations and remodeling, such as concrete, plumbing and electrical components and pool surface and decking materials; and other discretionary recreational and related outdoor lifestyle products. Pool Corporation serves swimming pool remodelers and builders, retail swimming pool stores, swimming pool repair and service businesses, landscape construction and maintenance contractors, and golf courses. Pool Corporation operates 288 sales centers in North America and Europe. The company was formerly known as SCP Pool Corporation and changed its name to Pool Corporation in 2006. Pool Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Covington, Louisiana.

Kidzup Productions designs educational media that encourages children to learn math, reading, writing, and foreign languages through music. The company produces workbooks, activity book sets, flashcards, and recorded music for retail distribution primarily in the US and Canada, as well as in international markets; the company also offers online shopping. Kidzup Productions is 40%-owned by the Kidzup Foundation, which provides philanthropic aid to such kid-centric organizations as UNICEF, World Vision Canada, the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The window coverings industry was revolutionized forever in Southern California in the year 1978. Ed Ulyate, owner of Laguna Hills Home Furnishings, proved that custom blinds could indeed be made and shipped in 3 days instead of 10 weeks. Out of the back of his tiny furniture store a winning concept emerged. Customers were ecstatic, sales were phenomenal and 3 Day Blinds was born. From that single showroom in Laguna Hills, sprang an industry leader.Today, 30 years later, 3 Day Blinds continue to manufacture and sell the 3 Day Blinds brand of custom crafted window coverings, made to client’s specifications and shipped from manufacturing facility within just 3 days. Although fast effective delivery is important, quality is never compromised because the company control every detail of every window covering they make from the moment the order is placed. The best materials and experienced craftsman are employed to produce window coverings that are beautiful, durable and long lasting.

Samsung SDI wants you to want one of those huge flat-screen televisions. Samsung SDI, 20% owned by Samsung Electronics, specializes in the dazzling world of display technology, manufacturing such prized consumer products as plasma display panels and liquid-crystal display panels. Bigger is always better in such things, so Samsung SDI offers screens as large as 102 inches. Its technologies also find applications on a smaller scale, such as in computer monitors, cell phones, and other handheld mobile devices. Established in 1970, Samsung SDI also produces rechargeable batteries and is working on next-generation displays. It formed a joint venture in 2008 with Robert Bosch GmbH to make lithium-ion batteries.

Lifetime Products, Inc., has applied innovation and cutting-edge technology in plastics and metals to create a family of affordable lifestyle products that feature superior strength and durability. The world’s leading manufacturer of folding tables and chairs, Lifetime was founded in 1986 as the maker of portable basketball systems that revolutionized the industry with patented technology. With diverse offerings such as outdoor storage sheds and a wide variety of lawn & garden products, Lifetime continues to develop innovative products that outfit the way you live. Lifetime makes the things you need for the lifestyle you want. By innovating products in and around the home, Lifetime simplifies your everyday life and enables you to get the most out of your free time.

Fuqi International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in designing, developing, promoting, and selling precious metal jewelry in the People's Republic of China. The company offers basic gold jewelry, as well as a range of products, including rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and pendants made from precious metals, such as platinum, gold, palladium, and karat gold. It also manufactures jewelry with diamond and other precious stone inlays, as well as gold coins and gold bars. Fuqi International sells its products primarily to the national and provincial distributors. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

X-Rite, Incorporated, a technology company, develops color management systems and solutions worldwide. Its products include colorimeters, which measure light using red, green, and blue receptors, as well as measure printed colors on packages, labels, textiles, and other materials; spectrophotometers that are used in color formulation of materials, such as plastics, paints, inks, ceramics, and metals; densitometers, which measure optical or photographic density; spectrodensitometers that provide measurements for monitoring color reproduction used for controlling the color of printed inks in graphic arts applications; and sensitometers, which are used to expose various photographic films. The company also offers software packages that allow the users to collect and store color measurement data, compare data to databases, communicate color results, and formulate colors from a database. X-Rite also develops and markets products for the communication and reproduction of color. It serves the imaging and media, photography, digital imaging, paints, plastics, apparel, textiles, and automotive industries through sales personnel, independent sales representatives, and dealers. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Nite Ize knows that it's EZ to get lost in the dark and hopes to be your guiding light. The company manufactures and markets a variety of outdoor accessories, including flashlight and LED (light-emitting diode) accessories. Its product line includes flashlight frisbees; GPS, PDA, and cellular phone holsters; flashlight headbands; and various hardware accessories. Nite Ize has strategic relationships with retailers and distributors in more than 60 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 1989 by Rick Case, Nite Ize's president and owner.

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