The company makes musical instrument parts such as guitar and bass machines and heads, banjo, ukulele, and violin pegs, and bridges. It also offers other types of instruments and accessories through its many divisions, including kazoos, recorders, and snare drums. The Cleveland Musical Instruments division consists of the Clevelander Drum Company, Pfrogg, and Orion cymbals, which imports its products from Brazil.

Founded in 1866, Winchester is one of the world's most widely recognized and respected brand names.For more than 140 years, the name "Winchester" has come to mean many things to many people. To most folks it's meant ammunition and the Gun that Won the West. For many others, however, it also rekindles images of fine hand tools and cutlery, fishing tackle and flashlights. A major global supplier of sporting ammunition, Winchester has long been the leader in introducing innovative new products from the Gun that Won the West to Winchester's new line of low recoil/low-noise shotshells or its new nontoxic ammunition for use in indoor shooting ranges.

Remo wants to sell you a drumhead -- and hopes you beat the snot out of it. The company, a leading proponent of drumming as music therapy, dominates the world's drumhead market. Remo makes and markets drumsets and a variety of percussion instruments in more than 100 countries worldwide. CEO Remo Belli established the company in 1957 after creating the first synthetic drumhead. Remo's HealthRHYTHMS division develops materials and training programs intended to promote the health benefits of drumming. Research funded by Belli has shown that group drumming stimulates the body's defenses against cancer and viral infections.

Hasbro, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of games and toys. The company principally provides children's and family leisure time and entertainment products and services. It offers various games, including traditional board, card, hand-held electronic, trading card, roleplaying, and DVD games, as well as electronic learning aids and puzzles. Hasbro's toy products include boys action figures, vehicles and playsets, girls toys, electronic toys, plush products, preschool toys and infant products, electronic interactive products, creative play products, and toy related specialty products. The company also licenses certain of its trademarks, characters, and other property rights to third parties for use in connection with consumer promotions and for the sale of noncompeting toys and games, and non-toy products. It offers its products primarily under PLAYSKOOL, TRANSFORMERS, MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP, TONKA, G.I. JOE, SUPER SOAKER, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, TIGER, and WIZARDS OF THE COAST brand names. The company markets its products to various customers, including wholesalers, distributors, chain stores, discount stores, mail order houses, catalog stores, department stores, and other retailers, as well as Internet-based e-tailers. It has a strategic licensing agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), which provides EA with the worldwide rights to create digital games for various platforms, including mobile phones, personal computers, and game consoles, as well as with Marvel Entertainment Inc. and Spider-Man Merchandising, LP to manufacture toys and games; and a strategic relationship with Universal Pictures to produce four motion pictures based on certain of company's brands. Hasbro sells its products through its own sales force and distributors primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, and South America. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Umbro, Ltd., a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc., is the original Manchester based football brand that invented sportswear and sports tailoring. Umbro’s first major football kit was made for Manchester City in 1934, a kit they won the FA Cup in. Today, the company combines its heritage in sports tailoring with modern football culture to create groundbreaking and iconic football apparel, footwear and equipment that blend performance and style.

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.

Ace Products Enterprises makes cases and bags for musical instruments and audiovisual equipment under the Kaces and Reunion Blues labels. Its cases and bags are constructed of fabric, leather, and wood, and are available through instrument makers and music stores in the US and Canada. In addition to providing gig bags, Ace Products manufactures RocknRoller heavy-duty carts, which can be used for moving electronics, music gear, industrial equipment, and other unwieldy items. Carts and accessories are distributed internationally to music dealers, hardware stores, and commercial equipment suppliers.

Bally Block, along with sister company Michigan Maple Block, manufactures solid wood tabletops and kitchenware. Products are made from a variety of woods, including black walnut, hard maple, lyptus, red oak, and white ash. The firm's cutting boards, countertops, dining tables, kitchen islands, and butcher blocks are sold through online kitchenware merchants and retailers nationwide. In addition to being handy around the kitchen, Bally Block's solid wood tops are used by schools, research facilities, and craftsmen's shops to make library work tables, lab tops, and industrial workbenches.

Pioneer Speakers wants to blow you away -- or make you hard of hearing trying -- with its sound products. Pioneer Speakers, Inc., is the North American sales outpost for Tohoku Pioneer, a publicly traded, 97%-owned subsidiary of Pioneer Corporation. Tohoku Pioneer, through its five business units, manufactures and markets speakers sold to automobile makers and mobile phone manufacturers, as well as electromechanical components used in CD players. In addition, the company makes organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for mobile phones and factory automation equipment. Pioneer Speakers operates three manufacturing plants in Japan.

Fluidra is a Spanish multinational group, headquartered in Sabadell (Barcelona), dedicated to developing applications for sustainable water use. The company specialises in solutions for water conservation, handling, treatment and enjoyment.Fluidra currently has a presence in 31 countries by way of more than 150 branches and has several production centres located throughout the world. Fluidra products are distributed to more than 170 countries due to an extensive sales network. The group has some 3,600 employees.Respect for water and its rational use are two concepts at the core of the philosophy of the group. The companies which comprise Fluidra, some of these with almost 40 years of experience, have grown with this vision, specializing in a range of water-related sectors: water treatment, fluid handling, irrigation and swimming pool equipment.

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