Pacific Coast Feather Company is the #1 brand of down bedding in the United States. At Pacific Coast ®, Pacific Coast Feather have been creating premium down and feather bedding for more than 100 years. Pacific Coast® is positioned in the marketplace as the only dedicated down & feather brand;The company focus is on down and feather bedding, period. Pacific Coast ® is the premier resource for high quality, luxury bedding: down comforters, bed protectors, feather pillows, goose down pillows, duvet covers, body pillows, feather beds, shams and more.

Nintendo of America Inc, Introduced in 1985, the NES was an instant hit. Over the course of the next two years, it almost single-handedly revitalized the video game industry. Selling over 60 million units, people brought games like Mario and Zelda into their homes for the first time on the NES.The screen was four-colors-of-gray but the device defined portable gaming and was enormous fun. Game Boy, which came out in 1989, was closely associated with the classic game Tetris when it debuted. Game Boy is the most successful video game system ever released. Since its introduction in 1989, Game Boy has sold well over 150 million systems worldwide. Originally bundled with the game, Tetris, this little handheld became an instant phenomenon.

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.

Indesit is in the house! Formerly Merloni Elettrodomestici, the company produces home appliances (refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, and ovens) at 17 manufacturing plants spanning Italy, Poland, Russia, the UK, Turkey, and China. Its products are made and sold under the Hotpoint-Ariston, Indesit, Scholts, and Stinol brands, with the first three being its most popular. Western Europe accounts for more than half of Indesit's sales. One of Indesit's innovations was its launch of a line of Hotpoint appliances designed for the blind, which features Braille controls and an audio instruction booklet. The 30-year-old company is controlled by the Merloni family.

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.

Horatio Myer founded the business in 1876. The Company occupied premises in Vauxhall Walk, London. It employed 19 people and had an annual turnover of £6,000. Through the reign of Queen Victoria into the 20th Century and through two world wars, Myer’s continued to grow and prosper. From the iron bedsteads of the Victorian era to the first divan beds, Myer’s were at the forefront of bed design and technology.

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.

Happy Worker manufactures GeekMan, SuperMom, BossMan, and other pop-culture and novelty figurines targeting the grown-up kids market. GeekMan, a six-inch, realistically sculpted figure, is posable and comes with glasses, a laptop, handheld computer, watch, and coffee mug. He boasts traits, such as "ungodly coding abilities" and "less than ideal personal hygiene routine." Happy Worker, which also makes custom toys for clients, also peddles posters, workplace prank signs, cards to e-mail friends and colleagues, and other items.

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.

Audio Research is one of the oldest continually operating manufacturers in American audio.The company was founded in 1970 in Minneapolis with one goal in mind: to advance the state-of-the-art in music reproduction. Today, Audio Research remains a performance-oriented company by philosophy and design. New product introductions are driven only by genuine advances in technology and performance -- the HIGH DEFINITION that is the hallmark of the company's products. The company has grown steadily over the last quarter-century, with a network of top audio specialist retailers across North America and country-by-country distributors throughout Europe, Asia and South America.The company occupies a 48,000 square-foot, technically-advanced production plant and administrative headquarters in Plymouth, Minnesota, where approximately 50 technical, assembly and support staff guide the product line from concept to finished goods. A research-only facility has also been established in Palm Desert, California.

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