Sony Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, design, manufacture, and sale of electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer and industrial markets in Japan, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company's products include audio and video equipment, liquid crystal display televisions, personal computers, monitors, semiconductors, components, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. It develops, produces, markets, and distributes home-use game consoles and software, such as PlayStation2, PlayStation Portable, and PLAYSTATION 3 hardware and related software. Sony Corporation also engages in the development, production, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and broadcasting of image-based software, including film, video, and television products. In addition, the company involves in motion picture, television, and home entertainment production, acquisition, and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; channel investments; studio facilities operation; entertainment products, services, and technologies development; and filmed entertainment distribution. Further, it engages in various financial service operations, such as insurance, banking, and leasing and credit financing. Additionally, Sony Corporation operates a network service business, an animation production and marketing business, and an advertising agency business. The company also operates a domestic recorded music business that produces recorded music and music videos through contracts with various artists in various musical genres; music publishing business to own and acquire rights to musical compositions; and So-net, an Internet-related service business. The company was formerly known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and changed its name to Sony Corporation in January 1958. Sony Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

You might say this company has a royal presence in the world of sound. Crown Audio, which does business as Crown International, is a leading manufacturer of amplifiers, mixing boards, and microphones for the pro audio market. Its equipment is typically used for live sound reinforcement in such settings as music concerts, nightclubs, sports arenas, movie theaters, and corporate meeting halls. Crown also makes equipment for recording studios and broadcasting, as well as portable PA systems and digital sound processing gear. Crown is a subsidiary of audio equipment maker Harman International Industries.

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.

The love of sound is Biamp’s reason for being, and has been since Biamp Systems founding 30 years ago. They have grown to be an acknowledged international leader in professional installed audio electronics. Biamp Systems staff still shares a passion for sound that resonates through every product and every decision the company makes. Most people have never seen Biamp products, but they’ve probably heard them work wonders – in airports, arenas, courtrooms, Houses of Worship, theaters, universities, corporations, and conference centers. Around the world, around the clock, Biamp equipment is delivering, managing and enhancing the sound.

Uniek is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of home furnishing and craft products. The Company was founded in 1988, and, is headquartered in Waunakee, Wisconsin. The Pyle Group, a Madison, WI based investment firm with expertise in marketing and business management, purchased the Company in 1998. Since that time it has become one of the largest and fastest growing suppliers of ready-made frames.Uniek supplies a wide variety of picture frames, mirrors, craft products and photo storage units to major retailers under the brand names of Uniek, National, Better Homes & Gardens, Jaclyn Smith, Your Zone, Renewal, as well as numerous private labels.

After 30 years, Seymour Duncan company manufactures much more than electric guitar pickups. The finest in bass pickups under the brand name "Basslines" were next, then Seymour's authentic replications of pickups from the 50's and 60's, aptly named Antiquity and Antiquity II, respectively. Then Benedetto jazz guitar pickups and finally the union of Seymour Duncan and Rick Turner to form D-TAR, Duncan-Turner Acoustic Research.

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of big screen and digital television receiver technology. MDEA makes projection televisions and LCD (liquid crystal display) high-definition and flat-panel televisions, as well as accessories for home theater systems. Its Presentation Products division makes projectors and LCD monitors for business customers; its Imaging Products division makes a line of imaging products (printers, video records) for the health care industry. MDEA operates a pair of offices in California, and one each in Georgia, Illinois, and New Jersey.

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.

With nearly 2,500 employees and 9 locations around the globe, ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. is the largest manufacturer and marketer of fitness equipment in the world.ICON owns some of the best-known brands in the fitness industry including NordicTrack, FreeMotion Fitness, ProForm, Weider, HealthRider, EPIC, Image, iFit and Weslo and licenses Reebok and Gold's Gym brands. These brand names are immediately recognizable to consumers and have a strong reputation for high performance around the globe.ICON is ISO 9001 certified, meeting the international standard of quality for manufacturers. In addition to manufacturing, ICON performs all marketing, research & development, industrial design and manufacturing for its products. As one of the first U.S. fitness companies to venture into the international arena, ICON has manufacturing and sales facilities located in China, Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Rane Corporation, founded and incorporated in 1981 in Washington State, is a privately held company. The owners all previously worked together in middle management positions at Phase Linear Corporation, a high-end consumer electronics company. With this background, they pooled over 40 years of combined audio experience to create Rane Corporation. Owners became separate department heads based upon their expertise. This organization created an unusually strong structure, since all department heads had a unique owner's perspective in making it succeed.The company name was selected from an anagram created from the common letters of the first and last names of the original founders. This particular anagram was selected because it was short, easy-to-say and remember, and they liked the double-entendre possibilities implying wet-links to the Northwest.

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