The successor of mattress maker Spring Air Company, SAI controls the Spring Air brand globally. The newly-formed firm has about 10 licensees in the US and about 10 abroad. The original Spring Air was founded in 1926 by mattress innovator Francis Karr, who introduced an offset coil that adjusts to sleepers' weights. It merged with its largest licensee, Florida-based Consolidated Bedding, and folded in other licensees in 2007. In May 2009 the company abruptly ceased operations and in June emerged under new ownership and management as SAI. Spring Air brand products are sold worldwide through furniture retailers, department stores, and bedding stores.

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.

MiTek's mission is to be the leading global designer, innovator, manufacturer, and distributor of high quality audio products serving customers worldwide. MiTek will earn and sustain a leadership position and competitive edge in the audio industry by providing quality solutions, adding value to their products resulting in increasing customer satisfaction.MiTek will continuously pursue improvement by cultivating an environment in which its partners' creativity, productivity, and participation are encouraged, respected and recognized.Mitek Quality Policy is to present the customers with a value added product that meets or exceeds their expectations. MiTek management is committed to both quality products and quality performance.

Sideshow Inc company makes licensed collectibles including action figures, figurines, and polystone busts. It has designed products based on such franchises as Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, The Simpsons, and Pirates of the Caribbean, among other entertainment properties. Sideshow also makes a proprietary line of figures that depict zombies, Old West legends, and soldiers from the Civil War and World War I. Sideshow was founded in 1994 as Sideshow Productions.

LJ International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sale of precious and color gemstones, as well as diamond jewelry. The company offers colored jewelry, which includes pieces set in yellow gold, white gold, platinum, or sterling silver; and adorned with colored stones, diamonds, pearls, and precious stones. Its product line includes earrings, necklaces, pendants, rings, and bracelets. The company distributes its products to fine jewelers, department stores, national jewelry chains, and electronic and specialty retailers in North America and Western Europe. It also involves in the retail of jewelry through the ENZO brand in the Asia Pacific region. As of March 19, 2009, LJ International operated 94 ENZO retail stores across Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China, and Macau. In addition, it owns commercial and residential properties in Hong Kong, which are held primarily for lease. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.

Clean drinking water is becoming a scarce commodity in many areas of the world. Natural disasters and man-made catastrophes have exposed more natural drinking water resources around the world to bacteriological and chemical contamination; thus water purification has emerged as the subject of intense scientific and commercial interest.PureSafe™ systems provide superior quality desalination and water purification alongside versatile water bottling competencies. The systems are installed in a lightweight trailer with uplifting capability by helicopter for instant deployment in any disaster zone in order to provide the affected population with purified bottled drinking water on site and for the duration of the identified need.

The Basketball Marketing Company, Inc., doing business as AND 1, manufactures footwear and apparel for basketball players. Its products include shoes, shorts, tees, sleeveless tees, sweats, warm-ups, pants, team uniforms, and licensed collegiate gear, as well as kids and infant footwear, apparel, and accessories. The company distributes its products in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. The Basketball Marketing Company was founded in 1993 and is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania. As of May 17, 2005, AND 1 is a subsidiary of American Sporting Goods Corporation.

Spa Settings LLC company makes redwood hot tub gazebos with four basic models -- the Mini Oasis, Mirage, Sedona Octagon, and Skylighter. It also makes accessories such as canopies, privacy screens, steps, and towel trees. Many of the gazebo models come with optional bar kits, including stools and wine racks. Spa Settings' manufacturing facilities are located in Mexico. The company was founded in 1989.

iRobot Corporation designs, develops, and markets robots to consumer, government, and industrial markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers consumer products, such as floor vacuuming robots, floor washing robots, gutter cleaning robots, pool cleaning robots, and programmable robots. Its government and industrial products include PackBot and PackBot 510 line of small and unmanned ground robots; iRobot PackBot 510 with EOD kit that adapts to various improvised explosive devices, conventional ordnance, and SWAT missions; and iRobot PackBot 510 with FasTac kit to investigate suspicious objects, as well as to identify roadside bombs and IEDs. The company also provides its PackBot products in various configurations, including iRobot PackBot EOD to conduct explosive ordnance disposal, hazardous materials, search-and-surveillance, and law enforcement tasks; and iRobot PackBot with ICx fido explosives detection kit to screen packages and dangerous items. iRobot Corporation sells its products through chain stores and national retailers, as well as through the Internet to consumers, the U.S. military, and other government agencies. It has strategic alliances with The Boeing Company; Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc.; and TASER International, Inc. The company was formerly known as IS Robotics Corporation and changed its name to iRobot Corporation in December 2000. iRobot Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with additional offices in Durham, North Carolina; and San Luis Obispo, California.

Hot Chillys has led the performance apparel industry for over twenty years with moisture managing base layer technology. When founded in 1985, Hot Chillys revolutionized the ski market with performance ski “warm wear” (base layer underwear) incorporating fabric technologies previously found primarily in running apparel. Today Hot Chillys, has it principal place of business in San Luis Obispo , California . Hot Chillys has maintained its own manufacturing facility with over 150 employees at this location.

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