The institutional customer, among several others, saw the dawn of a new vendor with American Dawn. American Dawnm anufactures textile products (including industrial aprons and towels, bed linens, blankets, and surgical towels and patient gowns, as well as chef and butcher uniforms) that are distributed to wholesale, commercial, and retail markets. The company was founded as Overseas General Business in 1972 and caters to the health care, home fashion, laundry and institutional, and salon industries. American Dawn has expanded its operations through the years by acquiring Ambassador and KWB/Calco Manufacturing in 1989 and Tres Manufacturing in 1994.

The year was 1944. Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian born immigrant to Canada, began making simple wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Within a few years, the fledgling business had moved from the basement into a former chicken barn — Palliser's first furniture factory.Today, Palliser is Canada’s leading home furniture manufacturer, providing a livelihood for over 4000 people, funding a philanthropic foundation that shares profits with communities around the world, and continuing to build value with values.

Europe's largest bedding manufacturer, Hilding Anders' 30 subsidiaries make an array of mattresses. From squishy foam core to automated anti-snore mattresses, its products are sold throughout Asia and Europe by bedding and furniture retailers, under its own brands as well as private labels (a division is dedicated to the fabrication of mattresses specifically for IKEA). Other products include bedframes, pillows, nightstands, and headboards. Hilding Anders was founded in 1939 by Hilding Andersson and is owned by the British investment firm Candover. It has grown steadily through acquisitions, including most recently Italy's Bedding Srl.

The company is a manufacturer of bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen furniture and furniture sets. Kelvin makes kitchen cabinets and islands, bathroom vanity furniture, wardrobe door systems, sliding mirrored doors, freestanding bedroom furniture, and bedroom suites. The company's products are targeted to customers who remodel their homes (for whom Kelvin will complete installation of the non-freestanding furniture) or who are renovation contractors. It also caters to local homebuilders the likes of Cala, Muir, and Gladedale.

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.

Dorel Industries Inc. (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) is a world class juvenile products and bicycle company. Established in 1962, Dorel creates style and excitement in equal measure to safety, quality and value. The Company’s lifestyle leadership position is pronounced in both its Juvenile and bicycle categories with an array of trend-setting products. In the Juvenile segment, Dorel’s powerfully branded products such as Quinny, Maxi-Cosi, Safety 1st and Bébé Confort have shown the way to safety, originality and fashion. Similarly, its highly popular brands such as Cannondale, Schwinn, GT, Mongoose and SUGOI have made Dorel a principal player with both independent bicycle dealers and mass merchants. Dorel’s Home Furnishings segment markets a wide assortment of furniture products, both domestically produced and imported. The Company exerts relentless innovation and marketing flair across all of its divisions. Dorel is a $2 billion company with forty-six hundred employees, facilities in seventeen countries, and sales worldwide.US operations include Dorel Juvenile Group USA; the Cycling Sports Group; Pacific Cycle; Ameriwood Industries which produces ready-to-assemble furniture; Altra Furniture; and Cosco Home & Office. In Canada, Dorel operates Dorel Distribution Canada, Dorel Home Products and SUGOI. Abroad, operations include Dorel Europe and IGC in Australia, a manufacturer and distributor of juvenile products. Dorel Asia sources and imports home furnishings products. Dorel China has eight offices which oversee the sourcing, engineering and logistics of the Company’s Asian supplier chain.

Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc., an investment holding company, manufactures consumer electrical products primarily in Australia, Europe, North America, and Asia. The company operates in three segments: Home Appliances, Electronic Components, and Others. The Home Appliances segment manufactures floor care products, including hand-held steam vacuum cleaners, upright vacuum cleaners, and extractors; and kitchen appliances, such as blenders, breadmakers, coffeemakers, electric knives, espresso machines, food choppers, food processors, food steamers, ice cream makers, and indoor grills. The Electronic Components segment produces complementary metal oxide semiconductor camera modules (CCMs) for cellular phone manufacturers. The Others segment provides Intellicorder, a home security device, utilizing its CCM technology. The company distributes its products through mass merchandisers, specialty retailers, warehouse clubs, drug store chains, direct marketing organizations, and department stores. It was formerly known as Global-Tech Appliances Inc. and changed its name to Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc. in December 2008. The company was founded in 1963 and is based in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Wing Shing Holdings Company Limited.

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.

NYCD provides large scale CD, DVD and USB Drive replication services from coast to coast along with short run overnight duplication solutions. NYCD professional multimedia department creates digital media experiences for both small businesses and fortune 1000 companies. NYCD promises to exceed all expectations while offering the highest level of customer service.

Pentland Group plc was founded in the early 1930s in Liverpool, England. It was then called the Liverpool Shoe Company because it dealt purely in shoes; first a wholesale shoe business, then expanding into a manufacturing business. Always displaying innovation and creativity, Pentland was one of the first companies to manufacture from Asia, forming a division in Hong Kong in the early 1960s. In 1981 Pentland purchased the majority share of a tiny US company called Reebok. After a 10-year period of growth, Reebok was sold. In the 1990s Pentland bought brands and now proudly has a portfolio of some of the greatest international sports, outdoor and fashion brands globally.

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