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.

The company makes board games, coloring books, activity kits, foam sports toys, playing cards, and puzzles under the Lauri, Patch, and Smethport brands. Its best-sellers include Buzzword, Swap!, Tall-Stacker, and Wooly Willy. Patch Products sells through big-box and specialty retailers nationwide as well as through its e-commerce site. Popular games for older kids and adults include What's Yours Like? and Jeff Foxworthy's You Might Be a Redneck If. Patch Products was founded in 1985 by Fran and Bryce Patch, with the PuzzlePatch line of educational puzzles for kids.

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings specializes in cooking, cooling, washing, and drying. The holding company designs, manufactures, and markets a range of household appliances -- from ovens and refrigerators to dishwashers and laundry machines -- through subsidiary Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited. It has manufacturing sites in New Zealand, Italy, Mexico, and Thailand. While appliances account for most of the company's revenue, its financial services business unit contributes as a provider of retail point-of-sale consumer finance cards, insurance services, and rental and leasing finance. The company was founded in 1934 as an importer of Crosley refrigerators and Maytag washing machines from the US.

Audio Visual Services Group, Inc., doing business as PSAV Presentation Services, operates as an enterprise-scale equipment rental and staging company in United States. It offers audiovisual equipment rental services. The company also provides staging services, conference support, and related technical support services. Its rental equipment include onsite lighting, sound, projection, video, recording, broadcast, computers, staging, and exhibit displays. In addition, the company provides advertising, promotional, and trade show, as well as presentation services, including in-house audiovisual services. It offers its services to hotels, event production companies, trade associations, convention.

Since company's inception in 1967, International Playthings, LLC has excelled in the delivery of innovative and entertaining products with integrity, superior play value and child developmental qualities to consumers. Over the course of its 40-year existence, IP LLC has grown to become one of the largest and most respected suppliers of quality products to the North American specialty industry.A subsidiary of Epoch Company Ltd. affiliate company, IP LLC offers a comprehensive range of proprietary and distributed brands comprising a wide variety of award winning play things including games, infant toys, preschool toys, dolls, educational toys and activity toys.

Flexplay Technologies, Inc. is a developer and supplier of limited-life optical media technology. Flexplay time-limited DVDs offer unlimited, perfect-quality DVD playback in any standard DVD player, but only within a pre-set viewing window that begins when the user opens the sealed Flexplay DVD package. Shortly after the viewing period elapses, the Flexplay DVD becomes unplayable and can be safely recycled or discardedWorking in partnership with its subsidiary Flexplay Entertainment, LLC and a network of leading DVD replicators, the company supplies its technology for a variety of applications including “No-Return DVD Rental” – a retail program that offers consumers a convenient, on-demand DVD rental without the need to ever return the disc.

Delivering more bang for a lot more buck, electronics manufacturer Bang & Olufsen has made a name for itself in the high-end audio/video industry. Known better as B&O, it sells its high-tech televisions, telephones, DVD players, loudspeakers, digital music players, and other items in more than 100 countries (the UK and Denmark are its largest markets) worldwide. The speaker maker operates more than 1,100 outlets worldwide. Its manufacturing is outsourced and products are finished at facilities in Denmark and the Czech Republic. B&O's futuristic designs have landed its products in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. B&O was founded in 1925 by engineers Svend Olufsen and Peter Bang.

GE Consumer & Industrial (GECI) is comfortable at home and in the factory. It was created by GE by combining GE Consumer Products and GE Industrial Systems. GECI's appliance division makes home appliances (refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, ovens) under such brands as Hotpoint, Monogram, and Profile; it also provides repair service. The lighting division makes some 6,000 lighting (automotive, fluorescent, halogen) products for residential and commercial markets. The electrical distribution division distributes integrated electrical equipment (circuit breakers, electric motors, generators, control systems) for residential, commercial, industrial, and utility markets.

Jacuzzi UK believes more people should go soak themselves -- in its relaxing bubbles. Jacuzzi UK Group is a leading hydrotherapy bathtub manufacturer. Jacuzzi makes indoor whirlpool and outdoor hot tubs, as well as home steam rooms, shower enclosures, and traditional (i.e., non-whirlpool) bathtubs, showers, bath fixtures, and accessories, under the names Jacuzzi, B C Sanitan, Niagara, and Fordham. Jacuzzi began as Spring Ram Corporation, but in 2000 was reincarnated as Jacuzzi UK. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Jacuzzi Brands, which was acquired by Apollo Management in February 2007.

Dive N' Surf outfits its patrons to catch the waves. The company is specializing in diving equipment and training, as well as surfing gear and apparel, the company sells products through its own retail store in Redondo Beach, California, and its Web site. Brands include Billabong, Lost, UGG, and Volcom, among others. In addition to these, Dive N' Surf markets its Body Glove brand of high-tech surf gear. The family of the founding twin brothers Bob and Bill Meistrell own Dive N' Surf, which opened for business in 1953.

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