Viking is the brand best known for being the crowning touch to kitchens. Viking Range Corporation began by adapting commercial stoves for use in the home. Viking manufactures and markets upscale, professional-grade appliances, such as dishwashers, disposals, refrigerators, freezers, ovens, blenders, mixers, outdoor grills, cookware, cutlery -- and, of course, stoves. The company, which also makes and markets its owned branded cookware and cutlery, counts St. Charles Cabinetry as one of its divisions. Viking's products are manufactured in the US and are sold worldwide through a network of appliance distributors. Viking sold three of its US distributorships to specialty appliance distributor HADCO.

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.

One of the world's leading piano and guitar makers, the company has expanded its realm (with origins in Korea) to include Japan, Europe, and the US. From traditional acoustic classics to a digital series, Samick offers a vast collection of pianos. Samick's brands include Wm. Knabe, Greg Bennett, Silvertone, Kohler & Campbell, Pramberger, Sohmer, and namesake Samick. It makes and sells acoustic and electric guitars, mixers, amplifiers, and equalizers and sells them through independent dealers. Established in 1958 as Samick Piano Co., the manufacturer diversified and was incorporated as Samick Musical Instrument in 1973.

McCauley Sound, Inc. is an American company founded in the humble frontier spirit of discovery and driven forward by a traditional pride in the merits of craftsmanship. As an innovator and leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance professional loudspeaker systems and raw-frame loudspeaker components, McCauley Sound is the only professional audio company still based in the United States who both engineers new technologies and manufactures products entirely in-house and under the direct control.

Allen Organ's musical instruments may inspire hymns of praise, but the company has faith in technology, too. The company, which introduced the world's first commercially available electronic organ in 1939, makes electronic keyboards, including digital organs and accessories, for use in churches, theaters, and other venues. Subsidiary Allen Integrated Assemblies performs contract manufacturing of electronic assemblies, while Allen Audio makes PA systems for churches or social halls. Allen Organ sold its Eastern Research subsidiary to Sycamore Networks, a provider of optical switching products, in 2006. Allen Organ was founded by the late Jerome Markowitz (father of president Steven) in 1937.

Digidesign is an American digital audio technology company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines. It is a subsidiary of Avid Technology.Pro Tools|HD requires a Digidesign TDM system and interface, and is intended for professional recording studios. Pro Tools LE is a complete package intended for home users and some post-production facilities. The package includes the Pro Tools LE software and hardware such as the M-Box 2 or Digi 003. Pro Tools M-Powered is simply the Pro Tools application adapted to run on M-Audio hardware, and is generally comparable in power to LE systems.Digidesign also makes a number of products for the Pro Tools platform, including several software plug-ins. They also manufacture a wide variety of hardware add-ons for Pro Tools, such as audio interfaces, MIDI interfaces, Synchronizers, and control surfaces. In the spring of 2005 they introduced a system for live sound mixing called VENUE.

Hayco's origins date back over four generations to when William Hay established the SA Brush Company in South Australia in 1893. Later under the management of son, F. Dean Hay the company evolved into SABCO, and firmly established itself as a household name in cleaning products in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, South Africa and USA.Today, Hayco has 7,000 employees and occupies four factory sites in Shenzen with a total floor area of 1.5 million sq.ft (140,000m2). The company manufactures more than 400 products per month, 120 million units per year and ships over 6,000 TEU containers to more than 30 countries annually.

Like the music and movies it reproduces, Cinram International Income Fund has changed with the times. Established in 1969 as a maker of eight-track cassettes, the firm is now the largest provider of pre-recorded multimedia products (DVDs, CDs, and other forms of home entertainment) for movie studios, music labels, video game publishers, and software firms in North America and Europe. Cinram has the capacity to make some 2.3 billion DVDs per year. It also has printing, packaging, and distribution operations, and provides distribution and logistics services to telecommunications firms through its wireless subsidiaries. Major Cinram customers include Warner Home Video, Lionsgate, Alliance Atlantis, and EMI Group.

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.

Young Chang's pianos -- styles from full-concert grand pianos to Kurzweil-brand player-pianos for barstool Beethovens -- are sold in more than 45 countries. The company's products portfolio boasts several brand names, including Bergmann, Young Chang, and the Pramberger Signature Series. In 2990, Young Chang acquired Kurzweil Music Systems, a manufacturer of synthesizers, player pianos, and digital pianos. Still family-owned and -operated, Young Chang was founded in 1956 by three brothers: Jae-Kim, Jae-Young, and Jae-Sup Kim.

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