Amer Sports was founded in 1950 in Finland.Amer Sports makes sporting goods equipment, including balls for tennis, golf, and team sports under the Wilson brand. It also makes skiing and snowboarding gear and apparel (Atomic, Dynamic, Salomon). The company's Wilson-brand tennis racquets and golf clubs give it the most bucks for its bang, but items for team sports (basketballs, footballs, baseball gloves, and the like) also contribute to Amer's bottom line. In addition, the company produces wrist-top computers, diving instruments, and fitness equipment through its various subsidiaries. Amid declining sales and profits Amer has said it may spin off its cycling business.

The oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in America and the largest pump-action shotgun manufacturer in the world, Mossberg has more than 100 design and utility patents to its name. Shotguns are the company's specialty, but it also makes rifles; accessories such as barrels, choke tubes, and magazines; and hunting apparel. In addition to manufacturing guns for hunters, home protection, and target shooting, Mossberg produces firearms designed exclusively for use by the US military and law enforcement agencies. Sister company Maverick Arms also makes shotguns.

Franco Manufacturing is a family owned business, founded in 1952 by David E. Franco and his three sons. Now in its third generation, the five sons of Louis, Morris, and Jack carry on the tradition established by David E. Franco into the future. In every year since the founding of the company Franco has consistently reinvested in the future of the organization, strategically adding infrastructure to keep pace with the competitive requirements of the marketplace. Beginning with a single product, Franco today is an organization that is a key resource for the home textile market with distribution that reaches 90% of consumers in the United States. Franco is currently one of the top ten USA based home textile companies. Franco are a global company with locations and offices around the world.

The company makes and markets flutes (alto, bass, conservatory, professional, and student models) and piccolos (plastic, silver, and wood models) under the Gemeinhardt brand. In addition, Gemeinhardt manufactures cleaning kits, headjoints, and instrument cases. The company's Web site provides users with practicing tips and flute-care advice. Gemeinhardt is part of the Gemstone Musical Instruments subsidiary of Brookstone Partners. Other Gemstone brands that are part of the firm's products portfolio, include Stephanhouser, Sankyo, Trevor James, Artisan, Roy Seaman, W. Nirschi, and Andino.

Toye’s highly creative designers inspire its craftsmen – experts in weaving, gold and silversmithing, enamelling and embroidery. Imaginative design, traditional skills and computerised technology combine to produce a superlative range of items to promote an organisation’s identity.Whether your organisation is large or small, Toye offers the same professional and individual service, based on a wealth of experience in creating distinctly superior identity products.

Viva la cocina! Ekco S.A.B. is Mexico's largest housewares company. Ekco manufactures steel and aluminum cookware, bakeware, cutlery, dinnerware, flatware, coffee makers, and kitchen gadgets. Ekco sells its kitchenware in Mexico, Argentina, and across Central America under the brands Ekco, Presto, Regal, Thermos, and Vasconia. After Lifetime Brands bought a 30% stake in Ekco for $22 million in 2007, the company introduced Vasconia brand kitchenware to the US and Canadian market. In turn, Ekco became the Latin American distributor for Lifetime's popular US brands Faberware, KitchenAid, Cuisinart, Pedrini, and Pfaltzgraff. Ekco S.A.B. traces its roots back to 1934.

Fortune Brands, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, production, and sale of distilled spirits, home and hardware products, and golf products. The company offers various distilled spirits, including bourbon, tequila, Canadian whisky, scotch whisky, and cognacs under the trademarks of Jim Beam, Makers Mark, Sauza, Canadian Club, Laphroaig, and Courvoisier. It also provides rum, sherries, port, gin, whisky, and bitters under the trademarks of Teachers, Cruzan, Harveys, Cockburns, Larios, Whisky DYC, and Kuemmerling. In addition, the company offers custom, semi-custom, stock, and ready-to-assemble cabinetry for the kitchen, bath, and home use under various brand names, including Aristokraft, Omega, Kitchen Craft, Schrock, Diamond, HomeCrest, Decora, and Kemper; faucets, bath furnishings, accessories, parts, and kitchen sinks; fiberglass and steel residential entry door, and patio door systems; key-controlled and combination padlocks, bicycle and cable locks, built-in locker locks, and door hardware, as well as automotive, trailer, and towing locks; and other specialty safety and security devices. Further, Fortune Brands, Inc. manufactures and markets golf balls, golf clubs, golf shoes, and golf gloves, as well as golf bags, golf outerwear, and accessories. It offers its products primarily in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Australia, and Mexico. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.

Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. is a leading designer, developer and marketer of branded equipment and accessories that enhance athletic performance and protection. The Company markets and licenses products under such well-known brands as Easton, Bell, Riddell, Giro and Blackburn. From Easton to Riddell to Bell to Giro, the brands of Easton-Bell Sports set the standard of design and protective excellence across multiple sports, equipment categories and sales channels. Our commitment to this philosophy and standard is reflected in our unrivaled history and foundational belief in technological innovation. It is the reason each brand holds a strong number one status within key product categories in baseball, softball, hockey, football, cycling as well as snow, action and power sports.

The Giant name is synonymous with technological innovation and the state-of-the-art throughout the global bicycle industry. It represents a dedication to proving the best quality and most innovative bicycles to its customers. Behind the Giant name is a unique Global Giant, Local Touch and Total Best Value approach in designing, manufacturing and selling bicycles, and a commitment to not only recreational and competitive cycling, but also the bicycle industry and the environment. Not Satisfied with being the world's most widely known bicycle brand, Giant is in constant pursuit of its vision of becoming 'The Best Bicycle Company in the World'.Across seven continents and fifty-odd countries, underneath thirty-two of the world's brightest professional cyclists, in over ten thousand retail outlets, and throughout the streets of the world's most populous nations, you'll find bicycles designed and built by Giant, 'The Global Bicycle Company'.

Founded in 1866, Winchester is one of the world's most widely recognized and respected brand names.For more than 140 years, the name "Winchester" has come to mean many things to many people. To most folks it's meant ammunition and the Gun that Won the West. For many others, however, it also rekindles images of fine hand tools and cutlery, fishing tackle and flashlights. A major global supplier of sporting ammunition, Winchester has long been the leader in introducing innovative new products from the Gun that Won the West to Winchester's new line of low recoil/low-noise shotshells or its new nontoxic ammunition for use in indoor shooting ranges.

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