Alain Afflelou 104, avenue des Champs Elysees F-75008 Paris France Company Perspectives: Always listening to the consumer, Alain Afflelou develops new concepts to improve glasswearers' daily life. Alain Afflelou SA is one of the leading optical retailers in France, with a network of more than 475 largely franchised stores owned by more than 220 franchisees. Led by the charismatic Alain Afflelou, …
10944 Marsh Road Aurora, Indiana 47001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Colonel Backman established his company on three basic principles that he believed crucial to success. First, he insisted that the quality of his caskets set the standard for the industry. Second, he established a process to provide his customers with the products that best met their needs, as well as a superior level of service.…
P.O. Box 4549 Boulder, Colorado 80306 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Blue Mountain Arts is helping the world communicate. Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. publishes cards, books, calendars, prints, and other gift items which feature the company's signature style: poetry and prose printed on a backdrop of colorful nature illustrations. The company offers over 1,000 designs of everyday, all-occasion greeting…
1400 NE 136th Avenue Vancouver, Washington 98684 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Direct Focus, Inc. is a leading marketing company for fitness and healthy lifestyle products with direct, retail, and commercial sales channels. Direct Focus, Inc. is a Vancouver, Washington, direct marketing company originally dedicated to the manufacture and marketing of the Bowflex exercise machines. Since building u…
15714 Colorado Avenue Paramount, California 90723 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In the early 1940s, Frank Zamboni had an idea. Now, nearly 50 years later, his name is synonymous with the machine he invented. In fact, ice resurfacers like the one he developed for his own rink in Southern California have had a tremendous impact on skating and ice sports throughout the world. And Frank Zamboni's beli…
145 Oser Avenue Hauppauge, New York 11788 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Blending a full line of electronic components, semiconductors, sub-assemblies, and value-added services, Jaco will continue to offer a full-service solution to our customers needs. Jaco is committed to offering established and new technology introduction services to our customer base regardless of size; providing our customers…
Localita Valcozzena 32021 Agordo, Belluno Italy Company Perspectives: Mission: We at Luxottica aim at protecting the eyes and enhancing the faces of men and women all over the world, by manufacturing and selling ophthalmic eyewear and sunwear characterized by their high technical and stylistic quality, in order to maximize our customers' wellbeing and satisfaction. Our eyewear and our collections…
1000 Crawford Place, Suite 400 Mt. Laurel, New Jersey 08054 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We feel that our car wash business provides a strong foundation for us to create new and improved avenues of opportunity for future business growth. Mace Security International, Inc. (MSI) first attracted attention during the early 1990s for its manufacture of the less-than-lethal defense spray Mace. Although…
8900 Shoal Creek Boulevard Building 3, Suite 300 Austin, Texas 78757 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Multimedia Games is a company with more than just 'games, player stations, and networks.' With the advent of networked-type games, hall and casino operators have scrambled for ways to manage game delivery, monitor play, and compile data so that they may better respond to customer needs and playing pa…
One Icon Foothill Ranch, California 92610 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Origin of the Species. It started with a single idea. A mad scientist looked at a product and saw an opportunity. Jim Jannard created a world's first--a motocross handgrip with a unique orbicular design, engineered to fit a competitor's closed hand. The year was 1975. It was the beginning of Oakley Inc. (NYSE: OO), a technolog…
60 Main Street Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Remington Products Company, L.L.C. designs, manufactures, markets and distributes men's and ladies' shavers, grooming and personal care products, and travel appliances on a worldwide basis. Incorporated in 1979, Remington Products Company, L.L.C. boasts a heritage that links it to legendary gunsmith Eliphalet Remington and …
1106 Palms Airport Drive Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-3730 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Shuffle Master specializes in providing innovative, high-quality products and services to the casino industry. These include card shufflers, table games and table gaming equipment, slot games and operating system software for slot machines. The Company's service, sales, and marketing efforts extend to most of the r…
10590 West Ocean Air Drive, Suite 300 San Diego, California 92130 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our drive is to set higher standards in lens design, material development, manufacturing excellence, and customer service that has made us a worldwide leader. Sola International Inc. designs and manufactures eyeglass lenses, primarily focusing on the plastic lens segment of the market, which the company…
102 Christian Lane Whately, Massachusetts 01093 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since 1969, Yankee Candle Company has produced scented candles ... NOT jeans, shampoo or bath soaps. We are candlemaking experts, the same candlemakers who have been making Yankee Candles for decades. And, incidentally, we are not affiliated with any of our imitators! The Yankee Candle Company Inc. is the leading maker o…
2475 Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah 84401-2398 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a company of high integrity and excellence. We continually enhance our commitment to safety and quality. We have highly competent, dedicated employees. We have management, technical, and manufacturing expertise that puts us in an industry leadership position. We have the desire to achieve, excel, and win. We engineer…
Catamount Industrial Park, Route 66 Randolph, Vermont 05060 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Vermont Pure Holdings, Ltd. believes that consumers perceive bottled water as a healthy and refreshing beverage alternative to beer, liquor, wine, soft drinks, coffee, and tea. The Company anticipates that sales of bottled water will continue to grow as consumers focus on health and fitness, alcohol moderatio…
33 Barbour Street Bradford, Pennsylvania 16701-1973 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Beginning with the first lighter in 1933, every Zippo lighter has been backed by our lifetime guarantee, "it works or we fix it free." Zippo lighters are uniquely positioned as valuable and timeless classics that should never be thrown away. Whether used in everyday life, taken on uncommon adventures as a reliable co…