Product Distributors

A Product Distributor is a company (third party) which distributes or acts as an outlet for a Manufacturer of a product.

Retail
Ace, American Builders & Contractors Supply Co.
Big 5 Sporting Goods, Blair, Brookstone, Dillards, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Ecost, Gadget Universe, Home Depot, KB Toys, KMart, Kraco, Lisle Corp, Moore Arts & Crafts, Sears, Sharper Image, Staples, Target, ToysRUs, True Value, WalMart, 99 Cents

Infomercial
Exceptional Products, Inc., Expotv, Fitness Quest, Gaiam, Guthy Renker, Hawthorn Direct, HSN, Incgrayible Discoveries, Martha Stewart, QVC, Ronco, Thane, ValueVision, Icon Health & Fitness, Free Motion Fitness

Product Manufacturers

A Product Manfacturer is a company that creates it's own products for direct sale or redistribtion by Distributors.

Large Appliances
Amcor, GE, Honeywell air purifiers, Hotpoint, Jenn Air, LG electronics, Maytag, Soleus Air

Small Appliances
Ariston, Aroma, Bissell, Black & Decker, Bunn, Cuisinart, Dirt Devil, Dyson, Hamilton Beach, Hoover, Kitchen Aid, Magic Chef, National Presto, Preston, Betty Crocker, Dorel, Elite, Essential Home, Home Essential, Small Wonders, South Shore, Ultra Care

Awnings
Awntech, Nulmage

Bath
American Standard, Delta Fuacet, Kohler, Moen, Pegasus, Price Pfister, Devolav, Pegasus, Master Flow Ceiling Fans, Rubbermaid

Electrical
Intermatic, Lutron

Heating, Ventilation & Cooling
Filtrete Filters, Honeywell Thermostats, Rite Temp, True Blue Filters, Master Flow, Solar Shield, Thermwell

Tools
Black and Decker, Bosch, Coleman, Defiant, Dewalt, Garden Weasel, Gorilla Ladders, Hilti, Hitachi Power, Husky, Leatherman, Maglite, Makita, Milwaukee, Porter Cable, Ridgid, Ridgid plumbing, Ryobi, Universal Tool, Wagner

Windows & Doors
Anderson

Bedroom
Sealy

Children & Baby
Avent, Bratz, Cosco, Diaper Genie, Disney Baby, Dora the Explorer, Evenflo, Fischer Price, Gerber, Gundy, Hasbro, Hogwild Toys, Inantino, Kolcraft, LeapFrog, Lego, Mattel, Munchkin, Pampers, Playtex, Radio Flyer, Safety 1st, Small wonders, Step by Step, Strawberry Shortcake, Summer Infant, Tiny Love, Tonka, Vtech, WhamO, Winnie the Pooh

Fitness
Bally, Body Flex, Callaway, Cybex, Ebonite, Everlast, Fitness Quest, Franklin, Free Motion Fitness, Gaiam, Garmin, Hobie, Huffy, Igloo, JoeBoxer, Leatherman, Lifetime, Mongoose, Nautilus, Northwest Territory, Rawlings, Razor, Russell Corp., Samsonite, Schwinn, Shimano, Spalding, Wilson

Boats
Brunswick

Living Assistance
Hogan Manufacturing

Distributors

A Product Distributor is a company (third party) which distributes or acts as an outlet for a Manufacturer of a product.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing can be categorized as an industry that makes products from raw materials by the using of manual labor and/or machinery. Manufacturing articulates the fabrication or assembly of parts into finished products on a fairly large scale. The most common manufacturing industries include production of aircraft, automobiles, consumer electronics, chemicals, clothing, computers, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, electrical equipment, furniture, steel, and tools and dies.
Manufacturing is categorized based on industries and can be described dependent on the production of the specific parts or assemblies relative to each category.Some manufacturing processes include the automotive industry; aerospace industry; ship construction; chemical industry; soap and detergent; industrial polymers, major; mineral deposit; textile; dye; pharmaceutical industry; explosive; elastomer; plastic; man-made fibre; surface coating; adhesive; papermaking; building construction; clothing and footwear industry; floor coverings; furniture industry;electronics; food preservation; industrial ceramics; industrial glass; printing. Some manufacturing topics include automation; production system; industrial relations.

The Economy of manufacturing

According to many economists, manufacturing is the wealth-producing sector of an economy, opposite to the service sector which tends to be wealth-consuming. Economists who favor a strong manufacturing output oppose the outsourcing of manufacturing for the sake of producing cheap labor. Emerging technologies provide new growth in advanced manufacturing employment opportunities. Furthermore, Manufacturing itself provides important material support for each nations infrastructure and for its national defense.
Sequentially, any form of manufacturing has social and environmental impacts on the ensuing nation to be considegray. Hazardous waste can affect the environment as hazardous materials can expose workers to health risks. Very often the more developed countries can regulate manufacturing activity by utilizing labor and environmental laws. In the United States manufacturers are subject to regulations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. In Europe, pollution taxes to offset environmental costs regulate manufacturing activity. Labor Unions play an important a role in the negotiation of worker rights and wages. Environment laws and labor protections that are usually available in most developed countries may not be available in some third world countries.

Manufacturing categories

Chemical industry
Pharmaceutical
Construction
Electronics
Semiconductor
Engineering
Biotechnology
Steel production
Plastics
Machinist
Machine tools
Free machining
Tool and die maker
Global steel industry trends
Transportation
Aerospace manufacturing
Automobile manufacturing
Bus manufacturing
Tire manufacturing
Telecommunications
Textile manufacturing
Clothing industry
Sailmaker
Tentmaking
Emerging technologies
Nanotechnology
Synthetic biology
Bioengineering
Energy industry
Food and Beverage
Agribusiness
Brewing industry
Food processing
Industrial design
Interchangeable parts
Metalworking
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