Infinity Group

Background

Best Brands is a leading manufacturer, designer, and marketer of a wide variety of consumer products in North America. Core product lines include decorative home furnishings, kitchen textiles and housewares, home and auto care products, and electronics. Best Brands has expertise serving virtually every classification of trade and is committed to innovative product offerings, unsurpassed quality, and world-class retail service. Products are sold under national brand names and licensed properties such as Dixie, iHome, Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, Dora the Explorer, Spongebob, Transformers, and Littlest Pet Shop. Best Brands has also developed a portfolio of recognized proprietary brand names such as Freedom Cleaning, iLogic, TerryWipes, Kitchen Helpers, and Gourmet Club.

Capabilities

Best Brands merchandises and sources its products thru its overseas affiliate and has developed key strategic production relationship throughout the world. The Company has manufacturing partnerships, and benefits from flexible and adaptable product sourcing and manufacturing resources that significantly enhance its supply chain management capabilities. This allows Best Brands to continually pursue its quest for the most quality-conscious and cost effective producers able to execute is designs. The Company’s wide merchandising scope has created its unique capability of producing creatively designed, well fabricated product across several categories for its core brands and licenses.

Best Brands focuses on establishing close partnerships with its retailers and develops integrated growth strategies with each of them. Its retail customer relationships are deep, often spanning over several decades. The Company specializes in day-to-day EDI replenishment programs that enable quick response shipping, and up-to-the-minute tracking of sales trends. It also provides a comprehensive range of value-added support services such as program development, point-of-sale data analysis, trend forecasting, and purchasing and inventory management. Best Brands has developed the capabilities needed to help its customers manage virtually all aspects of their category programs.

Company Heritage

Since its founding in 1957, Best Brands has been a successful and profitable privately owned business, and its principals’ conservative approach has kept it financially sound through both good and bad economic times. Best Brands now serves over 60,000 retail locations in all classes of trade, and has developed an untarnished reputation among its customers and suppliers as one of the most consistent and loyal strategic partners in the business.

Product Lines

• Home Furnishing Products

   

  Best Brands is a leading supplier of basic and fashion bed, bath, kitchen, and seasonal textile products. It offers coordinated line programs and offer up to 40 different home furnishing products under well known proprietary labels and licensed brands. Product lines include bedding Sheets, Pillow Cases, Blankets, Comforters, Throws, Accent Mats, Bath Towels, Hand Towels, Washcloths, Poofs, Shower Curtains and Liners, Kitchen Towels, Dishcloths, Oven Mitts, Pot Holders, Tablecloths, Placemats, Napkins, Chair Pads, and Seasonal Beach and Holiday products.

• Kitchenware and Houseware Products

   

  Best Brands is a leading supplier of every day kitchen tools, accessories and gadgets. The company supplies bakeware, cookware, tableware and food storage products under proprietary and licensed brands.

• Cleaning Products

   

  Best Brands is a leading supplier of cleaning aids for kitchen, bathroom, laundry, general household, automotive, and office cleaning. Our diverse line includes general cleaning products such as nylon-covered sponges, scourers, scrubbers, pads, puffs, and wipes. We also offer cloth products for cleaning, dusting, polishing, and wiping. Best Brands offers 50 basic cleaning items, available in a variety of shapes, sizes, packages, colors, and materials. Best Brands’ Terry Wipes™ Brand All Purpose Cleaning Cloths holds a patent-pending product design and is the #1 Selling Non-Disposable Wiping Cloth Brand in the US*.

  *AC Nielsen Homescan 2001, Best Brands Internal Company Reports

• Electronic Accessories

• Home Décor & Toys