Industrial Revolution, Inc. was founded in 1971 as UCO Corporation. Located in Redmond, Washington, the company has been a supplier of high quality equipment to the outdoor industry. The company is known in particular for it's outstanding line of beautiful and functional candle lanterns. In 2004 the company began selling its new Play and Freeze™ Ice Cream Maker, a ball which allows users to participate in the ice-cream-making process by shaking and rolling the ball itself.

Once upon some time, there was this Dutch bum that lived under a bridge that was near a lantern that was on the corner of a narrow street that lead to an open park with dogs chasing balls and sticks thrown by regular ordinary dog owners that do not sit on the grass because it is a quite moist type of grass and they don't want to soil their khakis. On a certain sunny morning under that very same bridge this Dutch bum, who shall remain nameless because his mother might find out, found an old empty bottle of hard liquor right beside his old rusty bicycle that he used as a pillow. “Tough luck” one might say, because a full bottle of hard liquor would have been the nicest breakfast since his last supper. Nevertheless, he considered himself lucky, since he was a positive-minded man who always looked at the glass as half full, although the glass was always half full with poison, most of the time. Right before he threw something at his girlfriend to wake her up, he realized there was a really old-looking, thin scroll of paper inside the empty bottle, that turned out to be not so empty after all. It was the first time he ever found a message in a bottle, and he didn't even know about that song by The Police since the only Sting he knew was from a bee. When he finally found a way to get the scroll of really old-looking paper out of the bottle, like a monkey that finds out that he can reach the ants deep in the hole of a tree trunk by using a twig, he discovered that the scroll was covered with doodles, sketches, and a lot of text that looked like hieroglyphics to him, although he had never dated Cleopatra or even visited Mexico to actually know what hieroglyphics look like. After carefully studying the newfound information with a highly sophisticated microscope that he borrowed from a drunken professor from his elementary school, he knew he had found something big. Yes, this scroll of really old and thin paper, probably lost by some type of ancient alien visitors from outer-space design schools, would make a new life for him. The contents revealed the blueprints of a design object that he intuitively believed could take over the world like any James Bond movie villain. However his dream would not be to rule and dominate the world, he wanted to make it a better place with his design, and bring new hope and peace to mankind. He immediately dumped his girlfriend, married the queen of Finland, and started his own design company under that very same bridge, with rats as his loyal, hard working employees. Some of you might think this is weird, and no wonder. It's not exactly normal, but what the hell (didn't you see Ratatouille?). After testing his cosmic design on all of his bum friends, he launched his design on the Dutch market in 2002 and gave it the name 'Fatboy® the Original.' The world would be never the same again.The rest is history... and still in the making.

Magellan Plumbing founder John Whitney began his career in the plumbing industry in 2014 working on new construction projects in Knoxville, TN and moved on to a plumbing apprenticeship in 2015. During this apprenticeship, he gained experience in warehousing and inventory management, plumbing diagnostics, service and repair, and remodels. Along with these skills he also received multiple plumbing certifications and completed a trade school course. Upon completion of his apprenticeship, John went on to become the number one technician in his company. After working as a technician for a few years, he was promoted to plumbing service manager. During his time as a service manager, he took on the management of three additional divisions as the company grew. After a few years as a successful service manager, he was promoted to general manager overseeing the company's field operations, coaching and training the service managers, and working in research and development. In 2022 John and his family moved to North Carolina, opening a plumbing company of their own. Because of John's experience as a plumbing technician and service manager, he understands the importance of doing the job the right way the first time, limiting callbacks that can cost a client valuable time and frustration. Mission statement It is our goal to provide professional and high-quality plumbing services to our clients, by meeting all their plumbing needs and providing peace of mind that the work was done the right way and up to code. Address: 817 Lantern Way, Kannapolis, North Carolina, 28081 Phone Number: 865-213-2994 E-mail: service@magellanplumbing.com Website URL: https://magellanplumbing.com/

Design studio Tas-ka is a young company by Jantien Baas en Hester Worst.After graduation from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, they started their own company in 2004 called Tas-ka. The Tas-ka collection is based on the theme “house”. For the collection we designed our own fabrics with two different patterns. The two patterns are screen-printed on fabric made of 100 % cotton in four colors, brown, blue, yellow and pink. The fabrics are used for the whole collection of Tas-ka. The collection consists of kid’s goods, living-, and fashion accessories. The shape of our products is also inspired by the theme houses, such as our breadboards, playhouses and felt brooches. All the Tas-ka products and fabrics are made and produced in The Netherlands. Tas-ka only uses natural materials such as leather, cotton, wool felt, wood and paper. In August 2008 Tas-ka opened a new webshop “ Collectedbytas-ka”. Collected by Tas-ka is a collection products from all over the world. In the webshop we will sell our own Tas-ka collection and also products from other designers. We have a wonderful selection special books and magazines. To give the webshop a personal character we will sell old ceramics, vintage furniture and beautiful illustrations. Everything we think is beautiful and special and we would like to share with you, we will collect in our webshop. So you have an experience of being in a candy shop.We also write every week about things that inspiring us at our weblog. C.V. Tas-ka 2010 | The Designhuis in Eindhoven organised from 22th of Dec. 2009 till 28th of Feb. 2010 the "Design Bazaar". Design Bazaar is a overview of the best Dutch Design. Tas-ka is curated by "Kamer 465" for some products, they're presented in the textile room. 2009 | Participation in Kerst & Carry in Corrosia! Almere Haven. 2009| During the Dutch Design Week Tas-ka took part at the expostion "Teatime". You had to use the mal of a teacup as the starting point for your design. Tas-ka designed a hanging lamp, made of paper teacups 2009 | Presentation of our new collection at the woonbeurs RAI Amsterdam. During a time of 10 days Tas-ka presented and sold their new collection in a big stand at the Dutch Design part. 2009 | The new collection! We designed three new prints based on our textile prints City and House, this time pressed on paper. With this paper we made different products, like a stationary set, notebooks, wrappingpaper/ posters and trays. Look at "collection". 2009 | Participation in Inside Design, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam. 2009 |Tas-ka went to Tokyo, to see the conceptstore Desperado, where they set up a whole display window with the products of Tas-ka . Ever since the 15th of april 2009 Tas-ka's selling her collection with the houses in Desperado. 2009 | In the book: "Play All Day" Design for children, you can find some children's products of Tas-ka. ISBN 9783899552362 2009 | We designed a pattern for "het groene voetstappen plan', this is an initiative to get children going to walk or going by bike to their school. 2008 | Design of four patterns for Dutch magazine 101 woonideeen , they use the patterns for Chinese Lanterns and wrapping paper. 101 woonideeen, no. 2 2009. 2008 | From 30th of September till the 5th of October Tas-ka owned a stand at the fair woonbeurs at RAI in Amsterdam. In hal 8 at the Dutch Design depart. To make some promotion for the webshop www.collectedbytas-ka.com. 2008 | August. Tas-ka created a new webshop www.collectedbytas-ka.com. This webshop is a collection of different beautiful products. 2008 | From the 8 of june till the 7th of septembre Tas-ka enjoined the exposition Bloemsierkunst, (it's all about flowers). Galerie help u zelven in Winterswijk. 2008 | The first of June Tas-ka moved to a much bigger and more beautiful garret space. Our adress is still Nieuwe Molstraat 14, The hague. 2008 | In march and may Tas-ka did an exposition at the Keukenhof, the theme this year was China. 2008 | Tas-ka presented her new collection. We designed and screenprinted two fabrics in 4 colours, with the theme house. With those fabrics we made a lot of different products. So our new collection is totally ourselves. 2008 | On January 13th and 14th Tas-ka shows their new collection on the childrensfair “Kleine Fabriek”. Together with Dorst Ontwerp they shared a stand. See our weblog for photo's. 2007 | For Buitenhuis Tas-ka designs seven birdshades, one is over a meter high. 2007 | In june Tas-ka starts a weblog which is updated every week. It gives a nice insight on what Hester en Jantien find interesting. 2007 | For Dutch magazine VT Wonen Tas-ka makes 100 corsages as a gift for their business relations. >> 2007 | Magazine De Margriet asks Tas-ka to decorate an ostrich-egg for charity. Tord Boontje, Ruud de Wild and Blond Amsterdam also decorate an egg. >> 2007 | In January the Tas-ka webshop opens! 2007 | Tas-ka is interviewed by Marjolijn van Duijn fot the Dutch magazine Textiel Plus. 2007 | Tas-ka donates 35 soft ducks for an orphanage in Sierra Leone. In collaboration with Weesdefoto >> 2006 | Grand opening of the atelier Ontwerpburo Tas-ka on the Nieuwe Molstraat 14. 2006 | Project 'Vaatwerk' for magazine Feeling. 2006 | Together with studio Andersom on the Sfeer fair in Gent. 2005 | Tas-ka designs a present for new subscribers of the Dutch magazineTextiel Plus. 2005 | Tas-ka is asked to design tree new calenders for the NEWME collection from SRT International. 2005 | 70 Unique calenders where handmade for SRT International The Artist Collection . 2005 | Exhibition with "Aap in de garenwinkel" at gallery Intermezzo Dordrecht. 2004 | Exhibition with "Aap in de garenwinkel" at Loods 6 Amsterdam. 2004 | Together with Dorst Ontwerp and Charlotte de With Tas-ka started the collective "Aap in de garenwinkel" 2004 | Participation in auction and exhibit "Breekbaar" Intermezzo Dordrecht. 2004 | Exhibit "Bijzonder en draagbaar" Intermezzo Dordrecht. 2004 | Jantien Baas en Hester Worst started Ontwerpburo Tas-ka.