Hearts on Fire Company, LLC

Lifetime Brands is a designer, developer and marketer of a broad range of nationally branded consumer products. The company s main product categories are kitchenware, tabletop items, cutlery and cutting boards, bake-ware and pantry-ware and spices. Its principal brands include Pfaltzgraff, KitchenAid, Farberware, Cuisinart, Sabatier, Calvin Klein and Hoffritz. In addition, the company sells and markets its products under its own brands and trademarks. Among these are Atlantis, Baker's Advantage, Block, CasaModa, Cuisine de France, DBK Daniel Boulud Kitchen, Gemco, Hershey's, Hoan, Joseph Abboud Environments, Kamenstein, Kathy Ireland Home, NapaStyle, Nautica, Retroneu, Roshco, Sasaki, Stiffel and Weir in Your Kitchen. The company also sells and markets bath hardware and accessories under the USE and Gemco brands and sells and markets products in the cookware product category under the DBK Daniel Boulud Kitchen brand. Lifetime Brands is headquartered in Garden City, N.Y.

PC Connection, through its subsidiaries, is a leading direct marketer of business computing solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses, educational and government institutions, medium-to-large corporate accounts and consumers. The company offers a broad selection of more than 100,000 brand name products, including computers, monitors, printers, cameras, software, networking equipment and related accessories. In 2004, the company introduced ServiceConnection, which offers small businesses a full range of configuration and professional services to manage their Information Technology needs. The company was founded in 1982 and is trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PCCC. It has corporate headquarters in Merrimack, N.H.; a distribution center in Wilmington, Ohio; and business offices in Keene and Portsmouth, N.H., Marlborough, Mass., Fairfield, Conn., Rockville, Md., and Boca Raton, Fla.