Hamilton Beach 2008 Annual Report Download - page 2

NACCO Industries, Inc. at a Glance
Market Positions
NACCO Materials Handling
Group is a world leader in the
lift truck industry with an
estimated 9 percent market
share worldwide, including a
23 percent market share in the
Americas market.
Lift trucks are distributed
through a worldwide network of
independent Hyster®and Yale®
dealers and a limited number
of wholly owned dealers.
HBB is one of the leading
companies in small appliances,
with strong share positions in
many of the categories in which
it competes.
HBB products are primarily
distributed through mass
merchants, national discount
department stores, warehouse
clubs and other retail sales outlets.
Kitchen Collection is the nation’s
leading specialty retailer of kitchen
and related products in factory
outlet malls with 285 stores
throughout the United States in
2008.
North American Coal is the
nation’s largest miner of lignite
coal and among the ten largest
coal producers. Lignite coal is
delivered from mines in Texas,
North Dakota, Louisiana and
Mississippi to adjacent or nearby
power plants.
Principal Businesses
NACCO Materials Handling Group (“NMHG”)
Headquarters: Cleveland, Ohio
NMHG Wholesale designs, engineers, manufactures and sells a
comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed
globally under the Hyster®and Yale®brand names. Lift trucks and
component parts are manufactured in the United States, Northern
Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the
Philippines and Brazil.
NMHG Retail operates a small number of wholly owned dealers,
which sell, lease and service Hyster®and Yale®lift trucks and sell
related service parts.
Hamilton Beach Brands (“HBB”)
Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia
HBB is a leading designer, marketer and distributor of small electric
household appliances, as well as commercial products for restaurants,
bars and hotels.
HBB has a broad portfolio of some of the most recognized and
respected brands in the small electric appliance industry, including
Hamilton Beach®, Proctor Silex®, eclectrics®, Traditions®, TrueAir®
and Hamilton Beach®Commercial.
Kitchen Collection
Headquarters: Chillicothe, Ohio
Kitchen Collection is a national specialty retailer of kitchenware
and gourmet foods operating under the Kitchen Collection®and
Le Gourmet Chef® store names in outlet and traditional malls
throughout the United States.
North American Coal (”NACoal“)
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
North American Coal mines and markets lignite coal primarily as fuel
for power generation and provides selected value-added mining
services for other natural resources companies in the United States.
North American Coal operates six surface lignite mines.
The company also provides dragline mining services operating under
the name “North American Mining Company” for independently
owned limerock quarries in Florida.