HAT Contract was purchased by Innovative Office Products in Easton, PA in June 2018. Innovative is a manufacture of monitor arms, a variety of desktop mounted sit stand products and point of sale mounts. We are excited about the future of the HAT/Innovative company as they will bring an East Coast presence to HAT and we'll bring a West Coast presence to them. We continue to be the leader in the sit stand base category and have many new related products we'll be bringing to market soon.

HAT Contract manufactures solutions for open workplace environments. We manufacture electric sit to stand table bases, mobile pedestals, monitor arms and a power/data distribution beam and benching system for the contract furniture industry. We have become one of the largest suppliers of bases in the US to many major corporations. All products are inventoried and shipped from San Jose, CA. We market our products through contract furniture dealers throughout the US. Many of America's largest Corporations use our products to help keep their employees working productively.

At BNT Ventures we have developed a number of real estate projects. They have ranged from building 2 custom homes in Los Gatos, CA, 8 custom lakefront homes in Lake Tahoe, CA to developing a 248 unit apartment complex in Nampa, Idaho. We are currently involved with the development of a 200 acre resort community on Conneaut Lake in the Pittsburgh, PA area and a 2,500 acre housing development in La Paz, Mexico.

We successfully built AVA Furniture Group into one of the largest imported wood furniture manufacturers in the US. Our products were distributed throughout the entire US. We sold the company to the Mayline Group in January 2008.

I started BRG in 1986 and we quickly grew into one of the largest office furniture dealers in California. After opening offices in San Diego and San Francisco we purchased dealers in Phoenix and Dallas. After a successful IPO (symbol BRGP) in 1995 we purchased six more furniture dealerships around the country and became one of the largest dealers in the US. We were the only dealership in the US that represented Knoll, Teknion, Kimball, Allsteel and Hon. By 2000 we were doing $240 mil in annual revenue with over 800 employees and were purchased by a Private Equity group (TCR) in New York.