Focus on product design and development for clients' creative programs and private-label projects.

www.harderson.com2012 – Open our first factory in Huizhou City of China.2012 – Explore deeply in home fragrance & décor for Jonathan Adler, Ralph Lauren, Pottery Barn and Body Shop. Take on perfume and beauty projects, materialized by the 200g body scrub of Saks Fifth Avenue, the 10ml square glass rollerball bottle of Kate Spade and the 100ml spray bottle of Ralph Lauren. Develop a stainless steel beauty tool for a private US brand. Evolve to a vendor of home décor &beauty products. Year 2012 is challenging but of achievements.2011 – Continue to source for famous overseas brands. A UK brand of flowers, home and body stages in and we begin to work with them in producing candles, diffusers and deco crafts for TK Maxx. A French design and branding company starts to buy our high-end home fragrance products, décor crafts and candle accessories for Pier1 Imports, PartyLite, Ralph Lauren, Bed Bath and Beyond. Year 2011 sees our products end up on the shelves of these well-know brands.2010 - Make headway in export business. A German client and an Ireland client start to source promotion items with us for Jagermeister, Martell and Chivas. A retail client from the Netherlands buys our glass crafts. Orders from Ecoya come in after we successfully develop the Sorrento Occasion Candle Jar through a US wholesaler. A US manufacturer sources candle holders and diffusers from us for Pottery Barn and Jonathan Adler. Year 2010 pays its way.2009 - Start with partners the sourcing business for local factories and supply them with glass, metal and plastic accessories. Set up Harderson International by year end, striving to sell more items to domestic factories and aiming to find overseas clients. Year 2009 ends up with a small loss.2008 – Work in friends' factories to learn factory operations and the manufacturing processes of glass, ceramic and metal crafts. Get familiar to the manufacture and quality standards in crafts for Yankee Candle, PartyLite, Bath and Body Works.

(1) Collect and sort through mutual fund prospectus revealed by US fund families; analyze quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports of fund families as well as other information disclosure documents.(2) Analyze US variable annuities and variable (universal) life policies; process product data revealed by US insurance companies.