Hello Folks,

Well, this might seem like an easy one - but believe me it's not!

I'm trying to find contact details for a company named Reizen.  They
manufacture all sorts of products for the blind, including Braille
labelers, magnifiers, talking clocks, etc.

Now, I am aware that many online retailers (including
www.maxiaids.com) stock Reizen's products.  But I need to get in touch
with Reizen themselves in order to place a wholesale order with them.

It's possible that Reizen's contact info might be printed on a few of
their products - but I doubt it would be that easy.  So if you have
any way of giving me a current email address or phone/fax number for
this company, I'd be simply thrilled!  (I suspect Reizen is overseas -
Europe maybe?  But, again, that's just a wild guess.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.  Cheers, Craig.

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Request for Question Clarification by answerfinder-ga on 02 Feb 2005 01:50 PST

Dear curiouscraig-ga,
I?m not quite sure how you want to deal with this. The trademark
Reizen is owned by MAXI-AIDS. They probably source the items from
various manufacturers and place their trademark on them. So it depends
on which item you are interested in as there may be several
manufacturers involved. From previous experience researching this type
of question, finding the original manufacturer is often very
difficult.
answerfinder-ga
 
US Trademark database:

Word Mark: REIZEN 
Goods and Services: IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: AIDS AND
APPLIANCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, NAMELY, MAGNIFIERS CONSISTING OF
LENSES USED TO MAGNIFY PRINTED MATERIAL. FIRST USE: 19960000. FIRST
USE IN COMMERCE: 19960000

Registration Number 2866484 
Registration Date July 27, 2004 
Owner (REGISTRANT) MAXI-AIDS, INC. CORPORATION NEW YORK 86-30 102nd
Street Richmond Hill NEW YORK 11418

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=3lr1js.2.1

You may be interested in this article. A reference to Reizen appears
near the bottom of the article.
http://www.nfb.org/bm/bm99/bm991203.htm

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 02 Feb 2005 06:11 PST

Dear curiouscraig,

Reizen and Maxi-Aids are identical. The New York database of
incorporated companies has this record for Reizen, Inc.:

REIZEN INC.
42 EXECUTIVE BLVD 
FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK 11735

http://appsext5.dos.state.ny.us/corp_public/display_entity?p_nameid=2932841&p_corpid=2931172

42 Executive Boulevard in Farmingdale is also the address of Maxi-Aids:
http://www.maxiaids.com/store/contactUs.asp?idstore=0

As stated by my colleague answerfinder-ga, finding the actual
manufacturers of the various products sold under the Reizen brand is
difficult, if not almost impossible. It is even likely that many of
those products are manufactured exclusively for Reizen/Maxi-Aids. So
they are the only contact you can refer to.

If the proof that Reizen and Maxi-Aids are one and the same company is
useful for you, please let me know.

Regards,
Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by curiouscraig-ga on 02 Feb 2005 08:59 PST

Hey all,

Thanks for all your time on this.  I was beginning to suspect that
MaxiAids somehow ran Reizen, as literally hours of internet searching
pulled up absolutely nothing about this company - and that's a mighty
strange thing nowadays.  And since Reizen is about as likely to give
us contact info for their manufacturers as I am going to fly to the
moon, I'd say this question is dead in the water.  What a shame!

Anyhow, thanks again for all your time.  Have a nice day - Craig.

http://www.reizeninc.com/default.asp

Copyright Notice

"This site is owned and operated by REIZEN, Inc. All material on this
site is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by REIZEN
or its affiliates or from other sources, is owned by or licensed to
the respective party providing it and is protected by international
copyright and trademark laws and other proprietary rights, unless
otherwise noted."

http://www.reizeninc.com/termsofuse.asp

According to Whois, the site above is registered to Maxi-Aids, Inc.

http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=reizeninc.com

I hope that helps.

Rainbow