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Products and Services

Retail-Entertainment Segment

Vintage Stock, Inc.

Vintage Stock, Inc. ("Vintage Stock") is an award-winning, specialty entertainment retailer with 73 storefronts across the U.S. Vintage Stock enjoys a wide customer base comprised of electronic entertainment enthusiasts, avid collectors, gamers, children, seniors, and more. Vintage Stock offers a large selection of entertainment products including new and pre-owned movies, video games, and music products, as well as additional products, such as books, comics, toys, and collectibles—all available in a single location. With its integrated buy-sell-trade business model, Vintage Stock buys, sells and trades new and pre-owned movies, music, video games, electronics, and collectibles through various brand names including, Vintage Stock, Movie Trading Company, EntertainMart, and V-Stock strategically positioned across Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Stores range in size from 3,000 square feet to as large as 46,000 square feet, depending on market draw and population density. In addition to offering a wide array of products, Vintage Stock also offers services to customers, such as rentals, special orders, disc and video game hardware repair and more. Vintage Stock sells its new and used movies, video games, music, and toys through its website at www.vintagestock.com. Vintage Stock’s “Cooler Than Cash” program is its customer-reward program. When Vintage Stock customers bring in items to sell, they have two options: (i) sell their pre-owned products for cash or (ii) opt for store credit and receive a 50% bonus.

Marketing

Vintage Stock markets its stores primarily via social media apps, SMS text messages, including, but not limited to, individual store and corporate Facebook and Twitter accounts. It has an approximately 900,000-customer list for promotion of online and brick and mortar sales and coupons. Vintage Stock also uses guerrilla marketing by partnering and setting up booths with movie theaters for blockbuster releases, various trade fairs, and school donations.

Market

According to the Entertainment Software Association (the “ESA”), today’s video games provide rich, engaging entertainment for players across all platforms. The 2025 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry Report (the “Video Game Industry Report”) underscores how video games have evolved into a mass medium, noting that over 205 million adults in the United States play video games, 69% of Americans have at least one gamer in their household, and two in three Americans play video games at least weekly.

According to ESA , the average video game player is 36 years old. Ages 18 and under make up 23% in the age breakdown and 49% of all players are 18-50 years old. 64% of American adults report playing a video game for at least one hour every week. 68% of American players view games as a way to pass time or relax and 62% of American players say it is simply to have fun. 87% of players report that playing the video game version of a sport improves their real-life performance. 83% of all American households report playing at least one gaming device in the past 12 months. The video game industry reported in excess of $59 billion in consumer spending in 2024.

Competition

Vintage Stock’s industry is intensely competitive and subject to rapid changes in consumer preferences and frequent product introductions. Competition is based on the ability to adopt new technology, aggressive franchising, the establishment of brand names and quality of collections. It competes with mass merchants and regional chains; computer product and consumer electronics stores; other video game and PC software specialty stores; toy retail chains; direct sales by software publishers; and online retailers and game rental companies. However, it has established a presence in areas where it believes that it can take a greater portion of market share. It also competes with sellers of pre-owned and value video game products. Additionally, it competes with other forms of entertainment activities, including casual and mobile games, movies, television, theater, sporting events and family entertainment centers.

Retail-Flooring Segment

Flooring Liquidators, Inc.

The Company acquired Flooring Liquidators, Inc. (“Flooring Liquidators") in January 2023. Flooring Liquidators is a leading retailer and installer of flooring, carpeting, cabinets, and countertops to consumers, builders, and contractors in California, operating 25 warehouse-format stores and design centers operated in Arkansas, California, Missouri, and Nevada. Over the years, the company has established a strong reputation for innovation, efficiency and service in the home renovation and improvement market. Flooring Liquidators serves retail and builder customers through two businesses: retail customers through its Flooring Liquidators retail stores, and builder and contractor customers through Elite Builder Services, Inc.

Products

Flooring Liquidators is the premier destination for a wide selection of flooring, cabinets, and countertops. Its extensive inventory features high-quality imported hardwood, laminate, and vinyl products, complemented by strong partnerships with leading brands such as Shaw, Coretec, Mohawk, MSI, Mannington, and others. Showrooms also showcase offerings from respected manufacturers, including Lions Flooring, Compass Hardwood, Johnson Hardwood, Republic, Eternity, and Koville, ensuring customers have access to the finest materials available. In addition, Flooring Liquidators sources products from our wholly owned subsidiary, Marquis Industries, Inc.

Market

Flooring Liquidators serves a diverse customer base consisting of homeowners, property managers, builders, and contractors. Homeowners have the flexibility to choose installation options, whether it's through the Flooring Liquidators team, their preferred installer, or a DIY approach. Its e-commerce platform offers cash and carry for most products, with exceptions made for customers within a specific radius of its retail stores.

Competition and Competitive Advantage

Flooring Liquidators’ primary competitors are big box brands like Home Depot and Lowes, as well as other prominent players such as Floor and Decor, Empire, and regional flooring companies.

Flooring Liquidators’ competitive advantages are grounded in its commitment to providing the lowest prices on flooring, countertops, and a wide range of other products. It achieves this by directly sourcing materials from manufacturers and leveraging its efficient logistics capabilities. By eliminating unnecessary intermediaries, Flooring Liquidators can pass on cost savings to its customers, enabling it to offer premium products at competitive prices. This cost advantage sets it apart in the market, ensuring that its customers receive value for their investment. Furthermore, Flooring Liquidators’ effective logistics and warehousing operations play a pivotal role in its ability to deliver service. Through streamlined processes and attention to detail, Flooring Liquidators ensures that products are efficiently managed and readily available for its customers. This allows it to meet customer demands while maintaining high levels of quality and prompt delivery. Its focus on professionalism and operational excellence enables Flooring Liquidators to address its customers' needs with precision, reinforcing its reputation as a reliable and trusted provider.

Sales and Marketing

Flooring Liquidators’ success in attracting customers lies in its competitive pricing strategy, a driving force behind the increased traffic to its stores and website. The cost savings that it offers not only benefits its customers but also generates organic word-of-mouth marketing, amplifying its brand presence. To further expand its reach, it has expanded its social media footprint, utilizing platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other channels. Additionally, its targeted paid search advertising leverages co-op funds from manufacturers, creating impactful co-branded campaigns. Adhering to a lean marketing approach, Flooring Liquidators carefully allocates its advertising budget, ensuring every dollar spent yields a return on investment.

Flooring-Manufacturing Segment

Marquis Industries, Inc.

Marquis Industries, Inc. (“Marquis”) is a leading carpet manufacturer and a manufacturer of innovative yarns, as well as a designer, importer and seller of luxury vinyl, loose lay, rigid core, laminate, and engineered hardwood flooring. Marquis focuses on the residential, niche commercial, and printed hospitality end-markets and serves thousands of customers.

Since commencing operations in 1995, Marquis has built a strong reputation for outstanding value, styling, and customer service. Our innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate its brands in the flooring marketplace. Marquis’ state-of-the-art operations enable high quality products, unique customization, and short lead-times.

At September 30, 2025, Marquis operated its business through ten brands, each specializing in a distinct area of the business. Marquis’ flooring source division is the largest of all of the brands. The following is a breakdown of each brand and the specialized products sold:

BrandsProducts and/or Services

Artisans HospitalityCarpets to commercial and hospitality markets

Astro Carpet MillsSpecialty printed carpet to the entertainment industry and artificial turf

Better Backers FinishingCommission carpet coating and finishing services

Constellation IndustriesContract commission printing

Gulistan FloorcoveringsAll forms of floor covering to residential dealers featuring patterned and branded carpets

KrausCarpet tile to the commercial and main street markets and vinyl and rigid core flooring

Lonesome OakResidential carpet to dealers featuring PET and Nylon specials

Lonesome Oak Manufactured HousingAll forms of floor covering to manufactured housing factories

Marquis IndustriesAll forms of floor covering to dealers and home centers

Naturally Aged FlooringHigh End Hardwood Flooring

Omega Pattern WorksSpecialty printed carpet to the entertainment industry (bowling alleys,

fun centers, movie theaters, and casinos)

Products

Carpets & Rugs

Marquis produces innovative residential and commercial floorcovering products. Marquis offers over 200 running line styles under four brands; Marquis, Gulistan, Lonesome Oak, and Kraus, each of which provide quality and value. Marquis products feature high twist yarns produced with ultra-soft fibers, or high-performance commercial fibers, and are designed to perform well in high traffic areas. Gulistan offers both ultra-soft PET fibers and Lifestrand Nylon fibers in higher end carpets. Lonesome Oak offers value-oriented carpets designed for the manufactured housing market. Kraus offers a full line of commercial carpet tile.

Marquis’s specialty print brands offer printed patterned carpet designed for commercial applications. Patterns are tailored to a variety of end uses, such as fun centers, movies theatres, hotels, casinos, and corporate interiors. All products are printed on high performance nylon and are soil and stain resistant.

Hard Surfaces

The Marquis, Kraus, and Naturally Aged Flooring product lineup includes products designed for both residential and commercial end uses. Marquis’s product offering has remained on the cutting edge of this rapidly evolving segment of the flooring industry and will continue to be an innovator in new technology and design. Marquis and Kraus Hard Surface currently offer dry-back, loose lay vinyl plank, click-and-lock rigid core plank and tile, and rolls of sheet vinyl flooring. Naturally Aged flooring offers beautifully designed, high-end engineered hardwood floors.

Industry and Market

Marquis is an integrated carpet manufacturer and distributor of carpet and hard-surface flooring within a fragmented industry composed of a wide variety of companies from small privately held firms to large multinationals. In 2024, the U.S. floor covering industry had an estimated $33.2 billion in sales.

Floor covering sales are influenced by the homeowner remodeling and residential builder markets, existing home sales and housing starts, average house size, and home ownership. In addition, the level of sales in the floor covering industry is influenced by consumer confidence, spending for durable goods, the condition of residential and commercial construction, and overall strength of the economy.

Market

Carpet and Rugs

The carpet and rug industry had shipments of approximately $11.2 billion in 2024. The carpet and rugs industry has two primary markets, residential and commercial, with the residential market making up the largest portion of the industry. The industry has two primary sub-markets, replacement and new construction, with the replacement market making up the larger portion of the sub-markets. Approximately 56.9% of industry shipments are made in response to residential replacement demand.

Residential products consist of broadloom carpets and rugs in a broad range of styles, colors, and textures. Commercial products consist primarily of broadloom carpet and modular carpet tile for a variety of institutional applications including office buildings, restaurant chains, schools, and other commercial establishments. The carpet industry also manufactures carpet for the automotive, recreational vehicle, small boat, and other industries.

The Carpet and Rug Institute (the “CRI”) is the national trade association representing carpet and rug manufacturers. Information compiled by the CRI suggests that the domestic carpet and rug industry is comprised of fewer than 100 manufacturers, with a meaningful percentage of the industry’s production concentrated in a limited number of manufacturers focused on the lower end of the price curve.

Hard Surfaces

Hard flooring surfaces, such as ceramic, luxury vinyl tile, hardwood, stone, and laminate, had shipments of approximately $22.0 billion in 2024. As with carpet and rugs, the market is split between residential and commercial and replacement and new construction, with residential replacement being the largest segment of the market.

Competition

The North American flooring industry is highly competitive with an increasing variety of product categories, shifting consumer preferences and pressures from imported products, particularly in the rug and hard surface categories. Marquis competes with other flooring manufacturers and resellers. Marquis is a fully integrated carpet mill, and, as a result, is able to produce carpet at the lowest cost possible for its target price point. Marquis is a one-stop shop for soft and hard surface products, allowing its customers to save time and receive quality service. Marquis offers innovative products and has quick turnaround times, turning a new product in two weeks from order to delivery. The principal methods of competition are service, quality, price, product innovation, and technology. Marquis’ lean operating structure, plus investments in manufacturing equipment, computer systems and marketing strategy, contributes to its ability to provide value on the basis of performance, quality, style, and service.

Raw Materials and Suppliers

Marquis believes that it will have access to an adequate supply of raw material on satisfactory commercial terms for the foreseeable future, as it is not dependent on any single supplier. It expects to receive adequate supply to service new and existing customers.

Customers

Marquis sells products to flooring dealers, home centers, other flooring manufacturers, and directly to commercial end-users. The majority of sales are to a network of flooring dealers across several different end markets, geographies, and product lines. Management believes that the dealer market is the most profitable market for its products because it’s a diversified customer base that values innovation, style, and service.

Manufacturing

Marquis has multiple manufacturing facilities with state-of-the-art equipment in all phases of its vertically integrated production, from extrusion of yarn-to-yarn processing to tufting and finishing carpet. Marquis manufactures high quality products and offers unique customization with short lead-times. Marquis’ investment in new yarn extrusion capacity will allow expansion into new markets while reducing production costs. The new equipment allows Marquis to reduce production costs and increase margins.

Marketing

Marquis has a team of approximately 60 full-time salespeople, who deepen customer relationships throughout its markets.

Steel-Manufacturing Segment

Precision Industries, Inc.

The Company acquired Precision Industries, Inc. (“Precision Marshall”) in July 2020. Precision Marshall is the North American leader in providing and manufacturing pre-finished de-carb-free tool and die steel. For over 75 years, Precision Marshall has served steel distributors through quick and accurate service. Precision Marshall has led the industry with availability and value-added processing that saves distributors time and processing costs.

Founded in 1948, Precision Marshall “The Deluxe Company” has built a reputation of integrity, speed of service and doing things the “Deluxe Way”. The term Deluxe refers to all aspects of the product and customer service to be head and shoulders above the rest. From order entry to packaging and delivery, Precision Marshall makes it easy to do business and backs all products and service with a guarantee.

Precision Marshall provides four key products to over 500 steel distributors in four product categories: Deluxe Alloy Plate, Deluxe Tool Steel Plate, Precision Ground Flat Stock, and Drill Rod. With over 5,000 distinct size grade combinations in stock every day, Precision Marshall arms tool steel distributors with deep inventory availability and same day shipment to their place of business or often ships direct to their customer saving time and handling.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

In June 2022, Precision Marshall acquired The Kinetic Co., Inc. (“Kinetic”). Kinetic is a highly recognizable and regarded brand name in the production of industrial knives and hardened wear products for the tissue and metals industries and is known as a one-stop shop for in-house grinding, machining, and heat-treating. Kinetic is headquartered in Greendale, Wisconsin. Kinetic manufactures more than 90 types of knives and numerous associated parts with modifications and customizations available to each. Kinetic employs approximately 100 non-union employees.

On June 10, 2024, Kinetic acquired certain assets and assumed certain liabilities of Midwest Grinding. Founded in 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Midwest Grinding is a grinding house dedicated to precision Blanchard and specialty surface grinding of small to extra-large capacity.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

On July 20, 2023, the Company acquired Precision Metal Works, Inc. (“PMW”). Founded in 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky, PMW manufactures and supplies highly engineered parts and components across 400,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Kentucky. It offers world-class metal forming, assembly, and finishing solutions in the automotive and appliance industries. PMW ships in excess of 35 million stampings and assemblies per year.

Central Steel Fabricators

On May 17, 2024, Precision Marshall acquired Central Steel Fabricators (“Central Steel”). Founded in 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, Central Steel is a manufacturer of specialized fabricated metal products. Central Steel offers over 2,300 unique products to more than 500 customers. Its extensive product line, primarily for data centers, includes cable racks, auxiliary framing, hardware, insulation products, and network bays.

Products

Precision Industries, Inc.

Deluxe Alloy Plate

Precision Marshall provides three alloy plate products in sizes from 1/4 inch to 8 inches in thickness. These decarb-free heat treated and annealed plates are square and within a .020 tolerance on the surface allowing distributors to save cutting time, kerf loss, and machining time.

Deluxe Tool Steel Plate

Offering six different grades from 1/4 inch to 8 inches in thickness commonly used in the tooling industry, these square decarb-free, pre-heat-treated plates are finished to .020 tolerance, to provide distributors with the perfect plate to service their customers.

Precision Ground Flat Stock

Over 4,000 size/grade combinations across ten grades of tool steel, alloy and stainless steel are available every day and shipped the same day out of Precision Marshall’s national distribution center in Bolingbrook, Illinois over 99% of the time. These flat bars are finished to a 32 RMS finish within a tolerance of +/- .001 on the surface and are produced and available off the shelf in 18, 24, 36, and 72 inch and one-meter lengths. Custom, special tolerance items are made to order and typically shipped in three calendar days or less.

Drill Rod

Nine grades with approximately 1,000 diameter/grade combinations of polished round bars in lengths of 36, 72, and 144 inches are available for immediate shipment from the national distribution center.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

Kinetic manufactures and sells steel perforation blades and tungsten carbide anvils for paper or tissue-converting machinery, fly knives for napkin folding machinery, cut-off blades for diaper machinery, wrapper knives for tissue, film, and foil wrapping machines, chopper blades used in tissue, towel, and printing machinery, and tube and core cutter blades, core saws, slitters, slitter anvils, sheeted knives, pulp cutters, guillotine blades, roll splitter blades to the tissue/paper industry. Kinetic also manufactures profile knives, shear blades, scrap choppers, and side trimmers for the steel industry.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

PMW manufactures and sells metal stampings and stamped part assemblies for assembly into consumer and commercial appliances and automotive tier one customers. The products are highly custom and manufactured on customer owned tools for a specific application. Products range from flat sheet metal blanks, appliance interior and show components such as fan shrouds, hinge assemblies, and refrigerator mullions. Automotive customers purchase structural components such as

transmission support cross members, frame brackets, and hinge components. PMW has hundreds of unique tools producing hundreds of different parts.

Central Steel Fabricators

Central Steel specializes in manufacturing and distributing a range of infrastructure and cable management solutions tailored for the communication industry. Its product offerings include equipment frames and cabinets to mount electronics such as routers and switches; cable racking to manage low voltage and power cables; grounding and isolation products; and all the related installation hardware.

Industry and Market

Precision Industries, Inc.

Precision Marshall is a fully integrated manufacturer of the above-mentioned steel products. Precision Marshall provides steel service centers and distributors with immediate availability, allowing customers to have access to all sizes and grades without having to make an inventory investment. Precision Marshall only sells to distributors and steel service centers and has a strict policy of not selling to end-users. The tool steel market is a niche market within the steel industry.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

Kinetic primarily serves three industries or market segments, which include the tissue industry, steel industry, and contract work. The majority of Kinetic's revenues are derived from replacement knives or products specifically designed and manufactured to replace wear parts on cutting equipment. Kinetic has a strong reputation and is a respected brand in the industries it serves. Kinetic differentiates itself from its competition by being a one-stop-shop for grinding, machining, and heat treating. Much of the work done by Kinetic is specialized and its customers demand high quality and reliable products to keep production lines running. Kinetic has a customer base consisting of approximately 600 customers that is diversified, broad and stable. Ninety-five percent of Kinetic's revenues are from sales to companies located in the U.S.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

PMW is part of the metal stamping industry that supplies complex components to the appliance and transportation industries. The primary process involves converting metal sheet into complex shapes using custom tooling specifically designed for those components. In addition, PMW has a powder coating process that applies a thin coat of paint and bakes the powder to form an aesthetically pleasing surface that is visible to the end user and also prevents corrosion on the surface of the metal. PMW has full engineering, tooling, and project management support for all phases of the development and manufacturing process. The market is large and highly specialized since no two stampings are the same. PMW works with large customers in the appliance and tier one automotive industry. Relationships are long and highly integrated.

Central Steel Fabricators

Central Steel supports carriers operating in legacy wireline, wireless, and VoIP communications. As data technologies continue to converge, new opportunities have emerged for its product lines, driving the company to evolve its offerings to meet the demands of the growing data and IP markets. This adaptability positions Central Steel to serve its customers effectively as they transition to next-generation technologies.

Market

Precision Industries, Inc.

Deluxe Alloy Plate

The De-Carb Free Alloy Plate Industry provides steel for molds and tooling across virtually all manufacturing segments with a dominance in the automobile industry. The alloy plate trade named “Marshalloy” comes in Heat Treat, Annealed and the superior proprietary mold quality which provides tighter chemistry and higher machine and polish ability.

Deluxe Tool Steel Plate

The De-Carb Free Tool Steel Plate Market in North America supplies pre-heat-treated plates that are commonly used to make tools, dies, and industrial knives used in a variety of industries with a dominance in the automotive industry.

Precision Ground Flat Stock

The Precision Ground Flat Stock market provides refined tool steel, alloy, and stainless flat bars that are used to make tools, dies, holder blocks, and industrial knives across all North American Manufacturing categories. Offering tight tolerances and a line ground finish, this product saves tool and die makers time and money by the off-the-shelf product being closer to the finished tool, die, or industrial knife.

Drill Rod

Drill Rod are tight tolerance pre-hardened round bars below two inches in diameter used in the manufacturing of dies, punching presses, drills, pins, screw applications, and other machine parts that require high strength and durability. Drill rod is commonly used in the construction, machinery, and manufacturing industries.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

The largest industry served by Kinetic is the tissue industry with in excess of 350 customers. Kinetic also serves 80 steel mills or steel service centers across the U.S. and Canada. The contract business at Kinetic is a catchall segment consisting of a wide range of products and services ranging from plate grinding or milling for customers to countless specialized needs for companies that require precision machining, grinding, and heat treat applications.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

Brackets and Structural Stampings

Appliance manufacturers are the largest customers and longest-lasting relationships for PMW. It serves both the largest and second largest appliance manufacturers in North America. PMW also provides brackets and structural components to the automotive industry tier one assembly plants. Parts can have fasteners integrated into the design that are assembled in the tool. Components are unique to the customer and are produced to a forecast and firm release.

Powder Coated and Decorative Stamping

PMW produces Class A and Class B show surface powder coated stamping for appliance manufacturers. The parts range from hinge assemblies to oven control panel frames and brushed metal vent covers. These are all produced to order on custom tooling.

Stainless Steel Exhaust

PMW produces housing and heat shield components for tier one heavy truck exhaust systems. These are heavy metal stampings made from stainless steel.

Central Steel Fabricators

Central Steel diverse product line encompasses the entire infrastructure spectrum, providing us with a competitive edge in cost and logistics. It maintains a robust inventory of stock products, enabling quick fulfillment of customer orders. Additionally, its ability to develop and manufacture site-specific solutions helps it meet the needs of clients who are upgrading their facilities to align with current technologies.

Competition

Precision Industries, Inc.

The tool and die steel market in North America is highly competitive and requires a significant investment in inventory, manufacturing, and service infrastructure. There are several long-standing competitors in each product segment. Precision Marshall competes through speed of service by having high inventory availability and an easy to purchase customer experience.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

A number of companies compete with Kinetic in the tissue/paper industry. The primary competitors are International Knife and Saw (“IKS”), located in South Carolina, Everwear, located in Missouri, and TKM, located in Germany. Kinetic produces a wider range of products than its competitors in the tissue/paper industry. Competitors in the steel industry include IKS, American Shear Knife (“ASKO”), which manufactures in Mexico, or overseas, and Modern Machine located in Indiana. Small machine shops are competitors to the Kinetic contract segment.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

The industry is made up of many small and midsized stampers that service appliance, automotive, aerospace, medical, and other markets. Competition is based on expertise, price, quality, location, and customer service. Metal stampings are generally heavy and large so shipping long distances or from overseas is not generally cost effective. Many of our customers have the ability to produce metal stampings however it is not the focus of their business. These are some of our many competitors; Challenge Manufacturing, Choice Fabricators Inc., Stone City Products Inc., Big Rapids Products., UltraTech.

Central Steel Fabricators

Its primary competitors in the telecom space are Newton Instruments and Moreng Telecom, both of which boast long histories in the industry. However, the integration of new communication technologies has introduced competition from companies traditionally focused solely on the data industry. While Central Steel's pricing structure remains competitive, we believe that Central Steel's exceptional service sets it apart from the competition.

Raw Material and Suppliers

Precision Industries, Inc.

There are a limited number of suppliers in the world market across each product category. Precision Marshall has developed a strength by securing a dedicated supply chain across several of its product offerings. Precision Marshall works with most of the highly specialized providers and has more than adequate sourcing options.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

There are a limited number of specialized tool steel suppliers in the world, and many are located in Europe. Kinetic has established long-term relationships with all of its foreign and domestic tool steel suppliers. Long lead times have become an added challenge in recent years, however, Kinetic does significant advanced planning to assure the timely receipt and stocking of inventory levels.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

Metal suppliers are generally contracted by our customers as part of larger purchases. Automotive original equipment manufacturers usually source directly with the steel mills and pass the pricing down to the tier one and on to PMW. Large appliance manufacturers direct PMW where to purchase the steel from for each specific part. PMW does have freedom to select suppliers for some items such as paint or cardboard.

Central Steel Fabricators

Central Steel's products are primarily manufactured from high-quality commercial steel, with standard hardware used for assembly. Its grounding and isolation products utilize standard copper and GPO-3 fiberglass. It relies on multiple domestic sources for its materials, ensuring consistency and reliability in its supply chain. Central Steel's integrated enterprise resource planning system facilitates efficient purchasing, production planning, and inventory management.

Sales, Marketing, and Distribution

Precision Industries, Inc.

Precision Marshall has two distribution centers that hosts its products. The national distribution center is strategically located and can service the tooling hub of the Midwest. The Company manufactures all products and holds the inventory for the Deluxe Alloy and Deluxe Tool Steel plate products at its corporate headquarters in Washington, Pennsylvania. Precision Marshall has more than 18 people selling, marketing, and distributing its products.

The Kinetic Co., Inc.

Kinetic distributes its products from its Greendale, Wisconsin headquarters facility, and its Midwest Grinding location in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kinetic carries some finished goods inventory from its headquarters or at a warehouse facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The majority of Kinetic products are manufactured in Greendale and shipped upon completion. The Kinetic sales team consists of direct salespeople comprised of both employee Territory Sales Managers and outside sales representatives. This team of salespeople calls on customers and prospects located throughout the U.S. Kinetic also has a seasoned five-person inside sales team which is specialized in the market, and offers tremendous technological knowledge and insight to its customers.

Precision Metal Works, Inc.

PMW ships from facilities in Louisville and Frankfort Kentucky directly to its customers. Product is FOB its dock. All product is built to firm orders. All customers require orders, shipping, and invoicing through EDI. PMW has a VP of Business Development that works with current and new customers. Quotations are managed by the Cost Estimator through the tooling engineering group. The VP of Engineering and the engineering staff are integral to the quotation process with direct contact with the customers. Customers are located throughout North America and Mexico with a heavy concentration of customers located less than 400 miles from its plant.

Central Steel Fabricators

Central Steel's market primarily comprises engineering and installation firms that design, install, and maintain communication networks for wireline, wireless, and VoIP carriers. These specialized contractors typically serve multiple carriers within specific geographic regions. Given the time-sensitive nature of many projects, its reliable delivery promises have fostered strong customer relationships and loyalty.

Corporate and Other Segment

Our corporate and other segment consists of certain corporate general and administrative costs.

Intellectual Property

Our success will depend significantly on our ability to develop and maintain the proprietary aspects of our technology and operate without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of third parties. We currently rely primarily on a combination of copyright, trade secret and trademark laws, confidentiality procedures, contractual provisions, and similar measures to protect our intellectual property.

We estimate that reliance upon trade secrets and unpatented proprietary know-how will continue to be our principal method of protecting our trade secrets and other proprietary technologies. We generally own (or have permissive licenses for) the intellectual property provided by third-party contractors, even though we hire such contractors to help develop our proprietary software and to provide various fulfillment services. Our proprietary software is not significantly dependent on any third-party software, although our software does utilize open-source code. Notwithstanding the use of this open-source code, we do not believe our usage requires public disclosure of our own source code nor do we believe the use of open-source code will have a material impact on our business.

We register some of our product names, slogans and logos in the United States. In addition, we require our employees, contractors and many of those with whom we have business relationships to sign non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements. Neither intellectual property laws, contractual arrangements, nor any of the other steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property, can ensure that third parties will not exploit our technologies or develop similar technologies.

Our proprietary publishing system provides an advanced set of integrated tools for design, service, and modifications to support our mobile web app services. Our mobile web app builder software enables easy and efficient design, end user modification and administration, and includes a variety of other tools accessible by our team members.

Human Capital Resources

As of September 30, 2025, we had approximately 1,744 employees, of whom approximately 1,366 were full-time employees, in the United States. We employ both unionized and non-unionized employees and believe we have a good relationship with all employees. We recognize that attracting, motivating, and retaining talent at all levels is vital to continuing our growth and success. We offer industry-competitive wages and benefits; we are committed to maintaining a workplace environment that promotes employee productivity and satisfaction.