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Note 2 - Business and Organization
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]
2.
Business and Organization
 
The Company is a supplier of merchandising and other marketing services throughout the United States and internationally. The Company provides merchandising and other marketing services to manufacturers, distributors and retailers worldwide, primarily in mass merchandiser, office supply, grocery, drug, dollar, independent, convenience, home improvement and electronics stores, as well as providing furniture and other product assembly services, audit services, in-store events, technology services and marketing research.
 
Merchandising services primarily consist of regularly scheduled, special project and other product services provided at the store level, and the Company
may
be engaged by either the retailer or the manufacturer. Those services
may
include restocking and adding new products, removing spoiled or outdated products, resetting categories in accordance with client or store schematics, confirming and replacing shelf tags, setting new sale or promotional product displays and advertising, replenishing kiosks, providing in-store event staffing and providing assembly services in stores, homes and offices. Other merchandising services include whole store or departmental product sets or resets, including new store openings, new product launches and in-store demonstrations, audit services, special seasonal or promotional merchandising, focused product support and product recalls. The Company also provides technology services and marketing research services.
 
As of
June 30, 2019,
the Company operates in
10
countries and divides its operations into
two
reportable segments: its Domestic Division, which has provided services in the United States of America since certain of its predecessors were formed in
1979,
and its International Division, which began operations in
May 2001
and provides similar merchandising, marketing, audit and in-store event staffing services in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey.