North Coast Imports, Inc.

We're about to introduce an exciting NEW model.  Stay tuned for more info.  AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! SOLID walnut board, made in the U.S.A. with German mechanism.  We're really excited to introduce this new model from Sternreiter.

Great article in The NY Times : When it comes to profit and satisfaction, craft business is showing how American manufacturing can compete in the global economy. Many of the manufacturers who are thriving in the United States (they exist, I swear!) have done so by avoiding direct competition with low-cost commodity producers in low-wage nations. Instead, they have scrutinized the market and created customized products for less price-sensitive customers. Facebook and Apple, Starbucks and the Boston Beer Company (which makes Sam Adams lager) show that people who identify and meet untapped needs can create thousands of jobs and billions in wealth. As our economy recovers, there will be nearly infinite ways to meet custom needs at premium prices. Meanwhile, the idea (or at least the hope) is that as China and other emerging nations develop, the United States can stay on the profitable forefront, delivering specific high-tech parts to their factories and the latest upmarket foods to thei...

Our company's founder (and my great-uncle) Karl Schleutermann built a giant cuckoo clock in Amish Country more than thirty years ago. Located in the premises of Grandma's Alpine Homestead (aka Alpine-Alpa) at 1504, US Route 62, Wilmot, OH, it was built in 1972-73 as a competition to another large cuckoo clock in Frankenmuth, Michigan (now gone). The giant clock was 7.2 meters (23.5 feet) high, 3.3 meters (24 feet) wide and 4.1 metres (13.5 feet) deep. Reportedly it was noted in both the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley's Believe it or Not. In August 2007 the clock was renovated and moved from its original location to a new location adjacent to the restaurant. However, in 2009 the restaurant was closed and the clock auctioned. The latest news on the clock is that it will be re-erected at Walnut Creek, or Sugarcreek in Ohio. Exact new location or timetable is not known exactly, as restoration depends on funding. Thanks to CuriusJM's post for the updated information o...

" (CNN) -- In one of the biggest upsets in international football in recent times the USA beat European champions Spain 2-0 in the first semifinal of the 2009 Confederations Cup in Bloemfontein, South Africa." Celebrate with our Soccer Clock! (Only a few left available.)