Handleman Company is a holding company that conducts business through two subsidiaries: Handleman Entertainment Resources (H.E.R.) and North Coast Entertainment (NCE). H.E.R. is a category manager and distributor of prerecorded music to mass merchants in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. H.E.R. manages a broad assortment of titles required to optimize sales in retail stores and provides direct-to-store shipments, marketing of the selections, in-store merchandising, and product exchange. NCE has three companies in its portfolio: Anchor Bay Entertainment, an independent home video label that markets a collection of titles ranging from horror to exercise to children's classics; Madacy Entertainment, an independent record label that markets music and video products with a catalog spanning all genres; and The Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Company, a provider of early childhood entertainment, both on and off the screen, to the youngest of children and their caregivers.