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Opus Continues to Expand Product Offerings with New Clock and Thermometer Products.


Business Editors

BELLINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2003

Opus Incorporated, a leading international marketer of home and garden products and outdoor accessories, today announced the addition of decorative clocks and thermometers to its AvantGarden(TM) product line.

These new clocks and thermometers are inspired designs based on today's most popular trends. They will provide customers with a unique new way to beautify their home, yard or garden.

"Opus has built its reputation on creating innovative and high-value bird feeding products," said John Stone, president and chief executive officer. "Now, we are applying our production and design expertise to create truly beautiful garden decor products that also have high value and durability."

Stone continued, "These five new clock and thermometer products, which are designed in mosaic, tiffany, slate and antique brass styles, appeal to a broad range of individual preferences. We expect to see strong demand for the clocks and thermometers as a growing number of consumers decorate their patios, yards and gardens with highly attractive, yet functional, pieces."

PRODUCT DETAIL: (Images for all products available upon request.)

#8806 Mosaic Garden Clock and #8807 Mosaic Garden Thermometer

This classical mosaic design clock and thermometer are 15" in diameter, have beautiful iridescent ir·i·des·cent  
adj.
1. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.

2.
 colors, Fahrenheit thermometer Fahrenheit thermometer

a thermometer employing the Fahrenheit scale. The abbreviation 100°F should be read as 'one hundred degrees Fahrenheit'.
 scale and precision quartz clock quartz clock or watch
Noun

a very accurate clock or watch that is operated by a vibrating quartz crystal
 movement. Both have a suggested retail of $89.99 and will be available in July.

#8816 Glasgow Rose Clock and #8817 Glasgow Rose Thermometer

The Glasgow Rose clock and thermometer are 12" in diameter and have a beautiful Tiffany style art glass design, Fahrenheit thermometer scale, precision quartz clock movement, and authentic Arts and Crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts.  period motif. They are pre-packed in a shelf display for easier merchandising. Both have a suggested retail of $54.99 and will be available in July.

#8826 Hummingbird hummingbird, common name for members of the family Trochilidae, small, strictly New World birds, related to the swifts, and found chiefly in the mountains of South America. Hummingbirds vary in size from a 2 1-4-in.  Clock and #8827 Cardinal Thermometer

12" in diameter, both pieces in this set have a beautiful Tiffany style art glass design, Fahrenheit thermometer scale, precision quartz clock movement, and are pre-packed in a shelf display for easier merchandising. Both have a suggested retail of $54.99 and will be available in July.

#8856 Floral Clock A floral clock or flower clock may be one of two things:
  1. A large decorative clock set into a flower bed in a park or other public recreation area, the most famous being in Geneva, Switzerland, and the largest in the world being in Tehran, Iran;
 and #8857 Floral Thermometer

Both are 12" in diameter and are made of cast iron with hand applied antique brass finish. They have a Fahrenheit thermometer scale, precision quartz clock movement, and are pre-packed in a shelf display for easier merchandising. They have a suggested retail of $39.99 and will be available in July.

#8846 Slate Clock and #8847 Slate Thermometer

The 12" x 12" clock and 12" x 12" thermometer are of a durable resin with a hand applied finish. They have a Fahrenheit thermometer scale, precision quartz clock movement, and are pre-packed in a shelf display for easier merchandising. Both have a suggested retail of $19.99 and will be available in July.

About Opus

Opus Incorporated is a leading international marketer of home and garden products and outdoor accessories. Known for its innovative bird feeding products, the company's expanded offering now includes stepping stones

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The Stepping Stones are three prominent rocks lying 0.5 miles north of Limitrophe Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island.
, birdbaths, bistro tables and garden art. The Opus family of brands includes TopFlight top·flight  
adj. Informal
First-rate; excellent.

topflight adjde primera (categoría or clase)

topflight adj
(R), GardenSong(R), GardenJewels(TM), Sunswept(R), AvantGarden(TM), Expeditions(R), and Garden Ballet(R). Founded in 1974, Opus is headquartered in Bellingham, Massachusetts Bellingham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 15,314 at the 2000 census. 2005 estimates place the population at 22,734 [2]. The town sits on the southwestern fringe of Metropolitan Boston, along the rapidly growing "outer belt" that is , and has distribution facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 382,872 in 2006,[1] it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 897,752 residents projected to . For more information on Opus' products, visit www.opususa.com and www.offshootsusa.com.
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