All Posts by Larry Robertson, CEO

A few years back, Randy Haley and his wife Tawni, of Bryant Arkansas were having dinner with friends who had just spent a frustrating afternoon shopping for a baby stroller for their twins. Between the local mall, big box stores and the internet, their friends had looked at hundreds of strollers. Unfortunately, none offered the […]

Just when you thought no one could improve on the porcelain perfection of the modern flush toilet, along comes something that proves us all wrong. Behold!

While the retail industry has been investing billions to develop technologies to improve the speed and efficiency of customer transactions, AON Invent has been collaborating with every-day consumers and independent inventors on four continents to develop new and innovative products for them to sell. After all, who knows more about the “stuff” people want to buy, than […]

“The one thing that ceases to exist the moment it is shared.” Many retailers see “private label” as their competitive advantage protecting their consumables margin, but what about broader categories of general merchandise?  Brick-and-mortar retailers need proprietary innovation in all categories and lots of it. This is no secret. All retailers and CPGs realize that […]

Two years ago I met a young lady named Kiersten Sundberg and she showed me an iPhone image of a portrait she had painted of her little sister. Kiersten is clearly very talented. The portrait was amazing, so I asked her how she was at painting people she didn’t know and had never even met? Kiersten […]

It’s always exciting to see our clients’ inventions on the shelves of major retailers. Monkey Fingers Bungee Cords solve the problem of never having the right size bungee for the job at hand – simple, great invention and AMERICAN made. Order online or pick or some up in the automotive section of your local Walmart […]