OK, lets not bag chinese and asian optics, Celestron....there Synta - a chinese company and GSO make some of both Celestron and Meads gear as well. also, Meads APO refractors are chinese made maxvisions re-badged. In fact most of the optics are made by either synta or gso for both these guys.

Here's another exsample, Williams Optics are re-badged Long Perng as to a few other brands.

Kokusai Kohki in japan make University Optics ortho's, Mead ortho's, Antes orthos, Celestron orthos etc etc which these brands sell from $60 though to over $130 for the same thing Yet you can buy them direct for under $40.