What is a better title?

[budbiss]

Welcome to (my company name)! We offer widgets from companies such as (company 1), (company 2), (company 3), and (company 4).

or

(my company name) - online retailer of widgets from companies such as (company 1), (company 2), (company 3), and (company 4).

[RammsteinNicCage]

To me, the first one sounds more welcoming, but the second one sounds more like you are more business oriented and well-structured and not just some random 'mom and pop' company.

Jennifer

[Marcia]

Is this for <title>the page title</title> or the first sentence in the first paragraph? And are you asking for visitor or SEO purposes?

[Llama]

I'd say for whatever the site, or reason for title

widgets from (company 1), (company 2), (company 3), and (company 4) - (my company name)

is probably the best

[budbiss]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

BTW, Marcia...its for the <title> tag.

[budbiss]

Also, shouldn't I stay under 10 words? I am already using 9 words without mentioning the brand names we sell...is that ok?

So it will read:
(my company name; word 1) (my company name; word 2) (my company name; word 3) ¦ Online retailer of (description of the products we sell; word 1) (description of the products we sell; word 2) (description of the products we sell; word 3) by Company A, Company B, Company C, Company D, and more

Sorry for being so cryptic, just trying to obide by the rules.

[jweighell]

It's good to think how the title will look in the search engine results. To be as scannable as possible, it should really start with whatever is most important from the visitors point-of-view.

Your second one is better however I don't expect many people are interested in your company name, more what you sell. So I'd suggest actually reversing it to:

(company 1), (company 2), (company 3), and (company 4) widgets from (my company name)