Safilo was established by the Tabacchi family in 1934 after it bought Italy's first lens and frame production plant, itself founded in 1878. The world's #2 eyewear maker behind Luxottica, Safilo makes and markets eyeglass frames, sports goggles, sunglasses, and accessories. It sells its high-end products through sporting goods stores and opticians in some 130 countries under its own Smith, Carrera, Oxydo, Blue Bay, and Safilo brands and under license for Gucci, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, and Marc Jacobs, among others. Safilo also sells eyewear through about 155 swank Solstice stores in the US and another 50 shops in Mexico.

Haworth is owned by the family of Gerrard Haworth, who founded the company in 1948. Haworth company is one of the top office furniture manufacturers in the US, competing with top rivals Steelcase and HNI. Known for innovative design, it offers a full range of furniture, including partitions, desks, chairs, tables, and storage products. Brands include Monaco, Patterns, PLACES, and X99. The company operates about 60 showrooms worldwide and sells its products through more than 600 dealers. Dilbert and other long-suffering office drones have Haworth to thank for inventing the prewired partitions that make today's cubicled workplace possible.

La Senza's panties are much more significant than the "little nothings" their name suggests. The company targets women age 18 to 35 with its underwear, loungewear, and sleepwear, which are sold through La Senza and Silk & Satin stores. The manufacturer and retailer caters to the 'tween market with its La Senza Girl stores and Web site. Overall, La Senza owns and operates more than 300 stores in Canada, and licensees run another 500 stores in 45 other countries. The company was sold to Limited Brands in early 2007. Founded in 1966 as Suzie Shier, the company became one of Canada's best-known lingerie retail chains after it went public under the La Senza name.

CooperVision is a leading manufacturer of contact lenses, offering a wide range of lenses that address myriad vision problems and are offered in different replacement schedules (including daily, weekly, and monthly). The company specializes in lenses for astigmatism, presbyopia, and ocular dryness. CooperVision has distribution and manufacturing facilities in about 10 countries. The firm is part of The Cooper Companies, which operates through CooperVision and CooperSurgical (diagnostic products and surgical instruments for the women's health care market).

Catherine Hinds Company (formerly Custom Esthetics) offers equipment and skin care products to professional estheticians (salon and spa owners and managers). Its offerings include skin care, waxing, and makeup supplies, as well as equipment, furniture, and general supplies (makeup brushes and applicators, candles, soaps, gloves). Products include its Classics TX line of cleansers, toners, moisturizers, and scrubs, as well as the American Skin Care System line of gloves and blankets for keeping spa patrons snuggled and warm. Catherine Hinds started the company in 1979; her daughter, CEO and president An G. Hinds, purchased it in 2001 and renamed it Catherine Hinds Company in 2007.

Mana Products, Inc. was founded in 1975 by president Nikos Mouyiaris. Mana Products company develops, manufactures, and packages private-label cosmetics, skin care, and hair care products for leading beauty brands throughout the US. It also provides forecasting and consulting services to clients to develop products for the fickle, trend-driven beauty industry. In addition to its private-label business, Mana makes hair care products under the Profound Beauty brand. The company manufactures its products at two plants in the US and with partners in Asia, including China.

Elizabeth Arden, Inc., a prestige beauty products company, sells fragrances, and skin care and cosmetic products to retailers and other outlets in the United States and internationally. The company offers various fragrance products for men and women, including perfumes, colognes, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, body sprays, and gift sets, as well as bath and body products based on a particular fragrance, such as soaps, deodorants, body lotions, gels, creams, and dusting powder. It sells its fragrance products under various brands, such as Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds and Passion, curious Britney Spears, fantasy Britney Spears and Britney Spears believe, with Love...Hilary Duff, Danielle by Danielle Steel, M by Mariah Carey, Usher, Curve, Giorgio Beverly Hills, Lucky, PS Fine Cologne for Men, Design and White Shoulders, Juicy Couture, Badgley Mischka, Rocawear, Alberta Ferretti, Alfred Sung, Nannette Lepore, Geoffrey Beene, Halston, Bob Mackie, and GANT primarily to department stores, mass retailers, distributors, perfumeries, boutiques, and travel retail outlets.Elizabeth Arden company's skin care products include moisturizers, creams, lotions, and cleansers, which are sold under the Ceramide, PREVAGE, Eight Hour Cream, and Intervene brands. It sells its skin care products primarily in prestige department and specialty stores, perfumeries, and travel retail outlets. The company's cosmetic products consist of the Elizabeth Arden brand foundations, lipsticks, mascaras, eye shadows, and powders that are sold primarily in prestige and specialty stores, perfumeries, and travel retail outlets. Elizabeth Arden, Inc. also sells its products through its e-commerce site at elizabetharden.com.

Intergold Ltd. company was founded in the early 1980s by fifth-generation Armenian jeweler and CEO Miran Armutlu. Investor Benjamin Hubert owns about a quarter of Intergold. Intergold is an innovator of championship sports heavy knuckle bling. The Calgary, Canada-based company makes and markets championship rings and other recognition jewelry for corporations, schools, and professional sports teams of all kinds. Previously having produced only class and corporate rings, in the early 1990's Intergold began to court professional sports teams as their official jewelers. Products are distributed through individual sales representatives, the company Web site, and one retail outlet store.

S. B. Foot Tanning Co. company, founded by Silas B. Foot, is a tannery that offers products made from cow hides. A subsidiary of Red Wing Shoe Company, the firm uses cattle hides sourced in the US to make leather items. Its primary products include such as items as camouflage, upholstery, and footwear. Superior to cloth and canvas, S. B. Foot Tanning's camouflage-pattern leather is in demand by sportsmen, while its natural, polished full-grain leather is used to make upscale upholstery (chairs and couches). Its footwear leathers are used to make casual shoes, men's dress shoes, safety shoes, western boots, and work boots.

CloneCubicles.com was founded 1985 in Dallas, Texas as an office furniture moving and installation business, specializing in the office cubicle market. In 1986 CloneCubicles began refurbishing and liquidating CloneCubicles customers surplus office cubicles. In 1987 CloneCubicles expanded CloneCubicles services nationwide. CloneCubicles sells "clones" of cubicle systems and components made by major manufacturers the likes of Herman Miller. It also makes OEM-compatible add-on parts. CloneCubicles.com's products include chairs, filing cabinets, and privacy panels. As part of its business, the company also leases furniture and offers services such as site selection, design, space planning, and installation. Its customers have included Boeing, Embassy Suites, and the US Army. CloneCubicles.com is a division of Executive Interiors.

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