Pepsi MidAmerica Co. is a leading distributor of beverages from PepsiCo, including bottled water, soft drinks, and other thirst quenchers. The company also distributes brands from other beverage makers, including Dr Pepper Snapple Group (7UP, Dr Pepper) and Unilever (Lipton Tea). Pepsi MidAmerica serves customers in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee; it also supplies and services soft-drink vending machines. The company has been owned and operated by three generations of the Crisp family.

United Pet Group (UPG) stands united with pet lovers who want only the best for Fido, Precious, Chirpy, and their other companions. United Pet Group company makes and markets premium pet foods and supplies for a variety of pets, including cats, dogs, fish, birds, and small animals. UPG manufactures its products under such brand names as Aquarium Systems, Dingo, Eight in One, Tetra, Jungle Talk, Lazy Pet, Perfecto Manufacturing, Marineland, Nature's Miracle, and Poop Patrol. United Pet Group company's acquisition of the Jungle brand in 2005 was its most recent purchase in a spate of about a dozen deals since 1997. UPG's parent company Spectrum Brands and UPG emerged from six months in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2009.

Draco Natural Products was founded in 1995. Draco Natural Products is nothing if it's not natural. The company wholesales more than 700 powdered herbal extracts for personal care products, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals, and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Draco manufactures the Vital Treasures Botanical Ingredients, which consists of herbal extract ingredients designed to heal, nourish, and tone the skin. It was developed for cosmetic and personal care applications. The company also manufactures Full Spectrum Standardized Herbal Extracts and debuted the Tiaga mushroom extract in early 2009 for its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties.

Celebrating more than 40 years in business, Mary Kay is in the pink as one of the top direct sellers of beauty products in the US. It offers more than 200 products in six categories: body care, color cosmetics, facial skin care, fragrance, nail care, and sun protection. More than 1.8 million independent sales consultants demonstrate Mary Kay products in the US and some 35 other countries. Consultants vie for awards each year, ranging from jewelry to the company's trademark pink Cadillac (first awarded in 1969). The company also founded the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation in 1996 to fund cancer research and domestic violence programs. The family of founder Mary Kay Ash owns most of the company.

President and CEO Raymond Metzner, then a practicing veterinarian, started KV Vet Supply out of his garage in 1979. KV Vet Supply offers prescription and non-prescription medicines and veterinary supplies that are discounted and accessible. Sold through its Web site and numerous catalogs, KV Vet Supply's products are designed for domesticated pets (birds, cats, dogs), as well as cows, horses, sheep, and other livestock. It's KV HealthLinks catalog, which meets regulations set by the National Nutritional Foods Association, peddles products for humans the likes of Nature's Way Fisol, Promensil by Novogen, and Colostrum Plus Artho Formula.

Begun as a haberdashery in 1919, it evolved from making hats and gloves into a leading distributor of imprintable sportswear distributing more than products under 35 retail brands, including adidas Golf, Champion, and Dickies, and private labels and operates under the Broder, Alpha, and NES divisions. Its private labels include Devon & Jones, Desert Wash, Harvard Square, and others. Customers, mostly small US retailers, order merchandise through seasonal catalogs or online. Private investment firm Bain Capital has held a majority interest of the company since May 2000, when the Broder family sold the firm.

Talon International, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. Talon International, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of apparel accessories to manufacturers of fashion apparel, specialty retailers, and mass merchandisers. The company offers a line of metal and synthetic zippers under the TALON brand name; Trim items, such as labels, buttons, rivets, printed marketing material, polybasic, packing cartons, and hangers; machinery used to attach the buttons, rivets, and snaps; and stretch waistbands under the TEKFIT brand name. It also provides outsourced trim design, sourcing, and management services. Talon International, Inc. sells its products in the United States, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic. The company was formerly known as Tag-It Pacific, Inc. and changed its name to Talon International, Inc. in July 2007.

Temple-Inland, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Austin, Texas. Temple-Inland Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures corrugated packaging and building products primarily in the United States and Mexico. Temple-Inland Company's Corrugated Packaging segment manufactures containerboard and converts it into a line of corrugated packaging products. Its products include commodity brown boxes and intricate die cut containers, which can be printed with multi-color graphics. This segment also manufacture bulk containers constructed of multi-wall corrugated board, which are used for bulk shipments of various materials. In addition, the Corrugated Packaging segment serves a range of customers in the food, paper, glass containers, chemical, appliance, and plastics industries. Its Building Products segment offers various products, including lumber, gypsum wallboard, particleboard, medium density fiberboard, and fiberboard. This segment markets these products to distributors, retailers, and original equipment manufacturers. The company has a joint venture agreement with Del-Tin Fiber LLC, which produces medium density fiberboard.

American Educational Products (AMEP), a maker of hands-on educational materials (mostly math and science items) for school and home. A major producer of raised maps, AMEP also makes items such as aquariums, human models, and other items that teach concepts in many fields of science. Operating through the Scott Resources, Hubbard Scientific, Teaching Tank, and National Teaching Aids divisions, AMEP markets its wares in the US and abroad through catalogs and educational dealers. Rival Nasco International acquired AMEP in mid-2001 and took it private. Nasco merged with Aristotle (medical teaching aids) in 2002 and AMEP became a subsidiary of Aristotle.

Luxco company was founded in 1958 by David Sherman, Sr., and Paul A. Lux. Luxco (formerly David Sherman Corporation) markets, distributes, and bottles wines, rums, bourbons, tequilas, vodkas, and other alcoholic beverages. Among the nearly 20 regional brands in its portfolio of potent potables are Admiral Nelson's rum; Ezra Brooks bourbon, Inferno vodka, and Saint Brendan's Irish Cream Liqueur. Luxco does business throughout the US as well as some international markets.

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