Nine West Group has put its footprints all over the shoe industry. The top designer and marketer of fashionable women's shoes sells footwear (casual, career, and dress), clothing, and accessories through more than 420 of its own retail and outlet stores and in department, specialty, and independent shoe stores in the US. Nine West also licenses its name for stores outside the US. The footwear firm makes and markets its shoes and accessories under several brand names. These include Nine West, Easy Spirit, Bandolino, and Enzo Angiolini. Manufacturers in Brazil, China, and Italy make the company's shoes. Nine West is owned by Jones Apparel Group, which acquired the company in 1999 for about $1.4 billion.

GoldToeMoretz boasts licensing agreements with the likes of Kathy Ireland, New Balance, and Under Armour and ships some 360 million pairs of socks each year. Moretz, founded in 1946, was acquired by buyout firm The Blackstone Group in late 2006 and merged with 90-year-old Gold Toe to form GoldToeMoretz. The deal, valued at $400 million, created a pair of the US's largest maker of socks. GoldToeMoretz wants to sock it to the competition. It's a sockwear maker for sporting goods stores and retailers, such as Gap, Target, and Old Navy, and private labeler for companies including Cherokee, Faded Glory, and Pro Spirit. It peddles the PowerSox brand -- a heavy hitter in performance socks -- as well as Gold Toe.

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.

Buffalo Rock is a leading bottling and distribution company that supplies soft drinks and other beverages from PepsiCo, including such brands as AquaFina, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Tropicana. The company also bottles beverages from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Kraft Foods, as well as its own brands Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale and Dr. Wham. In addition to beverages, Buffalo Rock distributes food products and other supplies to customers in the foodservice industry, and it operates a food-vending distribution business. The family-owned company has more than a dozen distribution facilities serving customers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

Ergodyne Corporation company, founded in 1983, is owned by president and CEO Tom Votel. Ergodyne helps to ease the pain for those tenacious folks who make a living in the trenches. The company provides personal protection products and comfort accessories to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers worldwide. Its offerings include equipment bags, eyewear and ID lanyards, elbow and back supports, gloves and kneepads, and personal heating and cooling apparel. Brands include ProFlex, Arsenal Equipment Storage Systems, Chill-Its, Squids, and GloWear, which features high-visibility vests and clothing for construction workers.

Gildan Activewear Inc. (Gildan), incorporated on May 8, 1984 is a Canada-based company. The Company’s principal business activity is the manufacture and sale of active wear, socks and underwear. It sells active wear products to screenprint markets in North America, Europe and other international markets. Gildan is the supplier of active wear for the screenprint channel in the United States and Canada, and also a supplier for the market in Europe and Mexico. The Company sell socks and underwear, in addition to the active wear products, to mass market and regional retailers in North America.The active wear products, namely T-shirts, fleece and sport shirts under the Gildan brand, are sold to the wholesale distributors as undecorated blanks, which are sold to screen printers and embroiderers who decorate the products with designs and logos. Screen printers then sell the imprinted active wear to a range of end-use markets, including educational institutions, athletic dealers, event merchandisers, promotional product distributors, charity organizations, entertainment promoters, and travel and tourism venues.

Bemis Company, Inc. was founded in 1858 and is based in Neenah, Wisconsin. Bemis Company, Inc. manufactures and sells flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Flexible Packaging and Pressure Sensitive Materials. The Flexible Packaging segment manufactures multilayer flexible polymer film structures and laminates for food, medical, and personal care products, and non-food applications utilizing vacuum or modified atmosphere packaging. It also offers blown and cast stretchfilm products; carton sealing tapes and application equipment; custom thermoformed plastic packaging; multiwall paper bags; printed paper roll stock; and bag closing materials.The Pressure Sensitive Materials segment manufactures pressure sensitive adhesive coated paper and film substrates for label, graphic, and technical markets. Its label market products include narrow-Web rolls of pressure sensitive paper, film, and metalized film printing stocks used in high-speed printing and die-cutting of primary package labeling and secondary or promotional decoration, as well as for data processing stocks, bar code labels, and laser printing applications. This segment's graphic market products include pressure sensitive films used for decorative signage through computer-aided plotters, digital and screen printers, and photographic overlaminate and mounting materials. Its products for technical markets comprise micro-thin film adhesives used in delicate electronic parts assembly and pressure sensitives utilizing foam and tape based stocks. Bemis Company serves food and beverage, chemical, agribusiness, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care, electronics, automotive, construction, graphic industries, and other consumer goods markets.

It was the 1980s: Robin Williams wore rainbow suspenders, Tom Hanks wore a dress, and if you were hot, you had the Jordache look. Fast-forward more than two decades: Jordache Enterprises offers jeans, apparel, and accessories (shoes, purses) primarily for teens, mostly through decidedly non-designer retailers, such as Wal-Mart. It also licenses the Jordache name for eyewear and luggage. Jordache makes jeans under license for Gasoline, Sasson, KIKIT, FUBU, and U.S. Polo Association. Its premium Jordache Vintage line is sold at specialty stores. In 1977 a New York City store, owned by brothers and Israeli immigrants Joe, Ralph, and Avi Nakash, was burned and looted; insurance enabled them to launch Jordache.

Founded in 1959, Commercial Furniture Group has operations in the US, China, Denmark, and Mexico. CFGroup has a portfolio of brands which have a unique heritage spanning hundreds of years. These brands have built an outstanding reputation for satisfying the needs and expectations of designers, end users, and dealers in their respective markets. Commercial Furniture Group formerly Falcon Products, designs and manufactures tables and seating for the food service and hospitality industries. It also produces furniture on contract for the office, health care, and education markets, as well as for the federal government. The CF Group's stable of brands, most of them gained through acquisitions, include Falcon, Howe, Shelby Williams, and Thonet.

Embotelladora Andina S.A. company serves Argentina, Brazil, and Chile with Coca-Cola and other beverages; Coke beverages account for 88% of the company's sales. Along with Coke, Andina distributes beer in Brazil; fruit juices and mineral water in Chile; and ready-to-drink juices (Hi-C) in Argentina. The company also makes plastic bottles through its Edasa packaging subsidiary and manages vending machines through its Servicios Multivending subsidiary. Chilean investment group, Inversiones Freire, owns about 42% of Andina; The Coca-Cola Company owns approximately 11%.

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