Owned by John Anderson, Topa has about 40 businesses involved in auto dealerships, beer distribution, insurance, real estate, and more. Topa's beverage operations include Ace Beverage, Mission Beverages, and Paradise Beverages; the firm dominates the Hawaiian beer market. Brands sold include all major US brews and leading US imports, including Guinness, Heineken, and Anheuser-Busch InBev products. Anderson started in 1956 as a distributor of Hamm's beer. UCLA's Anderson School of Business, to which Anderson donated $15 million, is named for him.

American Hotel Register Company was founded in 1865 to sell hotel guest registers. It was acquired by Thomas Leahy in the early 1900s and his descendants still own and operate the company. The company supplies hotels of all sizes with more than 50,000 products, including toiletries, cleaning products, appliances, furniture, carpeting, drapery, linens, and embossed items. It also caters to funeral homes, health care facilities, government offices, and military institutions. American Hotel Register sells its products through its 2,000-page catalog and its Web site.

StonePoint Global Brands had previously been to deliver drinks; now it is to build beverage brands. The company, which changed its name in mid-2005 from StonePoint Group Limited, has traditionally bottled and distributed private- and custom-label water and carbonated beverages to food and beverage retailers, primarily in North America, but also in Asia. StonePoint shifted its focus to value-added services such as packaging, logistics, and brand management. It plans to distribute and market Northridge wines from Australia across Canada.

Star Nail International company primarily manufactures and markets manicure supplies and hand creams for use by professional cosmetologists. It also sells its nail items over the counter. Star Nail peddles its products under several brand names, including namesake Star Nail, All Season Nails, All Season Professional, Cina, Cina Pro, and Cuccio Pro. Typically manicurists and beauty schools request product samples from the company Web site before they buy. Products are also distributed through the Canadian company Image & Impact.

On May 1, 2007 Republic Beverage Company and National Distributing Company combined their businesses in seventeen states and the District of Columbia to form Republic National Distributing Company. RNDC is an organization built on the strong foundations of two long-term, well-established family owned companies.Republic Beverage Company was founded in 1996 as a result of a merger of the Block and Dreeben families and the Goldring family. The Block family began doing business in Texas in 1939 under the leadership of Ed Block. Newman Goldring founded the N. Goldring Corporation in Florida in 1898. Later, Stephen Goldring expanded the N. Goldring base in Florida by opening Magnolia Marketing Company in Louisiana.Today, RNDC is the second largest distributor of premium wine and spirits in the U.S., with wholly-owned operations in Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. RNDC is also partners in joint-ventures in Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina. In total, RNDC employs more than 6,000 individuals nationwide.

Carter's, Inc. was founded in 1865 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Carter's, Inc. designs, sources, and markets apparel for babies and young children in the United States. It primarily offers its children wear products under the Carter's, Child of Mine, Just One Year, and OshKosh brand names. The company provides a range of products, including bodysuits, pajamas, blanket sleepers, layette gowns, bibs, towels, washcloths, receiving blankets, undershirts, caps, booties, knit and woven cotton apparel, cotton long underwear, sleepwear, play clothes, hosiery, bedding, outerwear, shoes, socks, diaper bags, gift sets, toys, room decor, and hair accessories. It also offers products comprising denim apparel, coordinating garments, overalls, woven bottoms, t-shirts, fleece, and knit tops. The company markets its products to national department stores, chain and specialty stores, off-price sales channels, discount retailers, and outlet and brand retail stores. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 253 Carter's and 165 OshKosh outlet and brand retail stores.

STAEDTLER makes pens, pencils, markers, and other writing instruments for arts and crafts, technical drawing, and everyday use. The company also makes inkjet cartridges for printers. Europe's largest manfacturer of pencils, STAEDTLER sells its products through more than 20 global subsidiaries and has eight production plants worldwide. Customers include students STAEDTLER traces its roots back to 1662 when Friedrich Staedtler is first mentioned as a pencil-making craftsman; in 1835, J.S. Staedtler was granted a manufacturing license and began making blacklead, red chalk, and pastel pencils.

Estee Lauder's reach to the UK some 40 years ago has benefited even the most striking European beauties. Estee Lauder Cosmetics develops makeup, skin care, and fragrance products, such as Estee, Beautiful, White Linen, and Knowing. Its operations span major and niche cosmetics markets in the UK. Since the 1960s Estee Lauder's products have made their way into department stores throughout the UK and Ireland. The firm's distribution operations are based in Hampshire. The company's products are sold at a number of stores including Boots the Chemists, Harrods, Selfridges, Pure Beauty Store, Debenhams, and House of Fraser.

Grupo Continental SA is a holding company of bottling companies, whose main activity is to manufacture, purchase and sell soft drinks, purified water and other non-carbonated drinks, all under the brands owned by The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC). These entities operate the franchise granted by TCCC, distributed in seven states of Mexico. The Company produces, distributes and sells soft drinks under the brands owned by TCCC, such as Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Light Caffeine Free, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Fanta Zero, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Fresca, Fresca Zero, Lift, Lift Zero, Senzao, Delaware Punch, Nestea, Nestea Light, Powerade, Minute Maid Revita, Minute Maid Forte, Ciel, Ciel Saborizada Plus, Ciel Saborizada Fine Bubbles, Aquarius, Ciel Mineralizada, Burn, TaB, Gladiator and Seagram’s.

Instead hopes that women adopt its alternative to pads and tampons. Its primary product, the Instead Softcup, is a feminine hygiene product that sits inside a woman's body and collects, rather than absorbs, menstrual flow. Developed by a group of reproductive health scientists, the Softcup is sold in major US drugstores (including chain stores Wal-Mart and Target) and through its Web site. It's also distributed in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, and about a half-dozen other countries worldwide. Instead is also researching the possibility of using a version of its Softcup as a contraceptive device.

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