Esselte makes paper-based filing and document management items (files, binders, folders, covers), workspace products (staplers, letter trays), and computer accessories under the Esselte, Leitz, Oxford, Pendaflex, and Xyron brands. Customers range from wholesalers and direct marketers to office superstores and mass retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target, and Staples. Esselte is controlled by equity firm J. W. Childs Associates.

Maidenform Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, and markets intimate apparel products for women in the United States and internationally. Its products include bras, panties, leg briefs, sleepwear, full briefs, waist nipper briefs, waist nippers, body briefers, control slips, bra accessories, socks, slippers, and control camisoles. The company offers its products primarily under Maidenform, Flexees, Lilyette, Sweet Nothings, Rendezvous, Subtract, Bodymates, and Self Expressions brand names. Maidenform Brands sells its products through various distribution channels, including department and chain stores; mass merchants, including warehouse clubs; and specialty and off-price retailers, and foreign distributors, as well as company-operated outlet stores and Web sites. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 78 retail outlet stores in 27 states and Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) for one thing. The third-largest bottler of Pepsiproducts, PBV serves some 8 million consumers in North Carolina (home of its corporate headquarters) and also on Long Island, New York, as well as other East Coast states. PBV operates 28 bottling, distribution, and sales facilities located in Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, New York, North and South Carolina, and Vermont. The company's portfolio of more than 800 beverages includes Pepsi soft-drink brands, Aquafina bottled water, Starbucks coffee drinks, Tropicana juices, Gatorade isotonics, and Lipton teas. PBV is a joint venture of PepsiCo and Suntory Holdings.

Clarins prefers that women, instead, place their faith in its upscale skin-care products, makeup, and perfume. The company touts ingredients such as herbal and marine extracts and air-pollution-defying complexes in its products, which are sold through department and specialty stores in Asia, Europe, and the US. Clarins targets skin-conscious consumers with its antiwrinkle and firming creams. The company also serves the sweet-smelling fragrance market. Its top scents include Azzaro, as well as par Amour and par Amour toujours. In 2008 the family of the late founder, Jacques Courtin-Clarins, took the company private through its holding company Financiere FC.

Hamilton Fixture Company was founded in 1959, providing counters to banks, post offices, and other retailers. Hamilton Fixture company designs and makes custom display cases and other fixtures for retailers. It uses such materials as wood, metal, glass, wire, and acrylic. Customers have included Barnes & Noble, Hollywood Video, Starbucks, T.J. Maxx, and Wal-Mart . Hamilton Fixture manufactures, warehouses, and distributes its products through 750,000 sq. ft. of facilities in Ontario, California, and Hamilton, Ohio.

K-Swiss Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, California. K-Swiss Inc. designs, develops and markets an array of athletic footwear for high performance sports use, fitness activities and casual wear under the K-Swiss brand. It also designs and manufactures footwear under the Royal Elastics and the Palladium brands. Royal Elastics, a wholly owned subsidiary, is a manufacturer of slip-on, laceless footwear. Palladium SAS (Palladium), a 57% owned subsidiary, is a designer, developer and marketer of footwear for adventurers for all terrains. In July 2008, the Company purchased a 57% equity interest in Palladium.

Urban youth and youthful are down with FUBU's hip-hop inspired sportswear. Besides making sportswear, FUBU (an acronym for "for us, by us") also licenses its name for men's, women's, and children's wear, as well as footwear and accessories such as watches, eyewear, caps, and bags. The company also offers a line of suits, athletic shoes, tuxedos, and housewares (sheets and pillows in university colors). The company, which is expanding rapidly in Asia, has about 100 franchised stores worldwide. Founders Daymond John, Alexander Martin, Carl Brown, and Keith Perrin own FUBU.

Dr. Fresh, Inc. company makes and markets Firefly, a top kids' toothbrush brand in the US, as well as dental floss, denture tablets, mouthwash, power toothbrushes, toothpaste, and travel kits under the Aim, Dentyne, Pepsodent, and Trident names. In addition to oral care, Dr. Fresh distributes personal and home care products, such as razors, soaps, wet wipes, air fresheners, humidifiers, and thermometers. They are sold to leading retail chain stores, including the likes of CVS, Kmart, Kroger, Safeway, Target, and Wal-Mart. Dr. Fresh boasts sales offices, distribution centers, and sourcing facilities in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Chairman and CEO Jose Quant founded the firm in the 1970s. Paris Blues hopes that Neil Diamond can transcend the age gap and make "forever in blue jeans" big with today's teen girls. The company makes denimwear (including jeans, shorts, jackets, dresses, and miniskirts), primarily targeted at the juniors market. Its jeans, which have traditionally retailed at moderate prices, come in a wide variety of denim fabrications, tints, and washes. Paris Blues also makes non-denim items, such as its Zebra-print capri pant. The firm licenses its name for knitwear, footwear, outerwear, and other items. Paris Blues' apparel is sold through major US department stores (Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom) and specialty retailers.

Caribia is more Hawaiian than Caribbean. Although the company was incorporated as Caribia in 1978, Caribia Inc. has a history in sun care products since its Hawaiian Tan sunscreen was founded by a Hawaiian chemist in 1964. Caribia's brand names include Aloe Aid (gel, moisturizer, shampoo, conditioner), Coco Sol (tan accelerator), Coco Baby Oil, and Coco Lotion. Caribia also offers contract manufacturing services for private labels in the fragrance, cosmetics, and personal care products industries. President and CEO Harry F. McLachlan owns the company.

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