Scott Pet Products wants it Pork Chomps to be the chew of choice for pets over rawhides. The company manufactures products for pets, including collars, feeding bowls, kennels and pet crates, sleeping mats, and baked pork skin chews named Pork Chomps. Scott Pet Products makes and markets birdseed, as well, that accounts for about a quarter of the company sales. The family-owned firm was established to make sporting dog collars in 1975. Its founder, T. E. Scott, has since passed the reins on to his son-in-law and daughter, Mike (CEO) and Kathy (marketing director) Bassett, who run the company today.

Samas NV (formerly Samas-Groep) specializes in creating furnishings needed for an ergonomic work environment. The company develops and supplies a wide variety of office furniture for customers throughout eastern and western Europe. Samas products include seating, storage, and desktop furniture for individual workstations, as well as meeting spaces. The company serves its clients through about 20 European operating companies. Samas started as a stationery store in the 1920s, expanded through acquisitions, and later changed its focus to office furnishing.

Essilor of America, Inc. company makes and distributes optical lenses under the Airwear, Crizal, DEFINITY, Transitions, and Varilux brand names, among others. Its Essilor Laboratories of America business, a wholesale laboratory network, provides services and a variety of lens brands to opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists across the US. Essilor of America is a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International, which operates about 250 prescription laboratories that manufacture corrective lenses worldwide. The company has been expanding its operations through acquisitions in recent years.

Founded in 1968, the furniture maker is owned by Royal Cameron Corp. Royal Seating's sister companies include Texwood (library furniture manufacturer), Uscapes (higher education furnishings maker), and Spotlight Seating (makes auditorium furnishings). Royal Seating wants to keep students from developing a royal pain. It manufactures classroom furnishings, including students' desks, stackable and rolling chairs, activity tables, storage carts, and computer workstations. The company sells its products through an international dealer network. Its offices, factories, and warehouses are located in Cameron, Texas.

Morris Matalon founded the company in 1965, and it continues to be a family-owned and -managed business. Celebrity International keeps kids from running around in their birthday suits. The children's apparel manufacturer operates through three main divisions: Celebrity, Lovespun (private label), and Vitamins Playwear. The company makes and markets bath, play, sleep, and swimwear, as well as bodysuits and sweaters, under licensed and proprietary brands, such as Vitamins Baby, Vitamins Kids, Sahara Club, Beatrix Potter, and Barney for Baby. Celebrity International's apparel offerings are sold through upscale retailers, including Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale's, and Gottschalks, as well as online.

The Alberto Culver Company is a $1.5 billion manufacturer and marketer, focused on beauty and personal care with an additional portfolio of household products. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ACV. Alberto Culver is the fourth largest manufacturer of hair care products in the United States and the second largest in the UK. Its leading hair care brands include TRESemmé, Alberto VO5, and Nexxus. Soft & Beautiful, Just For Me, Motions and TCB brands make the company the second-largest producer of hair care products for women of color in the world. The company also competes in the skin care category with its St. Ives, Soft & Beautiful Skin and Noxzema brands. In the household category the company created and markets such well-known brands as Mrs. Dash and Static Guard. The company was founded in 1955 by Leonard Lavin. He and his wife Bernice guided the company's growth until 1994 when they turned it over to a second family generation. Mr. Lavin remains a director of today's Alberto Culver and his daughter, Carol Lavin Bernick, is the company's Executive Chairman.

Tevco Enterprises has nailed down its corner of the US fingernail polish manufacturing industry. Tevco makes nail polishes and polish ingredients for such iconic companies as Chanel, Revlon, and Shiseido. The company, which operates in the Americas, was the North American unit of Durlin (which, in turn, was part of French chemicals powerhouse SNPE, a maker of nitrocellulose, an ingredient in propellants, inks, and varnishes). In mid-2006 SNPE sold Tevco Enterprises to an independent investment group.

The Odom Corporation is a distributor of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, such as Coca-Cola, Reed's, Coors, and Miller, in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The five divisions within Odom Corporation include Aurora Vending, which sells snacks, pastries, coffee, ice cream, and beverages to schools and businesses in Alaska; wine and spirits broker Beverages Northwest, which serves Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska; Coca-Cola of Alaska; and Northwest Select, a high-end wine distributor in eastern Washington and Idaho. Milt Odom founded the company in the 1930s.

Since its founding in 1968, Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc. (Southern), is a nationally recognized wine and spirits distributor known for its historic commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service and creative marketing programs and partnerships. The Company is also known for its best-in-industry professional and well-trained sales, operational and support staff, its ongoing investments in and contributions to hospitality and beverage education for its staff, its customers and to many national educational institutions. In addition, Southern is justly respected for its deeply held belief in the importance of giving back, for being a socially responsible corporate citizen and for making generous contributions to national, state and local charitable organizations.Southern Wine & Spirits of America brews up market dominance. The firm is the #1 US distributor of wine and spirits. It represents more than 1,500 wine, beer, and spirits suppliers from around the world, offering some 5,000 different brands. With more than 200,000 customers, the company ships more than 70 million cases a year and has operations in 30 US states. Southern Wine & Spirits imports products include Grolsch and Steinlager beers; cigars, such as Don Diego and Montecristo; and nonalcoholic beverages, including Clamato and Rose's Lime Juice.

Paul Fredrick is an apparel manufacturer and online retailer that does business best by cutting out the middle man. Paul Fredrick MenStyle designs classic men's apparel (dress shirts, pants, neckties, sportcoats, suits, formalwear) and sells direct to the consumer by mail-order catalog and the Internet. The company got its start as part of contract shirt manufacturer Fleetwood Shirt Company (a supplier to high-end department stores for about half a century). An ad in the Wall Street Journal offering dress shirts straight from the manufacturer gave Paul Fredrick its own start in 1986.

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