Double Two is banking safely on the success of its shirts, not on a four-the-hard-way crap shoot. Originally called Double Two because of an innovative design that included two sets of collars and two sets of cuffs, the company has since evolved into a designer and producer of a full range of men's and women's apparel, including pants, skirts, jeans, and suits, though its focus remains primarily on shirts. Products are manufactured in Yorkshire, UK, as well as Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Double Two is owned by The Wakefield Shirt Group.

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.

Signet Armorlite, Inc. company, a maker of plastic ophthalmic lenses for more than 60 years, originated the plastic eyeglass lens in North America. It makes premium plastic lenses in Mexico while glass lenses and molds are made by its Crossbows Optical unit, located in Northern Ireland. It operates a lens technology center, Signetek, in California. Signet holds the exclusive rights to distribute Kodak lenses worldwide and is an authorized distributor of 3M adhesive optical supply items in the US. Signet distributes lab supplies, such as blocking pads and lens protectors. Ophthalmic products maker and supplier Essilor International agreed to buy Signet.

J & J Crombie makes clothes that will live on to tell the tales of their wearers. J & J Crombie manufactures woolen clothing and sells it at about 20 stores in Britain. The stores also offer other types of apparel, as well as accessories, such as jeans, shoes, handbags, and even luggage. Founded in 1805 as a woolen mill in Aberdeen, J & J Crombie boasts a storied heritage that includes making the coats worn by British officers in WWI. It also produced uniforms for the Confederate army in the American Civil War. J & J Crombie established its first shop in 1990. Chairman Alan Lewis owns the company.

Costa Del Mar Sunglasses, Inc. company develops, makes, and markets upscale polarized sunglasses designed to reduce glare for fisherman and enhance vision during water sports, such as kayaking, skiing, and sailing. Costa Del Mar sells its namesake eyewear to about 3,000 US retailers, including department stores, sporting goods shops, and optical and sunglass specialty outlets. It also sells its products online. Its eyewear, which comes in some three-dozen styles, is backed with a lifetime warranty. The sunglass maker is a subsidiary of the A.T. Cross Company, which acquired Costa Del Mar Sunglasses in 2003 and made it part of its Cross Optical Group.

UB Global is the exporting arm for the UB Group of companies, which includes India's largest brewery, United Breweries, and the country's largest liquor distributor, United Spirits. UB Global ships beer, whisky, rum, vodka, gin, and brandy to more than 75 countries around the world. Under the Kissan and Blue Mountain brands, UB Global exports jars of pickled gherkins as well as jars of guava, mango, and papaya purees to more than 20 countries. The company also makes leather shoes for such brands as Bostonian, Espirit, Florsheim, Geox, and Hush Puppies, as well as clothing for Lafuma, Vivarte, and Umbro. Aventis pharmaceuticals and medical supplies manufactured under the name UB Care are sold in Africa.

Sonoco Products Company was founded in 1899 and is based in Hartsville, South Carolina. Sonoco Products Company provides industrial and consumer packaging products, and packaging services primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. It manufactures rigid paper and plastic packaging products, including composite paperboard cans, paperboard pails, single-wrap paperboard packages, fiber cartridges, bottles, jars, tubs, cups, trays, and squeeze tubes; aluminum and steel closures for composite, metal, and plastic containers; and printed flexible packaging products. The company also provides tubes and cores comprising paperboard tubes, cores, roll packaging, molded plugs, pallet components, concrete forms, void forms, and rotary die boards; and paper products consisting of recycled paperboard, chipboard, tubeboard, lightweight corestock, boxboard, linerboard, specialty grades, and recovered paper.Sonoco's packaging services comprise packaging supply chain management services, including custom packing, fulfillment, primary package filling, scalable service centers, and brand artwork management; and designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi permanent and permanent point-of-purchase displays, as well as contract packaging and co-packing services. In addition, the company produces wire and cable reels, including steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and poly-fiber reels; molded and extruded plastics; paperboard products consisting of glass covers, coasters, and other paper amenities; and protective packaging products. It serves food and non food, automotive, beverage, confectionery, electronic, cosmetic, fragrance, healthcare, home and garden, liquor, medical, office supply, over-the-counter drug, personal care, sporting goods, tobacco, wire and cable, household appliances, leisure, textile, and other consumer and industrial packaging markets.

Borghese makes and markets its namesake Italian cosmetics, skin care, fragrances, and hair care products and sells its collections through high-end department stores nationwide, including Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, and Nordstrom. Its products are also marketed internationally in such countries as China, Germany, Ireland, and Mexico. President and CEO Georgette Mosbacher (also a well-known New York City Republican) holds a substantial equity stake in the company while the rest is retained by the original group of Saudi investors who purchased it upon Revlon's divestiture of the firm in 1992.

SilkSkin has shed its old name, California Cosmetics, for the brand it's best known for. Founded by longtime Hollywood makeup artist Bob Sidell, SilkSkin offers a skin care system by the same moniker through mail order and online. The company makes a line of more than 80 products that include hair care, anti-aging skin care, bath and body products, and makeup. President and CEO Sidell began his career on the set of The Waltons and later worked with Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Heather Locklear, Jaclyn Smith, Joan Collins, and Kathleen Turner. In addition to its new name, the company moved into a new distribution center in Las Vegas and unveiled a new logo in 2008.

Sugartown Worldwide is the company that makes and distributes one of the best-loved styles of shift dresses ever made: the Lilly Pulitzer. Named for the social butterfly who once designed the iconic fabrics and dresses herself, Lilly Pulitzers (or just "Lillies," to adoring fans) are back in circulation by way of more than 70 signature shops, a catalog (available only at the Lilly Pulitzer shops), select department stores, and through the company's Web site. Jim Bradbeer and Scott Beaumont acquired the trademark in 1993 and are now the company's owners.

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