Manhattan Beer Distributors serves more than 20,000 accounts through its five operational sites, one each in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Long Island, and in the Hudson Valley, delivering more than 28 million cases of beer every year. The company's delivery area encompasses 15 counties in the metro NYC area. It manages a fleet of more than 500 delivery trucks and other vehicles. In addition to national brands, the company imports and supplies beers from all points of the globe -- products from 40 beverage companies in all. In addition to beer, the company also wholesales wine, cider, soda, energy drinks, and bottled water.

Marietta makes miniatures -- those little packages of personal care amenities (soaps, dental and hair-care products, and other items) found in hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns. The company also distributes brand-name (Pantene, Vaseline, Yardley of London) and private-label (Fleur de Lis, Lord & Mayfair) products to gift shops, the health-care market, correctional institutions, and military bases. Using its sample-size packaging know-how, the company makes trial-size units for other companies' products, as well. Marietta went public in 1986. When corporate officers were convicted of fraud in 1996, it was acquired by BFMA Holding, which, in turn, sold the company to private equity firm Ares Management in 2004.

Founded in 1992 by company owners Jean Hurteau, Guy Hurteau, and France Mnard, Fruits of Passion began with the production of four products (body lotion, bath foam, glycerin soap, and bath oil) with many scent variations for each. Fruits of Passion, the fruits of their passion are becoming more plentiful and visible with each year of the company's success. Fruits & Passion makes, distributes, and retails bath and body products, hair care items, baby care products, home fragrance, sun care, and aromatherapy. Its product lines are sold through more than 165 boutiques in Canada, France, Taiwan, Korea, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Kuwait, in addition to sales through third-party retailers.

SoftSheen/Carson Products is keeping the shine on its ethnic beauty. The company is one of the world's leading makers of ethnic hair care and beauty products, including shampoos, conditioners, gels, hair straighteners, relaxers, and shaving products. Its brands include Let's Jam, Baby Love, Optimum Care, Dark and Lovely, Magic Shave, and Weave Care. Founded in 1964 by Edward and Bettiann Gardner, SoftSheen was the largest African-American-owned beauty products company in the country until its acquisition in 1998 by L'Oréal USA, a division of French cosmetics giant L'Oréal. Carson was a subsidiary of L'Oréal USA before being merged with SoftSheen in 2000.

Boss Holdings Inc. company was founded in 1893 and is based in Kewanee, Illinois. Boss Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the import, marketing, and distribution of gloves, boots, rainwear, and pet supplies in the United States and Canada. The company offers gloves, boots, and rainwear products primarily to retailers, such as convenience stores, mass merchandisers, and hardware and grocery stores; and industrial customers comprising companies in the agricultural, automotive, energy, lumber, mining, and construction industries. It markets its products through distributors and manufacturer representatives, as well as directly through its own sales force to certain retail customers. The company provides custom imprinted balloons, mini-sport balls, signature balls, exercise balls, beach balls, and other inflatable products, as well as various non-inflatable imprinted items, including yo-yos, juggle balls, sport horns, fan-ta-sticks, holiday candles, and ornaments. Its pet supplies include pet cable restraints, collars and leads, pet toys, rawhide chews, shampoos, and other pet specialty products, which are marketed primarily to pet supply specialty, and hardware and discount retailers under the Prestige brand name.

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.

Clifford Paper Inc. was incorporated June 1, 1985, with 4 employees and sales of $16.6 million. Today, Clifford Paper is projected to distribute more than 650,000 tons of printing paper from a full line of product manufacturers in 2009.Clifford Paper is a paper distributor. Clifford Paper specialize in printing, packaging, pulp and specialty paper distribution with emphasis on newsprint, specialty groundwood, supercalendered and coated groundwood papers, uncoated freesheet, coated freesheet, book publication and specialty papers.With cumulative sales projected to be over 650,000 tons in the year 2009, Clifford Paper one of the fastest growing paper distributors in North America. To insure continued success, Clifford Paper has and will continue to recognize that Clifford Paper a service oriented paper supply company. Customer service is, has been and always will be key to Clifford Paper ability to supply and service Clifford Paper customers in the most efficient, professional and technologically advanced manner possible in Clifford Paper industry.

Fresh Produce Sportswear is feeling just beachy. The company designs, makes, and markets women's and children's casual apparel and swimwear, as well as related accessories. Its collections are sold in department stores such as Nordstrom, Walt Disney resorts and stores, and through more than 800 specialty boutiques and resorts worldwide. In addition, Fresh Produce operates company-owned and outlet stores throughout the US. Company founders and husband-and-wife team Thom and Mary Ellen Vernon got their start in the fashion industry by designing and selling high-end screenprinted T-shirts and custom jewelry at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Fresh Produce was born out of that first endeavor.

Fortunately for its consumers, "MOP" is merely an acronym for the corporation and not an adjective describing its end users' hairstyles. Modern Organic Products (familiarly known as "MOP") makes organic hair care and skin care products that are sold by professional salons and specialty retailers nationwide. Brands include MOP, c-system, and glisten. It also makes American Crew- and d:fi-branded products and sells them through their own Web sites, as well as through haircare professionals. The company supports development of its products without testing on animals.

Domtar Corporation engages in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing uncoated freesheet paper; papergrade, fluff, and specialty pulp; and lumber and wood products in North America. The company operates in three segments: Papers, Paper Merchants, and Wood. The Papers segment offers business papers, including copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with ink jet and laser printers, photocopiers, and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms, and digital papers. It also provides commercial printing and publication papers, including uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques, and coated groundwood used in offset presses and digital printing; and publication papers comprising tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels, and financial documents.This segment also offers converting and specialty papers, which consist of base papers that are converted into finished products, such as envelopes, tablets, business forms, and data processing/computer forms. It sells papers to paper merchants, office equipment manufacturers, stationers, retail outlets, commercial printers, converters, and end users. The Paper Merchants segment offers business, printing and publishing papers, and industrial products to small, medium and large commercial printers, publishers, quick copy firms, catalog and retail companies, and institutional entities. The Wood segment manufactures and markets lumber and wood-based products, as well as manages forest resources. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

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