Founded in 1869 as the Penn Metal Corporation of Pennsylvania, the firm is owned by Pennsylvania-based Industrial Manufacturing Company. Penco Products company makes industrial furniture and storage items, including cabinets, carts, lockers, pallet racks, work benches, and shelving. It also offers a line of hygiene products that includes deoderizers, soap dispensers, and floor mats, among other products. Penco's customers include industrial, service, governmental, and institutional organizations throughout the US. The firm operates manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Utah.

Global Group was founded in 1966 by chairman Saul Feldberg. He and his family still control the company. The Global Group Worldwide company manufactures all sorts of seating, including leather, management, multi-shift, ergonomic, industrial, reception, and all-purpose. It also makes other kinds of office furniture, such as desks, workstations, tables, and filing cabinets. With factories around the world, Global Group distributes its products to Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the US. Brands include Adaptabilities (meeting room tables), Frisco (leather executive seating), and Presidential (bookcases, desks, hutches and other casegoods).

Sportif USA is making its living off of the great outdoors. The family-run company, founded by John Kirsch Sr. in 1965, makes casual clothing for men and women including sportswear (ski apparel, fleece and waterproof outerwear) and clothing targeting outdoor enthusiasts (shirts, hiking shorts, jackets). It also offers organic items. Sportif's apparel collections are sold through traditional retailers, as well as through catalogs and online. The apparel company operates Aventura Clothing Co., a division run out of Sparks, Nevada. After a single-engine plane crash claimed the life of John Kirsch Sr. in 1991, his son John Kirsch Jr. (company president) took the reins of Sportif's operations.

Wm. Sugdens makes wearing a uniform a uniform process. Having started out in 1869 as a tailoring operation with a single sewing machine, the company through its subsidiary, ThreadNeedle, provides its customers with a complete range of clothing (accommodating any size) for their employees. Products that are available range from shoes and hats, shirts and skirts, tailored suits and knitwear, to protective clothing. The company consults with each customer and provides a complete service on a turnkey basis, from conception to delivery. Customers can transmit orders online and create their own catalogs. Wm. Sugdens & Sons is a subsidiary of The Wakefield Shirt Group.

Founded when a young woman by the name of Merle Norman first opened up shop in Santa Monica, California, in 1931, the beauty company makes and markets skin care products and color cosmetics. Its products (all of which are manufactured in the US) are sold through about 2,000 independently owned and operated retail outlets -- Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios -- in the US and Canada. Many are located in malls. Brand names include Automatic Definitive, Inspirations, Luxiva, Only Natural, and more. The company is owned by chairman Jack Nethercutt, Norman's great-nephew.

C-Care company, which operates as C-Care Full Filling Service, is a contract manufacturer of personal care products, including skin care (deodorants, liquid soaps, lotions and cremes), hair care (shampoos, conditioners, hair sprays and gels), and hair color products. The firm was established in 2000 and offers product formulation and research and development capabilities, as well as filling, capping, labeling, coding, and packaging services.

Anthony for Men is a manufacturer and marketer of men's skin care and bath and body products. The firm's products are natural and allergy-tested and include Action, Anthony Logistics for Men, and Anthony Sport for Men face, shaving, body, and hair care items. The line is available in almost 2,000 stores, including Sephora and Nordstrom, in some 25 countries, and online. Products include glycerin cleansing bars, facial scrubs, body sprays, astringent, lip balm, razor burn repair, algae facial cleanser, alcohol-free deodorant, mud scrub exfoliating bar, and hair gel. The company also makes a Little Men line of hair and body wash for babies. A percentage of proceeds is donated to prostate cancer charities.

Pookie Products was founded in 2001 by two New York University sorority sisters. Combine cosmetics and terms of endearment, and you get Pookie Products. The firm makes and markets lip balms using beeswax, shea butter, and natural oils such as avocado, apricot kernel, sweet almond, and coconut. Balms include its champagne-flavored I Do lip balm, It's a Boy! and It's a Girl! mini-tins, mint and vanilla Apookalips, as well as private labeling balms for wedding parties, bridal showers, and other special occasions. The company's products, which have expanded to include bath and body products and apparel, are available in specialty retailers (like Anthropologie) and through its online store.

Chattem, Inc. company was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattem, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products, toiletries, and dietary supplements. The company markets its products under various brand names in categories, such as medicated skin care, topical pain care, oral care, internal OTC, medicated dandruff shampoos, dietary supplements, and other OTC and toiletry products. It sells medicated skin care products under the brands Gold Bond, Cortizone-10, and Balmex; topical pain care products under the Icy Hot, Aspercreme, Flexall, Capzasin, Sportscreme, and Arthritis Hot brand names; oral care products under the brands ACT, Herpecin-L, and Benzodent; and internal OTC products under the Pamprin, Premsyn PMS, Unisom, and Kaopectate brand names. The company also offers medicated dandruff shampoos under the brands Selsun Blue, Selsun Salon, and Selsun Natural; dietary supplement products under the Dexatrim, Garlique, Melatonex, New Phase, and Omnigest EZ brand names; and other OTC and toiletry products under the brands Bullfrog, Sun-In, UltraSwim, and Mudd. Chattem markets its products to mass merchandisers, and drug and food retailers in the United States, Canada, Peru, and Europe.

Mutual Distributing Company, which started up in 1946, operates from seven branch offices located throughout the state. Wine and beer brands handled by Mutual Distributing include both domestics and imports and include Wyndham Estate, Robert Mondavi, Moet & Chandon, and Folie a Deux wines, and as well as Anchor, Real Rock, Heineken, and Sapporo beers. Nonalcoholic waters distributed by the company include Evian, Perrier, San Pellegrino, and Fiji . Mutual Distributing has customers in every county in North Carolina and employs more than 500 people.

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