Gima, LLC company provides custom embroidery and screen-print services for clothing and accessories. It offers over 100 custom lettering fonts that it uses to stitch logos on everything from hats to shirts to golf bags. Gima also provides private label cutting and sewing and specializes in fleece fabric. Clients include Aetna, Eastern Mountain Sports, L.L. Bean, and McDonald's. Gima is owned and operated by brother-in-laws Roberto Giansiracusa and George Marinelli. Roberto's Italian immigrant father Luigi began working in the US as a tailor in 1952 and eventually opened his own apparel firm with help from wife Ines.

Founded in 1945 by German refugee Hans Stern, the company is owned today in equal shares by the Stern sons: Roberto, Ronaldo, Ricardo, and Rafael. H. Stern Com. & Ind., S.A. company is one of the fastest-growing high-end jewelry (a necklace worn by Angelina Jolie at the 2004 Oscars was valued at $10 million) manufacturers in the world. The company is known for turning its colored gemstones into luxury products. H. Stern runs about 160 stores in a dozen countries worldwide. The firm is rapidly expanding into the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where its rings and accessories are finding a mainstream audience. It also supplies jewelry to other retailers and sells it jewels on cruise ships.

Founded in 1993, McGregor is a European fashion house that designs, markets, distributes, and sells high-end men's, women's, and children's apparel through thousands of independent multibrand shops in many countries in Europe and the Middle East. Its most well-known brand, McGregor, is also sold through its owned and franchised McGregor Shops and more than 100 branches located inside leading European department stores. Its Gaastra division designs, distributes, and sells sailing clothing in high-end men's fashion and sporting goods stores.

J.J. Taylor Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 by John J. "Joe" Taylor, originally a Knickerbocker Beer distributor servicing the greater Brockton area of Massachusetts. J.J. Taylor Companies distributes beer in Florida through its Ft. Myers and Tampa locations, as well as in Minnesota, where it owns the former East Side Beverage Company. Now named the J.J. Taylor Distributing Company of Minnesota, it serves the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The company, which has some 10,800 retail customers, sells MillerCoors brands, in addition to a mix of imported and microbrewed beers.

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.

American Seating was the first company to manufacture the combination student desk and chair unit when it was founded under the name Grand Rapids School Furniture in 1886. American Seating wants you to be comfortable and take at least one of its seats. A leading manufacturer of seating for a variety of industries, the company has furnished offices, public transportation, schools, auditoriums and stadiums, and entertainment venues such as Busch Stadium in St. Louis and the Tabor Opera House in Colorado. The company sells its products in the US and Canada.

Polo Ralph Lauren is galloping at a faster clip than when founder Ralph Lauren first entered the arena 40 years ago. With golden mallet brands such as Polo by Ralph Lauren, RRL, Rugby, and Club Monaco, the firm designs and markets apparel and accessories, home furnishings, and fragrances. Its collections are available at some 10,800 locations worldwide, including many upscale and mid-tier department stores. (Macy's and Dillard's account for more than a third of all wholesale revenue.) The company also operates about 315 Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, and Rugby retail stores worldwide as well as the e-commerce sites RalphLauren.com and Polo.com. American style icon and CEO Lauren controls the company.

Top Form wants to make sure women everywhere stay that way. The company designs manufactures, distributes, and sells intimate apparel including sleepwear and underwear. Most of its revenue comes from bra sales under the brand names Marguerite Lee and Meritlux; it sells 61 million of the support garments each year. Top Form and its 12 subsidiaries have four factories in China but more than half of the company's manufacturing is located in Thailand and the Philippines. The company's major market is the US with Europe and Australia next. Managing director Eddie Wong owns about 16% of the company as do directors Lucas Laureys and Herman Van de Velde (of intimate apparel maker Van de Velde N.V.).

Kolmar Labs Group company (formerly known as Outsourcing Services Group) is a contract manufacturer of cosmetics and personal care products, as well as over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. It operates through two subsidiaries: Kolmar Laboratories, which makes cosmetics, bath and hair products, and OTC health products; and Acupac Packaging, a specialty manufacturer focused on single-use consumer products, such as moist towelettes, sample packs, and dissolvable thin films (for example, breath strips). Both companies assist clients with the entire product development process, from conceptualization and formulation to testing, packaging, and distribution.

RTC Industries provides products and services to help retailers maximize sales. RTC Industries offers a range of business services, including market research, retail concept and design, manufacturing and quality assurance processes, program management and global logistics processes, signage, and theft-deterrent systems. RTC Industries designs merchandising systems to meet the needs of individual companies. Customers have included Coca Cola, Columbia Sportswear, FedEx, Hasbro, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart. RTC Industries' offices are located in Europe, Hong Kong, Latin America, and the US.

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