President and CEO Raymond Metzner, then a practicing veterinarian, started KV Vet Supply out of his garage in 1979. KV Vet Supply offers prescription and non-prescription medicines and veterinary supplies that are discounted and accessible. Sold through its Web site and numerous catalogs, KV Vet Supply's products are designed for domesticated pets (birds, cats, dogs), as well as cows, horses, sheep, and other livestock. It's KV HealthLinks catalog, which meets regulations set by the National Nutritional Foods Association, peddles products for humans the likes of Nature's Way Fisol, Promensil by Novogen, and Colostrum Plus Artho Formula.

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.

Michael Kors dresses the stars, both real and imagined. The company designs and distributes high-fashion apparel and footwear for men and women. It has expanded its products portfolio through the years by inking several licensing agreements, such as timepieces with Fossil, eyewear with Marchon Eyewear, swimwear with Warnaco Swimwear, and socks with American Essentials. The firm's collections include such brands as Michael Kors, KORS Michael Kors, and MICHAEL Michael Kors. Michael Kors, himself, owns about 15% of the company, while Sportswear Holdings, the holding company owned by fashion investors Silas Chou and Lawrence Stroll, bought some 85% of the company in 2003.

Verso Paper Corp. produces and supplies coated papers to catalog and magazine publishers in the United States. It produces coated groundwood papers, which are used primarily for catalogs and magazines. The company also produces coated freesheet papers that are used principally for annual reports, brochures, and magazine covers; and supercalendered papers, which are primarily used for retail inserts. In addition, it produces and sells bleached hardwood kraft pulp, which is used to manufacture printing and writing paper grades, and tissue products. Further, the company offers recycled paper to help meet specific customer requirements; and customized product solutions by producing paper grades with customer-specified weight, brightness, and pulp mix characteristics. Additionally, it provides ultra-lightweight uncoated printing papers, and ultra-lightweight coated and uncoated flexible packaging papers. The company sells its products through various distribution channels, including direct sales, commercial printers, paper merchants, and brokers. It servers various customers in the catalog, magazine, inserts, and commercial print markets. Verso Paper Corp is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Life certainly sounds good for brothers Bert and John Jacobs, who went from living in their van and subsisting on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to running a $100-million-plus company in just a few short years. The Life is good co-founders sold T-shirts to college students up and down the East Coast before creating the firm's stick-figure mascot, Jake. Life is good got its official start in 1994 and, today, the unconventional company makes casual apparel (T-shirts, lounge pants, boxers) and accessories, caps, backpacks, jewelry, pet gear, and home goods through a handful of company stores, its Web site, and through some 4,500 specialty and sporting goods stores in the US and more than 25 other countries.

Coach, Inc. (Coach)is a marketer of fine accessories and gifts for women and men. The Company offers lifestyle accessories. Coach’s handbags and accessories use a range of leathers, fabrics and materials. The Company’s product offerings include handbags, women’s and men’s accessories, footwear, jewelry, wearables, business cases, sunwear, travel bags, fragrance and watches. Coach operates in two business segments: Direct-to-Consumer and Indirect. The Direct-to-Consumer segment consists of channels that provide Coach with immediate, controlled access to consumers, including Coach-operated stores in North America, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, the Internet and the Coach catalog. Handbag collections feature designs, as well as fashion designs. Typically, there are 3 to 4 collections per quarter and 4 to 7 styles per collection. During the fiscal year ended June 27, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company acquired the Coach China from the ImagineX group.

Unicharm Corporation company, which is expanding in Europe and the Middle East, was founded in 1961. Unicharm is out to charm your pants on. The company makes personal care products for the disposable diaper, feminine hygiene, and adult incontinence markets. Its pant-like diapers -- comprised of Moony Man and Mamy Poko brands, among others -- command nearly 50% of the domestic market. Unicharm's other product divisions include feminine, health, and pet care and household cleaning products, as well as food packaging. Unitec Corporation owns about 18% of the company, which does the majority of its business in Japan (responsible for about two-thirds of revenue) and Asia.

Established in 1984, Suncast acquired some assets and product lines of Consolidated Foam, an outdoor accessories maker, in 2005. Suncast resin and metal storage products help to keep the sun shining. The company manufactures more than 1,000 outdoor storage and garden items, including dog houses, fencing, hose reels, pet feeders, rain barrels, snow shovels, storage systems and bins, and sheds. Products are sold in Canada and the US at retailers such as Ace Hardware, Home Depot, and Meijer.

Wella brushes off much of its competition. One of the world's leading haircare companies, it sells professional and retail haircare products, cosmetics, and fragrances. Its Wella brand is its top seller; hair coloring products (Koleston, Wella Viva) are also leaders. Its Tondeo unit supplies professional products and appliances to salons. Wella's fragrances include Alfred Dunhill, Anna Sui, and Gucci, among others. Reluctantly for Wella at the time, Procter & Gamble acquired a majority stake in the firm in 2003 from four families (Ebert, Pohl, Sander, and Stroeher) that owned some 80% of Wella. Through a Domination Agreement transaction, P&G in November 2007 acquired the rest of its outstanding shares.

Wine.com, Inc. operates as an online wine retailer. The company also provides an assortment of gourmet food and sweets gift baskets. It distributes wines through its network of retail outlets in the United States. The company, formerly known as eVineyard, Inc., was founded in 1998 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has retail stores in Berkeley, California; and East Hampton, Connecticut.

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