Von Zipper makes sunglasses and goggles for sports-driven entertainment and for wearers who care about their flair. The company distributes its products through its own Web site, as well as through select eyewear and surf/skate/snow/hipster specialty stores. Von Zipper also peddles its eyewear and goggles through Web sites in the US and in several countries worldwide. Founded in 1999 by Orange County, California, surf and sunglass veterans, Von Zipper was bought by Aussie surfwear company Billabong in 2001.

Chairman Hans-Joerg Seeberger and his family own about 40% of the company; he founded the company in 1972 in Japan. The company's German subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, citing heavy debt and liquidity difficulties. EganaGoldpfeil (formerly Egana International) wants you to take time for luxury. Through its subsidiaries worldwide, including Egana Jewellery & Pearls, the company designs and makes timepieces and jewelry under brands such as Junghans, Pierre Cardin, and Carrera, as well as licensed names such as Bulova, Esprit, and Paolo by Paolo Gucci. Other products include leather goods, eyewear, and apparel. Egana's products are sold in more than 100 countries.

Gieves & Hawkes has been outfitting Jeeveses (and their boss-hawks) for the past 200 years. Gieves & Hawkes is an exclusive Savile Row custom tailor. The company was founded at No. 1 Savile Row in 1785 (Gieves merged with Hawkes, which was founded in 1771) and has continued with the traditional way of hand-crafting suits ever since. It was also the first Savile Row tailor to make and (secretly) sell ready-to-wear suits in the 1920s. In 2003 the company launched Gieves, its own fashion collection and four spin-off stores with the same name. Its products are sold through about 80 stores in Europe and Asia. It is owned by USI Holdings, which is controlled by Wing Tai Holdings.

ASICS America is the North American arm of Japanese athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories maker ASICS Corporation. Its shoe collection -- featuring a trademarked stripe design -- includes footwear for basketball, cheerleading, court and training, running, track and field, volleyball, walking, and wrestling. Its Budokan label represents one of its "sportstyle" products that targets a hip crowd. ASICS products, which were introduced in the US in 1977, are sold at regional and national retailers throughout the country, as well as through online vendors. In October 2009, ASICS opened its first freestanding store in the US.

Trendway was founded in 1968 by chairman Don Heeringa. It has received media attention for supplying the chairs used by judges on the FOX Broadcasting series American Idol. Trendway Corporation designs and makes furniture and fixtures for offices, including those tight on space. Products include movable walls, seating, storage and filing cabinets, tables, desks, and other furnishings. The company's Power Arch series is a system of flexible columns and beams that helps to distribute power and data lines throughout an office. Among its customers are small businesses, large corporations, and government agencies.

Superior Uniform Group, Inc. (Superior) manufactures and sells uniforms, career apparel and accessories for the hospital and healthcare fields, hotels, fast food and other restaurants, and public safety, industrial, and commercial markets. The Company's Signature marketing brands are Fashion Seal, Fashion Seal Healthcare, Martin’s, Worklon, Universal and UniVogue. The Company's manufacturing facilities are located at Seminole, Florida; Eudora, Arkansas; Tampa, Florida; McGehee, Arkansas; San Salvador, El Salvador and Atlanta, Georgia. The Company completed the sale of its Sope Creek business on February 4, 2008. In November 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Blade Sportswear, Inc.

Danier Leather was founded in 1972 by director Irving Wortsman and is run by his son. Danier Leather has made a mint at tanning its own hide(s). The company designs, manufactures, and sells specialty leather and suede apparel and accessories through about 90 mall-based, stand-alone, and Power Centre (large format) stores across Canada. It also sells merchandise online and through a corporate sales division, but exited the US retail market in 2005. Customers are men and women shopping in the middle market of leather goods. Danier has developed its own corporate wholesale sales business, as well. With locally based design and production facilities, the company more easily controls the quality of its output.

Young's Market Company, founded in 1888, is in high spirits. The company is a major supplier of alcoholic beverages to the western US. Young's Market distributes wine and spirits for Bacardi and Brown-Forman, among other domestic and foreign distillers and winemakers. In California it distributes wines from Brown-Forman's Sonoma-Cutter Vineyards; it also handles domestic and imported beers. The Underwood family, relatives of the founding Young family, bought the company in 1990. The third generation of the family currently operates the company, with Jeff and Chris Underwood serving as co-CEOs.

National Distributing Company provides the liquid bottoms-up stuff for those suffering from parched throats in Georgia and New Mexico. National offers libations from companies such as distiller Brown-Forman and winemaker E & J Gallo, along with most other major alcoholic beverage makers. Following the combination of most of National's operations with those of distributor Republic Beverage to form RNDC Texas, LLC (also known as the Republic National Distributing Company) in 2007, National Distributing Company remained in business, but with operations in Georgia and New Mexico only.

Tommy Bahama Group retails the island life. The company designs and markets relaxed sportswear and other items under the Tommy Bahama name. Tommy Bahama's Fishbone pants, Cayman Camp shirts, and other clothing are sold through specialty stores, vacation resorts, and more than 80 namesake stores, as well as through a handful of tropical-themed Tommy Bahama restaurants in the US. Licensees have extended the Tommy Bahama brand to such items as footwear, golf bags, luggage, handbags, eyewear, small leather goods, and home furnishings. In 2003, Oxford Industries bought the company, which was founded in 1992 by marketing director Bob Emfield, designer Lucio Dalla Gasperina, and former president and CEO Tony Margolis.

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