Trans-India Products, which operates as ShiKai Products, is a family-owned leading developer and manufacturer of natural personal care products. ShiKai offers some 50 skin and hair care products, including Borage Dry Skin Therapy lotions and creams, oatmeal and aloe Moisturizing Bath and Shower Gels, Dermaceutical Formulation facial skin care products, and the Salon Naturals color-enhancing hair care line. ShiKai products are sold in natural food and beauty stores, such as Longs Drug Stores, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods Market.

St. John Knits International has clothed some of the nation's most couture-worthy women, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Diane Sawyer. St. John makes brightly colored, classically styled knitwear under the St. John, St. John Sport, and St. John by Marie Gray names and sells them in upscale department stores worldwide. It also operates more than 15 boutiques, about 10 outlet stores, and sells its pricey apparel online. In addition, the company offers accessories, jewelry, shoes, and home accessories through its own stores. Vestar/Gray Investors LLC, a partnership between the Gray family and Vestar Capital Partners, owns a majority of the company.

Capezio/Ballet Makers is hoping that it reaps the plentiful rewards of a Dance Dance Revolution. The company, which has been operating for more than a century, makes dance apparel and footwear, including ballet "pointe" shoes, ice skating costumes, and ballroom dancing apparel. Its products are sold through licensed Capezio dealer stores, online, and by catalog. Through its Ballet Makers-Europe unit, a joint venture with partner Norwich Dancewear formed in 1999, Capezio/Ballet Makers makes and markets its products in Europe. The company's run by the family of founder Salvatore Capezio, a cobbler who made a name for himself with performers at the neighborhood's Metropolitan Opera House.

Smead Manufacturing Company was founded in 1906 by Charles Smead. After his death, the company was purchased by an employee (P. A. Hoffman) whose granddaughter, Sharon Avent, is president and CEO. Smead Manufacturing wants to keep its customers organized. Accordingly, it makes a variety of paper-related and software products to organize and manage offices. Smead's first product, a bandless expandable file, is still among the more than 5,000 items it makes for retail sale in office supply stores nationwide (including Office Depot). Offerings range from hanging folders, labels, and binder covers to SmeadSoft software, which manages hard copy and computerized documents.

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.

Pringle of Scotland is one company that really has stuck to its knitting, but has changed its stylings to suit the times. The company has for nearly two centuries represented the quintessentially Scottish apparel, contributing to the world of fashion high-end woollens and the ubiquitous twinset. Starting in 2000, Pringle of Scotland began rebranding itself and its products in the international luxury market. The company's products can be found at showrooms in London and Tokyo, as well as through high end retailers in Europe, Asia, and the US. The company was spun off (so to speak) from Dawson International in 2000 and sold to Hong Kong-based Fang Brothers Knitting Ltd., which is owned by Kenneth Fang.

Neenah Paper, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. Neenah Paper, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of fine papers and technical products worldwide. Its Fine Paper Business segment provides writing papers that are used in business and personal stationery, corporate letterhead, corporate identity packages, private watermarked papers, envelopes, and similar end use applications; text and cover papers, which are used in corporate identity packages, corporate annual reports, insert advertising, direct mail, facility brochures, business cards, hang tags, scrapbooks, as well as colors and textured finishes; and specialty papers, including translucent papers, art papers, and papers for optical scanning and other specialized applications. This segment sells its products under CLASSIC, ENVIRONMENT, NEENAH, CAPITOL BOND, NEUTECH CLASSIC CREST, STARWHITE, SUNDANCE, CORONADO, ESSE, ENVIRONMENT, and UV/ULTRA brand names.Neenah Paper Technical Products Business segment offers filtration media and durable, and saturated and coated substrates for various applications, such as tapes, premask, abrasives, labels, medical packaging, decorative components, wall covering, and image transfer papers. It sells its products under the JET-PRO, SofStretch, KIMDURA, MUNISING LP, PREVAIL, NEENAH, Gessner, and varitess brand names. The company sells its products through authorized paper distributors, converters, sales representatives, customer service representatives, and direct sales.

Founded and run by brothers Steve and Rick Billig, Billig Jewelers is a high-end jewelry manufacturer and retailer that sells bracelets, earrings, engagement rings, and more. The Billigs opened a tiny retail store specializing in silver cable bracelets in the 1980s. Today, the company's handcrafted pieces of jewelry are sold in their own stores, as well as through the Billig Jewelers' Web site. S&R Designs, the jewelry designing arm of the company, targets customers who frequently purchase new jewelry and are interested in keeping up with the latest trends.

Spotless Group Limited provides business support services to businesses throughout Australia, New Zealand, the US and about 30 other countries. Its offerings include food services, facilities management, cleaning, laundry services, and print management. Spotless also is a leading maker of clothes hangers and produces labels and packaging for the garment manufacturing and retail sectors. Its customers hail from across the industry spectrum, including education, health care, government, and airports. Recent office openings in Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Morocco have helped extend Spotless' global reach.

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (Iconix) is a brand management company engaged in licensing, marketing and providing trend direction for a portfolio of owned consumer brands. The Company owns 17 brands, Candie's, Bongo, Badgley Mischka, Joe Boxer, Rampage, Mudd, London Fog, Mossimo, Ocean Pacific/OP, Danskin, Rocawear, Cannon, Royal Velvet, Fieldcrest, Charisma, Starter and Waverly, which it licenses directly to retailers, herein referred to as direct-to-retail, wholesalers and suppliers for use across a wide range of product categories, including apparel, footwear, sportswear, fashion accessories, home products and decor, and beauty and fragrance. In addition, Scion LLC, a joint venture, in which the Company has a 50% investment, owns the Artful Dodger brand. The Company’s brands are sold across a range of distribution channels, from the mass tier to the luxury market. In October 2008, it acquired Waverly brand.

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