Previously owned by Prada and Change Capital Partners (CCP), the minimalist fashion house is owned by GIBO, the European unit of Japanese apparel group Onward Holdings. GIBO acquired the company in 2008. Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons now fills Jil Sander's shoes as creative director. The company sells women's and men's apparel, as well as accessories, footwear, jewelry, eyewear, and fragrances. Established in 1978, it also operates about a dozen stores, in addition to 50 franchised locations worldwide, and sells its products in such high-end shops as Bergdorf Goodman and Barney's.

A leading manufacturer of secure storage, distribution and inventory management solutions, American Locker is regarded as a direct supplier that its security-conscious customers cannot live without. The Company leverages over 75 years of industry expertise to help organizations increase efficiency, mitigate risk, grow revenue and meet service needs. Proprietary offerings range from classic coin/token-operated security lockers and employee/personal lockers to keyless and computer/electronic-controlled systems, all fully assembled.American Locker provides expert consultation via experienced staff and is the only locker company that manufactures and controls its own distribution of non-duplicative 16 million Keys/Locks/Cylinders as well as Keyless Systems. Above all, Company products are easy to use, install and manage, available in numerous colors, and designed from weather-resistant materials (stainless, aluminum, plastic or painted steel) for heavy indoor and outdoor usage.

Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. (Holdings) is a cosmetics company, which specializes in developing and marketing products for the mass market channel. The Company's products focus on addressing skin imperfections. Its products address specific, everyday cosmetics needs and include face powders, bronzers, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye shadows, eye liners, brow makeup and mascaras. The Company sells its products to mass market channel to retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, Target and Rite Aid. As of December 31, 2008, its products were sold in approximately 29,500 of the 45,000 stores. Holdings’ develops, manufactures and markets a selection of products in three cosmetics categories: face makeup, eye makeup and others.

Graphic Packaging Holding was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. Graphic Packaging Holding Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides paperboard packaging solutions for various products to multinational food, beverage, and other consumer products companies. The company operates in three segments: Paperboard Packaging, Multi-Wall Bag, and Specialty Packaging. The Paperboard Packaging segment produces a range of paperboard grades convertible into folding cartons, which are used primarily to protect products, such as food, detergents, paper products, beverages, and health and beauty aids. This segment also designs, manufactures, and installs packaging machinery related to the assembly of cartons, as well as produces and sells corrugating medium and kraft paper from paperboard mills.The Multi-Wall Bag segment converts kraft and specialty paper into multi-wall bags, consumer bags, and specialty retail bags to ship and protect various industrial and consumer products, including fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, and pet and food products. The Specialty Packaging segment provides flexible packaging, label solutions, laminations, and ink coatings. This segment converts a range of technologically advanced films for use in the food, pharmaceutical, and industrial end markets. This segment offers flexible packaging paper, and metallicized paper labels and heat transfer labels for use in various consumer applications. Graphic Packaging Holding operates in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company was formerly known as Graphic Packaging Corporation and changed its name to Graphic Packaging Holding Company in March 2008.

Converse has rebounded under NIKE as fashionable footwear and all-around cruiser for those off the court, too. Converse has sold some 750 million pairs of its classic Chuck Taylor All Star canvas basketball shoes, appealing to everyone from school kids to clothing designers. It licenses its name to sports apparel makers. Converse makes products under the names One Star and Jack Purcell that it sells through retailers such as Target and licensees in some 160 countries and its more than 40 stores. Converse operates as a separate unit from its parent's competing sports brands, reining in the kitsch value of Converse's vintage Chuck Taylor brand.

Founded in 1973, DMI is a leading FDA registered manufacturer, filler, and packager of consumer products, including cosmetics, health and beauty aids, nutritional products and OTC pharmaceuticals. A single-source supplier for many of its customers, DMI’s full-service offerings feature product development, design, engineering, machine shop, comprehensive quality assurance, and turnkey programs. With a 275,000 sq. ft. facility in Wharton, NJ, DMI is proud that many of the largest names in the consumer products industry entrust DMI company with their business. DMI provides the global consumer marketplace with turnkey contract manufacturing, filling, and packaging solutions along with a wide range of products that include: Stretchcard Packaging, Blistercard Packaging, Thermoform Packaging, Anhydrous Products & Aqueous Products.

ACCO Brands Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes traditional and computer-related office products and supplies principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. It offers paper fastening, document management, supplies, binding and laminating equipment and consumable supplies, personal computer accessory products, paper-based time management products, presentation aids, and label products. The company's products and supplies include staplers, staples, punches, ring binders, trimmers, sheet protectors, hanging file folders, clips and fasteners, data binders, dry-erase boards, dry-erase markers, easels, bulletin boards, overhead projectors, transparencies, and laser pointers and screens; and accessories for laptop and desktop computers comprising security locks, power adapters, computer carrying cases, hubs, docking stations, technology accessories for iPods, and input devices, such as mice and keyboards. It also offers specialized laminating films for wide-format digital print lamination. The company markets its office products to various customers, including commercial contract stationers, retail superstores, wholesalers, distributors, mail order and Internet catalogs, mass merchandisers, club stores, and dealers, as well as directly to commercial and industrial end-users and to the educational market; and computer products to consumer electronics retailers, information technology value-added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and office products retailers. ACCO Brands Corporation is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Kao Brands Company, a subsidiary of Japan's Kao Corporation, was established in 1882 as a maker of coconut oil soap. The company, pronounced "cow," now formulates and manufactures a wide range of personal care products for men and women. Its brand names include Jergens, Cur�l, Bior�, John Frieda, Guhl, and Ban. Kao Brands' Jergens body wash became popular when liquid soap hit the market. Kao Brands, which sells its products in more than 50 countries, was bought by the American Brands Company in 1970 and the Kao Corporation in 1988.

Manolo Blahnik's name was already well known amongst the rich and the famous, but appearances on HBO's "Sex and the City" brought it into mainstream America's vernacular. Manolo Blahnik USA makes the highest-end footwear (up to $1,600 per pair) that is sold by Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, and a select number of specialty boutiques. All of its designs are created by Manolo Blahnik himself. The company has bowed a small number of handbag styles. Manolo Blahnik USA is owned and run by president George Malkemus.

Nova Link has been manufacturing office furniture for more than 20 years and is owned by the Vander Park family. The Canada-based company designs, manufactures, and sells desks, filing cabinets, book cases, and other related furniture for offices, workplaces, call centers, and financial trading floors. Its primary product line is built around its NLnovalink Series 5.0 of modular desk stations and furniture, allowing customers to store stacked LCD monitors, multiple CPUs, and other computer equipment.

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