Sports Chick Brands Limited clads the scads of cheeky female football (i.e., soccer) fans. Founded in 2002, the company designs and manufactures apparel for sportive-type women, including technical apparel popular with serious athletes. Sports Chick's apparel includes casual T-shirts (imprinted with sassy football-oriented slogans), shorts, tank tops, and track pants for a variety of sports, as well as running, fitness, and gym use. The company distributes its products in the UK through specialty sports shops and in Football Club shops such as Premiership and Championship clubs. Sports Chick distributes in the US through soccer and sports stores. The company also sells through the soccer.com Web site.

The family-owned firm was founded in 1949 by Ivan Combe, who created Clearasil in 1950 and made it the #1 acne medication before selling it off in 1960. Combe's products are sold in more than 60 countries. Combe makes powders and creams you're itching to buy. The company's products portfolio includes an array of items in the anti-itch niche, including Lanacane, Scalpicin, Gynecort, and Vagisil. Combe combats other human indignities, too, including loose dentures (Sea-Bond), stinky feet (Odor-Eaters), and gray hair (Grecian Formula, Just For Men). Combe's acquisition of J.B. Williams in 2002 added popular names Aqua Velva, Brylcreem, and Cepacol to its brands, among others.

CEO Shelli Gardner and her sister (who later left the company) founded Stampin' Up! Inc in 1988. Through a network of about 40,000 independent sales representatives in North America and internationally, Stampin' Up! markets exclusive wood-mounted rubber stamps and accessories for use in arts and crafts, scrapbooking, greeting card design, and home decoration. California, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin are among the states with a large number of distributors. It also has representatives based in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the UK.

Caribia is more Hawaiian than Caribbean. Although the company was incorporated as Caribia in 1978, Caribia Inc. has a history in sun care products since its Hawaiian Tan sunscreen was founded by a Hawaiian chemist in 1964. Caribia's brand names include Aloe Aid (gel, moisturizer, shampoo, conditioner), Coco Sol (tan accelerator), Coco Baby Oil, and Coco Lotion. Caribia also offers contract manufacturing services for private labels in the fragrance, cosmetics, and personal care products industries. President and CEO Harry F. McLachlan owns the company.

Intimas Group gives Nottingham one more claim to fame. A lace manufacturer until 2004, Intimas makes and markets women's lingerie, nightwear, and swimwear. It produces private-label garments for others under the Lepel, DM, Charnos Lingerie, and Ted Baker Intimates names. It has made a full line of lingerie, swimwear, and nightwear through a licensing agreement with Ted Baker for sale within the UK and Ireland. Shortly after collapsing into administration (the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US), Intimas was acquired by textiles manufacturer Linwood Fabrics in 2009.

Vans designs and sells footwear and apparel for casual wear and for use in activities such as skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, bicycle motocross (BMX), and motocross. Vans merchandise is sold in the US by national chain stores and in skate, surf, and specialty shops. Vans itself operates about 200 stores in the US and in Europe. As part of its marketing strategy, Vans backs alternative rock and heavy metal bands through music festivals. Vans is owned by V.F. Corporation.

Maidenform Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, and markets intimate apparel products for women in the United States and internationally. Its products include bras, panties, leg briefs, sleepwear, full briefs, waist nipper briefs, waist nippers, body briefers, control slips, bra accessories, socks, slippers, and control camisoles. The company offers its products primarily under Maidenform, Flexees, Lilyette, Sweet Nothings, Rendezvous, Subtract, Bodymates, and Self Expressions brand names. Maidenform Brands sells its products through various distribution channels, including department and chain stores; mass merchants, including warehouse clubs; and specialty and off-price retailers, and foreign distributors, as well as company-operated outlet stores and Web sites. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 78 retail outlet stores in 27 states and Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey.

Wacoal America wants to fill your drawers with its drawers -- and bras, camisoles, slips, and shapewear. It designs and makes intimate apparel under its name and under license as DKNY Underwear and Donna Karan Intimates. Wacoal is known for its quality and fit and is a leader in intimate apparel in the US, Japan, Asia, and Europe. Its bras range in size from 32AA to 44DDD, and in styles from push-ups to minimizers. Its panties include everything from thongs to control briefs. Wacoal's products are sold in a number of upscale US retailers including Bloomingdales, Dillard's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue, as well as UK retailers such as Brown Thomas, Fenwicks, and Harrods.

Established as a continuous forms producer with a single press in 1964, Paris celebrates over 40 years as an industry leader for paper and business products. Paris commercial papers and custom forms have national distribution with paper merchants and distributors, while Paris consumer products are offered in more than 50,000 retail locations. Continued expansion has led to the development of new manufacturing and distribution facilities in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Chicago, and Nevada. These facilities demonstrate Paris' commitment to provide Pairs Business Company customers with the best products and service, coast to coast. At Paris Paris Business Company in business to help grow Paris Business Company customers' business.Over the years Paris has been an innovator of laser printer paper (Laser3, now named Printworks Professional), security paper (DocuGard checks & security papers) and specialty computer papers (PrintWorks). Paris also continues to specialize in the ability to design and produce custom forms to meet customer requests. Paris Business Company custom forms department is ready to meet your needs.Paris has partnered with several leading brands in the paper industry. Relationships with HP and Kodak have increased Paris Business Company product offerings in order to meet customer needs and to provide complete solutions. These product lines include inkjet, photo and specialty papers. In addition to Paris Business Company core paper product lines, Paris offers complimentary items. For the retail segment, Doc It offers fashionable polypropylene organizers, folders and binders to store and protect documents and media.

The changes made by L'Oréal USA since its 1953 founding have been anything but cosmetic. The US arm of L'Oréal (the world's #1 cosmetics firm), L'Oréal USA boasts a host of big-name brands, including Maybelline and Redken. It also owns salon product makers Matrix and Kérastase, as well as consumer-focused SoftSheen/Carson and perfume brands Ralph Lauren and Gloria Vanderbilt. The unit's upscale Lancôme (makeup, skin care) and Biotherm (skin care) lines are sold nationwide in department stores. Its parent bought Dallas-based SkinCeuticals. Laurent Attal took over as president and CEO in April 2006, when former president and CEO Jean-Paul Agon became CEO of L'Oréal SA.

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