PETCO Animal Supplies Stores, the nation's #2 pet supply specialty retailer, is hounding PetSmart for top dog status. As the operating subsidiary of holding company PETCO Animal Supplies, it runs more than 950 stores in all 50 US states. Its 15,000-sq.-ft. superstores carry some 10,000 pet-related items, including premium cat and dog foods (Nutro, Hill's Pet Nutrition), collars, leashes, grooming items, toys, and animal habitats. Its stores also offer grooming, training, vet services, and mixed breed DNA testing, and sponsor pet adoption for cats and dogs with local animal-welfare organizations. PETCO's products are also available through its Web site. Buyout firms took PETCO private in 2006.

Donna Karan International (DKI) defines the metropolitan flair that bridges the difference between stylishly casual and conventional. The firm designs and sells men's and women's clothes, including suits, sportswear, accessories, and shoes, under the Donna Karan New York, DKNY, DKNY Jeans, and DKNY Active labels. DKI sells to upscale department and specialty stores and through its own retail stores. It also licenses third parties to run most of its international stores. Fashion leviathan LVMH holds a majority stake in Donna Karan, although designer Karan still remains in creative control of its fashion lines and is helping to rejuvenate her namesake brand.

Mercer International Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Mercer International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of pulp. Its products include northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp, kraft pulp, and market pulp. The company operates three NBSK pulp mills, including the Rosenthal mill and the Stendal mill in Germany, as well as Celgar mill in Canada. Mercer International sells its products primarily in Europe, Asia, and North America.

SanMar wants to help you show your team spirit. The firm supplies some 800 different imprintable sportswear and accessory items to screen printers, embroiderers, promotional products distributors, and athletics dealers. SanMar markets T-shirts, golf shirts, hats, bags, and other products. It's the exclusive distributor for the Red House, Tiger Woods Collection, NIKE Golf, PING, and OGIO brands and makes clothing under private labels Port Authority, District Threads, Sport-Tek, CornerStone, and Precious Cargo. SanMar sells Jerzees, Hanes, Gildan, and Outer Banks lines, as well. Executive Marty Lott founded the family-owned business in 1971.

Since 1976 FlairWood Industries has been providing cabinetry solutions for the institutional, industrial and health care fields. FlairWood proud to have FlairWood products in use throughout North American and as far away as Europe and Japan. And now FlairWood excited to add FlairWood new MailCenter product line to FlairWood company's offering.The people of FlairWood have been the key to FlairWood success and growth. Through a team concept that utilizes creative problem-solving techniques, the results are high-quality products, delivered on-time by people who care.

Creightons can help. Specializing in natural skin care products, Creightons is a contract manufacturer for the personal care and cosmetics industries worldwide. Founded as Creighton's Laboratories in 1952, the cosmetics company serves department stores and supermarket chains. Its products, made through its Potter + Moore Innovations facility in Peterborough, include salon hair care, shower gels, men's shaving and skin care products, lip balms, sun care items, bath oils and additives, and powders. Creightons first floated as a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange in 1986, and its assets were transferred to its Potter + Moore subsidiary in 2006.

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.

Brand Science, LLC company, which does business as LeSportsac, makes nylon handbags, totes, backpacks, luggage, and related accessories. It also collaborated on collections with well-worn names in the fashion world, such as Diane von Furstenberg, Gwen Stefani, and Stella McCartney. Brand Science distributes its products through specialty and department stores (Macy's, Bloomingdales) in the US and 20 other countries. It also operates an e-commerce site, about 15 boutiques, and five factory outlets under the LeSportsac banner in the US and Mexico. Brand Science (an affiliate of Accessory Network Group) and ITOCHU together acquired LeSportsac in 2006.

DC Shoes was among the first to capitalize on the skateboard, snowboard, and adventure sports niche market. The company designs technical footwear for skateboarding and snowboarding, as well as casual apparel, accessories, and other sports gear. In addition to its standalone retail shops in New York and Los Angeles, DC Shoes markets its products online and through such retailers as Macy's and Pacific Sunwear. Co-founders Damon Way and Ken Block sold the firm to Quiksilver in 2004 to the tune of $87 million. Quiksilver, which had been under pressure to sell assets to help alleviate its debt, appears content to keep DC Shoes in its closet.

Eight in One was founded in 1888. Consumer products company Spectrum Brands owns Eight in One. Eight in One Pet Products researches, develops, and manufactures pet products domestically and internationally. Products include dog, cat, and bird foods, vitamins and supplements, beds, toys, and shampoos, as well as food and products for more unusual pets such as hedgehogs, chinchillas, and other small animals. The company markets its 1,200 pet products under brand names such as 8-1, Dingo, Nature's Miracle, One Earth, and Kookamunga Catnip.

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