Ergoresearch develops and produces custom-made foot and seat orthotics, as well as foot insoles and cushions, in its certified laboratory. Ergoresearch also employs health specialists who act as on-site orthotic consultants. The Canada-based company was founded in 1990. In 2008 the firm acquired Orthoconcept Quebec, a maker of orthotic and prosthetic devices. In 2005 it bought Clinique du Pied Equilibre, aka Equilibre, a specialized medical-grade foot orthotics manufacturer. President and CEO Sylvain Boucher and his family own nearly 45% of the company.

Wacoal Holdings Corp. (Wacoal), incorporated in 1949, is a designer, manufacturer and marketer in Japan of women’s intimate apparel, with a share of the Japanese market for foundation garments and lingerie. The Company also designs, manufactures and sells nightwear, children’s underwear, outerwear, sportswear, hosiery and other apparel and textile products, and engages in restaurant businesses, cultural projects and builds interiors for commercial premises, including sales counters operated in department stores and other retailers carrying the Company’s apparel. The Company’s product categories are innerwear, outerwear and sportswear, hosiery, textile products and other products.

Smith & Vandiver started out as a lotion retailer in Santa Cruz, California, in 1970. Smith & Vandiver Corporation company helps to put "Ahh" in spa. Smith & Vandiver makes and markets foot care and spa items containing natural ingredients, such as shea butter, tea tree oil, and peppermint oil, as well as bath products, soaps, lip balms, and fragrances. The company's product lines are sold through more than 6,000 locations including specialty and gift retailers, as well as department stores.

Mainland Headwear Holdings Limited company produces more than 30 million pieces a year in a full range of cloth headgear, including baseball caps, sun visors, and winter caps, in more than 5,000 designs. It makes hats for well-known Hollywood films such as Batman and Robin, Superman, and Star Wars, and the NBA, Manchester United, Reebok, Timberland, and Fila. Its products are sold through large-scale retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target. The company operates three manufacturing plants in China (Panyu, Shenzhen, Dongguan) and one in Vietnam. Chairman Ngan Hei Keung owns about two-thirds of the company.

The Tranzonic Companies makes and distributes personal care products, cleaning and safety products, and industrial textiles nationwide. It also manufactures private-label and brand-name products (Maxithins, Precious, and Health Guards) for other companies in the same industry and is a major manufacturer of sanitary-napkin dispensing machines. Tranzonic repackages and distributes industrial wiping materials, cleaning chemicals, and disposable work clothing through its CCP Industries subsidiary. Investment firm Linsalata Capital Partners bought Tranzonic in 1998.

Prestige Cosmetics makes cosmetics under the Prestige and Prestige Studio Make-Up brand names, as well as under private labels for retailers. Its products include lipstick, cosmetic pencils, lip gloss, powder, eye shadow, blush, concealers, mascara, foundation, and nail polish. Prestige markets its products to mass merchandisers (including Sears and Wal-Mart), drugstores, and supermarkets in the US and about 45 other countries. It operates a plant in Florida and sells its products to distributors in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and South America. Co-founders and brothers Jacques and Gabriel Cohen own the company.

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.

Married Hungarian emigrants, chairman George Meszaros and president Ilona Makari, own the company, whose precursor they founded in New Jersey in 1965. Six years later they established the existing company in Colorado. ILONA company manufactures skin care and cosmetic products for the personal care products and salon industries. It also produces makeup, skin care, and items especially for men, as well as the fragrance Within. The company operates the ILONA Skincare Institute, a day spa, in Denver. Products are sold at the institute and through the ILONA Web site.

BeneFit Cosmetics will make you look lovely, and it's for a good cause. BeneFit's products have a madcap glamour-girl sensibility. Clever names ("ooh la lift") and pin-up lasses are found on nearly every package. BeneFit sells its lines through more than 1,000 counters (called "Beauty Bars") in department store locations worldwide, at beauty specialty store Sephora, and about a dozen dedicated boutiques. BeneFit Cosmetics, whose celebrity-endorsed Benetint product brought the fledgling company into the mainstream, was founded in 1976 in San Francisco by sisters Jean Ann and Jane Ann Ford as The Face Place. Glamour leviathan LVMH holds a 70% stake.

CIBA VISION company provides research and development and manufactures eyeglasses and contacts. CIBA VISION also offers lens care and ophthalmic surgical products and related services to customers in more than 70 countries. Its contact lens brands include AIR OPTIX, NIGHT & DAY, and DAILIES. The company's FreshLook line is a leader in the color contact lens market. CIBA VISION sold a couple of its soft contact lens lines -- Aquaflex and Softcon -- to a unit of Unilens Vision, which, as part of the agreement, pays CIBA VISION a royalty on certain sales through 2010. CIBA VISION was established in 1980 by Ciba-Geigy, which merged with Sandoz in 1996 to form Novartis.

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