Future International Diversified Company makes and distributes low-cost personal care products, such as soaps, hand sanitizers, and bath and body accessories, under the brand names Natura and MIO. It also manufactures packaging components, such as spray bottle caps, pumps, sprayers, and triggers. Its private-label OTC medications include analgesics, stomach remedies, laxatives, denture tabs, and mouthwash. Future International Diversified also supplies stationery and school supplies. The firm offers private labeling services and custom packaging for big-name retailers in North America.

G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. company is one of the larger Pepsi bottlers in the US, shipping the leading PepsiCo brands, including Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Slice, SoBe, and Aquafina to beverage retailers. The bottler was formerly named the Grandpop Bottling Co., and was under the management of Walter Gross and Isaac Jarson. The company's current chairman, Stanley Kaplan, was married to Jarson's daughter, Mickey, who died in 2003.

Founded in 1923, CSS Industries, Inc. was previously a department store and furniture store retailer. By 1985, the nature of our business had changed through a series of acquisitions and divestitures. The foundation of our current business was laid in 1988 with the acquisition of The Paper Magic Group, Inc. In the years following this acquisition, CSS acquired Berwick Offray LLC and Cleo Inc. Today these three affiliates form the pillars of CSS's leadership in the seasonal product industry.

Gio! Giorgio Armani Corporation is the American arm of Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani S.p.A. The US operation, which generates about a quarter of its parent's revenue, makes and retails upscale apparel for men, women, juniors, and babies. It boasts a retail network of about 50 Armani Exchange stores, a dozen Giorgio Armani boutiques, and a pair each of Armani/Casa and Armani/Cafe outlets. The firm also has a dozen Emporio Armani shops and is expanding the banner in Hawaii. Giorgio Armani licenses its name to manufacturers of perfume, cosmetics, watches, eyewear, jewelry, and accessories. Its Giorgio Armani Cosmetics unit operates within its own stores, as well as through Nordstrom and Saks.

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. (Skechers), incorporated in 1992, designs and markets Skechers-branded contemporary footwear for men, women and children under several lines. In addition to Skechers-branded lines, the Company also offers eight uniquely branded designer, fashion and street-focused footwear lines for men, women and children. These lines are branded and marketed separately from Skechers and appeal to specific audiences. Its brands are sold through department stores, specialty stores, athletic retailers and boutiques, as well as its e-commerce Website and its own retail stores. Skechers operates 84 concept stores, 83 factory outlet stores and 37 warehouse outlet stores in the United States, and 16 concept stores and two factory outlets internationally.

THE CLARK GROUP OF CORPORATIONS has evolved from a small soda water operation owned by Carsie C. Clark in 1903 and located in the rear of a drug store in Martin, Tennessee. C. C. Clark quenches the thirst for many in the South. The company owns two Coca-Cola distributors. Its Northeast Mississippi Coca-Cola Bottling Co. serves parts of Mississippi, and its Western Kentucky Coca-Cola Bottling Co. serves parts of Kentucky.

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.

These exclamations and more can be found on any one of the company's heady Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps labels. Sold primarily through natural foods retailers, Dr. Bronner's liquid and bar soaps (made of vegetable oil) rely on low prices and word-of-mouth for advertising. Devoted customers use the soaps for everything from bug repellant to pet shampoo. The company focuses on soap, lip balms, and lotions, as well as ALPSNACK hemp-nut nutrition bars. Founded by master soap maker, world peace visionary, and "Pope of Soap" Dr. Emmanuel Bronner, the company is still family owned and operated by his descendants.

Pegasus International Holdings (PIH) manufactures athletic, dress, and leisure footwear. The Chinese shoemaker's products include sports sandals, casual shoes, hiking boots, golf shoes, and athletic shoes for brand names such as NIKE, Timberland, Dick's Sporting Goods, and L.L. Bean. PIH's manufacturing operations are located in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan and have the capacity to produce 25 million pairs of footwear per year. The company also engages in other investment activities and provides administrative services to its companies. The majority of its sales go to the US -- although domestic sales and sales to other Asian countries are growing.

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.

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