Founded in 1956 by Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee, Sr., Shaklee Corporation is controlled by the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings and Activated Holdings. Shaklee Corporation company manufactures its private-label products and distributes them through its Web site and more than 750,000 representatives in North America and Asia. The company makes and sells health products such as Vivix anti-aging tonic and Vita-lea vitamins; it also offers skin care and environmentally-friendly household products, as well as weight loss products.

Put a little extra snap, crackle, and pop in your bathtub with Phyzz. The contract manufacturer makes private label effervescent bath, household, and aromatherapy products. It has custom-made bath tablets, beverages, detergents, nutritional supplements, plant food, and more for customers the likes of Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Star Nail, and Tommy Hilfiger. The company also offers product development and marketing services. Phyzz products use AquaPops crackling granules made by exclusive agreement with Raven Manufacturing.

Packaging Corporation of America was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois. Packaging Corporation of America produces containerboard and corrugated products in the United States. Its corrugated packaging products include conventional shipping containers used to protect and transport manufactured goods; and multi-color boxes and displays to merchandise the packaged products in retail locations, as well as meat boxes and wax-coated boxes for the agricultural industry. Packaging Corporation offers its products through a direct sales and marketing organization.

Gruppo Buffetti S.p.A founded in Rome in 1853 by Giovanni Buffetti, began as a typography firm. Italian yellow page publisher Telecom Italia Media bought Gruppo Buffetti in 2000. Gruppo Buffetti markets office supplies, leather accessories, computer software, print-on-demand services, and even books and magazines. It primarily serves the small and medium-sized business markets. The retailer has more than 1,000 franchised locations across the country, but also sells its products via catalog and on the Internet.

Lazare Kaplan International specializes in cutting, polishing, and marketing premium-priced diamonds, as well as diamond jewelry. The company buys rough diamonds (primarily from Diamond Trading Company, a sales arm of De Beers), cuts and polishes the gems for maximum sparkle, and laser-inscribes the branded Lazare Diamonds with the firm's logo and an ID number. Plants in Namibia, South Africa, and Russia handle the processing. Lazare sells to wholesalers, manufacturers, and jewelry retailers worldwide.

The firm, which resulted from the 2001 purchase of Ralston Purina by Swiss food giant Nestlé S.A., is the world's largest pet food producer. Besides Purina, its brands include Alpo, Beneful, Cat Chow, Deli Cat, Dog Chow, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Mighty Dog, Pro Plan, Puppy Chow, Vital Balance, and others. It also makes cat and dog litter products under the Tidy Cats, Yesterday's News, and secondnature brands. To gain regulatory approval for the Nestlé acquisition of Ralston Purina, Nestlé sold off its Meow Mix and Alley Cat brands to investment group J.W. Childs.

Sonoco Products Company was founded in 1899 and is based in Hartsville, South Carolina. Sonoco Products Company provides industrial and consumer packaging products, and packaging services primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. It manufactures rigid paper and plastic packaging products, including composite paperboard cans, paperboard pails, single-wrap paperboard packages, fiber cartridges, bottles, jars, tubs, cups, trays, and squeeze tubes; aluminum and steel closures for composite, metal, and plastic containers; and printed flexible packaging products. The company also provides tubes and cores comprising paperboard tubes, cores, roll packaging, molded plugs, pallet components, concrete forms, void forms, and rotary die boards; and paper products consisting of recycled paperboard, chipboard, tubeboard, lightweight corestock, boxboard, linerboard, specialty grades, and recovered paper.Sonoco's packaging services comprise packaging supply chain management services, including custom packing, fulfillment, primary package filling, scalable service centers, and brand artwork management; and designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi permanent and permanent point-of-purchase displays, as well as contract packaging and co-packing services. In addition, the company produces wire and cable reels, including steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and poly-fiber reels; molded and extruded plastics; paperboard products consisting of glass covers, coasters, and other paper amenities; and protective packaging products. It serves food and non food, automotive, beverage, confectionery, electronic, cosmetic, fragrance, healthcare, home and garden, liquor, medical, office supply, over-the-counter drug, personal care, sporting goods, tobacco, wire and cable, household appliances, leisure, textile, and other consumer and industrial packaging markets.

The Warnaco Group, Inc. company was founded in 1874 and is based in New York, New York. The Warnaco Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, markets, licenses, and distributes intimate apparel, sportswear, and swimwear worldwide. It provides sportswear for men, women, and juniors, such as jeans wear, knit and woven shirts, tops, and outerwear; intimate apparel, including bras, panties, sleepwear, loungewear, shape wear, and daywear for women, and underwear, briefs, boxers, T-shirts, loungewear, and sleepwear for men; and swimwear for men, women, juniors, and children comprising swim accessories and fitness and active apparel. The company offers its products primarily under the Calvin Klein, Speedo, Chaps, Warneres, and Olga brand names. The company distributes its products principally to wholesale customers through department stores, independent retailers, chain stores, membership clubs, specialty and other stores, mass merchandisers, and the Internet. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 902 Calvin Klein retail stores worldwide consisting of 88 full price free-standing stores, 83 outlet free-standing stores, 1 on-line store, and 730 shop-in-shop/concession stores, as well as operated 1 Speedo on-line store. It also had 586 Calvin Klein retail stores operated by third parties under retail licenses or franchise and distributor agreements.

Founded in 1944 by three businessmen (C. Maxwell Stanley, Clement T. Hanson, and H. Wood Miller), the firm originally made index card file boxes for kitchen use. Its original name was Home-O-Nize, later shortened to HON. he HON Company wants its customers to take a seat, and a desk, and a filing cabinet. It's a division of HNI Corporation and makes and markets office furniture for small and mid-sized businesses. The company's furniture line includes desks, tables, seating, files, and storage cabinets. HON sells through retailers nationwide. Brands include Park Avenue, Valido, Perpetual, and Simplicity.

Kingmaker Footwear Holdings wants to make feet feel like royalty. The company is a contract shoe manufacturer specializing in leather rugged footwear and casual shoes for such popular brands as Clarks, Marc Ecko, Privo!, Rockport, Skechers, and 310. It also makes children's and baby footwear for such brands as Elefanten and Stride Rite. Customers include department stores based in the US and Europe. The footwear firm has production lines in Cambodia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai. In addition to its manufacturing operations, Kingmaker runs MOCCA, a Hong Kong-based chain of shoe and accessory shops.

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