Established as a small, family-run pharmacy in 1869 by Dr. Charles Browne Fleet, today the firm makes about 100 personal health and beauty care products that are distributed to more than 100 countries globally. C.B. Fleet's offerings include feminine care, laxatives, oral care, skin care, and oral rehydration product lines sold under brand names Summer's Eve, Vera by CCS, Norforms, Clinomyn, HydraLife, BioralSuero, and Casen-Fleet, among others. It also operates several subsidiaries, such as CSS (Europe), DeWitt Personal Care (the UK), and Fleet Laboratories (Asia and Latin America).

The Stephan Company manages a vast portfolio of products as a maker of branded and private-label personal care items. Its brands include Cashmere Bouquet, Quinsana Medicated, Balm Barr, Stretch Mark Crme, Protein 29, Stiff Stuff, Wildroot, and Frances Denney. It sells them worldwide by mail order and in retail stores and salons through its subsidiaries, including Morris Flamingo-Stephan, Old 97, American Manicure, Lee Stafford Beauty Group, and Williamsport Barber and Beauty Corp., and Scientific Research Products, among others. Chairman, president, and CEO Frank Ferola owns about 20% of the firm, which bought Bowman Beauty and Barber Supply Company in August 2008.

Lotto Sport Italia S.p.A. company was established in 1973 to produce tennis shoes and other sporty footwear for the Italian market. Still known best for its sneakers, the company has expanded into athletic wear and leisure wear for men, women, and children, as well as licensed lines that include eyewear, stationery, and underwear. Lotto Sports's products are available in about 80 countries. Lotto sponsors a number of professional sports players and teams, and has partnerships with the ATP, the WTA Tour, and Wimbledon. As part of a joint venture with US-based consulting and investment firm DCS Group, Lotto established Lotto North America, an outpost in the US.

Speidel, Inc. company has made a name for itself as a leading worldwide distributor of watchbands. It is the exclusive marketer of leather watchbands made by Di-Modell. Speidel also sells men's and women's watches, pearl jewelry, and batteries. The company provides watch repair services through its Providence Watch Hospital outlets. In 2007 Fred Levinger acquired Speidel from Jeffrey Massotti, who remains president and CEO of the company. Levinger is the former head of jewelry retailer Colibri.

Pookie Products was founded in 2001 by two New York University sorority sisters. Combine cosmetics and terms of endearment, and you get Pookie Products. The firm makes and markets lip balms using beeswax, shea butter, and natural oils such as avocado, apricot kernel, sweet almond, and coconut. Balms include its champagne-flavored I Do lip balm, It's a Boy! and It's a Girl! mini-tins, mint and vanilla Apookalips, as well as private labeling balms for wedding parties, bridal showers, and other special occasions. The company's products, which have expanded to include bath and body products and apparel, are available in specialty retailers (like Anthropologie) and through its online store.

The Prada Group wants its customers to either shop for their products til they drop, or go broke trying. The company's success was born from the marriage of Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli and their leather goods and manufacturing businesses. Prada sells upscale apparel, shoes, fragrances, and accessories for men and women, as well as its less-pricey Miu Miu apparel line. The company operates more than 200 stores worldwide. With the devil being in the details, Prada has delayed multiple attempts to go public. Prada sold its Jil Sander business to Change Capital Partners in 2006 and its Helmut Lang operation to Link Theory Holdings. Prada boasts a Netherlands-domiciled parent company, Prada Holding N.V.

The Bull family controls Bradner Central, which was founded in 1852. Bradner Central Company is the parent company of several light-converting and paper-distributing subsidiaries, including Bradner Smith & Co. and Bradner National. It serves publishers of catalogs, magazines, books, and other commercial printers with some 2,200 products, including fine and specialty papers for printing, business forms, and envelopes, and, to a lesser degree, pressure-sensitive films, foils, and vinyls. The subsidiaries supply businesses in such industries as advertising, direct mail, insurance, label printing, and quick printing.

totes>>Isotoner has the goods to keep you dry and comfortable. It makes and distributes weather gear, including umbrellas, gloves, rubber shoe covers, rain hats and raincoats, and water-resistant tote bags. It distributes them through about 30,000 department stores in the US, the UK, and France. totes>>Isotoner also operates a network of more than 100 owned outlet mall-based stores. The company bought flip flop and canvas shoe maker ESNY from E.S. Originals in 2006 and Northern Cap Holdings, which makes headwear, scarves, and gloves, in 2008. totes>>Isotoner was owned by Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. until early 2007, when MidOcean Partners acquired a majority stake for $288 million.

CEO Dewey Barber owns Barber and Company, which he founded in 1985. Barber and Company wants clothing to be hot-pressed. The company manufactures more than 1,000 heat transfer silkscreen designs for sale to wholesalers, which apply the designs to T-shirts. Its Dixie Outfitters brand, which includes a Confederate battle flag logo, has been banned in some schools. Other brands include All American Outfitters, which uses the American flag in its designs, and Legalize Weed, which features images of marijuana and popular slogans. Barber and Company also offers preprinted shirts, makes custom designed transfers, and sells transfer machines.

Pringle of Scotland is one company that really has stuck to its knitting, but has changed its stylings to suit the times. The company has for nearly two centuries represented the quintessentially Scottish apparel, contributing to the world of fashion high-end woollens and the ubiquitous twinset. Starting in 2000, Pringle of Scotland began rebranding itself and its products in the international luxury market. The company's products can be found at showrooms in London and Tokyo, as well as through high end retailers in Europe, Asia, and the US. The company was spun off (so to speak) from Dawson International in 2000 and sold to Hong Kong-based Fang Brothers Knitting Ltd., which is owned by Kenneth Fang.

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