CEO Tina Aldatz Norris founded Foot Petals, Inc. in 2001. Foot Petals makes insoles and shoe cushions designed for stilettos, strappy sandals, pointy-toed shoes, and other fashionable footwear. Its shoe cushions are made from a foam urethane called PORON (made by Rogers Corporation) and are named Killer Kushionz, Sole Stopperz, Tip Toes, Haute Heelz, Strappy Slips, and Amazing Arches. In 2007 the company extended its reach into slippers, legwear, gift sets, and accessories. Foot Petals, which also makes Sole Kings for men, peddles its products at Nordstrom, Zappos, and Target.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (Schweitzer-Mauduit) is a diversified producer of premium specialty papers and the world’s largest supplier of fine papers to the tobacco industry. Schweitzer-Mauduit conducts business in over 90 countries and employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide, with operations in the United States, France, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and Canada and with a joint venture under construction in China. Schweitzer-Mauduit became an independent public company on December 1, 1995 with the spin-off by Kimberly-Clark Corporation of its United States, French and Canadian operations that produced tobacco-related products. Schweitzer-Mauduit is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWM.Schweitzer-Mauduit’s manufacturing facilities have a long history of producing paper dating back to 1545. The Company’s domestic mills led the development of the North American tobacco-related papers manufacturing industry, which was originated by Peter J. Schweitzer, Inc. that began as an importer of cigarette papers from France in 1908.

Twincraft was born from twins. Twincraft Soap, founded by twin brothers Bob and Dave Asch, makes bar soap for the private-label market. The company provides product development, manufacturing (in Vermont and Guatemala), and packaging services and produces more than 350 million soap bars annually. Twincraft's roster of clients includes specialty retailers such as Bath & Body Works, The Body Shop, and Victoria's Secret, as well as personal care industry behemoths including Johnson & Johnson and Unilever. Founded in 1971, Twincraft was sold to Langer, a medical and skin care products firm, for nearly $27 million in January 2007.

Daree Imports & Sales manufactures and distributes Witchcraft-brand nail care products, cosmetics, and cosmetic accessories. The company's products are available through Canadian general merchandise retailers and drug stores, such as Wal-Mart, Pharmacy Won, and London Drugs. Daree Imports also runs Gift-Pak, a wholesale distributor and importer of gourmet foods and products that one might generally find in a gift basket, such as cookies, chocolate, coffee, baby products, candles, mugs, and more.

ICICLES Eyewear (formerly Icicles Performance Eyewear) keeps your eyes cool when they're fighting the glare of the hot sun. The company makes and markets men's and women's aluminum, metal, and nylon sunglasses, as well as sun goggles. ICICLES offers its customers prescription and non-prescription glasses under brand names including I-Wire, Slider, Switch Blade, and Viper, among others. Some of the company's top sellers are its replacement lenses and its accessories, such as sport cords. Its products are distributed through dealers in California. It also sells items online and via catalog and extreme sports specialty stores.

Perry Ellis International, Inc. (Perry Ellis) is an apparel company in the United States. The Company designs, sources, markets and licenses its products nationally and internationally at multiple price points and across all levels of retail distribution in over 15,000 selling doors. Its portfolio of brands includes the Perry Ellis family of brands, Axis, Tricots St. Raphael, Jantzen, John Henry, Cubavera, the Havanera Co., Natural Issue, Munsingwear, Grand Slam, Original Penguin by Munsingwear (Original Penguin), Mondo di Marco, Redsand, Pro Player, Manhattan, Axist, Savane, Farah, Gotcha, Girl Star, MCD, Laundry by Shelli Segal and C&C California. It also licenses the Nike brand for swimwear and swimwear accessories; licenses the JAG brand for men’s and women’s swimwear and cover-ups; licenses the Callaway Golf brand for golf apparel; licenses the PGA TOUR brand, including Champions Tour, for golf apparel; licensee for PING golf apparel, and is a licensee for Dockers outerwear.

Clarins was founded by Jacques Courtin-Clarins in 1954. Clarins USA is a natural. As the first subsidiary for French skin care and cosmetics group Clarins, the New York-based location (created in 1981) brings the popular line of botanical-based products to US department and specialty stores and spas. The company specializes in skin care for women and men (ClarinsMen), make-up and fragrances. In addition to the Clarins brand, the company also owns and markets fragrances by Thierry Mugler, Azzaro, and Stella Cadenta. The company operates skin spas in New York and Texas.

President and CEO Raymond Metzner, then a practicing veterinarian, started KV Vet Supply out of his garage in 1979. KV Vet Supply offers prescription and non-prescription medicines and veterinary supplies that are discounted and accessible. Sold through its Web site and numerous catalogs, KV Vet Supply's products are designed for domesticated pets (birds, cats, dogs), as well as cows, horses, sheep, and other livestock. It's KV HealthLinks catalog, which meets regulations set by the National Nutritional Foods Association, peddles products for humans the likes of Nature's Way Fisol, Promensil by Novogen, and Colostrum Plus Artho Formula.

From its earliest beginnings, Crayola has been a color company. Crayola came into being when cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith took over Edwin’s father’s pigment business in 1885. More than 120 years later, color – along with creativity, learning and most of all, fun – is the hallmark of Crayola company. Crayola has called Easton, Pennsylvania its home since the early 1900s. Today, the company’s world headquarters and major manufacturing facilities are located there. And downtown Easton is the home of The Crayola FACTORY® , a one-of-a-kind celebration of creative fun for everyone! In 1984, Crayola became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards and has since played the lead role in Hallmark’s personal development strategies.

Thomas Pink designs, makes, and retails stylish upscale men's and women's clothing and their accoutrements in about 20 US locations. It boasts more locations from Europe to Asia. Thomas Pink operates the world's largest shirt shop on New York's Madison Avenue and has expanded its US presence when LVMH acquired the company outright in 2002. Additional US locations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Michigan, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Tapping into its feminine side Thomas Pink began making clothing for women in 2003.

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