Top Form wants to make sure women everywhere stay that way. The company designs manufactures, distributes, and sells intimate apparel including sleepwear and underwear. Most of its revenue comes from bra sales under the brand names Marguerite Lee and Meritlux; it sells 61 million of the support garments each year. Top Form and its 12 subsidiaries have four factories in China but more than half of the company's manufacturing is located in Thailand and the Philippines. The company's major market is the US with Europe and Australia next. Managing director Eddie Wong owns about 16% of the company as do directors Lucas Laureys and Herman Van de Velde (of intimate apparel maker Van de Velde N.V.).

Sarkli Repechage gives damaged skin a second chance. The company is a wholesaler and retailer of personal care products, including skin and body care items that contain seaweed and other botanicals. Products include the Repechage Four Layer Facial, Vita Cura antiaging creams, the Hydra Medic line of cleansers for acne-prone skin, fruit-scented body scrubs, SPF-enhanced cosmetics, and sunless tanning gel. Repechage's treatments are sold to spas in the US and internationally, as well as through its Web site. After opening Manhattan's first day spa in the late '70s, president and CEO Lydia Sarfati founded Sarkli Repechage in 1980.

In 1967 Graham Webb founded the international hair care company, which is now woven into Wella AG. The firm's roots are in hair care education. Its first Graham Webb Academy opened in London in 1981. The company now has academies in the US -- specifically the District of Columbia, Minnesota, and California. Along with its some dozen UK salons, Graham Webb makes hair care, body care, and cosmetics worldwide and sells them through licensed beauty salons, cosmetologists, and distributors. Wella AG bought Graham Webb in 2001. Procter & Gamble acquired Wella in 2004.

Randa Accessories has been making men feel constricted since its inception in 1935. The leading neckwear manufacturer has licensing agreements with Levi Strauss' Dockers, Perry Ellis, Phillips-Van Heusen, and Chaps for private-label department stores, such as Belk, Macy's, Kohl's, Saks, and Sears. Randa has responded to the last decade's trend toward casual wear by reaching into other men's accessories, such as wallets and small leather goods. Its purchases of Trafalgar and Humphreys Accessories brought belts and suspenders. The company, which operates from some 20 locations worldwide, also offers luggage, casual bags, small leather goods, business cases, and gifts for men, women, and children.

Founded in 1909 as a blanket maker for Native Americans, it also sells its products through department stores, including Dillard's and Macy's, and in specialty shops, as well as through catalogs and online. Pendleton's goods are sold in the US, Canada, China, and Japan. The sixth generation of the Bishop family owns and operates the firm. Pendleton Woolen Mills controls every other step of the production of its men's and women's apparel, blankets, pillows, luggage, furniture, and other items. It buys raw wool; makes fabric and garments at its Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington factories; ships finished goods; and even sells the products in about 70 Pendleton shops.

Knoxville is thirsty. Bottoms up, says The Pepsi Bottling Co. of Knoxville. It bottles the PepsiCo brands of soda and water and distributes the beverages to food stores and other retail outlets throughout eastern Tennessee, as well as in parts of Georgia and South Carolina. The company is a subsidiary of The Pepsi Bottling Group, the world's largest bottler and distributor of Pepsi products.

Swire Coca-Cola USA bottles and distributes a full line of Coca-Cola products, as well as Danone's evian bottled water and a number of Dr Pepper Snapple Group's brands, such as Dr Pepper and Hawaiian Punch. The bottler also supplies energy drinks including Full Throttle, Boo-Koo, Monster, Rockstar, and Tab Energy. It has some 30 sales centers located in 10 western states. The company operates two bottling factories, one in Utah and one in Idaho and has a fleet of about 500 trucks. It produces and distributes 40 million cases of beverage to five million thirsty consumers every year. Swire Coca-Cola is part of Swire Pacific Limited, based in Hong Kong.

West Coast Novelty Corp., founded in the 1920s, doesn't make concessions as one of the largest suppliers of licensed sports merchandise in the US. The firm has grown from its beginnings as a souvenir and concession operator to a nationwide distributor of licensed items, such as jerseys, T-shirts, and headwear. West Coast Novelty boasts a vast portfolio of team licenses based on its agreements with the NFL, MLB, NBA, WWF, and the Collegiate Licensing Company. To extend its reach into the Eastern and Southern US, the company operates a distribution center in Memphis, Tennessee, to supplement operations at its Alameda, California, facility.

Neenah Paper, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. Neenah Paper, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of fine papers and technical products worldwide. Its Fine Paper Business segment provides writing papers that are used in business and personal stationery, corporate letterhead, corporate identity packages, private watermarked papers, envelopes, and similar end use applications; text and cover papers, which are used in corporate identity packages, corporate annual reports, insert advertising, direct mail, facility brochures, business cards, hang tags, scrapbooks, as well as colors and textured finishes; and specialty papers, including translucent papers, art papers, and papers for optical scanning and other specialized applications. This segment sells its products under CLASSIC, ENVIRONMENT, NEENAH, CAPITOL BOND, NEUTECH CLASSIC CREST, STARWHITE, SUNDANCE, CORONADO, ESSE, ENVIRONMENT, and UV/ULTRA brand names.Neenah Paper Technical Products Business segment offers filtration media and durable, and saturated and coated substrates for various applications, such as tapes, premask, abrasives, labels, medical packaging, decorative components, wall covering, and image transfer papers. It sells its products under the JET-PRO, SofStretch, KIMDURA, MUNISING LP, PREVAIL, NEENAH, Gessner, and varitess brand names. The company sells its products through authorized paper distributors, converters, sales representatives, customer service representatives, and direct sales.

Kracie Holdings (formerly Kanebo Trinity Holdings) is a veteran firm that knows diversification and doesn't mind changing its moniker. The company makes toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and food. Kracie's products vary from Prostyle hair styling product to Frisk chewing gum to Coccoapo A, an over-the-counter drug for the treatment of constipation and obesity. Kracie, formed in 1887, operates in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Kracie sold its cosmetics unit to household products maker Kao Corp. in 2006. Kanebo changed its name to Kracie Holdings in July 2007.

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