Essilor of America, Inc. company makes and distributes optical lenses under the Airwear, Crizal, DEFINITY, Transitions, and Varilux brand names, among others. Its Essilor Laboratories of America business, a wholesale laboratory network, provides services and a variety of lens brands to opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists across the US. Essilor of America is a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International, which operates about 250 prescription laboratories that manufacture corrective lenses worldwide. The company has been expanding its operations through acquisitions in recent years.

Excelligence Learning Corporation (formerly LearningStar) designs and sells educational products, including arts and crafts sets, classroom necessities, and furniture. It also packages school supplies and fundraiser items. Products are sold to day-care centers, schools, teachers, and parents through its subsidiaries' Web sites, catalogs and direct sales force. More than just a retailer, Excelligence Learning publishes an online magazine with articles on child health, safety, and behavior. Its QuickSource and Discount School Supply sites also provide activity ideas and tips for teachers. The firm was formed in 2001 with the merger of SmarterKids.com and Earlychildhood.

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.

Customers who want one-stop shopping for their home and body turn to Amway Global. Formerly Quixtar, the unit of Amway's Alticor is an online retailer and direct seller of personal care products, health supplements, laundry care products, and household cleaners. It also supplies car care items, cosmetics, hair care and skin care products, fragrances, and infant care items. Amway Global's brands include eSpring, clear.now, Glister, Trim Body System, Nutrilite, Momentum, and others. Its online Store For More offers apparel, appliances, electronics, and furniture. Through its affiliated Partner Stores, Amway Global members can purchase products and services.

Perfect Companion is proving to be just that for Thai food conglomerate Charoen Pokphand, one of the world's largest producers of animal feed. Perfect Companion's production subsidiary, S.W.T. Co., makes bird, cat, dog, fish, horse, rabbit, and rodent food under the brands Merry Meal, Vitta Maxx, My Dear Dog, Eureka, and Hamstar. It exports pet food to about 20 mostly Asian countries. The company also sells pet shampoo and pet accessories and offers pet care advice on its Web site. Charoen Pokphand formed Perfect Companion in 2001 to anchor its pet care business.

Blistex was founded in 1947 as a small, family-run company in the business of developing and marketing lip care products, primarily in the United States. Blistex company's best known for its Blistex lip-care products, but it's also delving into other niches of the personal care products industry. Blistex has extended its reach and added new products to its existing brands by acquiring new product lines -- such as Stridex acne treatments, Kank-A for mouth pain, Foille first aid spray, and Ivarest for poison ivy itch -- all in an effort to grow its business.

New Era Cap, founded in 1920, makes more than 35 million licensed and non-licensed caps a year and sells them through retailers the likes of Dick's in the US and Aeon in Japan. It operates offices in Canada, Germany, Europe, Hong Kong, and Japan. Its US manufacturing takes place in New York and Alabama. The Koch family (now in its fourth generation of management), including CEO Chris Koch, owns New Era Cap. New Era Cap has all Major League bases covered -- or at least the heads above them. The company makes the uniform caps of every Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball team, as well as uniforms worn by youth and high-school baseball players. The company boasts a portfolio of more than 200 licenses.

Old Mother Hubbard gives her poor (and rich) dogs a lot more than empty promises about non-existent bones. The pet food manufacturer's flagship products are the Old Mother Hubbard line of dog biscuits and gourmet specialties, and the Wellness brand of dog foods and treats, and cat foods. Old Mother Hubbard products are made with boneless chicken, brown rice, farm-fresh eggs, and nutritious vegetables. In addition Wellness products incorporate deboned fish, hormone-free lamb, and whole grains. Old Mother Hubbard sells its products at leading pet specialty stores across North America. In 2009 the company merged with Eagle Pack Pet Foods, another top player in the holistic pet food game, to form WellPet.

Olay Company today, having aged enough for its own form of a facelift, is the updated version of the classic. No, it's not just rebranding, either. Now designated as one of Procter & Gamble's billion-dollar brands, Olay found the fountain of youth for itself in recent years and has been pumping out skin care products ever since. Products include Olay Definity, Daily Facials, Total Effects, Regenerist, Olay Complete, and Olay Quench. Regenerist and Total Effects brands gave P&G a foothold in the dermatology skin care niche. Products are sold worldwide through mass merchants, such as grocery stores and chain retailers Target and Wal-Mart.

Rémy Cointreau USA, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rémy Cointreau Group, which is headquartered in France, and is one of the world's leading wines and spirits groups. Established in 1981, Rémy Cointreau USA (formerly known as Rémy Amerique, Inc.) has amassed a prestigious portfolio of luxury wines and spirits while developing a reputation for excellence and premium expertise among its distributors and customers. Expanding on over 300 years of strategic and visionary choices, Rémy Cointreau USA remains loyal to their heritage by providing the highest quality products made from only the finest ingredients. Our exclusive portfolio of brands offers the most discerning consumers an unparalleled array of flavors and premium experiences.

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