LPC Group PLC company, through several subsidiaries, makes sanitary paper products, such as toilet tissue, paper towels, napkins, facial tissue, and recycled paper products. Its units include LPC (UK), Kamns Paper Mill, LPC AFH Division, and Swedish Tissue AB. A portion of products are sold under the firm's own-brands, while others are made for external parties' own-name labels. The group's products are manufactured at its own paper mills and recycling facilities and sold in more than 25 countries. Its Swedish Tissue division has been producing paper products for more than two centuries.

The Schenck Company was founded by brothers Jay and Virgil Schenck in 1954; it is still owned and operated by the family. The Schenck Company distributes more than 190 brands of domestic, specialty, and imported beers, as well as alcoholic energy drinks such as Sparks and Liquid Charge. Its customer area comprises the central Florida counties of Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, and Seminole. Schenck represents more than 70 beer suppliers and it prints marketing posters and banners as part of the service it provides its customers. The company, which reaches about 5,000 retailers, began as a distributor for Miller Brewing and Molson Coors's joint venture MillerCoors.

Founded in 1882 by William Hayes and James Finch, the company is still owned by the Finch family. Hayes & Finch company manufactures and sells items belonging inside a church (besides the willing souls and the people attached to them): altars, altar linens, altar breads, baptismal fonts, candles, candlesticks, cassocks, clerical garments, crucifixes, cottas, funeral palls, hymn boards, incenses, kneelers, lecterns, pews, pulpits, stoles, surplices, vestments, wines, even collection plates. Merchandise is sold through the company's catalog, web site, and through six retail outlets.

Laboratoires Druide was founded in 1979 by its president, Alain Renaud. Laboratories Druide comes from an old, old school of skin care. The Quebec-based Druide makes and markets natural body care, hair care, baby care, and skin care products, as well as soaps, massage creams, lipstick, sunscreen, and anti-mosquito citronella products. The company claims to have invented the "first" (perhaps since the Druids) ecological (i.e., without any chemical) skin care products. Ingredients include materials such as plant extractions, goat's milk and shea butter, and can be purchased through specialty skin care retailers the world over, as well as through the company's Web site.

Kimberly-Clark Limited, in operation in the UK since 1955, has a foothold in the area's paper products market, with such items as Kleenex (tissues), Andrex (toilet tissue), Fiesta (disposable towels), Huggies (diapers/nappies), Kotex (feminine care), and its Professional line. The firm's professional unit makes products for wiping, workwear, and the washroom for businesses in the manufacturing and hospitality industries. The firm also develops a health care product line for hospitals and medical professionals that includes disposable gowns, drapes, and gloves, as well as sterilization wrap. It's a business component of Kimberly-Clark Europe, which is the hub of the parent company's operations in Europe.

Halston fashion house, known as a disco icon in the 1970s along with its namesake designer Roy Halston Frowick, has endured mostly through it licensing agreements. The company has resurfaced in the fashion industry, designing women's eveningwear and men's clothing. A trendsetter at the time, Halston began to license his name early on. Halston generates most revenue through licensing efforts. Halston's name is on eyewear, sunglasses, denimwear, handbags, and watches. The fashion house hopes to add licenses for women's suitwear, intimate apparel, swimwear, and footwear.

Fila USA, Inc company markets athletic shoes and sportswear to major US retailers (Foot Locker, Kohl's). To tout its products, it signs up the talents of professional athletes such as tennis stars James Blake and Jimmy Arias and musical acts such as hip-hop headliners Nas and the Wu-Tang Clan. With a history of high design in athletic shoes and sportswear, Fila had run down its image in lieu of a hodgepodge of athletic endorsements. The ailing US entity, along with other Fila global footwear and apparel units, was acquired by Fila Korea in 2007 from Sport Brands International (SBI). Fila Korea chairman Gene Yoon holds a 20% ownership stake.

Luen Thai is one of the world's leading apparel supply chain services providers. The company manufactures apparel -- primarily of knit wear and woven wear-- on an OEM basis. The company operates12 manufacturing facilities and 14 offices in nine countries. It produces 50 million pieces annually. Products range from women's fashion, sleepwear, undergarments, pants and shorts, sports and active wear, and children's clothing. It develops, manufactures, and delivers apparel for brands that include Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Limited Brands, Dillard's, and Fast Retailing.

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.

Professional Veterinary Products, Ltd. (PVPL) wholesales and distributes pharmaceuticals and supplies to licensed veterinarians. The company carries more than 20,000 products from about 350 manufacturers, ranging from diagnostic equipment to animal identification tags. It boasts two subsidiaries: Exact Logistics (distributes to other animal-health firms) and ProConn (supplies products directly to the consumer). The company was founded by a group of veterinarians in 1982. PVPL says that even its telesales staff has field experience -- phones are manned by veterinary techs and others with animal science degrees.

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