The world's #1 luggage maker, Samsonite makes softside and hardside suitcases, garment bags, and business cases under brand names such as Samsonite and American Tourister. The company also licenses its name for non-luggage products and dabbles in designer clothing. Samsonite makes travel gear (backpacks, duffel bags, wheeled luggage) for Timberland through a licensing agreement. It sells its products in more than 100 countries and through about 200 stores. Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners owns a majority stake in the ailing luggage maker.

Women the world over know ESCADA for its bright fabrics, elaborate stitching, hand-beaded work, and tailored looks. The firm designs and sells upscale women's apparel (including evening wear, casual wear, and shoes), accessories, and fragrances in about 410 company-owned and franchised stores in some 60 countries. Apparel, handbags, shoes, and belts are designed in-house; eyewear, jewelry, watches, and scarves are licensed. It sold its Escada Beaut cosmetics division to Wella AG but remains a licensee. Unable to secure financing amid falling sales and earnings, the company in August 2009 filed for bankruptcy protection and is being sold.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Goleta, California. Deckers Outdoor Corporation engages in the design, production, and brand management of footwear for outdoor activities and casual lifestyle use. It offers casual open-toe and closed-toe footwear, including adventure travel shoes, outdoor multi-sport shoes, trail running shoes, amphibious footwear, light hiking shoes and boots, sheepskin boots and slippers, rugged closed-toe footwear, sneakers, sustainable footwear, and sandals under various styles for men, women, and kids. The company also offers various accessories, including handbags, headwear, packs, and outerwear. It markets its products under the Teva, UGG, Simple, and TSUBO proprietary brand names. The company sells its products primarily to specialty retailers, department stores, outdoor retailers, sporting goods retailers, shoe stores, and online retailers. Deckers Outdoor Corporation sells its products directly to end-user consumers through its Web sites, catalogs, and retail outlet stores, as well as through retailers in the United States, and distributors in the Europe, Canada, Australia, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It has joint venture with Stella International Holdings Limited for the opening of retail stores and wholesale distribution for the UGG brand in China.

Randa Leather Goods makes men's and boys' belts and other personal leather goods as part of Randa Accessories, which is known for its neckwear expertise. The division also makes and distributes lines of suspenders, packaged gifts, and boys' neckwear. Parent Randa Accessories boasts more than 10 licensing agreements to make accessories under the Levi's, Dockers, Dickies, Columbia, Izod, and Arrow brand names, among others. The company also markets products under its own handful of proprietary labels, such as Bill Adler Studio, Reward, and Dante. Randa Leather Goods sells its products through retail and specialty stores and catalogs.

Cia. Hering SA is a Brazil-based company engaged in the clothing industry. The Company produces basic clothing products, including jeans, blouses, shirts and other accessories. The Company sells its products under four brand names: Hering, PUC, dzarm. and Hering Kids. Hering is a brand offering contemporary, basic clothing and accessories for all age groups. PUC is a brand of children’s apparel for special occasions. dzarm. is a jeanswear brand targeted at the teenagers’ market, especially young women. Hering Kids offers clothes for children, form babies to teenagers. It has operation units in the states of Santa Catarina, Goias and Rio Grande do Norte. Cia. Hering SA sells the majority of its products in the Brazilian and Latin American markets. Other export destinations include the Middle East, Europe and the United States. The Company's subsidiaries include Hering International SA – SAFI and Hering Overseas Ltd, among others.

Wally's was founded in 1991. Wally's Natural Products wants you to stick it in your ear -- the company's handmade ear candles that is. The personal care products firm is one of the largest suppliers of ear candles in the US for removing ear wax naturally. Wally's has modernized the more than 2,000-year-old practice of ear coning by offering disposable hollow candles constructed of unbleached cotton or linen dipped in paraffin or beeswax. Its products, which include ear candles, oil, and its Practical Guide to Ear Candling, are sold at certain pharmacies, natural health food stores, and GNC, as well as through the company's Web site and other e-tailers.

Clarins Canada, a key subsidiary of the French cosmetics group Clarins, manufactures skin care products and makeup using herbal and marine extracts and antioxidants. Clarins specializes in peddling items the likes of self-tanners and also makes and markets anti-aging, face wash, and shaving products for men under the ClarinsMen label. The company's fragrance division covers numerous brands, including key brands Azzaro and Par Amour. Clarins Canada's products are sold through department and specialty stores in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company operates skin spas in Montreal/Laval, Toronto, and Vancouver.

In 1906, a handful of investors with a vision hired 18 workers and formed what is today the Kewaunee Scientific Corporation. Their goal was ambitious: build a superior line of laboratory furniture and accessories. Kewaunee Scientific Corporation is a recognized leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of Laboratory and technical furniture products. Laboratory furniture products include both steel and wood cabinetry, fume hoods, flexible systems, and worksurfaces. Technical furniture products include work stations, workbenches, computer enclosures, and network storage systems. The Company's corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Statesville, North Carolina. The Company also has subsidiaries in Singapore and Bangalore, India that serve the Asian markets.

Sterilite was founded in 1939 as a partnership between Earl Tupper (inventor of Tupperware) and brothers Saul and Edward Stone. The Stone family still owns and operates Sterilite. Known as a maker of home-storage items, Sterilite began by making plastic heels. Shoes that melted were not a smashing success, so it eventually honed in on plastic housewares. The company specializes in food-storage containers (pitchers, tumblers), laundry and utility items (clothes baskets, trash cans), and home-storage and organizational items (tote boxes, storage drawers). Its products are sold through big-box and discount retailers the likes of Target.

Under Armour, Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Under Armour, Inc. develops, markets, and distributes performance apparel, footwear, and accessories for men, women, and youth primarily in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It offers products made from moisture-wicking synthetic fabrics designed to regulate body temperature regardless of weather conditions. The company provides its products in three fit types: compression (tight fitting), fitted (athletic cut), and loose (relaxed) extending across the sporting goods, outdoor, and active lifestyle markets. Its footwear offerings comprise football cleats; and baseball, lacrosse, and softball cleats and slides. The company also provides baseball batting, football, golf, and running gloves, as well as licenses bags, socks, headwear, and eyewear that are designed to be used and worn before, during, and after competition. Under Armour sells its products through retail stores, as well as directly to consumers through its own retail outlets and specialty stores, Website, and catalogs.

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