Clairol is big on hair care -- covering up the gray and helping to keep non-blondes blond. P&G-Clairol specializes in making and marketing hair-coloring products, hair spray, shampoo, conditioner, and hair-styling items. Some of its brands include Herbal Essences, Nice 'n Easy, Hydrience, Natural Instincts for Men, Loving Care, and Balsam Color. Besides all-over color, Clairol also sells highlighting items. It markets its products in the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The company's one of the larger acquisitions that Procter & Gamble has made. Since then, the division has been woven into its beauty segment, which logged more than $26 billion in fiscal 2009.

L'Oréal Canada company, founded in 1958 as Cosmair Canada, develops cosmetic products in four main areas: consumer, professional, luxury, and active. In addition to products, the company manages the L'Oreal Canada Academy for training beauty care professionals. It operates a manufacturing plant as well as a distribution center in Montreal. L'Oreal Paris, a division of L'Oreal Canada, has sponsored Canadian Idol and LG Fashion Week. L'Oreal Canada provides the next best thing to the fountain of youth. A wholly owned subsidiary of France-based L'Oreal SA, L'Oreal Canada manufactures and manages about 20 cosmetic brand names, including Cacharel, Kerastase, Lanceme, Matrix, Ralph Lauren, and Redken.

Hussey Seating Company was founded in 1835 and is based in North Berwick, Maine. Hussey Seating Company manufactures spectator seating solutions for schools, government, universities, auditoriums, arenas, entertainment, sports stadiums, performing arts centers, and places of worship. It specializes in safety surveys, inspections, factory certified parts, maintenance options, operational enhancements, custom fabrication, accessories, retro-fit power options, safety rails, and renovation and repair services. The company offers telescopic gymnasium seating, telescopic platforms and metro chairs, upholstered seating, stadium chairs, multiple seating, fixed and portable audience seating, and stage equipment. Its products are also used in cafetoriums, corporate convention centers, gymnasiums, lecture halls, and natatoriums.

Anthony for Men is a manufacturer and marketer of men's skin care and bath and body products. The firm's products are natural and allergy-tested and include Action, Anthony Logistics for Men, and Anthony Sport for Men face, shaving, body, and hair care items. The line is available in almost 2,000 stores, including Sephora and Nordstrom, in some 25 countries, and online. Products include glycerin cleansing bars, facial scrubs, body sprays, astringent, lip balm, razor burn repair, algae facial cleanser, alcohol-free deodorant, mud scrub exfoliating bar, and hair gel. The company also makes a Little Men line of hair and body wash for babies. A percentage of proceeds is donated to prostate cancer charities.

Previously owned by Prada and Change Capital Partners (CCP), the minimalist fashion house is owned by GIBO, the European unit of Japanese apparel group Onward Holdings. GIBO acquired the company in 2008. Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons now fills Jil Sander's shoes as creative director. The company sells women's and men's apparel, as well as accessories, footwear, jewelry, eyewear, and fragrances. Established in 1978, it also operates about a dozen stores, in addition to 50 franchised locations worldwide, and sells its products in such high-end shops as Bergdorf Goodman and Barney's.

Inter Parfums, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Inter Parfums, Inc. and subsidiaries manufacture, market, and distribute various fragrances and fragrance related products. The company offers products under the Burberry, Lanvin, Van Cleef & Arpels, Paul Smith, S.T. Dupont, Quiksilver/Roxy, Christian Lacroix, and Nickel brands. It also offers cosmetics and skin care products under license agreements with brand owners. The company sells fragrance products under trademarks owned by the company or pursuant to license or other agreements with the owners of the Gap, Banana Republic, New York & Company, Brooks Brothers, bebe, and Jordache trademarks. In addition, it offers alternative designer fragrances and personal care products; mass market fragrances under proprietary brand names, as well as a license for the Jordache brand; Aziza line of eye shadow kits, mascara, and pencils for the young teen market; and a line of health and beauty aids under the Intimate and Johnson Parker brands, including shampoo, conditioner, hand lotion, and baby oil. The company sells its products to company-owned bebe stores in the United States and Canada, as well as to specialty and department stores, perfumeries, specialty retailers, mass-market retailers, supermarkets, and wholesalers and distributors worldwide. It distributes its products through independent distribution companies, as well as through various duty-free operators, such as airports and airlines, and select vacation destinations.

The office products maker was founded in 1952 by its namesake, Peter Pepper. Peter Pepper Products company designs and manufactures office furniture and accessories, including clocks, coat racks, magazine holders, tables, benches, waste baskets -- even planters. Peter Pepper also imports items from Canada, Europe, and Asia. Products are sold through corporate and government contract sales, as well as through retailers (which have included Boise Office Solutions, Ivan Allen Workspace, and Herman Miller). The company operates two facilities in Southern California, runs a showroom in Chicago, and has factory representatives across the US.

AptarGroup, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Crystal Lake, Illinois. AptarGroup, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells product dispensing systems. It operates in three segments: Beauty & Home, Closures, and Pharma. The Beauty & Home segment primarily sells pumps and aerosol valves, and accessories to the personal care, household, and food/beverage markets; pumps and decorative components to the fragrance/cosmetic market; and fragrance/cosmetic and personal care fine mist spray pumps, personal care lotion pumps, and continuous spray aerosol valves. The Closures segment provides dispensing closures and non-dispensing closures primarily to the personal care, food/beverage, and household markets. The Pharma segment offers pumps and metered dose inhaler valves for allergy, cold, or flu treatments to the pharmaceutical market. The company sells and markets its products through sales force, independent representatives, and distributors in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and Thailand.

Marietta makes miniatures -- those little packages of personal care amenities (soaps, dental and hair-care products, and other items) found in hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns. The company also distributes brand-name (Pantene, Vaseline, Yardley of London) and private-label (Fleur de Lis, Lord & Mayfair) products to gift shops, the health-care market, correctional institutions, and military bases. Using its sample-size packaging know-how, the company makes trial-size units for other companies' products, as well. Marietta went public in 1986. When corporate officers were convicted of fraud in 1996, it was acquired by BFMA Holding, which, in turn, sold the company to private equity firm Ares Management in 2004.

Bare Escentuals company, which rolled out its bareMinerals makeup brand in 1976 along with its first retail store, develops, markets, and sells natural cosmetics, skin care, and body care items. Brand names include bareMinerals, Buxom, md formulations, RareMinerals, and its namesake line. Bare Escentuals sells its products in the US through about 100 company-owned shops, 800 beauty product retailers, and 1,500 spas and salons. It also has distributors in Canada, Japan, and the UK, among other European countries. Formerly STB Beauty, the company changed its name to Bare Escentuals in 2006.

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