SCA Hygiene, a division of Sweden's Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), makes and sells a comprehensive line of tissue and personal care products worldwide. It makes products such as baby diapers and incontinence, feminine hygiene, and other absorbent tissue products. In addition to selling its products to home consumers, it sells to hotels, health care facilities, and industrial and service institutions. Hygiene products account for about 50% of the parent company's total sales. Its consumer brands include Edet, Tork, Zewa, and Velvet. The hygiene products operations are conducted through four business groups: SCA Tissue Europe, SCA Personal Care, SCA Americas, and SCA Asia Pacific.

Montres Rolex makes watches recognized worldwide as accurate, durable, expensive, and often-imitated. Founded by Hans Wilsdorf in 1905, the Swiss company is credited with making the wristwatch popular. Rolex -- the first to create a waterproof, airtight, and dustproof watch -- makes men's and women's watches, stopwatches, pocket watches, and clocks. Its brands include Explorer II, Day-Date, Yacht-Master, GMT-Master II, Cosmograph Daytona, Submariner, and others. Its gold, bronze, and stainless steel watches are available with diamonds or other precious stones. Rolex watches are only sold through authorized Rolex dealers.

Double Two is banking safely on the success of its shirts, not on a four-the-hard-way crap shoot. Originally called Double Two because of an innovative design that included two sets of collars and two sets of cuffs, the company has since evolved into a designer and producer of a full range of men's and women's apparel, including pants, skirts, jeans, and suits, though its focus remains primarily on shirts. Products are manufactured in Yorkshire, UK, as well as Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Double Two is owned by The Wakefield Shirt Group.

Hamilton Fixture Company was founded in 1959, providing counters to banks, post offices, and other retailers. Hamilton Fixture company designs and makes custom display cases and other fixtures for retailers. It uses such materials as wood, metal, glass, wire, and acrylic. Customers have included Barnes & Noble, Hollywood Video, Starbucks, T.J. Maxx, and Wal-Mart . Hamilton Fixture manufactures, warehouses, and distributes its products through 750,000 sq. ft. of facilities in Ontario, California, and Hamilton, Ohio.

New Wave Group was founded in 1990 by Torsten Jansson, who remains the group's largest shareholder as well as its chairman and CEO. This new wave group has a lot of style -- it isn't stuck in the 1980s with A Flock of Seagulls haircut. The retail company boasts a portfolio of about 40 brands in Europe of promotional apparel and gifts, work clothes, sports and athletic wear, men's and women's casual wear, shoes, glassware, and home décor. Its brands include Cutter & Buck (golf apparel), James Harvest (sportswear), Sköna Marie (shoes), Orrefors Kosta Boda (glassware), and ProJob (work clothes). The company also is licensed to sell the Easton, Speedo, and Umbro brands in Northern Europe.

Crescent Cardboard was founded as the Chicago Matboard Company in 1902 by Charles T. Ozmun, whose descendants still own the company. Crescent Cardboard Company has built a business in an artful way. It makes and markets matboard, mounting board, presentation boards, posterboard, and art papers used in drawing, fine art, framing, and graphic applications. Besides its headquarters, Crescent Cardboard has additional locations in Phoenix, and internationally in Germany, the UK, and China. The company's products are sold in more than 100 countries.

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.

J. Choo, which does business as Jimmy Choo, gained its original notoriety from celebs strutting in the strappy soles down Oscar-night carpets and across Fashion Week runways. Still, Choo caters to self-proclaimed divas. The firm designs and manufactures shoes, distributing them through about 30 of its own standalone stores and some 150 high-end retail outlets. During the company's first buyout in 2001, Mr. Choo lost his toehold as chief designer. TowerBrook Capital Partners and Jimmy Choo management bought out Lion Capital's lion's share of Jimmy Choo for more than $364 million in February 2007.

Adolfo Domínguez company designs, makes, and distributes fashionable apparel aimed mostly at upper-middle-class 30- to 45-year-olds. Adolfo Domínguez boasts more than 300 owned and franchised stores located in about 15 countries. About 230 of the stores are in Spain. In addition to its men's and women's apparel, the company's products portfolio also includes cosmetics, eyewear, luggage, perfume, watches, and other items. Through licensing agreements with several firms, the company also takes in royalties through sales of cosmetics, eyewear, and other items. Adolfo Domínguez owns about a third of his namesake company.

Marc Ecko is an edgy fashion firm that appeals to urban, street-savvy youths, extreme sports fans, and hip-hop stars. Its rhinoceros logo graces everything from men's and women's sportswear to such items as (licensed) bags, eyewear, footwear, leather goods, and outerwear. Ecko, with such brands as *ecko unltd. and Zoo York, also boasts boys' and girls' clothing. Ecko's wares are sold in department and specialty stores and in about 30 company outlet stores in 20 states and Puerto Rico. Distributors peddle the rhino gear worldwide. Chairman and designer Marc Ecko started the company in 1993 with a line of six T-shirts.

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