Von Zipper makes sunglasses and goggles for sports-driven entertainment and for wearers who care about their flair. The company distributes its products through its own Web site, as well as through select eyewear and surf/skate/snow/hipster specialty stores. Von Zipper also peddles its eyewear and goggles through Web sites in the US and in several countries worldwide. Founded in 1999 by Orange County, California, surf and sunglass veterans, Von Zipper was bought by Aussie surfwear company Billabong in 2001.

Tom's of Maine hopes that natural health will lead to corporate wealth. The company has made its living, and its reputation, by selling its flagship toothpaste brand (responsible for more than half of company sales), as well as mouthwash, dental floss, deodorant, soap, and shaving cream made from natural ingredients and distributed in environmentally-friendly packaging. The firm gives 10% of its pre-tax profits to charitable organizations and encourages its employees to use 5% of their paid time doing volunteer work. CEO Tom Chappell and his wife, VP Kate Chappell, founded Tom's of Maine in 1970. Seeking entry into the specialty toothpaste market, Colgate acquired the company for about $100 million in 2006.

In 1916, Keds created an American Classic: the first shoe with a soft rubber sole and coined the term "sneaker." This original sneaker, called "the Champion" has remained a style icon for over ninety years. Worn by Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O, and consistently celebrated by Vogue, Elle and Women's Wear Daily, Keds continues to attract fashion designers, stylists and top editors in the industry with their classic, authentic style. Today, a new generation has discovered the Keds brand, which is helping to inspire a collective spirit of new American style, youthful optimism, collaboration and togetherness.

The Warnaco Group, Inc. company was founded in 1874 and is based in New York, New York. The Warnaco Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, markets, licenses, and distributes intimate apparel, sportswear, and swimwear worldwide. It provides sportswear for men, women, and juniors, such as jeans wear, knit and woven shirts, tops, and outerwear; intimate apparel, including bras, panties, sleepwear, loungewear, shape wear, and daywear for women, and underwear, briefs, boxers, T-shirts, loungewear, and sleepwear for men; and swimwear for men, women, juniors, and children comprising swim accessories and fitness and active apparel. The company offers its products primarily under the Calvin Klein, Speedo, Chaps, Warneres, and Olga brand names. The company distributes its products principally to wholesale customers through department stores, independent retailers, chain stores, membership clubs, specialty and other stores, mass merchandisers, and the Internet. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 902 Calvin Klein retail stores worldwide consisting of 88 full price free-standing stores, 83 outlet free-standing stores, 1 on-line store, and 730 shop-in-shop/concession stores, as well as operated 1 Speedo on-line store. It also had 586 Calvin Klein retail stores operated by third parties under retail licenses or franchise and distributor agreements.

Hadera Paper Ltd., formerly known as American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd., was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Hadera, Israel. Hadera Paper Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of paper packaging, in paper collection and recycling activities in Israel. It offers grades of paper and board, which include printing and writing paper, publication papers in reels, coated paper, recycled paper, cut-size paper for copy laser and inkjet, copy-book paper, paper for continuous forms, and paper for envelopes and direct mailing to publishers, printers, converters, and wholesalers, as well as various grades of packaging paper and board.Hadera Paper company also provides packaging products, such as folding cartons, corrugated containers, consumer packages solid board containers, and pallets to agriculture, and food and beverage industries; and markets household products, including bathroom tissues, toilet paper, kitchen towels, facial tissues, napkins, disposable table cloths, sanitary towels, panty shields, tampons, disposable baby diapers, training pants, baby wipes, disposable adult diapers, and incontinence pads through retail marketing chains, stores, and the institutional market. In addition, it offers industrial, hospital, and food service products, including towel rolls, c-fold towels, place mats, coasters, bed sheets, wadding, toilet seat covers, disposable bed-pans and urinals, sterilizing paper, bathroom tissue and paper towel dispensers, dispensers for liquid hand soaps and room deodorizing dispensers for washrooms and cleaners, detergents and cleaning products, cups and plates, and examination gloves. Further, the company provides aluminum food wraps, cling-film wraps, garbage bags, oven baking and cooking trays, office supplies, and recycled ground and palletized plastics used by the plastic products industry. It markets office supplies to businesses, governmental offices, health maintenance organizations, and banks.

The Tranzonic Companies makes and distributes personal care products, cleaning and safety products, and industrial textiles nationwide. It also manufactures private-label and brand-name products (Maxithins, Precious, and Health Guards) for other companies in the same industry and is a major manufacturer of sanitary-napkin dispensing machines. Tranzonic repackages and distributes industrial wiping materials, cleaning chemicals, and disposable work clothing through its CCP Industries subsidiary. Investment firm Linsalata Capital Partners bought Tranzonic in 1998.

Founded in 1877 by a sea captain named Helly Hansen, the eponymous company returned to Nordic ownership in late 2006 when Bahrain-based Investcorp sold the Norwegian outdoor-wear supplier to Sweden's Altor Equity Partners. The company is the British arm of Helly Hansen, a Norwegian maker of waterproof apparel for outdoor sports and work. The firm's foul-weather offerings feature three layers of apparel to keep the wearer warm and dry. The base layer uses polypropylene yarn that wicks moisture away from the body. The company makes clothing for men, women, and children.

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.

The Stephan Company manages a vast portfolio of products as a maker of branded and private-label personal care items. Its brands include Cashmere Bouquet, Quinsana Medicated, Balm Barr, Stretch Mark Crme, Protein 29, Stiff Stuff, Wildroot, and Frances Denney. It sells them worldwide by mail order and in retail stores and salons through its subsidiaries, including Morris Flamingo-Stephan, Old 97, American Manicure, Lee Stafford Beauty Group, and Williamsport Barber and Beauty Corp., and Scientific Research Products, among others. Chairman, president, and CEO Frank Ferola owns about 20% of the firm, which bought Bowman Beauty and Barber Supply Company in August 2008.

The Forever Group, doing business as Forever Natural, wants men, women, and children to lather and smear on its balms, lotions, and potions, but it doesn't want them to put on any airs in the doing. The company is a distributor of Burt's Bees products -- and sometimes refers to itself as Burt's Bees Canada -- including those concerning bath and body care, hair care, hand and foot care, men's grooming, lip color and cosmetics, baby skin care, facial care, travel kits, and natural remedies. Forever Natural also distributes Urban Spa bath products to supermarkets and health food stores across Canada.

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