Nautica sails the deep blue seas to provide classic American apparel. The upscale clothier designs, makes, and retails men's sportswear, outerwear, underwear, swimwear, and sleepwear. It also licenses its name for apparel and accessories. The company reversed course and tweezed women's wear from its wardrobe to focus on its men's sportswear, licensed products, and Web site. It still sells women's sportswear and sleepwear through Nautica.com and in select Nautica outlet stores. Namesake items are sold through more than 200 licensed Nautica stores worldwide; V.F. operates some 100 Nautica stores in US outlet malls. The manufacturer and retailer is owned by V.F. Corporation.

BeneFit Cosmetics will make you look lovely, and it's for a good cause. BeneFit's products have a madcap glamour-girl sensibility. Clever names ("ooh la lift") and pin-up lasses are found on nearly every package. BeneFit sells its lines through more than 1,000 counters (called "Beauty Bars") in department store locations worldwide, at beauty specialty store Sephora, and about a dozen dedicated boutiques. BeneFit Cosmetics, whose celebrity-endorsed Benetint product brought the fledgling company into the mainstream, was founded in 1976 in San Francisco by sisters Jean Ann and Jane Ann Ford as The Face Place. Glamour leviathan LVMH holds a 70% stake.

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a 52%-owned subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever, has been working its way into India since 1888, when it started selling its products there. As India's largest consumer goods firm, HUL markets more than 400 brands that include beverages, food, and home and personal care goods. Some of its names include Kwality Wall's ice cream, Sunlight dish detergent, Lifebuoy soap, Lipton tea, Pepsodent toothpaste, and Surf laundry detergent. HUL markets atta (a type of meal), maize, rice, and salt, and its export division ships castor oil and fish. The company also sells bottled water and over-the-counter healthcare items.

Kiehl's Since 1851 makes natural hair and skin care products and lipstick and sells them strictly by word of mouth. Pretty strictly, anyway. Kiehl's doesn't advertise much or go door-to-door, and its rigid marketing policy keeps its products out of all but a few exclusive retailers -- stores such as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman. The company's East Village location in Manhattan is frequented by celebrity hairdressers, entertainers, and others willing to brave long checkout lines. Its products are also available at Kiehl's stores nationwide and overseas. Customers can order through its catalog and by phone.

OraLabs wants to help. Known for its Ice Drops line of breath-freshening products, the company's diverse roster of goods includes candy, lip balms, breath fresheners, hand sanitizers, and sunscreen. It also makes private-label products and operates a contract packaging lip-balm business. The firm's merchandise is sold throughout the US and in international markets. Products are sold to wholesale distributors, as well as directly to mass retailers, grocery stores, and drug stores. President Gary Schlatter took the company private in late 2006.

People's Garment manufactures fashion apparel for men and women, including sports and swimwear. Established in 1980, the company produces clothing for sale under such global brand names as Arrow, Lacoste, BSC, Primo Linea, Arena, Streamline, and Elle. People's Garment also makes several kinds of woven and knit fabrics from a handful of factories. The company distributes its products through ICC International (of which it owns a portion), trading firms, and directly to customers in the US, Europe, and Asia.

K-Swiss Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, California. K-Swiss Inc. designs, develops and markets an array of athletic footwear for high performance sports use, fitness activities and casual wear under the K-Swiss brand. It also designs and manufactures footwear under the Royal Elastics and the Palladium brands. Royal Elastics, a wholly owned subsidiary, is a manufacturer of slip-on, laceless footwear. Palladium SAS (Palladium), a 57% owned subsidiary, is a designer, developer and marketer of footwear for adventurers for all terrains. In July 2008, the Company purchased a 57% equity interest in Palladium.

Domtar Corporation engages in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing uncoated freesheet paper; papergrade, fluff, and specialty pulp; and lumber and wood products in North America. The company operates in three segments: Papers, Paper Merchants, and Wood. The Papers segment offers business papers, including copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with ink jet and laser printers, photocopiers, and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms, and digital papers. It also provides commercial printing and publication papers, including uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques, and coated groundwood used in offset presses and digital printing; and publication papers comprising tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels, and financial documents.This segment also offers converting and specialty papers, which consist of base papers that are converted into finished products, such as envelopes, tablets, business forms, and data processing/computer forms. It sells papers to paper merchants, office equipment manufacturers, stationers, retail outlets, commercial printers, converters, and end users. The Paper Merchants segment offers business, printing and publishing papers, and industrial products to small, medium and large commercial printers, publishers, quick copy firms, catalog and retail companies, and institutional entities. The Wood segment manufactures and markets lumber and wood-based products, as well as manages forest resources. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

CEO James LaCrosse and director Norma Johnston own National Wine & Spirits, which was founded in 1934. National Wine & Spirits is one of the Midwest's largest wine and liquor distributors. Serving 36,000 locations with its fleet of 350 delivery vehicles, the company distributes to restaurants, liquor stores, and beverage retailers in Indiana and Michigan. The distributor carries more than 120,000 products and its suppliers include Fortune Brands (Jim Beam), Diageo (Bailey's), and Beringer Blass Wine Estates.

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.

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