Accessory Network Group (ANG) makes and markets private-label, licensed, and branded fashion bags, small leather goods, stationery, and accessories for women, men, and children. ANG, founded in 1984, makes licensed products under such brand names as Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, and Cynthia Rowley. It owns the Ghurka leather-goods brand. It sells its items in department, discount, and specialty stores in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Australia. ANG distributes from facilities in New Jersey, California, and Canada. Its Brand Science unit acquired handbag maker LeSportsac through an alliance with ITOCHU Corporation in 2006.

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.

S. B. Foot Tanning Co. company, founded by Silas B. Foot, is a tannery that offers products made from cow hides. A subsidiary of Red Wing Shoe Company, the firm uses cattle hides sourced in the US to make leather items. Its primary products include such as items as camouflage, upholstery, and footwear. Superior to cloth and canvas, S. B. Foot Tanning's camouflage-pattern leather is in demand by sportsmen, while its natural, polished full-grain leather is used to make upscale upholstery (chairs and couches). Its footwear leathers are used to make casual shoes, men's dress shoes, safety shoes, western boots, and work boots.

Instead hopes that women adopt its alternative to pads and tampons. Its primary product, the Instead Softcup, is a feminine hygiene product that sits inside a woman's body and collects, rather than absorbs, menstrual flow. Developed by a group of reproductive health scientists, the Softcup is sold in major US drugstores (including chain stores Wal-Mart and Target) and through its Web site. It's also distributed in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, and about a half-dozen other countries worldwide. Instead is also researching the possibility of using a version of its Softcup as a contraceptive device.

Founded in 1919, family-owned CalCedar is a leading supplier of wooden slats used in making wood-cased pencils, including art and cosmetic varieties. The company also makes its own brand pencils (California Republic Stationers and ForestChoice) and pencils for other customers. CalCedar's products are sold worldwide. The company has moved its slat production plant from California to China and also operates a factory in Thailand. CalCedar sold its Duraflame log business, which it invented in 1969, to Clorox in 1978 and has exited the supply siding and decking business.

Safilo was established by the Tabacchi family in 1934 after it bought Italy's first lens and frame production plant, itself founded in 1878. The world's #2 eyewear maker behind Luxottica, Safilo makes and markets eyeglass frames, sports goggles, sunglasses, and accessories. It sells its high-end products through sporting goods stores and opticians in some 130 countries under its own Smith, Carrera, Oxydo, Blue Bay, and Safilo brands and under license for Gucci, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, and Marc Jacobs, among others. Safilo also sells eyewear through about 155 swank Solstice stores in the US and another 50 shops in Mexico.

Spotless Group Limited provides business support services to businesses throughout Australia, New Zealand, the US and about 30 other countries. Its offerings include food services, facilities management, cleaning, laundry services, and print management. Spotless also is a leading maker of clothes hangers and produces labels and packaging for the garment manufacturing and retail sectors. Its customers hail from across the industry spectrum, including education, health care, government, and airports. Recent office openings in Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Morocco have helped extend Spotless' global reach.

Donna Karan International (DKI) defines the metropolitan flair that bridges the difference between stylishly casual and conventional. The firm designs and sells men's and women's clothes, including suits, sportswear, accessories, and shoes, under the Donna Karan New York, DKNY, DKNY Jeans, and DKNY Active labels. DKI sells to upscale department and specialty stores and through its own retail stores. It also licenses third parties to run most of its international stores. Fashion leviathan LVMH holds a majority stake in Donna Karan, although designer Karan still remains in creative control of its fashion lines and is helping to rejuvenate her namesake brand.

Luen Thai is one of the world's leading apparel supply chain services providers. The company manufactures apparel -- primarily of knit wear and woven wear-- on an OEM basis. The company operates12 manufacturing facilities and 14 offices in nine countries. It produces 50 million pieces annually. Products range from women's fashion, sleepwear, undergarments, pants and shorts, sports and active wear, and children's clothing. It develops, manufactures, and delivers apparel for brands that include Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Limited Brands, Dillard's, and Fast Retailing.

Bemis Company, Inc. was founded in 1858 and is based in Neenah, Wisconsin. Bemis Company, Inc. manufactures and sells flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Flexible Packaging and Pressure Sensitive Materials. The Flexible Packaging segment manufactures multilayer flexible polymer film structures and laminates for food, medical, and personal care products, and non-food applications utilizing vacuum or modified atmosphere packaging. It also offers blown and cast stretchfilm products; carton sealing tapes and application equipment; custom thermoformed plastic packaging; multiwall paper bags; printed paper roll stock; and bag closing materials.The Pressure Sensitive Materials segment manufactures pressure sensitive adhesive coated paper and film substrates for label, graphic, and technical markets. Its label market products include narrow-Web rolls of pressure sensitive paper, film, and metalized film printing stocks used in high-speed printing and die-cutting of primary package labeling and secondary or promotional decoration, as well as for data processing stocks, bar code labels, and laser printing applications. This segment's graphic market products include pressure sensitive films used for decorative signage through computer-aided plotters, digital and screen printers, and photographic overlaminate and mounting materials. Its products for technical markets comprise micro-thin film adhesives used in delicate electronic parts assembly and pressure sensitives utilizing foam and tape based stocks. Bemis Company serves food and beverage, chemical, agribusiness, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care, electronics, automotive, construction, graphic industries, and other consumer goods markets.

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