DMI Furniture makes, imports, and markets low- and mid-priced office and residential furniture. Its products include modular workstations, bookcases, desks, chairs, bedroom sets, dining tables, and home entertainment cabinets, and are marketed through its DMI Office Furniture, Wynwood Furniture, and Home Styles divisions. The Kentucky-based company, in business since 1911, sells its furniture throughout the US principally to furniture and independent retailers, distributors, catalog companies, and warehouse clubs. Flexsteel Industries owns DMI Furniture.

StonePoint Global Brands had previously been to deliver drinks; now it is to build beverage brands. The company, which changed its name in mid-2005 from StonePoint Group Limited, has traditionally bottled and distributed private- and custom-label water and carbonated beverages to food and beverage retailers, primarily in North America, but also in Asia. StonePoint shifted its focus to value-added services such as packaging, logistics, and brand management. It plans to distribute and market Northridge wines from Australia across Canada.

Symphony Holdings provides contract manufacturing services in athletic and athletic leisure footwear and apparel. Footwear includes sports shoes, casual footwear, snow boots, sandals, infant shoes, work-safety shoes, and riding-boots. Symphony produces more than one million shoes per month. The company operates about 35 production lines in factories located in Panyu, Dongguan, and Zhongshan, China as well as in Vietnam. Symphony Holdings has diversified to establish a presence in apparel and shoe retail brands, including Pony, Haggar, and Speedo China. Yue Yuen Industrial is a majority shareholder in the company -- it controls more than 50% of Symphony.

Glorious Sun Enterprises operates a major textiles and apparel business in China. The group owns three brands of casual wear including Jeanswest, Sunshine, and Old Garage. The brands target consumers in the casual wear market. Products include T-shirts, shirts, sweaters, skirts, jackets, jeans, trousers and shorts. Glorious Sun operates more than 700 retail stores in Australia, China, and New Zealand -- it is the second largest casual wear retailer in Australia in term of number of stores. The group also retails foreign casual wear in China. It operates more than 80 subsidiaries around the world. Charles Yeung founded Glorious Sun in 1974 -- it started out as a small jeans manufacturer.

Cats, dogs, hamsters, birds, and the little fish too, can all play in rambunctious style thanks to the folks at Armitages Pet Products. The company makes more than 2,000 pet accessories, food, and treats under brands such as Good Girl and Good Boy (cat and dog toys, treats, collars, bowls), Rotastak (hamster houses and runners), and Gussie (goldfish products). Armitages, which was founded more than 200 years ago and holds a Royal Warrant, operates through five manufacturing facilities throughout the UK that produce more than 85% of the company's pet provisions. Armitages exports its products to more than 60 international markets.

Wally's was founded in 1991. Wally's Natural Products wants you to stick it in your ear -- the company's handmade ear candles that is. The personal care products firm is one of the largest suppliers of ear candles in the US for removing ear wax naturally. Wally's has modernized the more than 2,000-year-old practice of ear coning by offering disposable hollow candles constructed of unbleached cotton or linen dipped in paraffin or beeswax. Its products, which include ear candles, oil, and its Practical Guide to Ear Candling, are sold at certain pharmacies, natural health food stores, and GNC, as well as through the company's Web site and other e-tailers.

Heineken was first imported into the US in 1880. The US operation offers Heineken, Amstel Light, Buckler (nonalcoholic), Murphy's Irish Stout, and Irish Amber. Not content with only a foam mustache, Heineken scored a hit with Amstel Light, one of the US's best-selling imported light beers; and as a result of its parent's 2008 acquisition (along with Carlsberg) of the former Scottish & Newcastle, Heineken USA owns the import rights for Newcastle Brown Ale. It is also the sole US importer and seller of FEMSA's beer brands, including Tecate, Dos Equis, Sol, Carta Blanca, Bohemia.

Wausau Paper Corp. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Wausau Paper Corp. manufactures, converts, and sells paper and paper products in the United States and internationally. Wausau Paper Corp. Company's Specialty Products segment produces technical specialty papers, including supercalendered backing papers for high-speed labeling machines; unsaturated masking tape base papers used to produce masking tape; food and industrial papers used as grease-resistant protective barrier papers for food packaging; interleaver papers used in steel processing and to protect polished steel after production; siliconized release papers used in pressure sensitive tapes, labels, and composites; and coating and laminating base papers used in composite construction. It sells its products to manufacturers and converters under the Wausau Paper, EcoSelect, ExperTec, DuraTec, InvenTec, ProGard, ProRedi, ProPly, and ProTec names.Wausau Paper Corp.'s Printing & Writing segment manufactures and converts fine printing and writing paper products, including uncoated printing, writing, imaging, text, cover, and board grades for commercial printers, in-plant print shops, quick printers, copy centers, and office supply and mass merchandisers under the Wausau Paper, Astrobrights, Royal, Exact, Professional Series, and Creative Collection names. These papers are used for printed and photocopied documents, such as flyers, annual reports, brochures, announcements, and greeting cards.Wausau Paper Company's Towel & Tissue segment produces and sells paper towel and tissue products for the away-from-home market, including washroom roll and folded towels, windshield folded towels, industrial wipers, dairy towels, household roll towels, and various towel, tissue, and soap dispensers, as well as other premium towel and tissue products to paper and sanitary supply distributors under the DublSoft, EcoSoft, OptiCore, Revolution, Dubl-Nature, and Dubl-Tough names.

Lazare Kaplan International specializes in cutting, polishing, and marketing premium-priced diamonds, as well as diamond jewelry. The company buys rough diamonds (primarily from Diamond Trading Company, a sales arm of De Beers), cuts and polishes the gems for maximum sparkle, and laser-inscribes the branded Lazare Diamonds with the firm's logo and an ID number. Plants in Namibia, South Africa, and Russia handle the processing. Lazare sells to wholesalers, manufacturers, and jewelry retailers worldwide.

I.C. Isaacs & Company is putting all of its jeans in one laundry basket. A leading US licensee for French designer Girbaud, the company designs and makes jeans and sportswear targeting a young, fashionable urban market. It has otherwise cleaned out its closet to focus entirely on its Girbaud brand. (In 2001 I.C. Isaacs terminated its licenses with BOSS and Beverly Hills Polo Club and discontinued its own Urban Expedition and Isaacs lines.) The company's clothes are sold in about 1,500 specialty and department stores. The family of designers Marithe Bachellerie and Franois Girbaud has increased its stake in I.C. Isaacs to about 70%, making it the company's biggest shareholder.

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