Founded in 1885 by Russian immigrant Barnett Berwin, Berwin & Berwin is a leading supplier of men's suits in the UK. The family-run company manufactures more than 18,000 suits per week and supplies major retailers including Next, Austin Reed, Ted Baker, and Moss Bros. While its primary market is men's suitware, Berwin & Berwin is seeking to grow its women's tailored garment business. The company has several factories in Hungary and China. In 2004 Berwin & Berwin signed a deal to operate men's suit concessions in every House of Fraser store in the UK. Run by Simon Berwin, the firm owns about 30% of menswear retailer Moss Bros Group.

Founded in 1845 by Count Antoine Norbert de Patek, Patek Philippe has since continued to innovate each year, from its first (a minute-repeating pocket watch) to its last (a watch that can replicate the chimes of Big Ben, calculate the phases of the moon, and follow the changing date of Easter). Far beyond even the fanciest Rolex -- a basic Patek Philippe runs about $17,000, and that's without the company's renowned "complications." Watches are sold through specialty dealers worldwide, such as Tiffany, Tourneau, and Henri Stern. The Charles and Jean Stern family has owned Patek Philippe for some 50 years.

Manhattan Beer Distributors serves more than 20,000 accounts through its five operational sites, one each in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Long Island, and in the Hudson Valley, delivering more than 28 million cases of beer every year. The company's delivery area encompasses 15 counties in the metro NYC area. It manages a fleet of more than 500 delivery trucks and other vehicles. In addition to national brands, the company imports and supplies beers from all points of the globe -- products from 40 beverage companies in all. In addition to beer, the company also wholesales wine, cider, soda, energy drinks, and bottled water.

Alticor was formed in 2000 as a holding company and operates five businesses: direct-selling giant Amway, Web-based sales firm Amway Global (formerly Quixtar), Amway Hotel Corp. (corporate development for Alticor and affiliates), upscale cosmetics company Gurwitch Products, and Access Business Group (manufacturing, logistics services). Access Business' biggest customers are Amway and Amway Global, but Access also serves outsiders. Amway, which accounts for most of Alticor's revenues, sells more than 450 different products through some 3 million independent distributors. Amway Global products online. Alticor is owned by Amway founders, the DeVos and Van Andel families.

Vera Bradley Designs was formed in 1982 by friends Patricia Miller and Barbara Bradley Baekgaard when they realized a lack of good-looking luggage for women. They named the company after Barbara's mother, Vera Bradley. Vera Bradley Designs likes its customers to carry around lots of baggage. It designs and makes quilted handbags and travel bags, as well as travel accessories, such as cosmetic bags, curling iron covers, and pocket wallets. The company's products are available in some 3,500 gift and specialty stores and about 30 Vera Bradley retail stores in the US. In addition to its core products, it offers licensed items, including Vera Bradley-brands rugs, eyewear, stationery, and home decor items.

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.

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.

totes>>Isotoner has the goods to keep you dry and comfortable. It makes and distributes weather gear, including umbrellas, gloves, rubber shoe covers, rain hats and raincoats, and water-resistant tote bags. It distributes them through about 30,000 department stores in the US, the UK, and France. totes>>Isotoner also operates a network of more than 100 owned outlet mall-based stores. The company bought flip flop and canvas shoe maker ESNY from E.S. Originals in 2006 and Northern Cap Holdings, which makes headwear, scarves, and gloves, in 2008. totes>>Isotoner was owned by Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. until early 2007, when MidOcean Partners acquired a majority stake for $288 million.

Richline Group company manufactures and distributes necklaces, bracelets, earrings, charms, pendants, and rings in gold, ranging from 10 to 18 karats. The merged entity has retained its existing brands, which include AuraGem (precious and semi-precious gemstone jewelry) and Leach & Garner (offering nickel-free hypo-allergenic pieces). Products are sold at thousands of jewelry retailers including Hannoush, Misiak Jewelers, and Touch of Gold. Norwest Equity Partners sold Aurafin to Berkshire Hathaway, in July 2007.

Founded 1985, Hengan International operates more than 150 sales offices throughout Mainland China. Hengan is well-positioned to benefit from rising prosperity in China but is facing rising pulp prices. Hengan International is one of China's leading personal hygiene and household paper products manufacturers. The company makes Hearttex-branded tissue and toilet papers. It also makes sanitary napkins under the brands Anerle and Anle; Anerle-branded disposable baby diapers; and disposable adult diapers under the Elderjoy name. Additionally it makes Banitore-, Bandi-, and Comfitore-branded first aid items and MissMay skin care and cleansing products.

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