Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali broke records in their adidas athletic shoes. The heart of the adidas product line is athletic shoes, but the three-stripe logo appears on apparel and other jock accoutrements. As the #2 maker of sporting goods worldwide, behind NIKE, it has inked deals with football and basketball athletes, as well as the New York Yankees, and it serves golfers through its TaylorMade-adidas Golf. The company, which has more than 1,150 retail locations, boasted sponsorship rights to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. adidas' purchase of Salomon, the French maker of ski and golf gear, was short-lived. The company sold the unit to Amer Sports Corporation and bought Reebok for some $3.8 billion.

Esselte makes paper-based filing and document management items (files, binders, folders, covers), workspace products (staplers, letter trays), and computer accessories under the Esselte, Leitz, Oxford, Pendaflex, and Xyron brands. Customers range from wholesalers and direct marketers to office superstores and mass retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target, and Staples. Esselte is controlled by equity firm J. W. Childs Associates.

The Ermenegildo Zegna group makes high-end menswear and sportswear sold at more than 400 locations around the world. Custom suits can sell for a pretty penny, and are popular with the male glitterati. Zegna also makes accessories ,such as ties, and produces a line of clothing for Gucci. Founded as a textile mill, the firm produces its own high-quality fabrics and supplies them to top designers and tailors. Zegna has expanded by opening stores worldwide and offering products online. Owned and operated by the founding Zegna family, Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia is the holding company for all group activities.

CooperVision is a leading manufacturer of contact lenses, offering a wide range of lenses that address myriad vision problems and are offered in different replacement schedules (including daily, weekly, and monthly). The company specializes in lenses for astigmatism, presbyopia, and ocular dryness. CooperVision has distribution and manufacturing facilities in about 10 countries. The firm is part of The Cooper Companies, which operates through CooperVision and CooperSurgical (diagnostic products and surgical instruments for the women's health care market).

Established as a continuous forms producer with a single press in 1964, Paris celebrates over 40 years as an industry leader for paper and business products. Paris commercial papers and custom forms have national distribution with paper merchants and distributors, while Paris consumer products are offered in more than 50,000 retail locations. Continued expansion has led to the development of new manufacturing and distribution facilities in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Chicago, and Nevada. These facilities demonstrate Paris' commitment to provide Pairs Business Company customers with the best products and service, coast to coast. At Paris Paris Business Company in business to help grow Paris Business Company customers' business.Over the years Paris has been an innovator of laser printer paper (Laser3, now named Printworks Professional), security paper (DocuGard checks & security papers) and specialty computer papers (PrintWorks). Paris also continues to specialize in the ability to design and produce custom forms to meet customer requests. Paris Business Company custom forms department is ready to meet your needs.Paris has partnered with several leading brands in the paper industry. Relationships with HP and Kodak have increased Paris Business Company product offerings in order to meet customer needs and to provide complete solutions. These product lines include inkjet, photo and specialty papers. In addition to Paris Business Company core paper product lines, Paris offers complimentary items. For the retail segment, Doc It offers fashionable polypropylene organizers, folders and binders to store and protect documents and media.

OFS Brands, Inc. was founded as a wood furniture manufacturer in 1937 and remains family-owned. OFS Brands company makes, sells, and leases office furniture. Its sells premade case goods (desks, bookcases, filing cabinets), seating, and conference room furniture under the brand names OFS, Carolina, Styline, and First Office. OFS also makes custom office furniture and display cases. The furniture is produced in about a dozen plants and is hauled by its transportation and logistics subsidiary, which transports furniture for OFS as well as other manufacturers.

Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company was founded in 1922 by the family of CEO Robert Browne. Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling company distributes Coke products, as well as selected Dr Pepper products, throughout central and northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. It also operates a vending machine service under the name Snappy Snack Vending, which supplies customers with coffee, food, soft drinks, and other snacks. Great Plains was the first Coke bottler to use water-purification as part of its process.

Buffalo Rock is a leading bottling and distribution company that supplies soft drinks and other beverages from PepsiCo, including such brands as AquaFina, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Tropicana. The company also bottles beverages from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Kraft Foods, as well as its own brands Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale and Dr. Wham. In addition to beverages, Buffalo Rock distributes food products and other supplies to customers in the foodservice industry, and it operates a food-vending distribution business. The family-owned company has more than a dozen distribution facilities serving customers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

ErgoGenesis company's ergonomically-friendly office furniture and accessories include stools, chairs, chair attachments, keyboard trays, and monitor holders. They're made under the BodyBilt and ErgoFusion names. ErgoGenesis operates a showroom and manufacturing facility in Navasota, Texas, outside Houston. Its products are sold through sales representatives around the world. President and CEO Mark McMillan started the business in 2002 after buying the assets of BodyBilt.

Samas NV (formerly Samas-Groep) specializes in creating furnishings needed for an ergonomic work environment. The company develops and supplies a wide variety of office furniture for customers throughout eastern and western Europe. Samas products include seating, storage, and desktop furniture for individual workstations, as well as meeting spaces. The company serves its clients through about 20 European operating companies. Samas started as a stationery store in the 1920s, expanded through acquisitions, and later changed its focus to office furnishing.

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