It was the 1980s: Robin Williams wore rainbow suspenders, Tom Hanks wore a dress, and if you were hot, you had the Jordache look. Fast-forward more than two decades: Jordache Enterprises offers jeans, apparel, and accessories (shoes, purses) primarily for teens, mostly through decidedly non-designer retailers, such as Wal-Mart. It also licenses the Jordache name for eyewear and luggage. Jordache makes jeans under license for Gasoline, Sasson, KIKIT, FUBU, and U.S. Polo Association. Its premium Jordache Vintage line is sold at specialty stores. In 1977 a New York City store, owned by brothers and Israeli immigrants Joe, Ralph, and Avi Nakash, was burned and looted; insurance enabled them to launch Jordache.

Ball Corporation was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Ball Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, supplies metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food, and household products industries worldwide. It offers aluminum and steel beverage cans for producers of beer, carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, fruit juices, energy drinks, and other beverages. The company also produces two-piece and three-piece steel food containers for packaging vegetables, fruit, soups, meat, seafood, nutritional products, pet food, and other products; aerosol cans, paint cans, and custom and specialty containers; and polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene plastic containers used primarily in beverage and food packaging, as well as plastic containers for industrial and household product applications. In addition, it develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, and other technologies for the civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets. Further, the company provides technical services and products to government agencies, prime contractors, and commercial organizations for a range of information warfare, electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training, and space systems needs.

Garry and Deb Coburn founded G & D in 1982. G & D Enterprises is a manufacturing agent, acting as a liaison between producers of mostly pharmaceutical, health, and beauty products and their distributors. The company also offers other services, acting as a distributor to drug stores, department stores, and large-scale grocers and wholesalers and managing other companies' warehouse stock. Its distribution network reaches from one end of Canada to the other. G & D also makes its own over-the-counter products, such as the Maybe Baby ovulation testing device, Trustex condoms, and Sox (for men, women, and children).

Swire Coca-Cola USA bottles and distributes a full line of Coca-Cola products, as well as Danone's evian bottled water and a number of Dr Pepper Snapple Group's brands, such as Dr Pepper and Hawaiian Punch. The bottler also supplies energy drinks including Full Throttle, Boo-Koo, Monster, Rockstar, and Tab Energy. It has some 30 sales centers located in 10 western states. The company operates two bottling factories, one in Utah and one in Idaho and has a fleet of about 500 trucks. It produces and distributes 40 million cases of beverage to five million thirsty consumers every year. Swire Coca-Cola is part of Swire Pacific Limited, based in Hong Kong.

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.

Pookie Products was founded in 2001 by two New York University sorority sisters. Combine cosmetics and terms of endearment, and you get Pookie Products. The firm makes and markets lip balms using beeswax, shea butter, and natural oils such as avocado, apricot kernel, sweet almond, and coconut. Balms include its champagne-flavored I Do lip balm, It's a Boy! and It's a Girl! mini-tins, mint and vanilla Apookalips, as well as private labeling balms for wedding parties, bridal showers, and other special occasions. The company's products, which have expanded to include bath and body products and apparel, are available in specialty retailers (like Anthropologie) and through its online store.

Graphic Packaging Holding was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. Graphic Packaging Holding Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides paperboard packaging solutions for various products to multinational food, beverage, and other consumer products companies. The company operates in three segments: Paperboard Packaging, Multi-Wall Bag, and Specialty Packaging. The Paperboard Packaging segment produces a range of paperboard grades convertible into folding cartons, which are used primarily to protect products, such as food, detergents, paper products, beverages, and health and beauty aids. This segment also designs, manufactures, and installs packaging machinery related to the assembly of cartons, as well as produces and sells corrugating medium and kraft paper from paperboard mills.The Multi-Wall Bag segment converts kraft and specialty paper into multi-wall bags, consumer bags, and specialty retail bags to ship and protect various industrial and consumer products, including fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, and pet and food products. The Specialty Packaging segment provides flexible packaging, label solutions, laminations, and ink coatings. This segment converts a range of technologically advanced films for use in the food, pharmaceutical, and industrial end markets. This segment offers flexible packaging paper, and metallicized paper labels and heat transfer labels for use in various consumer applications. Graphic Packaging Holding operates in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company was formerly known as Graphic Packaging Corporation and changed its name to Graphic Packaging Holding Company in March 2008.

Founded in 1894 by Tomas Bata, his son escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and fled to Canada, bringing with him some 100 "Bata pioneers" to re-establish his family's formerly profitable shoe business. Now enjoying a worldwide presence, the shoe maker operates some 5,000 company-owned stores in more than 50 countries. Bata produces millions of its own brand of shoes annually in facilities located mainly in India. Donations of funds and shoes from the company's owners, the Bata family, built the world's largest shoe museum in Toronto (one of the city's biggest tourist spots).

Abbeycrest Plc company was founded in 1979. Abbeycrest's UK jewelry production is officially past its peak. One of the UK's leading jewelry designers and manufacturers, the company's products are sold through retailers, such as discount giant ASDA. In addition to gemsets (gold jewelry inset with gemstones, such as rings, necklaces, and pendants), Abbeycrest makes jewelry parts, including clasps and chains. The company boasts manufacturing facilities in Bangkok, Thailand, and the UK. Abbeycrest has been restructuring its business and transitioning all production to Thailand (named Abbeycrest Thailand Limited or ATL) in order to focus its UK operations on distribution and other functions.

Unicharm Corporation company, which is expanding in Europe and the Middle East, was founded in 1961. Unicharm is out to charm your pants on. The company makes personal care products for the disposable diaper, feminine hygiene, and adult incontinence markets. Its pant-like diapers -- comprised of Moony Man and Mamy Poko brands, among others -- command nearly 50% of the domestic market. Unicharm's other product divisions include feminine, health, and pet care and household cleaning products, as well as food packaging. Unitec Corporation owns about 18% of the company, which does the majority of its business in Japan (responsible for about two-thirds of revenue) and Asia.

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