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.

Owned by John Anderson, Topa has about 40 businesses involved in auto dealerships, beer distribution, insurance, real estate, and more. Topa's beverage operations include Ace Beverage, Mission Beverages, and Paradise Beverages; the firm dominates the Hawaiian beer market. Brands sold include all major US brews and leading US imports, including Guinness, Heineken, and Anheuser-Busch InBev products. Anderson started in 1956 as a distributor of Hamm's beer. UCLA's Anderson School of Business, to which Anderson donated $15 million, is named for him.

On May 1, 2007 Republic Beverage Company and National Distributing Company combined their businesses in seventeen states and the District of Columbia to form Republic National Distributing Company. RNDC is an organization built on the strong foundations of two long-term, well-established family owned companies.Republic Beverage Company was founded in 1996 as a result of a merger of the Block and Dreeben families and the Goldring family. The Block family began doing business in Texas in 1939 under the leadership of Ed Block. Newman Goldring founded the N. Goldring Corporation in Florida in 1898. Later, Stephen Goldring expanded the N. Goldring base in Florida by opening Magnolia Marketing Company in Louisiana.Today, RNDC is the second largest distributor of premium wine and spirits in the U.S., with wholly-owned operations in Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. RNDC is also partners in joint-ventures in Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina. In total, RNDC employs more than 6,000 individuals nationwide.

Kao Brands Company, a subsidiary of Japan's Kao Corporation, was established in 1882 as a maker of coconut oil soap. The company, pronounced "cow," now formulates and manufactures a wide range of personal care products for men and women. Its brand names include Jergens, Cur�l, Bior�, John Frieda, Guhl, and Ban. Kao Brands' Jergens body wash became popular when liquid soap hit the market. Kao Brands, which sells its products in more than 50 countries, was bought by the American Brands Company in 1970 and the Kao Corporation in 1988.

CA Botana International is a contract manufacturer of skin care products using sea extracts, plants, herbs, and vitamins. It carries more than 1,000 products (created from some 900 ingredients), which it packages for private label customers, such as dermatologists, spas, retail outlets, and plastic surgeons. The firm also sells its own brands, each designed to cater to different types of customers. The brands include Ambrosia (sun care, moisturizing agents), Doctor D. Schwab (anti-aging, herbal serums, cellulite/firming), and Sea Enzyme (face care, wellness products, hair care). Additionally, the company makes Botana Man and Miss Cabrosia fragrances.

Arizona Natural Resources was founded in 1972. It's a family-owned contract manufacturer of personal care products, such as bath and shower gels, hand and body lotions, and bath bubbles. The company also produces fragranced and aromatherapy candles, pet care products (including canine cologne and odor-eliminating candles), and fabric refresher sprays. Additionally, it is a certified manufacturer of organic products.

Gitanjali Gems doesn't do things the old fashioned way. In an industry known for tradition and family-owned firms like DeBeers, the Indian newcomer has set tradition at naught. It sources, machine cuts and sets, and retails diamond and gem jewelry offering a dozen brands (Gili, Asmi, D'Damas, Rivaaz) across several retail channels, instead of trying to build the prestige of one name. Gitanjali has production plants in India, Thailand, Vietnam, and China with marketing outposts in Europe, Japan, and the US. Retail outlets include Gitanjali Lifestyle stores (1,200+), Samuels and Rogers in the US, mass merchants, and catalogs. The company has also launched a designer apparel label under the Gitanjali name.

The family-owned and -operated company was founded by Charles Evans in 1952 to sell serums and vaccines for farm animals. United Pharmacal Co. (UPCO) has answered the call of the wild, as well as the domesticated. The company provides some 15,000 pet products online and through its two catalogs: a full catalog and one specifically for feathered friends. UPCO ships books and training tools, collars, grooming supplies, medicines, food, and toys for family members as big as horses or as small as hamsters.

Thomas Pink designs, makes, and retails stylish upscale men's and women's clothing and their accoutrements in about 20 US locations. It boasts more locations from Europe to Asia. Thomas Pink operates the world's largest shirt shop on New York's Madison Avenue and has expanded its US presence when LVMH acquired the company outright in 2002. Additional US locations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Michigan, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Tapping into its feminine side Thomas Pink began making clothing for women in 2003.

Pepsi MidAmerica Co. is a leading distributor of beverages from PepsiCo, including bottled water, soft drinks, and other thirst quenchers. The company also distributes brands from other beverage makers, including Dr Pepper Snapple Group (7UP, Dr Pepper) and Unilever (Lipton Tea). Pepsi MidAmerica serves customers in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee; it also supplies and services soft-drink vending machines. The company has been owned and operated by three generations of the Crisp family.

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