Alstyle Apparel company makes clothing under several labels, including AAA Alstyle Apparel & Activewear, Gaziani, Diamond Star, Murina, A Classic, Tennessee River, D Drive, and Hyland Headware, as well as private labels. It makes more than 50 unique items, including fleece products, hats, pants, shorts, and T-shirts. Alstyle Apparel operates more than a handful of manufacturing facilities in the US (California) and Mexico, and distributes its products from locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Its customers include mass marketers, but also screen printers and embellishers. The company is a subsidiary of business forms maker Ennis.

Founded in 1906 to make arch supports, New Balance is known for its selection of shoe widths. Besides men's and women's shoes for running, crosstraining, basketball, tennis, hiking, and golf, the firm offers fitness apparel and kids' shoes and owns leather boot maker Dunham. Chairman Jim Davis bought New Balance on the day of the 1972 Boston Marathon. New Balance Athletic Shoe runs on its everyman (and everywoman) appeal. Unlike its rivals, it shuns celebrity endorsers. By spotlighting lesser-known athletes the company claims to emphasize substance over style. The approach attracts Boomer jock clients who are less fickle than the teens chased by other shoemakers.

Daree Imports & Sales manufactures and distributes Witchcraft-brand nail care products, cosmetics, and cosmetic accessories. The company's products are available through Canadian general merchandise retailers and drug stores, such as Wal-Mart, Pharmacy Won, and London Drugs. Daree Imports also runs Gift-Pak, a wholesale distributor and importer of gourmet foods and products that one might generally find in a gift basket, such as cookies, chocolate, coffee, baby products, candles, mugs, and more.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of health and hygiene products worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, K-C Professional & Other, and Health Care. The Personal Care segment provides disposable diapers, training and youth pants, and swimpants; baby wipes; and feminine and incontinence care products, and related products. It offers its products primarily for household use under various brand names, including Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, Kotex, Lightdays, Depend, and Poise. The Consumer Tissue segment offers facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, and related products for household use under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Hakle, and Page brands.The K-C Professional & Other segment offers facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, and a range of safety products for the away-from-home marketplace under Kimberly-Clark, Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech, KleenGuard, and Kimcare brand names. The Health Care segment offers disposable health care products, such as surgical gowns, drapes, infection control products, sterilization wraps, face masks, exam gloves, respiratory products, and other disposable medical products under the brand names, including Kimberly-Clark and Ballard. The company sells its products to household market, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores, retail outlets, manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, health care establishments, and high volume public facilities. It markets its products through wholesalers, distributors, and direct sales.

Sportif USA is making its living off of the great outdoors. The family-run company, founded by John Kirsch Sr. in 1965, makes casual clothing for men and women including sportswear (ski apparel, fleece and waterproof outerwear) and clothing targeting outdoor enthusiasts (shirts, hiking shorts, jackets). It also offers organic items. Sportif's apparel collections are sold through traditional retailers, as well as through catalogs and online. The apparel company operates Aventura Clothing Co., a division run out of Sparks, Nevada. After a single-engine plane crash claimed the life of John Kirsch Sr. in 1991, his son John Kirsch Jr. (company president) took the reins of Sportif's operations.

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.

Established as a small, family-run pharmacy in 1869 by Dr. Charles Browne Fleet, today the firm makes about 100 personal health and beauty care products that are distributed to more than 100 countries globally. C.B. Fleet's offerings include feminine care, laxatives, oral care, skin care, and oral rehydration product lines sold under brand names Summer's Eve, Vera by CCS, Norforms, Clinomyn, HydraLife, BioralSuero, and Casen-Fleet, among others. It also operates several subsidiaries, such as CSS (Europe), DeWitt Personal Care (the UK), and Fleet Laboratories (Asia and Latin America).

Owner and CEO Eugen Gluck founded the company in 1955. E. Gluck Corporation company makes quartz watches that bear monikers such as Anne Klein, Nine West, and its own Armitron. Its timepieces also feature characters from Disney, Mattel, and Warner Bros, as well as the designer labels of Lucky Brand and JLO by Jennifer Lopez. E. Gluck uses edgy styling, microfiber bands, and digital colors to attract younger customers, as well as interchangeable bracelets and bezels (and even diamonds) for the more sophisticated set. Its watches, which carry a lifetime guarantee on working parts, are sold through jewelers, department stores, and specialty retailers.

Founded in 1974, Gianfranco Ferré SpA in 2002 became a subsidiary of IT Holding, which went into administration in February 2009 alongside its Ittierre unit. Gianfranco Ferré is into what's in -- the fashion house designs men's and women's clothing and accessories, some of which used to be produced and distributed by Italian apparel and textile maker Marzotto, but the agreements have expired. Gianfranco Ferré also operates about 40 boutiques for men and women in Italy and 15 other countries. In an effort to extend its reach to new customers, the company has been renaming and reshuffling some of its labels, and uses the name Ferré (dropping the Gianfranco) on storefronts.

Babor wants to treat its customers' skin to some of its products. Babor Cosmetics America Corporation makes systems for skin care treatments at home or in salons. The company offers face care products (including make up and moisturizers), as well as body care and sun care lines. It covers the men's market, too. Babor for Men includes men's skin care products (moisturizer, balancer, shaving gel, after shave balm, after shave, all-over shampoo, and deodorant spray) and fragrances. Babor Cosmetics has operations or representation in more than 50 countries. The first Babor product was HY-OL, a hydrophilic face cleansing oil patented in 1955 by namesake Dr. Michael Babor.

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