Seiko Corporation of America (SCA) keeps US time for Japan's Seiko Holdings Corporation, a firm best known for its watches, clocks, and athletic timing devices. SCA markets watches and clocks under popular brands the likes of Pulsar and Seiko. Watches in Seiko's Kinetic series are powered by wrist movement rather than batteries; if the watch is set aside, a chip stores the time for several years. The manufacturing company is focusing more on fashion than function by adding the kinetic features to some of its fashion watches. SCA also offers personalized touches such as custom engraving and diamond settings.

Lambriar Animal Health Care, LLC was formed in 1994. Lambriar Animal Health Care, LLC company distributes health care products for dogs, cats, horses, and other animals, as well as kennel, pet, and veterinarian supplies including vaccines for livestock, birds, cats, dogs, and other animals. Lambriar Animal Health Care has two distribution centers in Kansas and Nebraska and a retail outlet in Fairbury, Nebraska. The company prides itself on its knowledge of pet care; several licensed vets and veterinary pharmacists are on staff and its phone agents all have animal care experience.

Instead hopes that women adopt its alternative to pads and tampons. Its primary product, the Instead Softcup, is a feminine hygiene product that sits inside a woman's body and collects, rather than absorbs, menstrual flow. Developed by a group of reproductive health scientists, the Softcup is sold in major US drugstores (including chain stores Wal-Mart and Target) and through its Web site. It's also distributed in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, and about a half-dozen other countries worldwide. Instead is also researching the possibility of using a version of its Softcup as a contraceptive device.

Phat (acronymic slang for "pretty hot and tempting") Fashions designs and markets urban hip-hop fashions for men, women, and children under the Phat Farm and Baby Phat names. It also makes clothing in Big & Tall sizes. The company's products are sold through department and specialty stores, company-owned Phat Farm stores in New York and Montreal, and a Web site. Most of Phat Fashions' products -- which include apparel and accessories -- bear the brand name. The company got into footwear in 2008. Entrepreneur and hip-hop media guru Russell Simmons founded Phat Fashions in 1992; he sold it to clothier Kellwood in 2004.

Age Group makes and markets sleepwear, lingerie, and underwear under the brand name Of the Moment, as well as apparel and accessories under licensed names including Hello Kitty, Disney, Roca Wear, and American Tourister, and others. A leading wholesaler, Age Group also manufactures and designs pet accessories, including an exclusive line of pet apparel, bedding, and grooming supplies under the Martha Stewart brand, for sale in PetSmart stores. The company's products are distributed through large-scale department stores nationwide. Age Group's age? The company has been in the design and manufacturing business for more than 25 years.

IWP International plc company makes and markets personal care products, including cosmetics, soaps, fragrances, perfumes, and toiletries. IWP's brand names include CCUK, Collection 2000, and Constance Carroll cosmetics; Fade Out skin care; and Jerome Russell Bblonde!, Taylor by London, and Batiste fragrances. The firm's products are sold through retailers the likes of Boots and ASDA. Looking to lighten its load, IWP sold its Royal Sanders scent to G&I Alliance in June 2007. It also sold off its household products subsidiary and its self-adhesive label division. IWP markets its products in Europe.

Excel Storage Products, LP company's products include a large assortment of rack systems, including pallet racks, bulk storage solutions, archive storage racks, and retail display shelving. Excel Storage Products sells its products through a network of some 100 distributors. Excel Storage Products purchased the assets of United Steel Enterprises, which had gone bankrupt the year before, in 2004. A few years later the company acquired South Dakota's Prest Rack in late 2007 to expand its portfolio and extend its reach within the US.

Founded in 1989, the company is led by Congleton's daughter, chairman and CEO Rebecca Boenigk, and his wife, Jaye Congleton. Neutral Posture designs and makes ergonomic office chairs under the AbChair, Balance, Embrace, and N-tune brands. It also sells keyboard trays and related workstation accessories under the elementAl and StandUp brands. Customers include major corporations and government agencies. Neutral Posture has operations in Texas and Canada. Its chairs were designed by Texas A&M professor Jerome Congleton, whose research was derived from NASA data on the body's reaction to weightlessness.

Kracie Holdings (formerly Kanebo Trinity Holdings) is a veteran firm that knows diversification and doesn't mind changing its moniker. The company makes toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and food. Kracie's products vary from Prostyle hair styling product to Frisk chewing gum to Coccoapo A, an over-the-counter drug for the treatment of constipation and obesity. Kracie, formed in 1887, operates in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Kracie sold its cosmetics unit to household products maker Kao Corp. in 2006. Kanebo changed its name to Kracie Holdings in July 2007.

BWAY Holding Company and its subsidiaries engage in the manufacture and distribution of metal and rigid plastic containers primarily for the manufacturers of industrial and consumer products for packaging. The company operates in two segments, Metal Packaging and Plastic Packaging. The Metal Packaging segment offers a line of rigid metal containers made from steel, including paint cans and components, aerosol cans, ammunition boxes, steel pails, oblong cans, and various other specialty cans used to package paint, household and personal care products, automotive after-market products, paint thinners, driveway and deck sealants, food products, and other end-use products. The Plastic Packaging segment provides injection-molded plastic pails and blow-molded tight-head containers, bottles, and drums used to package petroleum, oils, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, other chemical applications, paint, ink, edible oils, high-tech coatings, high-solid coatings, roofing mastic and adhesives, and driveway sealants, as well as hybrid and all-plastic paint cans. BWAY Holding Company serves the paint and building, non-retail food services, janitorial and chemical, agriculture, oil and petroleum, inks, and other general industries.

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