Pretika Corporation makes it easy to bring the spa home. The company manufactures non-prescription skin and cosmeceutical personal care products, such as skin care and spa items. Its products are sold through the company Web site, and include acne medicine, anti-wrinkle therapies, facial masks, microdermabrasion kits, and facial regimens designed for teens. Pretika also offers services for private labels, including laboratory formulations and testing, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and warehousing.

S. B. Foot Tanning Co. company, founded by Silas B. Foot, is a tannery that offers products made from cow hides. A subsidiary of Red Wing Shoe Company, the firm uses cattle hides sourced in the US to make leather items. Its primary products include such as items as camouflage, upholstery, and footwear. Superior to cloth and canvas, S. B. Foot Tanning's camouflage-pattern leather is in demand by sportsmen, while its natural, polished full-grain leather is used to make upscale upholstery (chairs and couches). Its footwear leathers are used to make casual shoes, men's dress shoes, safety shoes, western boots, and work boots.

Pranda Jewelry specializes in making affordable gold and silver jewelry set with diamonds and semi-precious stones. Its products (rings, earrings, brooches, lockets, necklaces, and bracelets) are sold globally, mostly with the Pranda brand, but also under names such as Prima, Cristalina, and Century. Pranda has about a dozen manufacturing, wholesale, and retail brand distribution subsidiaries around the world. It launched a German joint venture -- Pranda & Kroll GmbH -- with investor Gregor Kroll to sell gold and silver jewelry in that country and throughout Europe. Pranda Jewelry company continues to expand domestically and overseas.

G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (G-III) designs, manufactures and markets an extensive range of outerwear, sportswear and accessories, including coats, jackets and pants, as well as women’s suits and dresses. The Company sells its products under licensed brands, its own brands and private retail labels. It provides apparel to retailers under brands, such as Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, JC Penney and Kohl’s. The Company operates in three segments: licensed apparel, non-licensed apparel and retail operations. The licensed apparel segment includes sales of apparel brands licensed by it from third parties. The non-licensed apparel segment principally includes sales of apparel under its own brands and private label brands. The retail segment consists almost entirely of the Wilsons retail outlet stores it acquired in July 2008, now operating as AM Retail Group, Inc.

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.

LPC Group PLC company, through several subsidiaries, makes sanitary paper products, such as toilet tissue, paper towels, napkins, facial tissue, and recycled paper products. Its units include LPC (UK), Kamns Paper Mill, LPC AFH Division, and Swedish Tissue AB. A portion of products are sold under the firm's own-brands, while others are made for external parties' own-name labels. The group's products are manufactured at its own paper mills and recycling facilities and sold in more than 25 countries. Its Swedish Tissue division has been producing paper products for more than two centuries.

Aubrey Organics makes and markets organic products (free of petrochemicals and synthetics) for the skin and hair -- for people and their pet counterparts. President and CEO Aubrey Hampton formulates each of the company's products, which are sold online and through specialty retailers nationwide, in small batches at the firm's manufacturing plant. The company's offerings include baby care items, bath products, fragrances, household goods, makeup, sun care formulas, and hair color products. Aubrey Organics was the first personal care company to be certified as an organic processor according to standards set by the Department of Agriculture.

Donna Karan International (DKI) defines the metropolitan flair that bridges the difference between stylishly casual and conventional. The firm designs and sells men's and women's clothes, including suits, sportswear, accessories, and shoes, under the Donna Karan New York, DKNY, DKNY Jeans, and DKNY Active labels. DKI sells to upscale department and specialty stores and through its own retail stores. It also licenses third parties to run most of its international stores. Fashion leviathan LVMH holds a majority stake in Donna Karan, although designer Karan still remains in creative control of its fashion lines and is helping to rejuvenate her namesake brand.

Gravis Footwear, Inc. company makes sporty (for sports and for the sportif) footwear, bags (handbags and luggage pieces), and apparel (T-shirts, hats, hoodies and jackets) printed with the company's logo. Gravis' trendy collections, which appeal to men and women 25-35 years of age, are available through more than 2,500 specialty retailers worldwide. These include 200-plus stores in the US, including surf and skate shops, as well as chains such as Urban Outfitters and Whole Earth Provision. Snowboard manufacturer Burton Snowboards owns Gravis.

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).

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