Founded in 1998, the company sells medications and healthcare items for cats, dogs, birds, fish, chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small animals. Paying less to take care of pets is the focus of PetCareRx and its customers. The online retailer sells discounted prescription and non-prescription medications and supplements for domesticated pets that are typically purchased from veterinarian offices. The e-tailer peddles the products through its Web site and offers additional pet items, such as toys, treats, bedding, and grooming supplies. The company's Web site boasts an online pharmacist and veterinarian to answer questions, as well.

PETCO Animal Supplies Stores, the nation's #2 pet supply specialty retailer, is hounding PetSmart for top dog status. As the operating subsidiary of holding company PETCO Animal Supplies, it runs more than 950 stores in all 50 US states. Its 15,000-sq.-ft. superstores carry some 10,000 pet-related items, including premium cat and dog foods (Nutro, Hill's Pet Nutrition), collars, leashes, grooming items, toys, and animal habitats. Its stores also offer grooming, training, vet services, and mixed breed DNA testing, and sponsor pet adoption for cats and dogs with local animal-welfare organizations. PETCO's products are also available through its Web site. Buyout firms took PETCO private in 2006.

Owned by private investment firm Westar, Petmate company was founded by Ben Doskocil in 1961. Petmate was later formed by the recapitalization of Doskocil and Dogloo Inc. Petmate (formerly Doskocil) has got dogs and cats covered. The company is one of the nation's leading providers of non-food products for pets. It makes and sells pet carriers, kennels, bedding, exercise pens, feeders, litter pans, and other products for dogs and cats under the brand Petmate. Petmate has grown through acquisitions in recent years, such as its 2006 purchase of Aspen Pet Products, which specializes in the pet accessories niche and manufactures and markets chew toys, treats, leashes, and collars.

Barks, mews, and caws are music to the ears of Pets at Home. The retailer operates about 230 pet-oriented stores throughout the UK, and also offers its own-brand products through a retail Web site. Pets at Home offers veterinary services, called Companion Care, at the majority of its stores. The company also offers 24-hour emergency services as well as ordinary care. Many Pets at Home stores also offer pet behavior training for some animals. Founder Anthony Preston developed the stores' concept in 1991; in 2004 he sold the majority of his stake in the company to private equity firm Bridgepoint. Management and employees retain an almost 20% interest in the company, which is being groomed to go public in 2010.

Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. (Holdings) is a cosmetics company, which specializes in developing and marketing products for the mass market channel. The Company's products focus on addressing skin imperfections. Its products address specific, everyday cosmetics needs and include face powders, bronzers, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye shadows, eye liners, brow makeup and mascaras. The Company sells its products to mass market channel to retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, Target and Rite Aid. As of December 31, 2008, its products were sold in approximately 29,500 of the 45,000 stores. Holdings’ develops, manufactures and markets a selection of products in three cosmetics categories: face makeup, eye makeup and others.

Phytobiodermie is first and foremost a revolutionary method of looking at beauty and wellness. It aspires to anticipate, for each individual, the likely direction of the aging process and to help prevent its early aesthetic manifestations, as well as slowing down any established pattern.Phytobiodermie is more than mud and a flashlight -- it is clay masks and light therapy. The company manufactures and distributes natural personal care products based on holistic Chinese medicine and its view of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Phytobiodermie's products are all manufactured in Switzerland, and are sold to spas in some 20 countries around the world. Phytobiodermie treatments are formulated for a wide variety of face, body, and hair types.

Put a little extra snap, crackle, and pop in your bathtub with Phyzz. The contract manufacturer makes private label effervescent bath, household, and aromatherapy products. It has custom-made bath tablets, beverages, detergents, nutritional supplements, plant food, and more for customers the likes of Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Star Nail, and Tommy Hilfiger. The company also offers product development and marketing services. Phyzz products use AquaPops crackling granules made by exclusive agreement with Raven Manufacturing.

Polka Dog Designs, LLC company, founded in 2000, sells its products through select specialty retailers nationwide. The plan at Polka Dog Designs is to have dogs everywhere dancing with joy and wagging their tails in expectation of culinary delights. The company (which does business as polkadogbakery) is a boutique for dogs, serving a variety of gourmet dog treats; it's also a wholesaler. Its menu includes morsels such as Treatza Pizza, Tuna Yelper, Queso Fundido, Liver's Lane, and Power Barks, as well as After Dinner Mints. polkadogbakery also sells a variety of pet supplies and apparel including lunchboxes, harnesses and leads, toys, beds, collars, and food and water bowls.

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.

Prestige Cosmetics makes cosmetics under the Prestige and Prestige Studio Make-Up brand names, as well as under private labels for retailers. Its products include lipstick, cosmetic pencils, lip gloss, powder, eye shadow, blush, concealers, mascara, foundation, and nail polish. Prestige markets its products to mass merchandisers (including Sears and Wal-Mart), drugstores, and supermarkets in the US and about 45 other countries. It operates a plant in Florida and sells its products to distributors in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and South America. Co-founders and brothers Jacques and Gabriel Cohen own the company.

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