Cherokee Inc. markets, licenses and manages their owned brands, which include Cherokee, Sideout, Carole Little, Chorus Line, Saint Tropez West and All That Jazz brands, as well as represents other brands in various consumer product categories such as apparel, home, food, fashion accessories and footwear and recreational products. The brands that Cherokee owns and represent generate over $4 billion in annual retail sales worldwide. The Company’s principal focus is global “retail direct” licensing. The Company has partnered with many well-known retailers throughout the world to provide consumers with well-known brands at affordable prices. These global retailers include Target Stores, Wal-Mart Stores, TJX Companies, Tesco Plc, Zellers (Hudson Bay Company), Grupo Eroski, Comercial Mexicana, Pao de Acucar, Tottus Stores (Falabella), Arvind Mills, Shufersal, Geant (Al Hokair) and Pick ’n Pay. The Company’s retail licensing partners license these well-known brands, and receive the exclusive right to sell branded merchandise in their geographic areas.The Cherokee brand, which began as a footwear brand in 1973, is one of the preeminent global family lifestyle brands with annual retail sales approaching $3.0 Billion worldwide. Sideout is a young active lifestyle brand, which was acquired by the Company in the late 1990’s. In addition, in 2002 the Company acquired the trademarks for Carole Little, a well-regarded women’s wear brand, and Chorus Line, All that Jazz and Saint Tropez West, three women’s sportswear brands. The Company seeks to develop relationships and strategies that benefit its retail and wholesale partners through licensing arrangements both in the U.S. as well as throughout the world.

Annin & Co is the world’s oldest and largest flag manufacturer. Starting from a sail loft in downtown New York City making signal flags for sailing ships in the 1820’s, Annin incorporated in 1847 and has since grown to four manufacturing locations. Annin now has worldwide distribution. As the official flag manufacturer to the United Nations, Annin’s international flags are the standards for exactness, followed by the rest of the world. Every state flag is exact according to specifications. Annin now manufactures over 10,000 different flags and flag accessories.

Watkins Incorporated manufactures more than 350 natural products, including body lotions and bath salts, organic dish soaps and bathroom cleaners, and organic black pepper and vanilla extracts. Watkins, which distributes its products in the US, Canada, the UK, and the Philippines, sells through retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods, as well as through its e-commerce Web site. Owned by chairman Irwin L. Jacobs since 1978, Watkins' roots go back to the 1860s.

Schurman Fine Papers, which operates American Greetings, Carlton Cards, and Papyrus retail stores, offers specialty gift products such as greeting cards, stationary, gift wrap, and other paper products. Its retail network consists of more than 500 stores located throughout the US and Canada. More than 170 of its stores operate under the Papyrus name, a brand on which the company was originally built (the brand was sold to American Greetings in 2009). Schurman Fine Papers was founded in 1950 by Marcel and Margrit Schurman; their daughter Dominique Schurman now heads the company.

Streamlight, Inc. manufactures a wide range of professional flashlights, lanterns, and headlamps for law enforcement, fire, industrial, outdoor, and automotive applications. Streamlight's products have virtually indestructible plastic cases and can maintain reliable high powered luminosity in extreme heat and cold environments. The company's lights are also waterproof to a depth of up to 200 feet. Streamlight also makes a line of rechargeable flashlights.

Founded in June 1986, Fujian Hua Min Import & Export Corp. was formerly a large-scale and state-owned comprehensive foreign trade enterprise in Fujian Province. It was restructured from a state-owned enterprise to a limited liability company and renamed to Fujian Hua Min Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. (the Company) in May 2003, with the registered capital of RMB 60 million yuan. There are currently more than 3,000 staff members and workers in the Company. Its total assets and annual turnover had reached RMB 1,500 million yuan and RMB 6,000 million yuan respectively by the end of 2007.Fujian Hua Min Import & Export Corporation provides a wide variety of products to customers around the globe. As one of the largest exporters in China, the company operates more than two dozen business units specializing in areas such as mechical and electrical equipment, footwear manufacturing, chemicals, textiles making, toys, food, medicine, and motorcycle and auto parts. Established in 1986 Fujian Hua Min Import & Export operates about 10 subsidiaries and joint businesses. The government-owned company has trade relations with thousands of factories and firms in some 100 countries.

Barjan is a business built on the quality of its people. They are what make Barjan an industry leader and put real value into our brand. Honesty, trustworthiness, loyalty: these aren’t just words, they are what we are, whether we’re answering a customer’s question or planning an event for our vendors. The resilience of our company is a facet of the flexibility to face problems head on and find solutions that work for our customers. Communicating with people from within as well as outside their company builds lasting relationships. The achievement of the excellence that the Barjan brand represents is accomplished as a team, one with the shared goal of earning the respect of those they serve.The company is a leading distributor of general merchandise (automotive accessories, chemicals and additives, consumer electronics, novelty products, books, videos, and music) to travel centers (truck stops, travel centers, convenience stores) and car washes throughout North America. It makes and supplies more than 8,000 items under brands such as Astatic (cables and microphones), Barjan (office supplies and traveler accessories), Diesel Electronics (mirror mounts and connectors), Tracker (cellular products), Trucker Tough (locks and tools), and Wilson Antenna. The company is owned by investment firm Monomoy Capital Partners.

Earth Search Sciences, Inc., (OTCBB : ESSE) is a dynamic emerging growth company with more than ten years of research and development invested in bringing breakthrough remote sensing technology to the commercial marketplace. Earth Search had the foresight to know that customers' strategic decision making could beneft from the very precise information available only through advanced hyperspectral instruments, such as the PROBE-1. Today, technical decision-makers benefit from this technology in mineral exploration, oil and gas exploration, environmental monitoring and other business channels. Earth Search Sciences's clients and partners are strengthened by the competitive advantage of the PROBE-1 technology.The company has developed remote sensing instruments (using what is called hyperspectral remote sensing technology) based on NASA's Airborne Visible and Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS). The instruments designed by ESSI collect and analyze data for use in oil and gas exploration, mining, hazardous material remediation, and ecosystem monitoring, among other things. The company has served customers in the private, military, and government sectors. Chairman and CEO Larry Vance owns 74% of the company.

Rentech's vision is to be a global provider of clean energy solutions. During there nearly 30-year history, Rentech, Inc. have been developing and applying clean energy technologies for ultra-clean synthetic fuels, chemicals and power production. Rentech and there licensees and have successfully applied the Rentech® Process in facilities that range in size from pilot scale to 300 barrels per day of clean synthetic fuels and chemicals production. The Company's Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification process can convert multiple biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) for production of renewable fuels and power. Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of syngas conditioning technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass. The Rentech Process can also convert syngas from fossil resources into ultra-clean synthetic jet and diesel fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals. Final product upgrading is provided under an alliance with UOP, a Honeywell company. Rentech develops projects and licenses these technologies for application in synthetic fuels and power facilities worldwide. Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, manufactures and sells nitrogen fertilizer products including ammonia, urea ammonia nitrate, urea granule, and urea solution in the corn-belt region of the central United States

Biotage AB is a leading supplier of tools and technology for Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry and process Development. The company’s organizational structure has historically been comprised of two divisions: Discovery Chemistry and Biosystems. The Biosystems division was divested to QIAGEN effective as of 2 October 2008. Biotage was acting as a distributor of the Biosystems products during Q4 2008. Biosystems products contains Pyrosequencing systems for genetic analysis, PyroMark products for methylation, SNP and mutation analysis and Pyro Gold reagents.Following the divestment of Biosystem, Biotage is focused on forther developing and enhancing its Discovery Chemistry business. Discovery Chemistry supplies products and services for three prominent market segments, Medicinal Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Process Development. Primary products include microwave synthesis, resins and solid phase extraction (SPE), flash purification cartridges and systems, evaporation and reaction screening instruments, which target chemists in research organizations worldwide.

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