Spanx, Inc. makes footless and footed hosiery, tights, and body shapers to give its customers a slim and smooth look with any style shoe. Spanx also sells bras (Bra-llelujah!), slips (Hide & Sleek), panties (Power Panties), and lined apparel (Bod-a-Bing!). The firm's products are sold at such retailers as Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Bloomingdale's. Discounter Target developed ASSETS (bodyshaping hosiery) with Spanx in 2006; they're also sold at www.loveassets.com. Company founder Sara Blakely is credited with inventing footless pantyhose. In 1998, she founded Spanx with $5,000 of her own savings and patented her footless body-shaping pantyhose.

The Alexander Doll Company (ADC) was founded 80 years ago by Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman, the daughter of Russian immigrants. She was raised over her father's doll hospital—the first in America—and often played with the dolls waiting to be mended. Her love of dolls led this dynamic woman to creating her own line of dolls.The company manufactures a variety of dolls, including collectibles and play dolls, in addition to its signature line of Madame Alexander Dolls. The firm sells its products through several thousand specialty retailers, as well as online through its company Web site. Alexander Doll Company also provides its customers with repair services through its Doll Hospital. Founded by Madame Beatrice Alexander the company was acquired by the private capital fund, Kaizen Breakthrough Partnership in 1995.

Founded in 1978 as H. Bernbaum Import & Export Company by Harry Bernbaum and Hank Bernbaum, High Sierra Sport Company has grown to become the tenth largest outdoor company in the United States (Sporting Goods Business, November 1999). Today, High Sierra Sport Company employs 40 people and distributes and sells to more than 1500 retailers and 2250 corporate accounts worldwide. High Sierra Sport Company is the official supplier of bags to the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding teams and its memberships include the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), SnowSports Industries America (SIA) and the Travel Goods Association (TGA).The firm makes and markets a wide range of backpacks, day packs, and other gear for carrying stuff into the great outdoors, onto airplanes, and on their backs as they work out. Company bags are made under the High Sierra, Sierra Expedition, and other labels. In 2007 High Sierra debuted the ATQ line, which includes a wheeled backpack, duffel, and computer case, to its products portfolio. It also makes popular hydration bags. The company, which sells to some 1,500 retailers worldwide the likes of Sports Authority, was founded in 1979 as the H. Bernbaum Import & Export Company.

GE has a strong set of global businesses in infrastructure, finance and media aligned to meet today’s needs, including the demand for global infrastructure; growing and changing demographics that need access to healthcare, finance, and information and entertainment; and environmental technologies.The company produces aircraft engines, locomotives and other transportation equipment, kitchen and laundry appliances, lighting, electric distribution and control equipment, generators and turbines, and medical imaging equipment. GE is also one of the preeminent financial services companies in the US. General Electric Capital, comprising commercial finance, consumer finance, aircraft leasing, real estate, and energy financial services, is its largest segment. Other operations include the NBC television network.

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

GenCorp is a major technology-based manufacturing company headquartered in Sacramento, California. GenCorp’s two businesses, Aerojet and Real Estate, concentrate on two principal market areas: aerospace and defense, and real estate.GenCorp has been in business for the better part of a century. Established in 1915, GenCorp was formerly the General Tire & Rubber Company. The name change was implemented in 1984 when GenCorp was formed as a parent holding company. In a subsequent restructuring, the company exited the tire business by divesting General Tire. In 1999, GenCorp spun off its Decorative & Building Products and Performance Chemicals businesses into a separate, publicly-traded company called OMNOVA Solutions, Inc.

Aircraft Cabin Systems L.L.C. serving the business jet and commercial airline markets, ACS develops and produces plasma (42-50 inch) and LCD (10.4-52 inch) flat-panel displays for in-flight entertainment use. The company's first customers were VIP aircraft and business jets owners, but ACS eventually moved into the commercial sector; the company expects to continue to expand its commercial airline customer base. Some of the company's current customers include Delta and US Airways. ACS was founded in 1999 by Yukio Sugimoto.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Kwalu was founded in 1984. For over two decades, Kwalu have been active partners with their clients in solving industry-wide seating and furniture dilemmas. Based on their clients requests, in 2001 Kwalu expanded their reach in the industry by developing lines of virtually indestructible casegoods and tables that complement their vast array of seating for all areas of your facility. Kwalu Casegoods, Kwalu Seating and Kwalu Tables have pioneered the use of high-impact resistant polymers to produce wood-grained furniture that is as stylish as it is durable. The innovative, modular construction of all Kwalu furniture, and the wide array of components, styles, and finishes available, has brought the creativity back into contract interior design. Designers and facilities can now satisfy all of their furniture needs from one source, providing a level of design flexibility and durability unmatched in the furniture industry. All this combined with a heretofore unheard of 10-year warranty on finish and construction.Kwalu makes durable furniture used in hospitals and other health facilities, cruise ships, dining rooms, primary schools and universities, and hotels. The company also serves the government, institutional, and special needs niches. Kwalu has designed its product line so that it is modular. Customers can mix and match different styles of frames with various choices of upholstery to create a unique product. The company also makes handrails and wall coverings.

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.

The Unilever UK unit manufactures and distributes consumer products organized along its foods, home, and personal care subsidiaries. To this end, Unilever UK manages a vast products portfolio of noteworthy names. Its foods business includes such brands as Bertolli, Cornetto, Marmite, Sunsilk, Cif, and Persil. The company also boasts some 40 laundry, household cleaning, and health and beauty brands, which are sold under the labels Lynx, Persil, Domestos, and Dove, among others. The company consolidated its UK subsidiaries in 2007 and it operates them from its Leatherhead headquarters.

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