DC Shoes was among the first to capitalize on the skateboard, snowboard, and adventure sports niche market. The company designs technical footwear for skateboarding and snowboarding, as well as casual apparel, accessories, and other sports gear. In addition to its standalone retail shops in New York and Los Angeles, DC Shoes markets its products online and through such retailers as Macy's and Pacific Sunwear. Co-founders Damon Way and Ken Block sold the firm to Quiksilver in 2004 to the tune of $87 million. Quiksilver, which had been under pressure to sell assets to help alleviate its debt, appears content to keep DC Shoes in its closet.

Ada Feed & Seed was founded in 1930 by David Johnson and Emil Wagner. Ada Feed & Seed encourages everyone to feed the birds. The company processes sunflowers and sells sunflower seeds and wild bird blends under the Full-O-Life brand. It also offers cracked corn, peanuts, and safflower, millet, Nyjer thistle, as well as seeding and fertilizing services for local farmers. The company's seed sales unit offers several popular brands, such as Agassiz, DynaGrow, Mycongen, Seedex/Beet, and Hubbard Feeds, among others.

Founded by Sean "Diddy" Combs in 1998, Sean John Clothing designs, produces, and distributes high-end urban fashion and accessories targeted to trendy males and females. The design firm, which is owned by Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, opened several stores in recent years and formed a joint venture, Outspoke LLC, with Zac Posen. Sean John Clothing has signed a numerous licensing agreements for apparel related to its clothing, a Sean John fragrance with Estee Lauder, and Ciroc Vodka through a partnership with Diageo.

Professional Veterinary Products, Ltd. (PVPL) wholesales and distributes pharmaceuticals and supplies to licensed veterinarians. The company carries more than 20,000 products from about 350 manufacturers, ranging from diagnostic equipment to animal identification tags. It boasts two subsidiaries: Exact Logistics (distributes to other animal-health firms) and ProConn (supplies products directly to the consumer). The company was founded by a group of veterinarians in 1982. PVPL says that even its telesales staff has field experience -- phones are manned by veterinary techs and others with animal science degrees.

In 1916, Keds created an American Classic: the first shoe with a soft rubber sole and coined the term "sneaker." This original sneaker, called "the Champion" has remained a style icon for over ninety years. Worn by Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O, and consistently celebrated by Vogue, Elle and Women's Wear Daily, Keds continues to attract fashion designers, stylists and top editors in the industry with their classic, authentic style. Today, a new generation has discovered the Keds brand, which is helping to inspire a collective spirit of new American style, youthful optimism, collaboration and togetherness.

In the 1950's there were dozens of ballpoint models, and nearly every one took a different cartridge. In 1953 Paul Fisher invented the "Universal Refill" which could be used in most pens. It was a good seller, since stationery store owners could reduce their stock of assorted refills.Fisher Space Pen makes pens containing pressurized visco-elastic ink, which makes it possible to write upside down, underwater, in all temperatures, and in zero gravity. The company's pens have starred in space as the official pen of NASA and on TV in a "Seinfeld" sitcom episode. Urban legend has it that NASA spent millions to develop the pen.

Dr. Mehran Produits de Soins develops and sells skin care products, such as anti-aging and moisturizing cleansers, toners, creams, masks, and serums. Lines include Essential Support, T-3 Shampoo, LA FORCE, Dermoceane, Dermigel Rosacea, and others. The company has also developed a few nutritional supplements and cosmetics (lipsticks, eyeshadows, kohls, mascaras, among others) to round out the treatment. Products are distributed through a company Web site and through individual distributors around Canada.

Fibre-Craft Materials Corporation® has been a leader in the creative activities business for over 55 years. Established in 1953, Fibre-Craft® began by manufacturing wood fiber for handcrafting artificial flowers. Fibre-Craft expanded in 1959 to mass-market retail outlets for arts and crafts, floral supplies, doll supplies, and decorative accessories. Since then, Fibre-Craft have continued to grow into other areas, all the while taking care to maintain our high standards for quality and creativity. Today, stores across the world are proud to carry Fibre-Craft products.Fibre-Craft® has spent more than half a century earning its outstanding reputation for quality. Fibre-Craft invite you to compare Fibre-Craft products to any others in the crafting and creative activities business. You’ll see why Fibre-Craft customers insist on Fibre-Craft®, where Fibre-Craft put Fibre-Craft heart into all Fibre-Craft do!

Talon International, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. Talon International, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of apparel accessories to manufacturers of fashion apparel, specialty retailers, and mass merchandisers. The company offers a line of metal and synthetic zippers under the TALON brand name; Trim items, such as labels, buttons, rivets, printed marketing material, polybasic, packing cartons, and hangers; machinery used to attach the buttons, rivets, and snaps; and stretch waistbands under the TEKFIT brand name. It also provides outsourced trim design, sourcing, and management services. Talon International, Inc. sells its products in the United States, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic. The company was formerly known as Tag-It Pacific, Inc. and changed its name to Talon International, Inc. in July 2007.

Sappi Limited operates in the pulp and paper industry worldwide. It produces and sells coated woodfree paper used for brochures, catalogues, corporate communications materials, direct mail promotions, educational textbooks, luxury advertising, magazine covers, and upscale magazines; and uncoated woodfree paper for business forms, business stationery, general printing paper, tissue, and photocopy paper; and specialty woodfree paper used in bags, labels, packaging, and release paper for casting textured finishes, as well as packaging paper products used for primary and secondary packaging of fast moving consumer goods, agricultural, and industrial products. The company also provides mechanical papers, such as newsprint, which is manufactured from groundwood and bleached chemical pulp, used for advertising inserts and newspapers; uncoated mechanical paper, an uncoated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material; and coated mechanical/magazine paper, a coated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material. In addition, it produces chemical cellulose, as well as a range of paper pulp grades, including mechanical pulp used in newsprint, unbleached kraft pulp, bleached kraft pulp, and bleached sulphite pulp. Further, Sappi Limited offers sawn timber for the building industry and components for the furniture and packaging industry. Its customers include merchants, converters, printers, publishers, and other direct customers.

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