Montres Rolex makes watches recognized worldwide as accurate, durable, expensive, and often-imitated. Founded by Hans Wilsdorf in 1905, the Swiss company is credited with making the wristwatch popular. Rolex -- the first to create a waterproof, airtight, and dustproof watch -- makes men's and women's watches, stopwatches, pocket watches, and clocks. Its brands include Explorer II, Day-Date, Yacht-Master, GMT-Master II, Cosmograph Daytona, Submariner, and others. Its gold, bronze, and stainless steel watches are available with diamonds or other precious stones. Rolex watches are only sold through authorized Rolex dealers.

International Paper Company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. International Paper Company operates as a paper and packaging company with operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, the Russian Federation, Asia, and north Africa. Its Printing Papers segment produces uncoated printing and writing papers, including uncoated papers, market pulp, and uncoated bristols. The company's Industrial Packaging segment manufactures containerboards. Its products include linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium, and saturated kraft. Its Consumer Packaging segment produces coated paperboard for various packaging and commercial printing end uses. The company's Distribution segment provides services and products to various customer markets, supplying commercial printers with printing papers and graphic pre-press, printing presses, and post-press equipment; the building services and away-from-home markets with facility supplies; and manufacturers with packaging supplies and equipment, as well as offers warehousing and delivery services. Its Forest Products segment owns and manages forest lands primarily in the United States. International Paper Company's Specialty Businesses and Other segment consists of a joint venture with Ilim Holding S.A. that operates a pulp and paper business in the Russian Federation.

Sexy Hair wants to take sexy from concept to reality. Named Sexy Hair Concepts, the company makes and distributes hair care products for sale in more than 60,000 US professional hair salons. Products include Fresh Concepts, its Sexy Hair line, Sex Symbol Aero Tan (self-tanning spray), and Formulas by Ecoly. The company in mid-2006 enlisted the help of American Idol finalist Katharine McPhee to serve as the face of the company in ads and promotional materials through 2007. Sexy Hair Concepts distributes its products in the US and internationally -- in more then 25 countries. Formerly named Formulas by Ecoly and founded by Michael O'Rourke, Sexy Hair Concepts hired Jim Morrison as its CEO in March 2006.

California Accessories is focused on being fashionable. The company is a wholesale manufacturer of reading glasses, Pocket Peepers (credit card-sized magnifiers), cases for glasses and contact lenses, and related accessories (such as lens cleaner, microfiber cloths, and eyewear chains). It also makes small handbags and carrying cases for jewelry, cosmetics, and portable electronics. California Accessories' customer base extends worldwide. It addition to manufacturing goods under its own line of private labels, California Accessories also fulfils OEM orders for its customers.

The Wakefield Shirt Group arose in the wake of its counterparts' success. The company is a holding company for a trio of apparel makers that have grown up in the UK city of Wakefield. The company's Wm. Sugdens & Sons subsidiary, established in 1869, provides professional attire and accessories for almost anyone able to hold a job. ThreadNeedle is a turnkey outfitter that is able to handle all aspects of special apparel order production, from concept to delivery. Double Two, founded in 1940, makes and markets fashionable men's and women's apparel, focusing predominantly on shirts. The unit's products are distributed through retail stores. The founding Donner family owns the company.

Smead Manufacturing Company was founded in 1906 by Charles Smead. After his death, the company was purchased by an employee (P. A. Hoffman) whose granddaughter, Sharon Avent, is president and CEO. Smead Manufacturing wants to keep its customers organized. Accordingly, it makes a variety of paper-related and software products to organize and manage offices. Smead's first product, a bandless expandable file, is still among the more than 5,000 items it makes for retail sale in office supply stores nationwide (including Office Depot). Offerings range from hanging folders, labels, and binder covers to SmeadSoft software, which manages hard copy and computerized documents.

Swallowfield wants its customers to live clean lives. The company is a contract manufacturer of toiletries, household goods, and cosmetics for major department and specialty retailers around the UK. It caters to such customers as Marks & Spencer and PZ Cussons. The firm boasts production operations in the UK and the Czech Republic. Swallowfield is expanding its presence in China through a joint venture with Jahwa, IE (a subsidiary of one of China's largest players in the toiletries sector) formed in 2008. The company, once a subsidiary of Cadbury, was spun off in a management buyout in 1986; later it was floated as a public company.

L'Oreal's success is built on a strong foundation. The world's largest beauty products company, it creates makeup, perfume, and hair and skin care items. Its brands include L'Oreal and Maybelline (mass-market), Lanceme (upscale), and Redken and SoftSheen/Carson (retail and salon). L'Oreal, which owns Dallas-based SkinCeuticals, also conducts cosmetology and dermatology research. With about half of its sales generated outside of Europe, L'Oreal has focused on acquiring brands in those markets. L'Oreal also owns the UK-based natural cosmetics retailer The Body Shop International, which numbers more than 2,550 stores worldwide. The firm's dermatology branch Galderma is a joint venture between L'Oreal and Nestle.

CSP International Industria Calze wants to wrap itself around your legs. The company is one of Italy's largest hosiery and underwear makers, distributing products to wholesalers and retailers in about 50 countries. Brands include premium-priced Oroblu (sold primarily in Western Europe), value-priced Sanpellegrino (sold primarily in Eastern Europe), and Star Way (a mid-priced youth product). It makes private-label products for UK department store Marks and Spencer and Italian supermarket chain Esselunga. CSP also makes men's underwear and licenses its brands for socks, swimwear, and lingerie. CSP has acquired Italian bra maker Lepel and French hosiery maker Le Bourget. The Bertoni family owns some 50% of CSP.

Chairman and CEO Matthew Stuller founded Stuller, Inc. in 1969. Stuller makes and distributes fine jewelry, including diamonds and bridal jewelry, charms, colored stones, fabricated precious metals, jewelry supplies, and watch bands. The company serves more than 40,000 accounts throughout North America and abroad with some 200,000 different items. The jewelry wholesaler offers just-in-time delivery service to its clients. In 2007 the company launched a religious and family jewelry line. Stuller's manufacturing and administrative facilities (located in Louisiana) measure almost 600,000 sq. ft.

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