Founded in 1970 by Martin Trust and his wife, Dena, in their Massachusetts home, MAST has grown from a cottage industry to a global force in apparel sourcing and manufacturing. It has manufacturing operations and joint ventures in more than a dozen countries including China, Israel, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. MAST makes clothes so its customers don't have to. MAST Industries is one of the world's biggest contract manufacturers, importers, and distributors of apparel, including sportswear for hot brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch. MAST is a subsidiary of Limited Brands, which acquired it in 1978, and supplies apparel to its Victoria's Secret and La Senza chains as well as to third-party customers.

Cia. Hering SA is a Brazil-based company engaged in the clothing industry. The Company produces basic clothing products, including jeans, blouses, shirts and other accessories. The Company sells its products under four brand names: Hering, PUC, dzarm. and Hering Kids. Hering is a brand offering contemporary, basic clothing and accessories for all age groups. PUC is a brand of children’s apparel for special occasions. dzarm. is a jeanswear brand targeted at the teenagers’ market, especially young women. Hering Kids offers clothes for children, form babies to teenagers. It has operation units in the states of Santa Catarina, Goias and Rio Grande do Norte. Cia. Hering SA sells the majority of its products in the Brazilian and Latin American markets. Other export destinations include the Middle East, Europe and the United States. The Company's subsidiaries include Hering International SA – SAFI and Hering Overseas Ltd, among others.

Drs. Foster & Smith, Inc. company was founded by veterinarians Rory Foster and Marty Smith in 1983. Drs. Foster & Smith is a top supplier of pet supplies such as food, supplements, medicines, bedding, and toys. It sells brand-name items, as well as its own Drs. Foster & Smith branded pet care products through catalogs and its Web site and provides complete pharmacy services. Drs. Foster & Smith also offers information for pet owners on PetEducation.com and operates a retail store in its headquarter town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. It has expanded its business by buying Neeps, Pet Warehouse, and liveaquaria.com.

Shiner International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the research and development, manufacture, marketing, sale, and distribution of packaging film and color printing for the packaging industry. Its products include coated film, shrink-wrap film, common film, anti-counterfeit laser holographic film, and color printed packaging materials. The company offers bi-axially oriented polypropylene based films for various applications, including printing, lamination, and over-wrap packaging. Its films are used in various industries, such as bakery, beverage, candy/confections, cheese, cosmetics/personal, compact discs, dairy, fruits/vegetables, nuts, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco. In addition, the company provides color printing services consisting of surface printing and reverse printing services used by consumer goods manufacturers and beverage companies. It serves consumer products manufacturers, distributors, printers, and converters located in the People's Republic of China, southeast Asia, Europe, and North America.

Saucony wants to be the sole provider to athletes young and old. Best known for its performance running shoes under the Saucony name, the company also sells shoes for walking, cross-training, and hiking. The manufacturer, founded in 1898, also sells Saucony Originals vintage designs. Saucony's products are sold through parent Stride Rite's wholesale segment, which overall sells to 8,000 customers in about 70 countries and territories, alongside its other brands Keds and Sperry Top-Sider. Stride Rite, which boasts domestic and international license agreements as well, added Saucony to its shoe portfolio in late 2005 for approximately $170 million in cash.

Levi's wants to be just as riveting and indispensable to its customers overseas as it is to those in the US. Levi Strauss Europe, Middle East and North Africa (LSEMA) is a regional arm of Levi Strauss & Co. The apparel firm designs and manufactures men's and women's clothing, including its various brands of Levi's jeans, Dockers slacks, and Levi Strauss Signature items. It distributes and sells its clothing through big-box stores, department stores, and specialty shops. The company operates some 10 sales offices and 10 production and distribution centers. President Paul Mason left the firm in February 2006; Armin Broger took the same position a year later.

Young's Market Company, founded in 1888, is in high spirits. The company is a major supplier of alcoholic beverages to the western US. Young's Market distributes wine and spirits for Bacardi and Brown-Forman, among other domestic and foreign distillers and winemakers. In California it distributes wines from Brown-Forman's Sonoma-Cutter Vineyards; it also handles domestic and imported beers. The Underwood family, relatives of the founding Young family, bought the company in 1990. The third generation of the family currently operates the company, with Jeff and Chris Underwood serving as co-CEOs.

Haworth is owned by the family of Gerrard Haworth, who founded the company in 1948. Haworth company is one of the top office furniture manufacturers in the US, competing with top rivals Steelcase and HNI. Known for innovative design, it offers a full range of furniture, including partitions, desks, chairs, tables, and storage products. Brands include Monaco, Patterns, PLACES, and X99. The company operates about 60 showrooms worldwide and sells its products through more than 600 dealers. Dilbert and other long-suffering office drones have Haworth to thank for inventing the prewired partitions that make today's cubicled workplace possible.

The family-owned and -operated company was founded by Charles Evans in 1952 to sell serums and vaccines for farm animals. United Pharmacal Co. (UPCO) has answered the call of the wild, as well as the domesticated. The company provides some 15,000 pet products online and through its two catalogs: a full catalog and one specifically for feathered friends. UPCO ships books and training tools, collars, grooming supplies, medicines, food, and toys for family members as big as horses or as small as hamsters.

Stevens Industries, Inc. was founded in 1956 by Chuck Stevens. Stevens Industries company manufactures cabinets, countertops, workstations, and other furniture for schools, hospitals, and medical clinics. It also produces hardware (pulls, hooks) and laminated paneling for use by office furniture and shelving manufacturers. Stevens' products offer an array of decorative inlays and color finishes.

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