REV Holdings is the revved up investment vehicle that helps to steer cosmetics manufacturer and marketer Revlon. The holding company for cosmetics giant Revlon's stock is also a subsidiary of company MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings. Backed by investors including primarily iconic billionaire Ron Perelman, Revlon since 1985 has built a business making and selling cosmetics, fragrances, and skin care and personal care products. Its products are sold under brand names such as Almay, Charlie, Revlon, and Ultima II through its indirect subsidiary, Revlon Consumer Products Corporation. Its products are sold in more than 100 countries across several continents.

Founded in 1987, Click Wine Group is a Seattle-based company that owns and imports wine from around the world. Click Wine Group imports a good many Australian wines into the US but has gained more fame from its French label, FAT bastard. The company is a co-owner of the label, which sells for $10 to $12 a bottle. (FAT bastard, which is made by Thierry Boudinaud, is one of the top-selling French wines in the US.) Not in business to sell cheap wine, the company endeavors to strip wine of its perceived haughtiness by offering wines from exceptional vintners that have easy to pronounce names and consumer friendly packaging. Its wines are available throughout the US.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) for one thing. The third-largest bottler of Pepsiproducts, PBV serves some 8 million consumers in North Carolina (home of its corporate headquarters) and also on Long Island, New York, as well as other East Coast states. PBV operates 28 bottling, distribution, and sales facilities located in Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, New York, North and South Carolina, and Vermont. The company's portfolio of more than 800 beverages includes Pepsi soft-drink brands, Aquafina bottled water, Starbucks coffee drinks, Tropicana juices, Gatorade isotonics, and Lipton teas. PBV is a joint venture of PepsiCo and Suntory Holdings.

Golden Resorts Group Ltd. company makes and sells watches throughout China, the Middle East, and North and South America. The company purchased two casino resorts in 2005 as a way to diversify and take advantage of the booming tourist business in nearby Macao. The Casa Real Hotel and Grandview Hotel feature nearly 800 rooms, more than 100 gaming tables, and about 125 slot machines. The VIP rooms contain more than 30 gaming tables for high rollers. The company plans to increase its high roller business in the future and continue expanding the watch line. CEO Yuet Wah Chu owns about 12% of Golden Resorts.

GoldToeMoretz boasts licensing agreements with the likes of Kathy Ireland, New Balance, and Under Armour and ships some 360 million pairs of socks each year. Moretz, founded in 1946, was acquired by buyout firm The Blackstone Group in late 2006 and merged with 90-year-old Gold Toe to form GoldToeMoretz. The deal, valued at $400 million, created a pair of the US's largest maker of socks. GoldToeMoretz wants to sock it to the competition. It's a sockwear maker for sporting goods stores and retailers, such as Gap, Target, and Old Navy, and private labeler for companies including Cherokee, Faded Glory, and Pro Spirit. It peddles the PowerSox brand -- a heavy hitter in performance socks -- as well as Gold Toe.

Alexandra plc company makes and sells apparel, shoes, and accessories for the workplace, including the catering, medical, hospitality, transportation, and security industries. Products may be purchased through about half a dozen retail outlets in the UK, as well as by mail order and online. Alexandra also offers a bespoke service (about 50% of sales) that tailors uniforms for large corporations. While more than 90% of its sales originate in the UK and Ireland, Alexandra also does business in Holland, France, and several other countries in Europe and overseas. Alexandra sources more than 95% of its garments overseas in countries, such as Morocco, India, and in the Far East.

Packaging Corporation of America was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois. Packaging Corporation of America produces containerboard and corrugated products in the United States. Its corrugated packaging products include conventional shipping containers used to protect and transport manufactured goods; and multi-color boxes and displays to merchandise the packaged products in retail locations, as well as meat boxes and wax-coated boxes for the agricultural industry. Packaging Corporation offers its products through a direct sales and marketing organization.

Star Nail International company primarily manufactures and markets manicure supplies and hand creams for use by professional cosmetologists. It also sells its nail items over the counter. Star Nail peddles its products under several brand names, including namesake Star Nail, All Season Nails, All Season Professional, Cina, Cina Pro, and Cuccio Pro. Typically manicurists and beauty schools request product samples from the company Web site before they buy. Products are also distributed through the Canadian company Image & Impact.

Trans-India Products, which operates as ShiKai Products, is a family-owned leading developer and manufacturer of natural personal care products. ShiKai offers some 50 skin and hair care products, including Borage Dry Skin Therapy lotions and creams, oatmeal and aloe Moisturizing Bath and Shower Gels, Dermaceutical Formulation facial skin care products, and the Salon Naturals color-enhancing hair care line. ShiKai products are sold in natural food and beauty stores, such as Longs Drug Stores, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods Market.

Laboratoires Druide was founded in 1979 by its president, Alain Renaud. Laboratories Druide comes from an old, old school of skin care. The Quebec-based Druide makes and markets natural body care, hair care, baby care, and skin care products, as well as soaps, massage creams, lipstick, sunscreen, and anti-mosquito citronella products. The company claims to have invented the "first" (perhaps since the Druids) ecological (i.e., without any chemical) skin care products. Ingredients include materials such as plant extractions, goat's milk and shea butter, and can be purchased through specialty skin care retailers the world over, as well as through the company's Web site.

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