Northeastern Products (also known as NEPCO) manufactures a wide variety of wood fiber-based pet litters. Founded in 1955 NEPCO began producing pet bedding materials for laboratory animal experiments in the 1960s. It has been the official supplier of such products to the National Institute of Health since the 1970s. Its best known product lines are sold under the Beta Chip and Cedarific names. In addition to litters NEPCO makes hardwood chips for use in meat smoking, with maple, cherry, hickory, and hickory and hardwood blend varieties that are sold through a network of distributors. The company operates manufacturing facilities in New York, Michigan, and Kentucky.

Women the world over know ESCADA for its bright fabrics, elaborate stitching, hand-beaded work, and tailored looks. The firm designs and sells upscale women's apparel (including evening wear, casual wear, and shoes), accessories, and fragrances in about 410 company-owned and franchised stores in some 60 countries. Apparel, handbags, shoes, and belts are designed in-house; eyewear, jewelry, watches, and scarves are licensed. It sold its Escada Beaut cosmetics division to Wella AG but remains a licensee. Unable to secure financing amid falling sales and earnings, the company in August 2009 filed for bankruptcy protection and is being sold.

Empire Office is owned by the family of Abraham Gaslow, who founded it in 1946. Empire Office company's products -- which come from some 300 manufacturers -- range from cubicle workstations to products for the executive offices, including storage units, lighting, seating, case goods, and accessories. Empire Office also provides installation. Empire Office is one of the leading Steelcase furniture dealers in the US.

Hadera Paper Ltd., formerly known as American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd., was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Hadera, Israel. Hadera Paper Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of paper packaging, in paper collection and recycling activities in Israel. It offers grades of paper and board, which include printing and writing paper, publication papers in reels, coated paper, recycled paper, cut-size paper for copy laser and inkjet, copy-book paper, paper for continuous forms, and paper for envelopes and direct mailing to publishers, printers, converters, and wholesalers, as well as various grades of packaging paper and board.Hadera Paper company also provides packaging products, such as folding cartons, corrugated containers, consumer packages solid board containers, and pallets to agriculture, and food and beverage industries; and markets household products, including bathroom tissues, toilet paper, kitchen towels, facial tissues, napkins, disposable table cloths, sanitary towels, panty shields, tampons, disposable baby diapers, training pants, baby wipes, disposable adult diapers, and incontinence pads through retail marketing chains, stores, and the institutional market. In addition, it offers industrial, hospital, and food service products, including towel rolls, c-fold towels, place mats, coasters, bed sheets, wadding, toilet seat covers, disposable bed-pans and urinals, sterilizing paper, bathroom tissue and paper towel dispensers, dispensers for liquid hand soaps and room deodorizing dispensers for washrooms and cleaners, detergents and cleaning products, cups and plates, and examination gloves. Further, the company provides aluminum food wraps, cling-film wraps, garbage bags, oven baking and cooking trays, office supplies, and recycled ground and palletized plastics used by the plastic products industry. It markets office supplies to businesses, governmental offices, health maintenance organizations, and banks.

In 1991, beauty and cosmetics expert, Yong Lee set out to find skincare products that achieved what others only promised. She wanted to create a line of skincare that actually worked. Through continuous development with an independent lab, she has produced a range of natural skincare that rejuvenates the user's delicate skin.Out of her own frustration of not being able to find an all natural line that actually gave her results, Yong made a promise to herself that she would create a line that would give amazing results the all natural way. She researched what her ancestors used and what she grew up with and decided to develop a skincare that would mix her Asian roots as well as the modern philosophy of organics. All the products developed in the line consist of nature's best anecdotes researched from all over the world.

Summer Infant, Inc. is a designer, marketer, and distributor of branded juvenile health, safety and wellness products, which are sold principally to large North American and United Kingdom retailers. The Company has more than 80 products in various product categories, including nursery audio/video monitors, safety gates, durable bath products, bed rails, related health and safety products, booster and potty seats, bouncers and a product line of soft goods/bedding. Its products are sold primarily to United States retailers including Babies R Us, Target, KMart, Buy Buy Baby, Meijer, Baby Depot (Burlington Coat Factory) and Wal-Mart. The Company maintains through Summer Infant Europe, Limited (SIE) a sales, marketing and distribution office in England, which services the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. On July 17, 2009, Summer Infant, Inc. completed the acquisition of Butterfly Living. In December 2009, Summer Infant, Inc. completed the acquisition of Classy Kid Inc.

J.J. Taylor Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 by John J. "Joe" Taylor, originally a Knickerbocker Beer distributor servicing the greater Brockton area of Massachusetts. J.J. Taylor Companies distributes beer in Florida through its Ft. Myers and Tampa locations, as well as in Minnesota, where it owns the former East Side Beverage Company. Now named the J.J. Taylor Distributing Company of Minnesota, it serves the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The company, which has some 10,800 retail customers, sells MillerCoors brands, in addition to a mix of imported and microbrewed beers.

L'Occitane (pronounced "lox-ee-tahn") makes body and skin care, men's grooming items, hair care, and home fragrances using natural ingredients from the Provence area. It owns Olivier & Co., an olive oil producer and retailer, and operates subsidiaries in the US, Hong Kong, and the UK. Products, most of which have Braille labels, include anti-aging creams, shea butter lip balms and hand creams, orange nutmeg incense sticks, Lavender Harvest fragrance, and the L'Oranger line. Clarins holds a 23% stake in the firm, which gets its name from the ancient province that once stretched across the south of France.

James Avery Craftsman, Inc. company got its start in 1954 when James Avery, himself, set up shop in a two-car garage with about $250 in capital. James Avery Craftsman is a leading jewelry designer, manufacturer, and retailer in the US, mostly throughout the southern states. Its jewelry collection, numbering some 1,100 designs and 14,000 items made in sterling silver, 14-, and 18-karat yellow and white gold, and gemstones, is sold through about 200 independent retailers and about 50 of its own stores in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. James Avery also sells its products through a catalog and via the Internet.

Gold Coast Beverage Distributors, Inc. company has been in business since 1940 and began distributing wine in 2005. Florida-based Gold Coast Beverages, considered the largest beer wholesaler in the Sunshine State, also distributes a variety of wine and Zephyrhills bottled water in Miami, Pompano Beach, and Rockland Key. (Zephyrhills is a division of Nestlé Waters.) Among the many brands Gold Coast distributes are Bavaria, Beck's, Corona, Guinness, Heineken, Labatt, Pabst, Shiner, Miller, and Coors. In 2008 it acquired the Palm Beach County territory and now covers the area from Tequesta all the way down to Key West.

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