Vera Bradley Designs was formed in 1982 by friends Patricia Miller and Barbara Bradley Baekgaard when they realized a lack of good-looking luggage for women. They named the company after Barbara's mother, Vera Bradley. Vera Bradley Designs likes its customers to carry around lots of baggage. It designs and makes quilted handbags and travel bags, as well as travel accessories, such as cosmetic bags, curling iron covers, and pocket wallets. The company's products are available in some 3,500 gift and specialty stores and about 30 Vera Bradley retail stores in the US. In addition to its core products, it offers licensed items, including Vera Bradley-brands rugs, eyewear, stationery, and home decor items.

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 in 1949, Frazier Industrial is owned by CEO William Mascharka. Frazier Industrial Company makes structural, as opposed to roll-formed, steel storage racks in about a dozen mini-mills in the US, Canada, and Mexico that can adapt production to demand and receive just-in-time delivery of raw materials. Customers use Frazier Industrial's storage racks in warehouses, factories, farms, and other industrial and commercial facilities. Among the company's storage products is the Glide 'N Pick pallet cart that automatically rolls out for greater ease in retrieving items.

DMI Furniture makes, imports, and markets low- and mid-priced office and residential furniture. Its products include modular workstations, bookcases, desks, chairs, bedroom sets, dining tables, and home entertainment cabinets, and are marketed through its DMI Office Furniture, Wynwood Furniture, and Home Styles divisions. The Kentucky-based company, in business since 1911, sells its furniture throughout the US principally to furniture and independent retailers, distributors, catalog companies, and warehouse clubs. Flexsteel Industries owns DMI Furniture.

Delta Galil Industries Ltd. provides fashion and basic apparel to address a range of price points for a range of customers. It provides customers with customized vertical solutions, which encompass every stage of production, from initial design and development through manufacture of fabrics, accessories and garments to logistics, distribution and replenishment. Its product offering encompasses intimate apparel, underwear, socks, leisurewear, nightwear and active-wear for men, ladies, and children. It supplies private label garments for global retailers, produces branded garments for various brands, and manufactures and distributes licensed products. Its major markets are the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Israel. Its customer list encompasses global brands, such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Nike, Puma and others, as well as retailers, such as Marks & Spencer, Wal-Mart, J.C.Penney, Target, Victoria's Secret, Hema, Carrefour and others.

American Educational Products (AMEP), a maker of hands-on educational materials (mostly math and science items) for school and home. A major producer of raised maps, AMEP also makes items such as aquariums, human models, and other items that teach concepts in many fields of science. Operating through the Scott Resources, Hubbard Scientific, Teaching Tank, and National Teaching Aids divisions, AMEP markets its wares in the US and abroad through catalogs and educational dealers. Rival Nasco International acquired AMEP in mid-2001 and took it private. Nasco merged with Aristotle (medical teaching aids) in 2002 and AMEP became a subsidiary of Aristotle.

Bare Escentuals company, which rolled out its bareMinerals makeup brand in 1976 along with its first retail store, develops, markets, and sells natural cosmetics, skin care, and body care items. Brand names include bareMinerals, Buxom, md formulations, RareMinerals, and its namesake line. Bare Escentuals sells its products in the US through about 100 company-owned shops, 800 beauty product retailers, and 1,500 spas and salons. It also has distributors in Canada, Japan, and the UK, among other European countries. Formerly STB Beauty, the company changed its name to Bare Escentuals in 2006.

Urban youth and youthful are down with FUBU's hip-hop inspired sportswear. Besides making sportswear, FUBU (an acronym for "for us, by us") also licenses its name for men's, women's, and children's wear, as well as footwear and accessories such as watches, eyewear, caps, and bags. The company also offers a line of suits, athletic shoes, tuxedos, and housewares (sheets and pillows in university colors). The company, which is expanding rapidly in Asia, has about 100 franchised stores worldwide. Founders Daymond John, Alexander Martin, Carl Brown, and Keith Perrin own FUBU.

Wm. Sugdens makes wearing a uniform a uniform process. Having started out in 1869 as a tailoring operation with a single sewing machine, the company through its subsidiary, ThreadNeedle, provides its customers with a complete range of clothing (accommodating any size) for their employees. Products that are available range from shoes and hats, shirts and skirts, tailored suits and knitwear, to protective clothing. The company consults with each customer and provides a complete service on a turnkey basis, from conception to delivery. Customers can transmit orders online and create their own catalogs. Wm. Sugdens & Sons is a subsidiary of The Wakefield Shirt Group.

CooperVision is a leading manufacturer of contact lenses, offering a wide range of lenses that address myriad vision problems and are offered in different replacement schedules (including daily, weekly, and monthly). The company specializes in lenses for astigmatism, presbyopia, and ocular dryness. CooperVision has distribution and manufacturing facilities in about 10 countries. The firm is part of The Cooper Companies, which operates through CooperVision and CooperSurgical (diagnostic products and surgical instruments for the women's health care market).

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