Estee Lauder's reach to the UK some 40 years ago has benefited even the most striking European beauties. Estee Lauder Cosmetics develops makeup, skin care, and fragrance products, such as Estee, Beautiful, White Linen, and Knowing. Its operations span major and niche cosmetics markets in the UK. Since the 1960s Estee Lauder's products have made their way into department stores throughout the UK and Ireland. The firm's distribution operations are based in Hampshire. The company's products are sold at a number of stores including Boots the Chemists, Harrods, Selfridges, Pure Beauty Store, Debenhams, and House of Fraser.

Founded in 1989, the company is led by Congleton's daughter, chairman and CEO Rebecca Boenigk, and his wife, Jaye Congleton. Neutral Posture designs and makes ergonomic office chairs under the AbChair, Balance, Embrace, and N-tune brands. It also sells keyboard trays and related workstation accessories under the elementAl and StandUp brands. Customers include major corporations and government agencies. Neutral Posture has operations in Texas and Canada. Its chairs were designed by Texas A&M professor Jerome Congleton, whose research was derived from NASA data on the body's reaction to weightlessness.

SoftSheen/Carson Products is keeping the shine on its ethnic beauty. The company is one of the world's leading makers of ethnic hair care and beauty products, including shampoos, conditioners, gels, hair straighteners, relaxers, and shaving products. Its brands include Let's Jam, Baby Love, Optimum Care, Dark and Lovely, Magic Shave, and Weave Care. Founded in 1964 by Edward and Bettiann Gardner, SoftSheen was the largest African-American-owned beauty products company in the country until its acquisition in 1998 by L'Oréal USA, a division of French cosmetics giant L'Oréal. Carson was a subsidiary of L'Oréal USA before being merged with SoftSheen in 2000.

Phytobiodermie is first and foremost a revolutionary method of looking at beauty and wellness. It aspires to anticipate, for each individual, the likely direction of the aging process and to help prevent its early aesthetic manifestations, as well as slowing down any established pattern.Phytobiodermie is more than mud and a flashlight -- it is clay masks and light therapy. The company manufactures and distributes natural personal care products based on holistic Chinese medicine and its view of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Phytobiodermie's products are all manufactured in Switzerland, and are sold to spas in some 20 countries around the world. Phytobiodermie treatments are formulated for a wide variety of face, body, and hair types.

Li Ning Company is one of the leading sportswear companies in China. Products include footwear, apparel, and accessories, primarily sold under its LI-NING and KAPPA brands. The group has an extensive distribution and retail network in China, in which Li Ning Company manages its own stores, as well as supervising franchised LI-NING retail outlets. In addition, Li Ning has a joint venture with the France-based AIGLE International that includes a 50-year exclusive right to manufacture, market, distribute, and sell AIGLE outdoor sports products in China. Chinese gymnast and chairman Li Ning founded the company in 1989. Li won three gold medals in the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984.

Bemis Company, Inc. was founded in 1858 and is based in Neenah, Wisconsin. Bemis Company, Inc. manufactures and sells flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Flexible Packaging and Pressure Sensitive Materials. The Flexible Packaging segment manufactures multilayer flexible polymer film structures and laminates for food, medical, and personal care products, and non-food applications utilizing vacuum or modified atmosphere packaging. It also offers blown and cast stretchfilm products; carton sealing tapes and application equipment; custom thermoformed plastic packaging; multiwall paper bags; printed paper roll stock; and bag closing materials.The Pressure Sensitive Materials segment manufactures pressure sensitive adhesive coated paper and film substrates for label, graphic, and technical markets. Its label market products include narrow-Web rolls of pressure sensitive paper, film, and metalized film printing stocks used in high-speed printing and die-cutting of primary package labeling and secondary or promotional decoration, as well as for data processing stocks, bar code labels, and laser printing applications. This segment's graphic market products include pressure sensitive films used for decorative signage through computer-aided plotters, digital and screen printers, and photographic overlaminate and mounting materials. Its products for technical markets comprise micro-thin film adhesives used in delicate electronic parts assembly and pressure sensitives utilizing foam and tape based stocks. Bemis Company serves food and beverage, chemical, agribusiness, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care, electronics, automotive, construction, graphic industries, and other consumer goods markets.

This Harveys wouldn't be caught dead in the same category as the other famous Harvey-named apparel retailer, the ever-tony Harvey Nichols. Harveys of Oldham makes industrial work wear, uniforms, and protective clothing for clients in many industries, including hospitality and healthcare. The company's garments include flame-retardant and high-visibility coveralls, overalls, lab coats, and chefs' wear. Its Harpoon and Civic brands are more than a half-century old and are manufactured to meet regulatory standards for the workers wearing them. Clothes are distributed wholesale through contracts and brochures, as well as via the company's retail Web site.

B.J. Vines, aka Betsey Johnson, is a perennial favorite among women who are funky and consider themselves eclectic, and after some 30 years in the business, the eccentric designer and her company namesake are still going strong. Betsey Johnson clothes, shoes, fragrance, makeup, lingerie, legwear, and accessories are distributed through about 50 specialty stores of the same name and department stores worldwide. B.J. Vines has expanded its product offerings and operations through about a dozen licensing agreements. Having owned a majority of the firm, Johnson sold a controlling stake to Boston-based private equity firm Castanea Partners in August 2007.

The A.C. Graham Company was founded in 1974. Albert C. Graham started the company after working in the pet industry for over twenty-five years as a distributor salesman as well an officer for a family-owned dog and cat food manufacturer. Al had a tremendous work ethic and would always go the extra mile for his customers. With his roots as a distributor salesperson, he was one of the first manufacturers’ representatives to begin detailing pet stores to pull product through distributors as well as to provide product knowledge and in-store seminars for both store employees and consumers alike. He focused on a select few manufacturers and took a tremendous amount of pride in his long term manufacturer, distributor and dealer relationships.

Sellstrom Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1923 by G.E. Sellstrom and his wife, Ellen, as Excell Sales Company. Sellstrom Manufacturing company provides protective wear and related products to do-it-yourselfers, as well as corporations, schools, and hospitals. Sellstrom's product line includes eye, face, knee, and head protection (goggles, face shields, knee pads, and hard hats), welding protection (filters and helmets), fall protection (harnesses, lanyards, and lifeline systems) and emergency eye washers and showers.

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