CEO Dewey Barber owns Barber and Company, which he founded in 1985. Barber and Company wants clothing to be hot-pressed. The company manufactures more than 1,000 heat transfer silkscreen designs for sale to wholesalers, which apply the designs to T-shirts. Its Dixie Outfitters brand, which includes a Confederate battle flag logo, has been banned in some schools. Other brands include All American Outfitters, which uses the American flag in its designs, and Legalize Weed, which features images of marijuana and popular slogans. Barber and Company also offers preprinted shirts, makes custom designed transfers, and sells transfer machines.

Marietta makes miniatures -- those little packages of personal care amenities (soaps, dental and hair-care products, and other items) found in hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns. The company also distributes brand-name (Pantene, Vaseline, Yardley of London) and private-label (Fleur de Lis, Lord & Mayfair) products to gift shops, the health-care market, correctional institutions, and military bases. Using its sample-size packaging know-how, the company makes trial-size units for other companies' products, as well. Marietta went public in 1986. When corporate officers were convicted of fraud in 1996, it was acquired by BFMA Holding, which, in turn, sold the company to private equity firm Ares Management in 2004.

West Coast Novelty Corp., founded in the 1920s, doesn't make concessions as one of the largest suppliers of licensed sports merchandise in the US. The firm has grown from its beginnings as a souvenir and concession operator to a nationwide distributor of licensed items, such as jerseys, T-shirts, and headwear. West Coast Novelty boasts a vast portfolio of team licenses based on its agreements with the NFL, MLB, NBA, WWF, and the Collegiate Licensing Company. To extend its reach into the Eastern and Southern US, the company operates a distribution center in Memphis, Tennessee, to supplement operations at its Alameda, California, facility.

American Apparel, Inc. company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. American Apparel, Inc. engages in the manufacture, distribution, and retail of fashion basic apparel for women, men, children, and pets. The company primarily offers t-shirts, denim, sweaters, jackets, and other casual wear. As of May 31, 2009, it operated 270 retail stores in 19 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the People's Republic of China. The company also operates a wholesale business that supplies t-shirts and other casual wear to distributors and screen printers. In addition, it has an online retail e-commerce Web site americanapparel.net.

Draco Natural Products was founded in 1995. Draco Natural Products is nothing if it's not natural. The company wholesales more than 700 powdered herbal extracts for personal care products, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals, and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Draco manufactures the Vital Treasures Botanical Ingredients, which consists of herbal extract ingredients designed to heal, nourish, and tone the skin. It was developed for cosmetic and personal care applications. The company also manufactures Full Spectrum Standardized Herbal Extracts and debuted the Tiaga mushroom extract in early 2009 for its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties.

SCA Hygiene, a division of Sweden's Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), makes and sells a comprehensive line of tissue and personal care products worldwide. It makes products such as baby diapers and incontinence, feminine hygiene, and other absorbent tissue products. In addition to selling its products to home consumers, it sells to hotels, health care facilities, and industrial and service institutions. Hygiene products account for about 50% of the parent company's total sales. Its consumer brands include Edet, Tork, Zewa, and Velvet. The hygiene products operations are conducted through four business groups: SCA Tissue Europe, SCA Personal Care, SCA Americas, and SCA Asia Pacific.

Vi-Jon has been keeping it clean for more than a century. The health and beauty care company makes such products as body washes, deodorants, lotions, mouth washes, shampoos, and soaps. It is primarily a private-label manufacturer for national retailer brands, but it also develops and markets its own brands, including Germ-X hand sanitizers and Inspector Hector oral care and hand soap products for kids. Its products are supplied to retailers, such as Kroger, Target, and Walgreens, across the US. Vi-Jon was originally founded as Peroxide Specialty Company in 1908 by John B. Brunner, grandfather of chairman and CEO John G. Brunner. The family-owned firm was acquired by investment firm Berkshire Partners in 2006.

L'Oréal Canada company, founded in 1958 as Cosmair Canada, develops cosmetic products in four main areas: consumer, professional, luxury, and active. In addition to products, the company manages the L'Oreal Canada Academy for training beauty care professionals. It operates a manufacturing plant as well as a distribution center in Montreal. L'Oreal Paris, a division of L'Oreal Canada, has sponsored Canadian Idol and LG Fashion Week. L'Oreal Canada provides the next best thing to the fountain of youth. A wholly owned subsidiary of France-based L'Oreal SA, L'Oreal Canada manufactures and manages about 20 cosmetic brand names, including Cacharel, Kerastase, Lanceme, Matrix, Ralph Lauren, and Redken.

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.

Polo Ralph Lauren is galloping at a faster clip than when founder Ralph Lauren first entered the arena 40 years ago. With golden mallet brands such as Polo by Ralph Lauren, RRL, Rugby, and Club Monaco, the firm designs and markets apparel and accessories, home furnishings, and fragrances. Its collections are available at some 10,800 locations worldwide, including many upscale and mid-tier department stores. (Macy's and Dillard's account for more than a third of all wholesale revenue.) The company also operates about 315 Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, and Rugby retail stores worldwide as well as the e-commerce sites RalphLauren.com and Polo.com. American style icon and CEO Lauren controls the company.

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