Lululemon Athletica Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Lululemon Athletica Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of athletic apparel and accessories for women and men in Canada, the United States, and Australia. The company's apparel products include fitness pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for healthy lifestyle activities, such as yoga, dance, running, and general fitness. Its fitness-related accessories comprise an array of items, such as bags, socks, underwear, yoga mats, instructional yoga DVDs, water bottles, and headbands. The company sells its products through its retail stores, as well as through independent franchises and a network of wholesale accounts that includes yoga studios, health clubs, and fitness centers. As of February 1, 2009, Lululemon Athletica Inc. had 103 retail stores, including 42 in Canada and 61 in the United States; and 5 franchise stores, including 1 in Canada and 4 in the United States.

PETCO Animal Supplies Stores, the nation's #2 pet supply specialty retailer, is hounding PetSmart for top dog status. As the operating subsidiary of holding company PETCO Animal Supplies, it runs more than 950 stores in all 50 US states. Its 15,000-sq.-ft. superstores carry some 10,000 pet-related items, including premium cat and dog foods (Nutro, Hill's Pet Nutrition), collars, leashes, grooming items, toys, and animal habitats. Its stores also offer grooming, training, vet services, and mixed breed DNA testing, and sponsor pet adoption for cats and dogs with local animal-welfare organizations. PETCO's products are also available through its Web site. Buyout firms took PETCO private in 2006.

S. B. Foot Tanning Co. company, founded by Silas B. Foot, is a tannery that offers products made from cow hides. A subsidiary of Red Wing Shoe Company, the firm uses cattle hides sourced in the US to make leather items. Its primary products include such as items as camouflage, upholstery, and footwear. Superior to cloth and canvas, S. B. Foot Tanning's camouflage-pattern leather is in demand by sportsmen, while its natural, polished full-grain leather is used to make upscale upholstery (chairs and couches). Its footwear leathers are used to make casual shoes, men's dress shoes, safety shoes, western boots, and work boots.

Founded in 1979, Katun is the world’s largest supplier of OEM-compatible imaging supplies, photoreceptors, and parts for the office equipment industry. We serve more than 18,000 customers in more than 150 countries from our headquarters in Minneapolis and dozens of worldwide locations.Katun wants you to exercise your options -- to not buy OEM parts. The company designs and makes alternative parts and supplies for copiers, printers, and fax machines. Other sales come from toner cartridges, drums, and rollers. Also included among Katun's more than 6,000 products are ink jet cartridges, thermal ribbons, ball bearings, and tools -- many for products made by companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Canon.

Signet Armorlite, Inc. company, a maker of plastic ophthalmic lenses for more than 60 years, originated the plastic eyeglass lens in North America. It makes premium plastic lenses in Mexico while glass lenses and molds are made by its Crossbows Optical unit, located in Northern Ireland. It operates a lens technology center, Signetek, in California. Signet holds the exclusive rights to distribute Kodak lenses worldwide and is an authorized distributor of 3M adhesive optical supply items in the US. Signet distributes lab supplies, such as blocking pads and lens protectors. Ophthalmic products maker and supplier Essilor International agreed to buy Signet.

OTC International, Ltd. company, a jewelry retailer and wholesaler, makes and markets pieces in fine gold or tarnish-resistant sterling silver with cameos, semi-precious gemstones, and diamond accents. As a volume producer, OTC specializes in private-label licensed jewelry pieces and watches. The company, whose headquarters spans some 100,000 sq. ft., manages a staff of artists, designers, photographers, and advertising professionals. Its products are made in the US, as well as imported from Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Rival New York jeweler Dialuck netted OTC's finery when the merchant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2008.

Symphony Holdings provides contract manufacturing services in athletic and athletic leisure footwear and apparel. Footwear includes sports shoes, casual footwear, snow boots, sandals, infant shoes, work-safety shoes, and riding-boots. Symphony produces more than one million shoes per month. The company operates about 35 production lines in factories located in Panyu, Dongguan, and Zhongshan, China as well as in Vietnam. Symphony Holdings has diversified to establish a presence in apparel and shoe retail brands, including Pony, Haggar, and Speedo China. Yue Yuen Industrial is a majority shareholder in the company -- it controls more than 50% of Symphony.

Cenveo, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Cenveo, Inc. operates as a diversified printing company in North America. It designs, manufactures, and prints direct mail and customized envelopes for advertising, billing, and remittance by end users, including banks, brokerage firms, and credit card companies; and custom labels and specialty forms for various industries, including manufacturing, warehousing, packaging, food and beverage, and health and beauty. The company also offers stock envelopes, labels, and business forms for the office products market and superstores through independent distributors, contract stationers, and national catalogs. In addition, it provides electronic prepress, digital asset archiving, direct-to-plate technology, color printing on Web and sheet-fed presses, and digital printing services to the financial services, publishing, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and consumer products industries. Cenveo's commercial printing products include annual reports, car brochures, direct mail products, specialty packaging, journals and specialized periodicals, advertising literature, corporate identity materials, financial printing, books, directories, calendars, brand marketing materials, catalogs, and maps. Further, the company offers editing, content processing, content management, electronic peer review, production, distribution, and reprint marketing solutions.

The L&D Group LLC was founded in 1901. The Lyon and Dittrich Holding Company (dba The L & D Group) is an organization of nine autonomous manufacturing and service companies. The L & D Group staff provides services such as treasury, human resource and risk management and general strategic decision making support to all of its subsidiaries. Lyon Metal Products, L & D Group's largest subsidiary, is a leading manufacturer of high quality fabricated steel storage equipment and workspace products. Headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, The L & D Group serves as the holding company for nine independent manufacturing and service companies.

Acme United Corporation was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Acme United Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, supplies cutting, measuring, and safety products to the school, home, office, and industrial markets in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Its cutting device products include scissors, shears, guillotine paper trimmers, rotary paper trimmers, rotary cutters, hobby knives and blades, chef shears, utility knives, manicure products, medical cutting instruments, and pencil sharpeners. The company's measuring instrument products comprise rulers, math tools, and tape measures. Its safety products include first aid kits, personal protection products, and over-the-counter medication refills. The company markets its products primarily under the Westcott, Clauss, and PhysiciansCare brands. Acme United Corporation distributes its products through independent manufacturer representatives and direct sales forces to wholesale, contract, and retail stationery distributors, office supply super stores, school supply distributors, industrial distributors, wholesale florists, mass market retailers, and hardware chains.

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