The firm generates most of its sales from women's wear, including its Koret and Sag Harbor lines. It also produces men's and children's clothes and accessories. Its other brands include My Michelle, Baby Phat, Phat Farm, Rewind, Vince, and XOXO. The company is a major supplier to department stores, as well as mass retailers, specialty boutiques, and catalogs. Kellwood also operates Vince and Sag Harbor brand outlet stores across the US. Kellwood has gained a foothold in new niches and grown through acquisitions, including Vince, Briggs New York, and Phat Fashions. It was taken private in 2008 by Sun Capital Partners and has been restructuring.

Intimas Group gives Nottingham one more claim to fame. A lace manufacturer until 2004, Intimas makes and markets women's lingerie, nightwear, and swimwear. It produces private-label garments for others under the Lepel, DM, Charnos Lingerie, and Ted Baker Intimates names. It has made a full line of lingerie, swimwear, and nightwear through a licensing agreement with Ted Baker for sale within the UK and Ireland. Shortly after collapsing into administration (the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US), Intimas was acquired by textiles manufacturer Linwood Fabrics in 2009.

The Forever Group, doing business as Forever Natural, wants men, women, and children to lather and smear on its balms, lotions, and potions, but it doesn't want them to put on any airs in the doing. The company is a distributor of Burt's Bees products -- and sometimes refers to itself as Burt's Bees Canada -- including those concerning bath and body care, hair care, hand and foot care, men's grooming, lip color and cosmetics, baby skin care, facial care, travel kits, and natural remedies. Forever Natural also distributes Urban Spa bath products to supermarkets and health food stores across Canada.

Citizen Holdings, but it sure pays the bills and then some. A global leader in watchmaking (known for its public clocks in major cities worldwide), it makes watches for pilots, divers, and sailors, plus a line of Eco-Drive light-powered watches for men and women. The company, which operates the Citizen Watch unit among others, also makes clocks and jewelry. The balance of its revenue comes from sales of electronic devices (light-emitting diodes, mobile-phone components), electronic products (thermometers, blood-pressure monitors), and industrial machinery (PC and automotive components). Citizen acquired rival timepiece brand Bulova in 2008.

White Trash Charms (WTC) wants you to embrace the charm in trashy relics of recent bygone eras. The company makes and distributes specialized jewelry (primarily charms made in the shapes of gnomes, rainbows, roller-skates, lightning bolts, and the like) and other accessories through about 50 highly-trendy retailers worldwide, as well as through two of its own stores and a Web site. The company specializes in jewelry made of precious metal, enamel, and stones that has been seen on the likes of Janet Jackson and Kelly Osbourne. WTC was started by Brooke Dulien, daughter of well-known fashion designer Barbara Dulien.

Shiseido Americas Corporation is a subsidiary of Shiseido Company, Japan's largest cosmetics firm. The Americas unit makes and markets makeup and skin care products, toiletries, and professional beauty salon products in North and South America for sale throughout the world. Its products -- primarily under the brand names Shiseido and NARS -- are sold through department stores and specialty locations. The firm's Zotos International peddles products to professionals. Formerly named Shiseido Cosmetics America until 2009, the subsidiary also operates the professional salon business of Helene Curtis.

The Odom Corporation is a distributor of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, such as Coca-Cola, Reed's, Coors, and Miller, in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The five divisions within Odom Corporation include Aurora Vending, which sells snacks, pastries, coffee, ice cream, and beverages to schools and businesses in Alaska; wine and spirits broker Beverages Northwest, which serves Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska; Coca-Cola of Alaska; and Northwest Select, a high-end wine distributor in eastern Washington and Idaho. Milt Odom founded the company in the 1930s.

Sports Chick Brands Limited clads the scads of cheeky female football (i.e., soccer) fans. Founded in 2002, the company designs and manufactures apparel for sportive-type women, including technical apparel popular with serious athletes. Sports Chick's apparel includes casual T-shirts (imprinted with sassy football-oriented slogans), shorts, tank tops, and track pants for a variety of sports, as well as running, fitness, and gym use. The company distributes its products in the UK through specialty sports shops and in Football Club shops such as Premiership and Championship clubs. Sports Chick distributes in the US through soccer and sports stores. The company also sells through the soccer.com Web site.

izzydesign company has designed such products as Jack, a foldable training and gaming table, and the Clara storage cabinet, which can be topped with a cushion for extra seating. Its products are designed by Chuck Saylor, as well as through partnerships with Merge Office Interiors. Except for the izzydesign's privacy screens which are manufactured by Merge Interiors, products are manufactured at the company's facilities in Belton, Texas and Spring Lake, Michigan. izzydesign also is parent to ABCO Office Furniture, as well as several other brands. The company is owned by parent JSJ Corporation.

Tufco Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Tufco Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated manufacturing services in the United States. Its services include wet and dry-wipe converting, wide Web flexographic printing, hot melt adhesive laminating, folding, integrated downstream packaging, and on-site quality and microbiological process management. The company also custom manufactures products from an array of materials, including polyethylene films, a variety of nonwovens, paper, and tissue. Its products include disposable wet and dry wipes for home, personal/baby/medical care use, flexible packaging, and disposable table covers. In addition, the company manufactures and distributes business imaging paper products. It converts fine paper materials, including specialty and fine printing papers, thermal papers, inkjet papers, and coated products. Tufco Technologies produces various papers for use in bank proof or automated teller machines, such as fan-fold forms, and printed rolls of various sizes and types. Further, it produces a selection of standard and customized guest checks for use in the restaurant industry, as well as various multi-part business forms. . Tufco Technologies markets its products and services through its sales and customer service employees, manufacturer's representatives, and distributors.

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