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.

ACCO Brands Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes traditional and computer-related office products and supplies principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. It offers paper fastening, document management, supplies, binding and laminating equipment and consumable supplies, personal computer accessory products, paper-based time management products, presentation aids, and label products. The company's products and supplies include staplers, staples, punches, ring binders, trimmers, sheet protectors, hanging file folders, clips and fasteners, data binders, dry-erase boards, dry-erase markers, easels, bulletin boards, overhead projectors, transparencies, and laser pointers and screens; and accessories for laptop and desktop computers comprising security locks, power adapters, computer carrying cases, hubs, docking stations, technology accessories for iPods, and input devices, such as mice and keyboards. It also offers specialized laminating films for wide-format digital print lamination. The company markets its office products to various customers, including commercial contract stationers, retail superstores, wholesalers, distributors, mail order and Internet catalogs, mass merchandisers, club stores, and dealers, as well as directly to commercial and industrial end-users and to the educational market; and computer products to consumer electronics retailers, information technology value-added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and office products retailers. ACCO Brands Corporation is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Aalfs Manufacturing Company, owned and run by the founding Aalfs family, just might have a gene for the jeans business. The company designs, makes, and markets clothing (primarily jeans and denimwear) to big-name retailers nationwide. Clients include J.C. Penney (since 1943), American Eagle, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Old Navy, and even Harley Davidson. Aalfs also makes and sells its own 4 Stroke brand of denim apparel. Founded in Iowa in 1892 by H.A. Baker and renamed the Aalfs-Baker Manufacturing Company in 1929, when Wilbur Aalfs held the presidential title, the apparel manufacturer officially became Aalfs Manufacturing Company in 1959.

Viva Optique, Inc. company, which was founded in 1978 by Harvey Ross, has in-house design teams located in Italy and New Jersey that pump out some 1,000 designs yearly. Viva Optique company is part of HVHC, a subsidiary of health insurance provider Highmark. Viva Optique has set its sites on keeping its customers in shades worldwide. It operates Viva International Group, a leading worldwide eyewear and sunglass manufacturer. It has about 15 international offices and distributes its products in more than 60 countries. Brand names include Bongo, Candie's, Ermenegildo Zegna, Escada, Givenchy, Guess?, Harley-Davidson, and Tommy Hilfiger.

G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. company is one of the larger Pepsi bottlers in the US, shipping the leading PepsiCo brands, including Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Slice, SoBe, and Aquafina to beverage retailers. The bottler was formerly named the Grandpop Bottling Co., and was under the management of Walter Gross and Isaac Jarson. The company's current chairman, Stanley Kaplan, was married to Jarson's daughter, Mickey, who died in 2003.

Catherine Hinds Company (formerly Custom Esthetics) offers equipment and skin care products to professional estheticians (salon and spa owners and managers). Its offerings include skin care, waxing, and makeup supplies, as well as equipment, furniture, and general supplies (makeup brushes and applicators, candles, soaps, gloves). Products include its Classics TX line of cleansers, toners, moisturizers, and scrubs, as well as the American Skin Care System line of gloves and blankets for keeping spa patrons snuggled and warm. Catherine Hinds started the company in 1979; her daughter, CEO and president An G. Hinds, purchased it in 2001 and renamed it Catherine Hinds Company in 2007.

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.

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.

K-Swiss Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, California. K-Swiss Inc. designs, develops and markets an array of athletic footwear for high performance sports use, fitness activities and casual wear under the K-Swiss brand. It also designs and manufactures footwear under the Royal Elastics and the Palladium brands. Royal Elastics, a wholly owned subsidiary, is a manufacturer of slip-on, laceless footwear. Palladium SAS (Palladium), a 57% owned subsidiary, is a designer, developer and marketer of footwear for adventurers for all terrains. In July 2008, the Company purchased a 57% equity interest in Palladium.

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.

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