Kracie Holdings (formerly Kanebo Trinity Holdings) is a veteran firm that knows diversification and doesn't mind changing its moniker. The company makes toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and food. Kracie's products vary from Prostyle hair styling product to Frisk chewing gum to Coccoapo A, an over-the-counter drug for the treatment of constipation and obesity. Kracie, formed in 1887, operates in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Kracie sold its cosmetics unit to household products maker Kao Corp. in 2006. Kanebo changed its name to Kracie Holdings in July 2007.

Chattem, Inc. company was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattem, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products, toiletries, and dietary supplements. The company markets its products under various brand names in categories, such as medicated skin care, topical pain care, oral care, internal OTC, medicated dandruff shampoos, dietary supplements, and other OTC and toiletry products. It sells medicated skin care products under the brands Gold Bond, Cortizone-10, and Balmex; topical pain care products under the Icy Hot, Aspercreme, Flexall, Capzasin, Sportscreme, and Arthritis Hot brand names; oral care products under the brands ACT, Herpecin-L, and Benzodent; and internal OTC products under the Pamprin, Premsyn PMS, Unisom, and Kaopectate brand names. The company also offers medicated dandruff shampoos under the brands Selsun Blue, Selsun Salon, and Selsun Natural; dietary supplement products under the Dexatrim, Garlique, Melatonex, New Phase, and Omnigest EZ brand names; and other OTC and toiletry products under the brands Bullfrog, Sun-In, UltraSwim, and Mudd. Chattem markets its products to mass merchandisers, and drug and food retailers in the United States, Canada, Peru, and Europe.

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a 52%-owned subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever, has been working its way into India since 1888, when it started selling its products there. As India's largest consumer goods firm, HUL markets more than 400 brands that include beverages, food, and home and personal care goods. Some of its names include Kwality Wall's ice cream, Sunlight dish detergent, Lifebuoy soap, Lipton tea, Pepsodent toothpaste, and Surf laundry detergent. HUL markets atta (a type of meal), maize, rice, and salt, and its export division ships castor oil and fish. The company also sells bottled water and over-the-counter healthcare items.

Celebrating more than 40 years in business, Mary Kay is in the pink as one of the top direct sellers of beauty products in the US. It offers more than 200 products in six categories: body care, color cosmetics, facial skin care, fragrance, nail care, and sun protection. More than 1.8 million independent sales consultants demonstrate Mary Kay products in the US and some 35 other countries. Consultants vie for awards each year, ranging from jewelry to the company's trademark pink Cadillac (first awarded in 1969). The company also founded the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation in 1996 to fund cancer research and domestic violence programs. The family of founder Mary Kay Ash owns most of the company.

Caribia is more Hawaiian than Caribbean. Although the company was incorporated as Caribia in 1978, Caribia Inc. has a history in sun care products since its Hawaiian Tan sunscreen was founded by a Hawaiian chemist in 1964. Caribia's brand names include Aloe Aid (gel, moisturizer, shampoo, conditioner), Coco Sol (tan accelerator), Coco Baby Oil, and Coco Lotion. Caribia also offers contract manufacturing services for private labels in the fragrance, cosmetics, and personal care products industries. President and CEO Harry F. McLachlan owns the company.

Essilor of America, Inc. company makes and distributes optical lenses under the Airwear, Crizal, DEFINITY, Transitions, and Varilux brand names, among others. Its Essilor Laboratories of America business, a wholesale laboratory network, provides services and a variety of lens brands to opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists across the US. Essilor of America is a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International, which operates about 250 prescription laboratories that manufacture corrective lenses worldwide. The company has been expanding its operations through acquisitions in recent years.

CIBA VISION company provides research and development and manufactures eyeglasses and contacts. CIBA VISION also offers lens care and ophthalmic surgical products and related services to customers in more than 70 countries. Its contact lens brands include AIR OPTIX, NIGHT & DAY, and DAILIES. The company's FreshLook line is a leader in the color contact lens market. CIBA VISION sold a couple of its soft contact lens lines -- Aquaflex and Softcon -- to a unit of Unilens Vision, which, as part of the agreement, pays CIBA VISION a royalty on certain sales through 2010. CIBA VISION was established in 1980 by Ciba-Geigy, which merged with Sandoz in 1996 to form Novartis.

Koza's was founded in 1965. Koza's can make that group into a team with personalized hats and T-shirts. The company manufactures various promotional products, such as badge holders, bottle openers, cups and mugs, duffel bags, flashlights, hats, luggage tags, mouse pads, shirts, stress squeeze toys, trophies and safety awards, and umbrellas. It provides product customization with art and graphics, embroidery, and screen-printing capabilities.

J & J Crombie makes clothes that will live on to tell the tales of their wearers. J & J Crombie manufactures woolen clothing and sells it at about 20 stores in Britain. The stores also offer other types of apparel, as well as accessories, such as jeans, shoes, handbags, and even luggage. Founded in 1805 as a woolen mill in Aberdeen, J & J Crombie boasts a storied heritage that includes making the coats worn by British officers in WWI. It also produced uniforms for the Confederate army in the American Civil War. J & J Crombie established its first shop in 1990. Chairman Alan Lewis owns the company.

The Swatch Group Ltd. is a Switzerland-based company engaged in the manufacture of watches, jewelry and accessories, as its core business. The Company offers watches in all price and market categories, including brands such as Breguet, Blancpain, Glashuette Original, Jaquet Droz, Leon Hatot, Omega and Tiffany & Co. in the prestige and luxury-range segment; Union Glashuette, Longines and Rado in the high-range segments; Tissot, ck watch & jewelry, Balmain, Hamilton, Certina and Mido in the middle-range segment; Swatch and Flik Flak in the basic-range segment, and Endura in the private-label segment. The Company also manufactures mechanical and quartz movements, and is active in the design, production and marketing of electronic components. It also supplies movements and components to third-party watchmakers in Switzerland and around the world. The Swatch Group Ltd. is represented worldwide through its subsidiaries and distributors.

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