Future International Diversified Company makes and distributes low-cost personal care products, such as soaps, hand sanitizers, and bath and body accessories, under the brand names Natura and MIO. It also manufactures packaging components, such as spray bottle caps, pumps, sprayers, and triggers. Its private-label OTC medications include analgesics, stomach remedies, laxatives, denture tabs, and mouthwash. Future International Diversified also supplies stationery and school supplies. The firm offers private labeling services and custom packaging for big-name retailers in North America.

Gruppo Buffetti S.p.A founded in Rome in 1853 by Giovanni Buffetti, began as a typography firm. Italian yellow page publisher Telecom Italia Media bought Gruppo Buffetti in 2000. Gruppo Buffetti markets office supplies, leather accessories, computer software, print-on-demand services, and even books and magazines. It primarily serves the small and medium-sized business markets. The retailer has more than 1,000 franchised locations across the country, but also sells its products via catalog and on the Internet.

Pookie Products was founded in 2001 by two New York University sorority sisters. Combine cosmetics and terms of endearment, and you get Pookie Products. The firm makes and markets lip balms using beeswax, shea butter, and natural oils such as avocado, apricot kernel, sweet almond, and coconut. Balms include its champagne-flavored I Do lip balm, It's a Boy! and It's a Girl! mini-tins, mint and vanilla Apookalips, as well as private labeling balms for wedding parties, bridal showers, and other special occasions. The company's products, which have expanded to include bath and body products and apparel, are available in specialty retailers (like Anthropologie) and through its online store.

Sole Technology Inc. is a designer and marketer of footwear and apparel for skateboarding and snowboarding. The company primarily operates as a developer of footwear for the skateboarding market, selling its merchandise through a stable of brands: etnies, etnies Girl, etnies Plus, éS, and Emerica. For snowboarders, the company sells footwear under the brand name ThirtyTwo. Sole Technology's apparel is sold under the brand name Altamont Apparel. The company also operates the Sole Technology Institute Lab, the first skateboarding-oriented, biomechanical research facility in the world. Sole Technology's brands are sold in more than 70 countries. The company maintains regional offices in New York, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Its footwear is manufactured in Asia.

CSP International Industria Calze wants to wrap itself around your legs. The company is one of Italy's largest hosiery and underwear makers, distributing products to wholesalers and retailers in about 50 countries. Brands include premium-priced Oroblu (sold primarily in Western Europe), value-priced Sanpellegrino (sold primarily in Eastern Europe), and Star Way (a mid-priced youth product). It makes private-label products for UK department store Marks and Spencer and Italian supermarket chain Esselunga. CSP also makes men's underwear and licenses its brands for socks, swimwear, and lingerie. CSP has acquired Italian bra maker Lepel and French hosiery maker Le Bourget. The Bertoni family owns some 50% of CSP.

Shiner International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the research and development, manufacture, marketing, sale, and distribution of packaging film and color printing for the packaging industry. Its products include coated film, shrink-wrap film, common film, anti-counterfeit laser holographic film, and color printed packaging materials. The company offers bi-axially oriented polypropylene based films for various applications, including printing, lamination, and over-wrap packaging. Its films are used in various industries, such as bakery, beverage, candy/confections, cheese, cosmetics/personal, compact discs, dairy, fruits/vegetables, nuts, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco. In addition, the company provides color printing services consisting of surface printing and reverse printing services used by consumer goods manufacturers and beverage companies. It serves consumer products manufacturers, distributors, printers, and converters located in the People's Republic of China, southeast Asia, Europe, and North America.

Wella brushes off much of its competition. One of the world's leading haircare companies, it sells professional and retail haircare products, cosmetics, and fragrances. Its Wella brand is its top seller; hair coloring products (Koleston, Wella Viva) are also leaders. Its Tondeo unit supplies professional products and appliances to salons. Wella's fragrances include Alfred Dunhill, Anna Sui, and Gucci, among others. Reluctantly for Wella at the time, Procter & Gamble acquired a majority stake in the firm in 2003 from four families (Ebert, Pohl, Sander, and Stroeher) that owned some 80% of Wella. Through a Domination Agreement transaction, P&G in November 2007 acquired the rest of its outstanding shares.

Bally International got the boot from Swiss conglomerate Oerlikon-Buhrle a decade ago, but the shoe designer still clings to its ballyhooed haute brand name. Bally focuses on selling its premium-priced shoes (50% of revenues). Other products include accessories (briefcases, handbags, neckwear, scarves) and apparel. Bally sells its products at about 200 company-owned stores worldwide. The firm has updated its image from fancy shoes to luxury goods and complete collections on par with Gucci and LVMH. Europe-based luxury goods holding firm LABELUX Group bought Bally from investment firm TPG Capital in 2008. LABELUX is owned by Joh. A. Benckiser.

Mainland Headwear Holdings Limited company produces more than 30 million pieces a year in a full range of cloth headgear, including baseball caps, sun visors, and winter caps, in more than 5,000 designs. It makes hats for well-known Hollywood films such as Batman and Robin, Superman, and Star Wars, and the NBA, Manchester United, Reebok, Timberland, and Fila. Its products are sold through large-scale retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target. The company operates three manufacturing plants in China (Panyu, Shenzhen, Dongguan) and one in Vietnam. Chairman Ngan Hei Keung owns about two-thirds of the company.

Li Ning Company is one of the leading sportswear companies in China. Products include footwear, apparel, and accessories, primarily sold under its LI-NING and KAPPA brands. The group has an extensive distribution and retail network in China, in which Li Ning Company manages its own stores, as well as supervising franchised LI-NING retail outlets. In addition, Li Ning has a joint venture with the France-based AIGLE International that includes a 50-year exclusive right to manufacture, market, distribute, and sell AIGLE outdoor sports products in China. Chinese gymnast and chairman Li Ning founded the company in 1989. Li won three gold medals in the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984.

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