Mulberry Group was founded in 1971 by former chairman and CEO Roger Saul and his mother. Saul was ousted in 2003 by Ong Beng Seng and Christina Ong, owners of Challice, which controls Mulberry Group with more than a 59% ownership stake. Mulberry Group makes and sells high-end accessories, which account for most of sales, as well as select women's and men's apparel. The company's products, which include fashion handbags, briefcases, scarves, sunglasses, and footwear, are sold through a handful of company-owned stores (many are located in the UK), select department stores, and a Web site.

Karl Toosbuy founded ECCO Sko A/S in rural Denmark in 1963. ECCO Sko A/S company is the country's largest shoe maker and retailer. It operates more than 680 shops worldwide selling an extensive range of men's and women's shoes for business, comfort, and activity. ECCO manufactures about 17 million pairs of them each year. The company has expanded its products portfolio to include golf shoes and running and performance shoes. Outside Denmark, ECCO's operations extend to Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe. Hanna Toosbuy Kasprzak, daughter of deceased founder Karl Toosbuy, owns the company.

Haworth is owned by the family of Gerrard Haworth, who founded the company in 1948. Haworth company is one of the top office furniture manufacturers in the US, competing with top rivals Steelcase and HNI. Known for innovative design, it offers a full range of furniture, including partitions, desks, chairs, tables, and storage products. Brands include Monaco, Patterns, PLACES, and X99. The company operates about 60 showrooms worldwide and sells its products through more than 600 dealers. Dilbert and other long-suffering office drones have Haworth to thank for inventing the prewired partitions that make today's cubicled workplace possible.

Hospital Specialty Company was founded in 1919. Hospital Specialty Company that steps in to make them a little more comfortable. The manufacturer makes and supplies its products to the retail, institutional, healthcare, and commercial markets. The company makes hygiene products, diapers and adult incontinence products, odor-control sprays, soaps, nursing pads, wash cloths and wipes, sanitary napkin dispensers, and other items. A subsidiary of The Tranzonic Companies, Hospital Specialty Company boasts a vast products portfolio that includes brand names Global Clean and Gentle Persistence skin care products, Health Gard first aid kits, and Precious baby products.

Steven Madden, Ltd. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Long Island City, New York. Steven Madden, Ltd. designs, sources, markets and retails fashion-forward footwear for women, men and children. The Company also designs, sources, markets and retails name brand and private label fashion handbags and accessories through its Daniel M. Friedman Division. The Company distributes products through its retail stores, its e-commerce Website, department and specialty stores throughout the United States and through special distribution arrangements in Canada, Europe, Central and South America, Australia and Asia. Its business comprises three segments: Wholesale, Retail and First Cost. Steven Madden Retail, Inc., its wholly owned retail subsidiary, operates Steve Madden and Steven retail stores, as well as its e-commerce Website. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Adesso-Madden, Inc. (A-M), acts as a buying agent for footwear products under private labels and licensed brands for many mass merchandisers and mid-tier department stores.

April Cornell Holdings is working to make an impression on the online retail scene. The company markets trendy mid-range apparel, handbags, jewelry, and other accessories for women and girls through its e-commerce site. It also designs tabletop and kitchen textiles, quilts, duvets, throws, and pillowcases. The company is led by its namesake founder, April Cornell, who started the business when her previous enterprise, Cornell Trading, was pushed into bankruptcy.

Founded in 1948 as Modern Mold and Tool Corporation by Al Liguori, Internet Design Technologies is still owned by the Liguori family. Doing business as National Pen, Internet Design Technologies makes advertising specialties, including custom promotional bags, calendars, cups, mouse pads, pens, shirts, and other marketing items. The firm makes its own ink (through California's National Ink), which is also sold to other pen and marker makers. Internet Design Technologies operates through divisions and subsidiaries in the US, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, and the Philippines.

Founded in 1945 by German refugee Hans Stern, the company is owned today in equal shares by the Stern sons: Roberto, Ronaldo, Ricardo, and Rafael. H. Stern Com. & Ind., S.A. company is one of the fastest-growing high-end jewelry (a necklace worn by Angelina Jolie at the 2004 Oscars was valued at $10 million) manufacturers in the world. The company is known for turning its colored gemstones into luxury products. H. Stern runs about 160 stores in a dozen countries worldwide. The firm is rapidly expanding into the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where its rings and accessories are finding a mainstream audience. It also supplies jewelry to other retailers and sells it jewels on cruise ships.

Pou Chen was founded in 1969. Pou Chen is one company that's full of sole. Its Yue Yuen subsidiary is the world's largest athletic shoe manufacturer turning out more than 100 million pair a year for customers like NIKE, adidas, Reebok, New Balance, and Puma. The company also makes plastic sandals and shoe parts as well as thin film transistor LCD modules and monitors. Footwear, produced in China, Indonesia, Mexico, Viet Nam, and the US, account for about two-thirds of sales. Pou Chen also makes hiking and work boots for Dr. Marten, Timberland, and Wolverine. The company, which handles its own R&D, chemical processing, logistics, and delivery, is planning to expand its retail and manufacturing operations.

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (Iconix) is a brand management company engaged in licensing, marketing and providing trend direction for a portfolio of owned consumer brands. The Company owns 17 brands, Candie's, Bongo, Badgley Mischka, Joe Boxer, Rampage, Mudd, London Fog, Mossimo, Ocean Pacific/OP, Danskin, Rocawear, Cannon, Royal Velvet, Fieldcrest, Charisma, Starter and Waverly, which it licenses directly to retailers, herein referred to as direct-to-retail, wholesalers and suppliers for use across a wide range of product categories, including apparel, footwear, sportswear, fashion accessories, home products and decor, and beauty and fragrance. In addition, Scion LLC, a joint venture, in which the Company has a 50% investment, owns the Artful Dodger brand. The Company’s brands are sold across a range of distribution channels, from the mass tier to the luxury market. In October 2008, it acquired Waverly brand.

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