Chairman, CEO, and owner Vera Wang founded the firm in 1990. A bride needs to budget more for herself if she wants to walk down the aisle in a wedding dress from Vera Wang Bridal House. With gowns reaching $20,000, Vera Wang has designed bridal gowns for celebrities the likes of Sharon Stone and Mariah Carey. Vera Wang also designs evening gowns, bridesmaid dresses, and sportswear, and licenses its name for other apparel, as well as for china, crystal, eyewear, footwear, fragrances, jewelry, linens, silver, and more. Vera Wang's products are sold through upscale department stores, specialty stores, and a pair of company-owned flagship boutiques located in New York City and Los Angeles.

Justin Brands two-stepped away and returned to its cowboy roots. The footwear firm is most well-known as a manufacturer of western boots, but Justin Brands also makes and markets work, safety, and sports footwear. Its western boots come in a variety of exotic leathers, including lizard and ostrich. The company also caters to cowboys and fillies who want to learn more about the West and its culture. It publishes books on Western history and art and Native American culture through its Northland Publishing unit. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns the company alongside its other footwear firm, H.H. Brown Shoe.

CEO James LaCrosse and director Norma Johnston own National Wine & Spirits, which was founded in 1934. National Wine & Spirits is one of the Midwest's largest wine and liquor distributors. Serving 36,000 locations with its fleet of 350 delivery vehicles, the company distributes to restaurants, liquor stores, and beverage retailers in Indiana and Michigan. The distributor carries more than 120,000 products and its suppliers include Fortune Brands (Jim Beam), Diageo (Bailey's), and Beringer Blass Wine Estates.

Coty scents have turned heads since Francois Coty created his first perfume, La Rose Jacqueminot, in 1904. Its boudoir includes moderately priced fragrances and colognes sold by mass retailers and prestige brands found in department stores. Coty's brands include Jennifer Lopez, JOOP!, Jovan, Rimmel, Stetson, and Vivienne Westwood. The company also offers aromatherapy, foot care, nail care, and sun care items. German consumer goods giant Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH acquired Coty in 1996 to operate its fragrance and cosmetics businesses.

Esprit Holdings got its start in San Francisco in the 1970s. Esprit Holdings aims to put shoppers in the buying spirit. The firm sells a wide range of fashion items through about a dozen product lines -- including women's, men's, and children's apparel, footwear, accessories, assorted housewares, and jewelry under the Esprit label. Women's apparel and accessories account for nearly two-thirds of sales. The company also sells cosmetics and skin care products under the Red Earth brand name. Esprit Holdings controls retail space of more than 817,000 square meters and has about 15,000 wholesale outlets in 40-plus countries, including about 1,640 owned and franchised stores. It also licenses the Esprit name.

Corwood Laboratories, Inc. company is a contract manufacturer of liquids, lotions, gels, and creams for bath, hair care, skin care, and personal care products. Along with the usual cosmetics, shower gels, and shampoos, it also makes over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, such as acne cream, burn ointment, and wound cleansers and dressings. The company makes products for pets, too, in the form of coat conditioners, shampoo, stain remover, and toothpaste. QuSomes, a new nanotechnology that is intended to replace liposomes, is the result of its partnership with BioZone Laboratories.

SilkSkin has shed its old name, California Cosmetics, for the brand it's best known for. Founded by longtime Hollywood makeup artist Bob Sidell, SilkSkin offers a skin care system by the same moniker through mail order and online. The company makes a line of more than 80 products that include hair care, anti-aging skin care, bath and body products, and makeup. President and CEO Sidell began his career on the set of The Waltons and later worked with Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Heather Locklear, Jaclyn Smith, Joan Collins, and Kathleen Turner. In addition to its new name, the company moved into a new distribution center in Las Vegas and unveiled a new logo in 2008.

Swallowfield wants its customers to live clean lives. The company is a contract manufacturer of toiletries, household goods, and cosmetics for major department and specialty retailers around the UK. It caters to such customers as Marks & Spencer and PZ Cussons. The firm boasts production operations in the UK and the Czech Republic. Swallowfield is expanding its presence in China through a joint venture with Jahwa, IE (a subsidiary of one of China's largest players in the toiletries sector) formed in 2008. The company, once a subsidiary of Cadbury, was spun off in a management buyout in 1986; later it was floated as a public company.

kate spade's story is one of simplicity, like the bags it sells. Begun by designer Kate Spade and her husband, Andy, in 1993, signature kate spade bags were an instant success because of their uncomplicated design. Since then, the manufacturer has expanded into stationery, various functional bags (think diaper bags), and licensing -- with lines of homewares (sheets, tabletop items, and wallpaper), as well as beauty products, eyewear, and shoes. Women's items are sold under the kate spade name while men's products carry the jack spade moniker. The company, which is owned by Liz Claiborne, distributes its products in Asia and sells them in the US through about 50 of its own shops and in upscale department stores.

Hampshire Group, Limited (Hampshire) is a provider of women’s and men’s sweaters, wovens and knits, and a designer and marketer of branded apparel in the United States. As a holding company, Hampshire operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Hampshire Designers, Inc. and Item-Eyes, Inc. Hampshire Designers consists of both the Company’s women’s knitwear division, known as Hampshire Designers, and its men’s division, known as Hampshire Brands. Item-Eyes is a designer and marketer of related sportswear for women. Its products, both branded and private label, are marketed in the moderate and better markets through multiple channels of distribution, including national and regional department stores. Keynote Services, Limited, its Hong Kong based subsidiary, assists with its sourcing needs and provides quality control services.

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