Founded in 1877 by a sea captain named Helly Hansen, the eponymous company returned to Nordic ownership in late 2006 when Bahrain-based Investcorp sold the Norwegian outdoor-wear supplier to Sweden's Altor Equity Partners. The company is the British arm of Helly Hansen, a Norwegian maker of waterproof apparel for outdoor sports and work. The firm's foul-weather offerings feature three layers of apparel to keep the wearer warm and dry. The base layer uses polypropylene yarn that wicks moisture away from the body. The company makes clothing for men, women, and children.

Domtar Corporation engages in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing uncoated freesheet paper; papergrade, fluff, and specialty pulp; and lumber and wood products in North America. The company operates in three segments: Papers, Paper Merchants, and Wood. The Papers segment offers business papers, including copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with ink jet and laser printers, photocopiers, and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms, and digital papers. It also provides commercial printing and publication papers, including uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques, and coated groundwood used in offset presses and digital printing; and publication papers comprising tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels, and financial documents.This segment also offers converting and specialty papers, which consist of base papers that are converted into finished products, such as envelopes, tablets, business forms, and data processing/computer forms. It sells papers to paper merchants, office equipment manufacturers, stationers, retail outlets, commercial printers, converters, and end users. The Paper Merchants segment offers business, printing and publishing papers, and industrial products to small, medium and large commercial printers, publishers, quick copy firms, catalog and retail companies, and institutional entities. The Wood segment manufactures and markets lumber and wood-based products, as well as manages forest resources. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Clarins Canada, a key subsidiary of the French cosmetics group Clarins, manufactures skin care products and makeup using herbal and marine extracts and antioxidants. Clarins specializes in peddling items the likes of self-tanners and also makes and markets anti-aging, face wash, and shaving products for men under the ClarinsMen label. The company's fragrance division covers numerous brands, including key brands Azzaro and Par Amour. Clarins Canada's products are sold through department and specialty stores in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company operates skin spas in Montreal/Laval, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Beiersdorf is a master of soft sell. Its NIVEA line of skin care products (#1 in Europe) helped the company expand into color cosmetics and shaving products. Other body care brands include such items as Labello, 8x4, Florena, JUVENA, and la prairie. Beiersdorf also makes and markets bandages, surgical gloves, disinfectants, and dermatological skin care products (such as Hansaplast and Eucerin). Under the tesa name, it offers tapes and adhesives for home, office, and industrial settings. German insurer Allianz sold its 44% of Beiersdorf to coffee and cigarette firm Tchibo Holding, to add to Tchibo's 30%. Chairman Rolf Kunisch retired in May 2008; Thomas-Bernd Quaas replaced him.

Founded in 1919, family-owned CalCedar is a leading supplier of wooden slats used in making wood-cased pencils, including art and cosmetic varieties. The company also makes its own brand pencils (California Republic Stationers and ForestChoice) and pencils for other customers. CalCedar's products are sold worldwide. The company has moved its slat production plant from California to China and also operates a factory in Thailand. CalCedar sold its Duraflame log business, which it invented in 1969, to Clorox in 1978 and has exited the supply siding and decking business.

Unicharm Corporation company, which is expanding in Europe and the Middle East, was founded in 1961. Unicharm is out to charm your pants on. The company makes personal care products for the disposable diaper, feminine hygiene, and adult incontinence markets. Its pant-like diapers -- comprised of Moony Man and Mamy Poko brands, among others -- command nearly 50% of the domestic market. Unicharm's other product divisions include feminine, health, and pet care and household cleaning products, as well as food packaging. Unitec Corporation owns about 18% of the company, which does the majority of its business in Japan (responsible for about two-thirds of revenue) and Asia.

Safco was founded in 1967. Safco Products Company does its best to bring some of the comforts of home to the office. The company is a distributor of organization products for the office, as well as pieces to make work feel as comfortable as home. Its 2,200-plus items include back rests and seat cushions, drafting tables, desk chairs, filing and storage systems, footrests, shelving, and garbage cans. Safco distributes its products through dealers, national retailers (Corporate Express, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples), and wholesalers (S.P. Richards, United Stationers), as well as through a catalog and the Internet.

Since 1927 Agustín Reyes®, Inc. has created fine perfumes and personal care products. Using handcrafted recipes, a tradition of quality was established that continues today. Agustín Reyes I, began his career as an apprentice to a pharmacist. In his youth he learned to formulate products for health and beauty. He possessed a natural aptitude for chemistry, but also an entrepreneurial curiosity. The firm manufactures cosmetics and fragrances. Its first product, called Royal Violets, has been used as a baby cologne and was first created in Havana, Cuba. Royal Violets is also marketed to adults, capitalizing on their youthful nostalgia. The company has a strong distribution presence and following in Latin markets. Agustin Reyes also makes scented soaps and sprays, baby shampoos, and operates as a contract manufacturer for fragrances.

Since 1976 FlairWood Industries has been providing cabinetry solutions for the institutional, industrial and health care fields. FlairWood proud to have FlairWood products in use throughout North American and as far away as Europe and Japan. And now FlairWood excited to add FlairWood new MailCenter product line to FlairWood company's offering.The people of FlairWood have been the key to FlairWood success and growth. Through a team concept that utilizes creative problem-solving techniques, the results are high-quality products, delivered on-time by people who care.

Speidel, Inc. company has made a name for itself as a leading worldwide distributor of watchbands. It is the exclusive marketer of leather watchbands made by Di-Modell. Speidel also sells men's and women's watches, pearl jewelry, and batteries. The company provides watch repair services through its Providence Watch Hospital outlets. In 2007 Fred Levinger acquired Speidel from Jeffrey Massotti, who remains president and CEO of the company. Levinger is the former head of jewelry retailer Colibri.

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