As Iams tells it, Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch her portly pooch a bag of Eukanuba Large Breed Weight Control food. The Iams Company makes Eukanuba and Iams dry and canned versions of premium dog and cat foods and sells them in pet supply stores and veterinarians' offices in more than 70 countries. However, North America accounts for the vast majority of the company's sales. Founded by Paul Iams in 1946, Iams also funds research efforts related to animal dermatology, geriatrics, allergies, and nutrition through its Paul F. Iams Technical Center. Former chairman Clayton Mathile acquired the company in 1982 and sold it to consumer products giant Procter & Gamble in 1999.

Mirato S.p.A. company is a leading Italian manufacturer of personal hygiene products, including deodorants, soaps and shower gels, hair care products, aftershave, makeup, and fragrances. Mirato's many products are sold under various labels, including Intesa, Malizia, and Splend'Or. Mirato, which was founded in 1960, entered the mass market cosmetics business through its purchase of the Clinians brand from Medestea Internazionale in 2001. Its products are sold through a variety of retailers and mass merchandisers, mostly in Italy, but also worldwide. Benefit SpA owns about 55% of Mirato's shares and is seeking to acquire the rest.

Seiko Holdings (formerly Seiko Corp.) is way beyond its tradition of marking time -- whether it's wristwatches, clocks, or precision timing devices for athletic events. The corporation serves as a holding company for subsidiaries, such as Seiko Watch, maker of watches such as the Kinetic and Thermic series that generate power by the movement of the owner's wrist or body heat. The watchmaker also makes mass-market watch brands Pulsar and Lorus. Seiko Watch's other timepieces range from small bedside alarm clocks to large-scale public clocks. Seiko Holdings other subsidiaries include Seiko Clock, Seiko Instruments, Seiko Optical Products, Seiko Sports Life, and Seiko Precision. The Hattori family controls Seiko.

Multi-Pack LLC company is a third-party contract manufacturer of disposable cleaning products, such as wet wipes. It offers a variety of packaging, such as individual packs and a variety of coreless canisters. Multi-Pack also offers product development, testing, and formulation services. The company, founded in 1999, was acquired by Span Packaging Services, a subsidiary of Cloud Packaging Solutions LLC, in late 2005. The deal gave Cloud a deeper offering in towelette and wipe technology and, for Multi-Pack, deeper pockets for investing in future growth.

Vera Bradley Designs was formed in 1982 by friends Patricia Miller and Barbara Bradley Baekgaard when they realized a lack of good-looking luggage for women. They named the company after Barbara's mother, Vera Bradley. Vera Bradley Designs likes its customers to carry around lots of baggage. It designs and makes quilted handbags and travel bags, as well as travel accessories, such as cosmetic bags, curling iron covers, and pocket wallets. The company's products are available in some 3,500 gift and specialty stores and about 30 Vera Bradley retail stores in the US. In addition to its core products, it offers licensed items, including Vera Bradley-brands rugs, eyewear, stationery, and home decor items.

USPA Accessories LLC company, which operates as Concept One, boasts a vast portfolio of accessories that includes headwear, backpacks, gloves, and umbrellas, among other items. Its products are made through licensing agreements under names Sean John and Levi's Red Tab, as well as emblazoned with team names from the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL. USPA sells its items through department stores nationwide. The company was founded in 1986 as Drew Pearson Marketing by former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson. In late 2006 Concept One Accessories purchased Drew Pearson Marketing from Hong Kong's Mainland Headwear Holdings Limited for about $8 million.

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.

Maidenform Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, and markets intimate apparel products for women in the United States and internationally. Its products include bras, panties, leg briefs, sleepwear, full briefs, waist nipper briefs, waist nippers, body briefers, control slips, bra accessories, socks, slippers, and control camisoles. The company offers its products primarily under Maidenform, Flexees, Lilyette, Sweet Nothings, Rendezvous, Subtract, Bodymates, and Self Expressions brand names. Maidenform Brands sells its products through various distribution channels, including department and chain stores; mass merchants, including warehouse clubs; and specialty and off-price retailers, and foreign distributors, as well as company-operated outlet stores and Web sites. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 78 retail outlet stores in 27 states and Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey.

Randa Accessories has been making men feel constricted since its inception in 1935. The leading neckwear manufacturer has licensing agreements with Levi Strauss' Dockers, Perry Ellis, Phillips-Van Heusen, and Chaps for private-label department stores, such as Belk, Macy's, Kohl's, Saks, and Sears. Randa has responded to the last decade's trend toward casual wear by reaching into other men's accessories, such as wallets and small leather goods. Its purchases of Trafalgar and Humphreys Accessories brought belts and suspenders. The company, which operates from some 20 locations worldwide, also offers luggage, casual bags, small leather goods, business cases, and gifts for men, women, and children.

Kadant, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts. Kadant, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and products for the papermaking and paper recycling industries worldwide. Its principal products include custom-engineered stock-preparation systems and equipment, including recycling and approach flow systems and virgin pulping process equipment for the preparation of wastepaper for conversion into recycled paper; and fluid-handling systems, such as rotary joints, syphons, Turbulator tube bars, and engineered steam and condensate systems used primarily in the dryer section of the papermaking process and during the production of corrugated boxboard, metals, plastics, rubber, textiles, and food. The company also offers paper machine accessory equipment and related consumables, including doctor systems and holders, profiling systems, and doctor blades for the operation of paper machines; and water-management systems that comprises shower and fabric-conditioning systems, formation systems, and water-filtration systems essential for draining, purifying, and recycling process water. In addition, Kadant produces biodegradable absorbent granules from papermaking byproducts for use primarily as carriers for agricultural, home lawn and garden, and professional lawn, turf, and ornamental applications, as well as for oil and grease absorption. It operates primarily in the United States, China, and Europe.

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