United States Beverage, LLC company provides distribution, marketing, and sales for a small number of premium imported craft beers and spirits. Among the beer brands it offers are Nicaraguan beer Toa Cerveza, Spanish beer Estrella Damm, French beer Les Brasseurs de Gayant, and Polish beer, Zamkowe. The company's spirits brands include Tequiloco's Paloma Gold tequila (Mexico) and 26000 Vodka (New Zealand). United States Beverage was founded by president and CEO Joseph Fisch in 1997.

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.

A.T. Cross Company was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Rhode Island. .T. Cross Company engages in the design and marketing of personal accessories in the United States. It operates in two segments, Cross Accessory Division (CAD) and Cross Optical Group (COG). The CAD segment manufactures and markets writing instruments, including ball-point pens, fountain pens, selectip rolling ball pens, and mechanical pencils, as well as refills. It also designs and markets various personal and business accessories, including leather goods, reading glasses, watches, desk sets, business totes, cufflinks, and stationery. The segment sells writing instruments under the Penatia and Cross brands. The CAD segment sells its products through direct sales force and manufacturers' agents or representatives to retail and wholesale accounts, and directly to consumers via its Website www.cross.com and the Cross retail stores in the United States, as well as through distributors and retailers worldwide. The COG segment designs, manufactures, and markets polarized eyewear under the brand names Costa Del Mar and Native. It sells its products through employee representatives and manufacturers' agents to optical and sunglass specialty shops, department stores, and sporting goods retailers in the United States.

Founded as a pharmacy by Giovanni Battista Schiapparelli in 1824, Schiapparelli 1824 S.p.A. manufactures and distributes cosmetics and related items. The company's products include cosmetics, perfumes, tissues, and a line of dietetic products. Cosmetics and perfume brands sold through the company's Schiapparelli Pikenz operations include Blumarine, Parah, Gian Marco Venturi, and Annabella. The Nutritionals Schiapparelli subsidiary produces and distributes dietetic items including Euvita and Quid. Through financial group Clovis S.A., managing director Gianni Mazzola owns almost 30% of the company.

Established in 1926, Paoli manufactured chairs for the home before transitioning to office furniture, a market that grew in popularity in the 1970s. HNI purchased Paoli in 2004 from Klaussner Furniture. Paoli does business in offices and boardrooms around the country. Its business is filling those rooms with furniture. Paoli makes wooden tables, desks, cabinets, and upholstered chairs. The company's goods are marketed through about 15 showrooms across the US and via its e-commerce site. Customers come from the corporate, education, and health care industries, as well as government agencies.

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.

B.J. Vines, aka Betsey Johnson, is a perennial favorite among women who are funky and consider themselves eclectic, and after some 30 years in the business, the eccentric designer and her company namesake are still going strong. Betsey Johnson clothes, shoes, fragrance, makeup, lingerie, legwear, and accessories are distributed through about 50 specialty stores of the same name and department stores worldwide. B.J. Vines has expanded its product offerings and operations through about a dozen licensing agreements. Having owned a majority of the firm, Johnson sold a controlling stake to Boston-based private equity firm Castanea Partners in August 2007.

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.

Aubrey Organics makes and markets organic products (free of petrochemicals and synthetics) for the skin and hair -- for people and their pet counterparts. President and CEO Aubrey Hampton formulates each of the company's products, which are sold online and through specialty retailers nationwide, in small batches at the firm's manufacturing plant. The company's offerings include baby care items, bath products, fragrances, household goods, makeup, sun care formulas, and hair color products. Aubrey Organics was the first personal care company to be certified as an organic processor according to standards set by the Department of Agriculture.

Gold Coast Beverage Distributors, Inc. company has been in business since 1940 and began distributing wine in 2005. Florida-based Gold Coast Beverages, considered the largest beer wholesaler in the Sunshine State, also distributes a variety of wine and Zephyrhills bottled water in Miami, Pompano Beach, and Rockland Key. (Zephyrhills is a division of Nestlé Waters.) Among the many brands Gold Coast distributes are Bavaria, Beck's, Corona, Guinness, Heineken, Labatt, Pabst, Shiner, Miller, and Coors. In 2008 it acquired the Palm Beach County territory and now covers the area from Tequesta all the way down to Key West.

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