Pookie Products was founded in 2001 by two New York University sorority sisters. Combine cosmetics and terms of endearment, and you get Pookie Products. The firm makes and markets lip balms using beeswax, shea butter, and natural oils such as avocado, apricot kernel, sweet almond, and coconut. Balms include its champagne-flavored I Do lip balm, It's a Boy! and It's a Girl! mini-tins, mint and vanilla Apookalips, as well as private labeling balms for wedding parties, bridal showers, and other special occasions. The company's products, which have expanded to include bath and body products and apparel, are available in specialty retailers (like Anthropologie) and through its online store.

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.

Aalfs Manufacturing Company, owned and run by the founding Aalfs family, just might have a gene for the jeans business. The company designs, makes, and markets clothing (primarily jeans and denimwear) to big-name retailers nationwide. Clients include J.C. Penney (since 1943), American Eagle, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Old Navy, and even Harley Davidson. Aalfs also makes and sells its own 4 Stroke brand of denim apparel. Founded in Iowa in 1892 by H.A. Baker and renamed the Aalfs-Baker Manufacturing Company in 1929, when Wilbur Aalfs held the presidential title, the apparel manufacturer officially became Aalfs Manufacturing Company in 1959.

Frederick's of Hollywood Group is making big business out of little somethings. Through the 2008 merger of Frederick's of Hollywood and Movie Star, the group pairs two of the top intimates makers and retailers. The group boasts US retail operations and wholesales in the US and Canada. Its Frederick's of Hollywood subsidiary peddles intimates, as well as wigs, hosiery, and dresses, through its catalog, e-commerce site, and more than 130 namesake stores. The group's Movie Star unit designs intimate apparel, sleepwear, leisurewear, and loungewear under brands Movie Star, Cinema Etoile, and others. Movie Star sells to discount, specialty, mass merchandise, and department stores and to catalog merchants.

Clifford Paper Inc. was incorporated June 1, 1985, with 4 employees and sales of $16.6 million. Today, Clifford Paper is projected to distribute more than 650,000 tons of printing paper from a full line of product manufacturers in 2009.Clifford Paper is a paper distributor. Clifford Paper specialize in printing, packaging, pulp and specialty paper distribution with emphasis on newsprint, specialty groundwood, supercalendered and coated groundwood papers, uncoated freesheet, coated freesheet, book publication and specialty papers.With cumulative sales projected to be over 650,000 tons in the year 2009, Clifford Paper one of the fastest growing paper distributors in North America. To insure continued success, Clifford Paper has and will continue to recognize that Clifford Paper a service oriented paper supply company. Customer service is, has been and always will be key to Clifford Paper ability to supply and service Clifford Paper customers in the most efficient, professional and technologically advanced manner possible in Clifford Paper industry.

Natural Health Trends Corp. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Natural Health Trends Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an international direct selling and e-commerce company. The company sells personal care and wellness products under the NHT Global brand primarily to independent distributor networks. It offers Skindulgence, a skin care system that include nonsurgical facelift, as well as a spa collection for hands, feet, and all-over body; Alura, an intimacy enhancing cream for women; Premium Noni Juice, a reconstituted morinda citrifolia fruit juice; La Vie, an energy-boosting dietary supplement; Triotein, a lactose-free whey protein powder that provides amino acid substrates; Cluster Concentrate, a product for increased cell hydration; and TriFusion Max, a beverage with a blend of exotic fruits and berries. The company has operations in North America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, and Slovenia.

Sappi Limited operates in the pulp and paper industry worldwide. It produces and sells coated woodfree paper used for brochures, catalogues, corporate communications materials, direct mail promotions, educational textbooks, luxury advertising, magazine covers, and upscale magazines; and uncoated woodfree paper for business forms, business stationery, general printing paper, tissue, and photocopy paper; and specialty woodfree paper used in bags, labels, packaging, and release paper for casting textured finishes, as well as packaging paper products used for primary and secondary packaging of fast moving consumer goods, agricultural, and industrial products. The company also provides mechanical papers, such as newsprint, which is manufactured from groundwood and bleached chemical pulp, used for advertising inserts and newspapers; uncoated mechanical paper, an uncoated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material; and coated mechanical/magazine paper, a coated groundwood fiber based paper, primarily used for magazines, catalogues, and advertising material. In addition, it produces chemical cellulose, as well as a range of paper pulp grades, including mechanical pulp used in newsprint, unbleached kraft pulp, bleached kraft pulp, and bleached sulphite pulp. Further, Sappi Limited offers sawn timber for the building industry and components for the furniture and packaging industry. Its customers include merchants, converters, printers, publishers, and other direct customers.

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.

Arthur Julius founded the family-owned company in 1957. His son, Robert Julius, is Nice-Pak's chairman. Nice-Pak Products wipes up the competition. The company makes and markets private-label wet wipes, as well as baby wipes, industrial wipes, surface wipes, antibacterial towelettes, and cloths for cleaning lenses and removing makeup and nail polish. Its brand names include Grime Boss, Nice'n Clean, Hygea, Thermo-San, Sani-Dex ALC, Tar-Off, and Sani-Cloth, among others. It makes the EZ Ones private-label line for mass marketers. Nice-Pak uses a patented process to manufacture its baby wipes without using chemicals or latex to bind the fibers of the cloth.

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.

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