Arquest makes training pants, swim pants for infants, and other specialty products. Its retail customers include mass merchandisers such as Wal-Mart and J Sainsbury. The company, founded in 1991 as a spinoff from Johnson & Johnson, is among the top private labelers of diapers in the world and one of the largest suppliers of diapers under private label in North America. Arquest conducts its own R&D (including market and industry research) and boasts a licensing partnership with Scholastic Entertainment, which owns the Clifford the Big Red Dog license.

Founded in 1998, the company sells medications and healthcare items for cats, dogs, birds, fish, chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other small animals. Paying less to take care of pets is the focus of PetCareRx and its customers. The online retailer sells discounted prescription and non-prescription medications and supplements for domesticated pets that are typically purchased from veterinarian offices. The e-tailer peddles the products through its Web site and offers additional pet items, such as toys, treats, bedding, and grooming supplies. The company's Web site boasts an online pharmacist and veterinarian to answer questions, as well.

Kolmar Labs Group company (formerly known as Outsourcing Services Group) is a contract manufacturer of cosmetics and personal care products, as well as over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. It operates through two subsidiaries: Kolmar Laboratories, which makes cosmetics, bath and hair products, and OTC health products; and Acupac Packaging, a specialty manufacturer focused on single-use consumer products, such as moist towelettes, sample packs, and dissolvable thin films (for example, breath strips). Both companies assist clients with the entire product development process, from conceptualization and formulation to testing, packaging, and distribution.

Established as a small, family-run pharmacy in 1869 by Dr. Charles Browne Fleet, today the firm makes about 100 personal health and beauty care products that are distributed to more than 100 countries globally. C.B. Fleet's offerings include feminine care, laxatives, oral care, skin care, and oral rehydration product lines sold under brand names Summer's Eve, Vera by CCS, Norforms, Clinomyn, HydraLife, BioralSuero, and Casen-Fleet, among others. It also operates several subsidiaries, such as CSS (Europe), DeWitt Personal Care (the UK), and Fleet Laboratories (Asia and Latin America).

Mercer International Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Mercer International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of pulp. Its products include northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp, kraft pulp, and market pulp. The company operates three NBSK pulp mills, including the Rosenthal mill and the Stendal mill in Germany, as well as Celgar mill in Canada. Mercer International sells its products primarily in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Age Group makes and markets sleepwear, lingerie, and underwear under the brand name Of the Moment, as well as apparel and accessories under licensed names including Hello Kitty, Disney, Roca Wear, and American Tourister, and others. A leading wholesaler, Age Group also manufactures and designs pet accessories, including an exclusive line of pet apparel, bedding, and grooming supplies under the Martha Stewart brand, for sale in PetSmart stores. The company's products are distributed through large-scale department stores nationwide. Age Group's age? The company has been in the design and manufacturing business for more than 25 years.

Established in 1984, Suncast acquired some assets and product lines of Consolidated Foam, an outdoor accessories maker, in 2005. Suncast resin and metal storage products help to keep the sun shining. The company manufactures more than 1,000 outdoor storage and garden items, including dog houses, fencing, hose reels, pet feeders, rain barrels, snow shovels, storage systems and bins, and sheds. Products are sold in Canada and the US at retailers such as Ace Hardware, Home Depot, and Meijer.

I.C. Isaacs & Company is putting all of its jeans in one laundry basket. A leading US licensee for French designer Girbaud, the company designs and makes jeans and sportswear targeting a young, fashionable urban market. It has otherwise cleaned out its closet to focus entirely on its Girbaud brand. (In 2001 I.C. Isaacs terminated its licenses with BOSS and Beverly Hills Polo Club and discontinued its own Urban Expedition and Isaacs lines.) The company's clothes are sold in about 1,500 specialty and department stores. The family of designers Marithe Bachellerie and Franois Girbaud has increased its stake in I.C. Isaacs to about 70%, making it the company's biggest shareholder.

Vision-Ease Lens Corporation company specializes in designing, making, and distributing the increasingly popular polycarbonate prescription lenses used in eyewear today. Although the company has focused its business on polycarbonate lenses for their impact resistance, light weight, and ultraviolet filtering properties, Vision-Ease makes other styles. It manufactures plastic and glass lenses, as well as photochromic (allowing lenses to darken automatically according to light levels), polarized, anti-reflective, and scratch-resistant lens treatments. The company's two largest clients are LensCrafters and Wal-Mart, accounting for more than 45% of sales.

Marietta makes miniatures -- those little packages of personal care amenities (soaps, dental and hair-care products, and other items) found in hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns. The company also distributes brand-name (Pantene, Vaseline, Yardley of London) and private-label (Fleur de Lis, Lord & Mayfair) products to gift shops, the health-care market, correctional institutions, and military bases. Using its sample-size packaging know-how, the company makes trial-size units for other companies' products, as well. Marietta went public in 1986. When corporate officers were convicted of fraud in 1996, it was acquired by BFMA Holding, which, in turn, sold the company to private equity firm Ares Management in 2004.

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