Customers who want one-stop shopping for their home and body turn to Amway Global. Formerly Quixtar, the unit of Amway's Alticor is an online retailer and direct seller of personal care products, health supplements, laundry care products, and household cleaners. It also supplies car care items, cosmetics, hair care and skin care products, fragrances, and infant care items. Amway Global's brands include eSpring, clear.now, Glister, Trim Body System, Nutrilite, Momentum, and others. Its online Store For More offers apparel, appliances, electronics, and furniture. Through its affiliated Partner Stores, Amway Global members can purchase products and services.

Laboratoires Druide was founded in 1979 by its president, Alain Renaud. Laboratories Druide comes from an old, old school of skin care. The Quebec-based Druide makes and markets natural body care, hair care, baby care, and skin care products, as well as soaps, massage creams, lipstick, sunscreen, and anti-mosquito citronella products. The company claims to have invented the "first" (perhaps since the Druids) ecological (i.e., without any chemical) skin care products. Ingredients include materials such as plant extractions, goat's milk and shea butter, and can be purchased through specialty skin care retailers the world over, as well as through the company's Web site.

Norstar Office Products company specializes in the design and manufacturing of ergonomic office chairs and other seating products. Its products include drafting stools, medical stools, upholstered executive chairs, leather chairs, side chairs, task seating, reception furniture, workstations, conference tables, filing cabinets, and folding chairs and tables. Norstar Office Products, which also does business as Boss Office Products, has taken the chair in the workplace furniture market. Headquartered in California, Boss Office Products also operates a branch in Georgia.

Citizen Holdings, but it sure pays the bills and then some. A global leader in watchmaking (known for its public clocks in major cities worldwide), it makes watches for pilots, divers, and sailors, plus a line of Eco-Drive light-powered watches for men and women. The company, which operates the Citizen Watch unit among others, also makes clocks and jewelry. The balance of its revenue comes from sales of electronic devices (light-emitting diodes, mobile-phone components), electronic products (thermometers, blood-pressure monitors), and industrial machinery (PC and automotive components). Citizen acquired rival timepiece brand Bulova in 2008.

P.H. Glatfelter Company was founded in 1864 and is headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. P.H. Glatfelter Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures specialty papers and engineered products in the United States and internationally. It offers book publishing papers for the production of hardbound books and other book publishing needs; carbonless and forms papers for credit card receipts, multi-part forms, security papers, and other end-user applications; envelope and converting papers for the direct mail market, shopping bags, and other converting applications; and engineered products for digital imaging, transfer, casting, release, postal, and playing card applications.P.H. Glatfelter products include food and beverage paper used for tea bags and coffee pods/pads and filters; composite laminate papers used in production of decorative laminates for furniture and flooring; and metallized products used in the labeling of beer bottles, inner liners, gift wrap, self-adhesive labels, and other consumer products applications, as well as a line of paper products used in batteries, medical masks, and other engineered applications. It serves customers in various markets, including book publishing, carbonless and forms, envelope and converting, engineered products, food and beverage, and composite laminates markets. The company sells its products directly, as well as through wholesale paper merchants, brokers, and agents primarily in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Beiersdorf Canada keeps customers' skin smooth and supple. The subsidiary of Beiersdorf AG makes NIVEA, Curad, Basis, Eucerin, Futuro, la prairie, tesa, and Aquaphor brands, as well as Labello lip balm. Beiersdorf's products are sold in more than 100 countries. The parent company's Beyond Borders executive training program places some of Beiersdorf's best in Canada. Typically through a six-month placement, program participants work for Beiersdorf Canada, which acts as an international affiliate.

CEO and owner Renzo Rosso founded Diesel in 1978. Diesel jeans are considered high-octane by some in the fashion-forward set. Despite noxiously high prices, Diesel takes pride in producing unusual yet modish men's and women's casual wear. The company also makes sportswear and kids' clothes, and its name is licensed to makers of jewelry, watches, leather goods (handbags, wallets), eyewear, fragrances (Only the Brave, Fuel for Life), and footwear. Diesel's products are sold in more than 80 countries through department stores and specialty retailers, as well as at about 400 company-owned Diesel stores globally. The company also markets its goods through catalogs.

Greif, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of industrial packaging products, and containerboard and corrugated products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Industrial Packaging, Paper Packaging, and Timber. The Industrial Packaging segment offers industrial packaging products, including steel and plastic drums, intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, transit protection products, and polycarbonate water bottles, as well as provides blending, filling, logistics, and warehousing services. It sells its products to customers in chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agriculture, and pharmaceutical and mineral industries.The Paper Packaging segment sells containerboard, corrugated sheets, and other corrugated products and multiwall bags to customers in North America. Its corrugated container products are used to ship various products, such as home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, building products, automotive components, books, and furniture; and industrial and consumer multiwall bag products are used to ship industrial and consumer products, such as seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, flour, sugar, feed, pet foods, popcorn, charcoal and salt, primarily for the agricultural, chemical, building products, and food industries. Timber segment engages in harvesting and regenerating its timber properties in the United States and Canada. As of October 31, 2008, Greif owned approximately 268,700 acres of timber properties in the United States and 27,450 acres of timber properties in Canada.

Sportif USA is making its living off of the great outdoors. The family-run company, founded by John Kirsch Sr. in 1965, makes casual clothing for men and women including sportswear (ski apparel, fleece and waterproof outerwear) and clothing targeting outdoor enthusiasts (shirts, hiking shorts, jackets). It also offers organic items. Sportif's apparel collections are sold through traditional retailers, as well as through catalogs and online. The apparel company operates Aventura Clothing Co., a division run out of Sparks, Nevada. After a single-engine plane crash claimed the life of John Kirsch Sr. in 1991, his son John Kirsch Jr. (company president) took the reins of Sportif's operations.

Founded when a young woman by the name of Merle Norman first opened up shop in Santa Monica, California, in 1931, the beauty company makes and markets skin care products and color cosmetics. Its products (all of which are manufactured in the US) are sold through about 2,000 independently owned and operated retail outlets -- Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios -- in the US and Canada. Many are located in malls. Brand names include Automatic Definitive, Inspirations, Luxiva, Only Natural, and more. The company is owned by chairman Jack Nethercutt, Norman's great-nephew.

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