Reebok International Ltd. company has long been at home in sporting arenas as a top US maker of athletic shoes, behind NIKE. In addition to its namesake sportswear and accessories, Reebok sports Rockport and Weebok shoes and caters to hockey aficionados through its Reebok-CCM Hockey unit. It operates more than 220 retail stores. Reebok, which has been credited as igniting the aerobics craze, sponsors sports stars and has taken strides to boost its fashion quotient. Its Your Move ad campaign aims to spur customers to make Reebok part of their personal fitness goals. adidas has owned Reebok since 2006.

Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of consumer products containing synthetic human pheromones and other mood enhancing compounds. The company provides a line of fragrance and toiletry products for men and women under the Natural Attraction trademark. It also licenses its initial compounds and related technology, as well as sells its patented compounds to licensed customers to include these compounds as components in their products. In addition, the company offers private label manufacturing services to licensed customers. It distributes its products through distributors, as well as through the Web site, naturalattraction.com.

Esselte makes paper-based filing and document management items (files, binders, folders, covers), workspace products (staplers, letter trays), and computer accessories under the Esselte, Leitz, Oxford, Pendaflex, and Xyron brands. Customers range from wholesalers and direct marketers to office superstores and mass retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target, and Staples. Esselte is controlled by equity firm J. W. Childs Associates.

HNI Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa. HNI Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets a range of office furniture and hearth products primarily in the United States. HNI Corporation's office furniture products include storage products, such as vertical files, lateral files, and pedestals; seating products, such as task chairs, executive desk chairs, conference/training chairs, and side chairs; office systems, such as modular and moveable workspaces with integrated work surfaces, space dividers, and lighting; and desks and related products, including tables, bookcases, and credenzas. It sells its office furniture products under various brand names, including HON, Allsteel, Maxon, Gunlocke, Paoli, Whitehall, HBF, basyx, and Lamex, as well as under private labels. HNI Corporation's hearth products comprise a range of gas, electric, and wood and biomass burning fireplaces, inserts stoves, facings, and accessories. HNI Corporation sells its hearth products under the Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Quadra-Fire, and Harman Stove brand names. It sells its office furniture products through dealers, wholesalers, retail superstores, and end-user customers, as well as federal, state, and local governments; and hearth products through a national system of dealers and distributors, as well as corporation-owned distribution and retail outlets.

Zac Posen really knows how to strike a pose. The young designer's women's apparel includes glamorous, often flowy dresses, skirts, and ensembles. The company sells its products through department stores such as Barneys, Bloomingdale's, Bergdorf Goodman, Marshall Field's, and Neiman Marcus, as well as through a select few specialty apparel shops in the US and more than 40 other countries. His designs have been seen on Natalie Portman, Cameron Diaz, Mischa Barton, Jennifer Lopez, and others. The company is owned by Zachary Posen through his holding company, Outspoke LLC. In recent years Diddy of Sean John Clothing formed a joint venture with Zac Posen, making an undisclosed long-term investment in Outspoke.

Luen Thai is one of the world's leading apparel supply chain services providers. The company manufactures apparel -- primarily of knit wear and woven wear-- on an OEM basis. The company operates12 manufacturing facilities and 14 offices in nine countries. It produces 50 million pieces annually. Products range from women's fashion, sleepwear, undergarments, pants and shorts, sports and active wear, and children's clothing. It develops, manufactures, and delivers apparel for brands that include Polo Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, Limited Brands, Dillard's, and Fast Retailing.

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.

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.

The family-owned and -operated company was founded by Charles Evans in 1952 to sell serums and vaccines for farm animals. United Pharmacal Co. (UPCO) has answered the call of the wild, as well as the domesticated. The company provides some 15,000 pet products online and through its two catalogs: a full catalog and one specifically for feathered friends. UPCO ships books and training tools, collars, grooming supplies, medicines, food, and toys for family members as big as horses or as small as hamsters.

CA Botana International is a contract manufacturer of skin care products using sea extracts, plants, herbs, and vitamins. It carries more than 1,000 products (created from some 900 ingredients), which it packages for private label customers, such as dermatologists, spas, retail outlets, and plastic surgeons. The firm also sells its own brands, each designed to cater to different types of customers. The brands include Ambrosia (sun care, moisturizing agents), Doctor D. Schwab (anti-aging, herbal serums, cellulite/firming), and Sea Enzyme (face care, wellness products, hair care). Additionally, the company makes Botana Man and Miss Cabrosia fragrances.

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