Nutro Products hopes to become a big part of Fido's dinnertime ritual. The company formulates and manufactures dry and canned food, biscuits, and treats for dogs and cats. Brand names include Natural Choice, MAX, and Ultra. Its products are available in more than 12,000 feed stores and pet supply shops (such as Petco and PetSmart) across the US and Canada. Nutro's products are also distributed internationally. Nutro Products' roots reach back to 1926, when it was purchased from a British entrepreneur and transplanted to Southern California. It is a subsidiary of food manufacturing giant Mars.

Birmingham Budweiser was founded in 1966. Birmingham Budweiser company distributes alcoholic beverages from Anheuser-Bush InBev in the fine southern cities of Birmingham and Jasper, in the Yellowhammer State. Birmingham Budweiser, located in West Oxmoor Industrial Park, is run by members of the Kampakis family. The editors of Business Alabama magazine have named Birmingham Budweiser Distributing as one of the top 100 private companies in Alabama.

The firm, which resulted from the 2001 purchase of Ralston Purina by Swiss food giant Nestlé S.A., is the world's largest pet food producer. Besides Purina, its brands include Alpo, Beneful, Cat Chow, Deli Cat, Dog Chow, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Mighty Dog, Pro Plan, Puppy Chow, Vital Balance, and others. It also makes cat and dog litter products under the Tidy Cats, Yesterday's News, and secondnature brands. To gain regulatory approval for the Nestlé acquisition of Ralston Purina, Nestlé sold off its Meow Mix and Alley Cat brands to investment group J.W. Childs.

Swank, Inc. company was founded in 1897 and is based in New York, New York. Swank, Inc. engages in the importation, sale, and distribution of men's accessories in the United States. The company offers leather accessories, including belts, wallets billfolds, key cases, card holders, and other items. It also distributes men's costume jewelry, such as cuff links, tie klips, chains and tacs, bracelets, neck chains, vest chains, collar pins, key rings, suspenders, and money clips. The company offers its products under various brands, including Kenneth Cole, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Geoffrey Beene, Claiborne, Guess?, Ted Baker, Donald Trump, Tumi, Chaps, Buffalo David Bitton, Pierre Cardin, and US Polo Association. Swank, Inc. sells its merchandise to various retailers, including department stores, national chain stores, specialty stores, mass merchandisers, catalog retailers, the United States military retail exchanges, and labels for less retailers. As of December 31, 2008, it operated four company-owned factory outlet stores in four states primarily to distribute excess and out of line merchandise.

Gieves & Hawkes has been outfitting Jeeveses (and their boss-hawks) for the past 200 years. Gieves & Hawkes is an exclusive Savile Row custom tailor. The company was founded at No. 1 Savile Row in 1785 (Gieves merged with Hawkes, which was founded in 1771) and has continued with the traditional way of hand-crafting suits ever since. It was also the first Savile Row tailor to make and (secretly) sell ready-to-wear suits in the 1920s. In 2003 the company launched Gieves, its own fashion collection and four spin-off stores with the same name. Its products are sold through about 80 stores in Europe and Asia. It is owned by USI Holdings, which is controlled by Wing Tai Holdings.

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.

Intergold Ltd. company was founded in the early 1980s by fifth-generation Armenian jeweler and CEO Miran Armutlu. Investor Benjamin Hubert owns about a quarter of Intergold. Intergold is an innovator of championship sports heavy knuckle bling. The Calgary, Canada-based company makes and markets championship rings and other recognition jewelry for corporations, schools, and professional sports teams of all kinds. Previously having produced only class and corporate rings, in the early 1990's Intergold began to court professional sports teams as their official jewelers. Products are distributed through individual sales representatives, the company Web site, and one retail outlet store.

Libby Laboratories, Inc. was founded by Dr. Henry Libby, father of current president Susan Libby, in 1959. Libby Laboratories company is a contract manufacturer of cosmetics and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Libby Labs also develops skin care, hair care, and bath products, as well as pet products (shampoos, conditioners, powders). The firm uses both natural ingredients and chemical preparations in its products, with everything from botanical blends and herbal extracts to antioxidants and peptides.

Chairman Juan Bosco Maldonado Quiroga represents the third generation of his family to run Copamex, which was founded in 1928. Copamex ompany is one of that nation's largest makers of consumer paper products. Products include Scottis facial tissue and napkins; Boreal, Flen, Lovly, Tessy, and Regio toilet paper; Saba feminine pads and liners; and Tena adult incontinence products. It also offers Benefit-brand products for institutional use. In addition, the company makes Fastway and VisionBond office paper; Wow! and Shock notebooks; and graphic arts paper. Copamex has operations throughout Mexico, as well as New Mexico, Nicaragua, Texas, and Costa Rica.

Cosalt is worth its salt when it comes to such products. The company designs and manufactures school uniforms, uniforms for the marine, motor, rail, defense, emergency, and utilities industries, as well as knotless netting, children's formalwear, marine safety equipment, and protective clothing. It also makes manufactured vacation cottages. The company began in 1873 as a collective of fishing vessel owners, from which sprang its endeavor to outfish fleets before ships set sail. Cosalt first floated on the public stock exchange in 1971.

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