Perfumania

Quality King Distributors, a private company, specializes as a drug wholesaler based in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Quality King Distributors has grown from a small shop in Queens, N.Y., to a large distributor of pharmaceuticals and health and beauty care products. Clients include drugstore and supermarket chains, grocery distributors, wholesale clubs and mass-merchant discounters. In 2006, the family-owned Quality King was listed by Forbes as the 155th-largest private company.

L'Or al USA, based in New York City, is a subsidiary of L'Or al, headquartered in Paris. L'Or al develops and manufactures hair care, hair color, skin care, color cosmetics and fragrances for the consumer and professional markets. Its international brands include L Or al Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York, La Roche-Posay, L Or al Professionnel, Kerastase, Redken, Lanc me, Biotherm, Kiehl s, Shu Uemura and Helena Rubinstein. The company also owns salon product makers Matrix and SoftSheen-Carson, and offers perfume brands, including Ralph Lauren, Cacharel, Giorgio Armani and Gloria Vanderbilt. Its Biotherm skin care products are sold to department and specialty stores, apothecaries, and perfumeries in Europe. L'Or al was founded in 1953 as Cosmair.