Jarden Corporation, (NYSE: JAH) a U.S. consumer products manufacturer, owns brands in more than twenty niche markets. The conglomerate makes everything from Mr. Coffee kitchen appliances to Coleman camping products and Bicycle and Bee playing cards. Because Jarden's brands are concentrated in mature, slow-growth markets, ^[1] the company has seen little organic growth in recent years and has used acquisitions to grow revenue. With approximately $2 billion in debt, the company is highly leveraged and will find further acquisitions more difficult in the face of tightening credit conditions that began in 2008.

Jarden also faces growing competition from its own customers' private label brands. Mass retailers like Wal-Mart are offering fewer third party products as they try to bolster slowing profits with extra revenue from their own lines of generic consumer goods.

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