"Our custom division sells to the tailor industry in the United States, and their customers include many wealthy businessmen and sports figures," said Roberto Modica, the company's 37-year-old vice president of operations.
Valextra also has a custom division, which can make a wallet or even a 14-piece luggage set from elephant hide, as it did for a former emir of Kuwait.
The RS6 represents the first car wholly designed and built car by quattro GMBH, the custom division of Audi akin to BMW's M department and Mercedes AMGG.
Last year, WPP bought a custom publishing company, Spafax, and its agencies, like Ogilvy and Thompson, have hired the Forbes custom publishing division, Forbes Custom Communications Partners, to produce magazines for clients like I.B.M. and Northwestern Mutual Life.
Pinnacle Custom, a division of Pinnacle Communities of Millburn, is Round Hill's developer.
Harris Interactive, an Internet-based market research firm, acquired the custom-research division of Yankelovich Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Pecker created a custom-publishing division at Hachette, producing magazines for clients who would dictate the content and then distribute them to customers.
"We're pretty confident — even in this slower market," said Michael Cantor, the head of Pinnacle Homes' custom homes division, which began construction of the castle 11 months ago.
Until 2010, the bride's mother was the editorial director of The Weekly Reader custom publishing division, and is now a freelance producer of supplemental educational materials.
