Phoenix Management, Inc. (PMI) contracts with the US government to perform various support services such as aircraft maintenance, air field management, air traffic control, vehicle operations and maintenance, base supply, and furnishings management. Most of PMI's contracts are with the US Army and US Air Force. The firm has worked at several US military bases including Andrews Air Force Base, Fort Rucker, and Vandenberg Air Force Base. PMI also has performed commercial airport passenger processing services at the Los Angeles International Airport. Chairman and president Marjorie Strickland founded the woman-owned company in 1992.

TM Deer Park Services Limited Partnership (which does business as Texas Molecular) helps chemical and petrochemical companies get rid of hazardous and nonhazardous industrial waste. Through subsidiaries, the company transports, treats, and stores the waste before disposing of it by injecting it into deep wells. Texas Molecular operates from facilities near chemical and petrochemical production complexes in Deer Park, near Houston. The company's chemicals unit manufactures specialty chemicals on a tolling basis (customers pay per unit of volume) using customer-supplied materials. Texas Molecular was formed in 2001 to purchase assets from the GNI Group, which had filed for bankruptcy protection.

Waste Industries USA, Inc.,the active consolidator has made more than 130 acquisitions since 1990. When it's not buying companies, Waste Industries USA is collecting, hauling, and disposing of solid waste for 875,000 municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the southeastern US. The company has 34 collection operations, and about 65 drop-off centers, 29 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and nine landfills. In 2008 Chairman Lonnie Pool Jr. led an investor group that took the company private for about $544 million.

Odebrecht Construction provides contracting and construction management services, primarily for highway and other transportation projects. The company has participated in the expansion of the Miami International Airport, the construction of the Miami Performing Arts Center, and reconstruction work in New Orleans for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Established in 1990, Odebrecht Construction is a part of Odebrecht Engineering and Construction, itself a subsidiary of Brazilian construction and plastics group Odebrecht.

Anshen+Allen Architects is a plus for clients who require interior and exterior planning services for their school or hospital. The firm provides architectural and interior design services; it specializes in education, research, and health care facilities. Projects include the Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK, and a research center at Harvard University. The company's Medergy venture detoxifies hospital waste, creating synthetic hydrogen gas for powering fuel cells. Canada-based construction and design firm Stantec is buying Anshen+Allen.

While Leonardo created masterpieces out of paint and canvas, Leopardo creates them from brick and mortar. One of the top contractors in Illinois, Leopardo Companies, which also has an office in South Carolina, provides an array of construction services from pre-construction and general contracting to construction management, design-build, green building, and real estate development. Projects include office buildings; health care facilities; senior housing; retail, office, and industrial space; airports; condos; and community projects, such as churches, libraries, and schools. It is also a top interiors contractor. CEO Jim Leopardo started the company in 1979.

Family-owned Okland Construction Company is a regional general contracting, design/build, and construction management firm. The company works on projects in several construction markets: commercial, education, government, health care, infrastructure, high-tech, industrial, retail, and corporate. Okland Construction offers value engineering and phased or fast-track design and construction. It also provides pre-construction services, risk management, and partnering. Self-performed work includes concrete construction, wood framing, and carpentry. Okland has constructed projects in about 30 US states and throughout Mexico. It has offices in Salt Lake City; Durango, Colorado; Ketchum, Idaho; and Tempe, Arizona.

CIMPOR was created in 1976 as a state-owned entity, but the government of Portugal sold the last of its stake in 2001. CIMPOR - Cimentos de Portugal finds it easy to be hard. CIMPOR is Portugal's largest cement manufacturer and one of the largest on the Iberian Peninsula. The company produces and markets more than 31 million tons of cement around the world each year. CIMPOR also produces aggregate, concrete and precast concrete products, hydraulic lime, and dry mortars. The company operates in about a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America; about half of its cement is manufactured in Spain and Portugal.

F.A. Wilhelm Construction Company, Inc. provides construction and construction management in the Midwest, particularly in its home state of Indiana. The firm focuses on commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings for the health care, research, and education sectors. It also owns fabrication facilties that produce concrete formwork, process piping, sheet metal, and structural steel. F.A. Wilhelm is a subsidiary of Wilhelm Construction, which also operates mechanical contractor Freitag-Weinhardt and sheet metal contractor Poynter Sheet Metal. The group began in 1923 as a masonry contractor.

DAVACO helps national retailers show off their goods. Originally established as Fixture Perfect in 1990, the private company has grown from a store fixture installer to a full-service retail designer, remodeler, and logistics and merchandising specialist. DAVACO offers architectural, construction, and installation services. The company is capable of conducting both small and large-scale rollouts, from five to 5,000 stores. Clients range widely in size from big-box to convenience stores, as well as restaurants and department stores. Clients have included Blockbuster, Dunkin' Donuts, and Pier 1 Imports. Beyond its primary US client base, DAVACO has done work for retailers in Canada, Guam, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

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