Denne Construction builds affordable housing, apartments, schools, office buildings, and other structures throughout London and in southeast England. The regional contractor focused primarily on clients in the public sector, with an emphasis on subsidized housing, public construction, education, and senior living projects. The company is part of The Leadbitter Group, which was acquired in a Bouygues-led management buyout from Dutch construction firm Heijmans in late 2010. Denne Construction traces its roots to 1803, when it specialized in building coffins (among other things).

The family-owned company was founded in 1946. Ernst Enterprises knows the value of a solid foundation. Operating as Ernst Concrete, Ernst Enterprises, Inc. makes and distributes ready-mix concrete and related products in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Ernst Enterprises, Inc. also provides concrete pumping services for residential, industrial, commercial, and government clients. Ernst Enterprises makes standard concrete mixes as well as custom and specialty products at the approximately 30 plants it operates. Other products sold include trowels, marking implements, and other finishing tools; concrete nails, cures, and stains; and general construction supplies. The firm also sells used mixers to other concrete suppliers.

Engelberth Construction has spent more than thirty years building its business, but it doesn't take nearly as long in the business of building. Specializing in commercial construction the company offers construction management, design/build, general contracting, and additional services for educational, commericial, multi-family residential, and industrial clients. Engelberth Construction works primarily in the New England region (Vermont and New Hampshire) of the US. Otto Engelberth founded Engelberth Construction as a small two-person, home-based construction business in 1972.

C. Overaa & Co. has been making its mark in Northern California. Norwegian immigrant and carpenter Carl Overaa founded the company in 1907 in order to help rebuild San Francisco after a major earthquake struck. Today the family-owned company builds institutional, commercial, industrial, public, and housing projects primarily in San Francisco's East Bay. It provides preconstruction, design/build, construction, sustainable building, and contracting services. The company's customers have included Courtyard by Marriott, the John Muir Medical Center, the US Postal Service, YMCA, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Etex Group provides the tools of the contractor's trade. The company manufactures building materials for use in constructing roofs, floors, and walls in the Americas and Europe. Its roofing products include concrete and clay tiles; natural, resin, and fiber cement slates; and metal profiled sheets. Etex also produces flat boards used for a variety of purposes, such as sidings, passive fire protection, high-temperature insulation, and plasterboard. Etex operates through more than 90 subsidiaries in more than 40 countries. Europe accounts for about half of the company's revenues.

Corporacion Uniland traces its roots to 1973 when Cementos y Cales Freixa and Cementos Fradera combined to form Cementos Uniland. Cementos Portland Valderrivas controls a 64% stake in the company; Irish building materials group CRH owns the rest. No need for abstractions when discussing Uniland. Its product line is concrete, as well as cement, mortar, and aggregates. Corporacion Uniland, S.A. has operations primarily in Spain, where it runs two cement factories, more than 25 concrete plants, about 10 aggregate quarries, and more than 10 mortar plants. Uniland has also expanded into Argentina, Tunisia, the UK, and Uruguay.

The Lawrence Group is an architecture and interior design firm that offers more than just architecture and interior design services. While it undertakes traditional design development and space planning projects on multifamily residences, hospitals, museums, parks, retail stores, and schools, the group also boasts expertise in town planning and graphic design. It has master-planned neighborhood and downtown developments, while its STUDIO369 in-house graphics department provides marketing and branding for property developments through print and Web. The firm also owns a retail furniture and home accessories showroom called Niche. The Lawrence Group operates a half-dozen offices in the US and one in Beijing.

Pernix Group (formerly Telesource International) provides engineering and construction services and operates independent power generation projects in the Pacific region and in the US. The group offers project development and management, specialized construction and engineering, and utility and plant operations. It also brokers goods and services. While its previous focus had been on Fiji and other islands in the Pacific, Pernix Group has shifted its business model to emphasize offering construction services and working on power plant projects in North America. Kuwait-based civil, electrical, and mechanical group Sayed Hamid Behbehani & Sons controls 97% of the company.

Ube-Mitsubishi Cement is Japan's second largest supplier of cement and a joint venture between leading Japanese materials producer Mitsubishi Materials and diversified chemical, metals, and machinery provider Ube Industries. The company markets cement and related products manufactured by its parent companies. It primarily serves customers in the construction and industrial markets. Ube-Mitsubishi also operates a cement research institute in Tokyo. In an effort to break into the potentially lucrative Russian cement market, Ube-Mitsubishi Cement began exporting cement products there in 2008 -- a first for a Japanese company.

Stericycle, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides regulated waste management and related services in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The company offers various services, which include Bio Systems sharps management services that reduce the risk of needle sticks; various products and services for infection control; Steri-Safe Occupational Safety and Health Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance programs; and regulated returns management services for expired or recalled products. It serves large-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies and distributors, as well as small-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as doctors’ offices and retail pharmacies. Stericycle, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois.

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