Ferguson is a diverse wholesale distributor with operations spanning multiple business groups. The company is ranked as the largest plumbing wholesaler in North America. Ferguson is also the industry's second largest distributor of pipes, valves and fittings, waterworks, and heating and cooling equipment in North America.In 1953, Ferguson was founded with $150,000 starting capital and two locations. The next five decades saw phenomenal growth, with the company doubling in size every five years. In 1982, Wolseley plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange and based in the United Kingdom, acquired Ferguson, supplying the financial strength for Ferguson's rapid growth and aggressive expansion into the industrial, heating and cooling (HVAC) and waterworks markets

La Canada Design Group provides architectural, interior design, and facilities management services to education, technology, and corporate customers in Southern California. The medium-sized, regional architectural practice specializes in serving clients in private industry, research, and defense. Its strengths include the design of laboratories and supporting facilities with special environmental requirements such as contamination control, humidity, and temperature, vibration isolation, and electronic security. La Canada Design Group also engaged in the design of elementary schools, community colleges, and universities, as well as churches and other non-profits.

Manufactured housing company Giles Industries builds homes with single-wide and double-wide floorplans. The company also produces modular buildings used as garages or office space. Giles offers its products primarily in the mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the US. Tennessee native R. O. Giles founded the copmany in 1959. His grandson, Alan Neely, is the company's president. Giles Industries is among Berkshire Hathaway's trailer park of companies that make manufactured homes. It was bought by Southern Energy Homes in 2006 -- the same year that company was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway's Clayton Homes.

Cordoba is a civil engineering and construction management company that plans, designs, and builds schools, utility projects, public transit lines and roadways, wastewater treatment plants, and other public works in California, as well as internationally. CEO George Pla owns the company, which he founded in 1983 as an urban planning and consulting firm for community projects in the Los Angeles area, where it is now one of the largest minority-owned businesses. Its clients have included the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), Long Beach Community College, Oakland Unified School District, the Southern California Metropolitan Water District, and other municipal, state, and federal entities.

Duro-Last began in 1978 with the simple need to find a roofing system that worked. Existing roofing systems presented a common problem - they required ongoing maintenance and continual expense, with no long-term solution in sight. John R. Burt, used his experience in fabricating pool liners to develop a remarkable new roofing membrane. Two years of additional testing resulted in the proprietary membrane formula still in use today.

Soave Enterprises is suave enough to manage multiple lines of business. The company's wide-ranging interests are divided into four main industries: real estate (residential and industrial development), auto dealerships, beer distribution, and a catch-all diversified holdings group that includes businesses ranging from waste collection and transportation to scrap metals processing as well as units engaged in hydroponic tomato gardening and taxi services. The bulk of Soave's operations are in Michigan. President and CEO Anthony Soave, who founded the company in 1961, owns Soave Enterprises.

Parsons Electric empowers its customers by providing electrical and voice and data communications installation for commercial, health care, hospitality industrial, and other facilities. Founded in 1927, Parsons operates through three divisions. Its electrical division designs and builds systems while the technologies division handles voice and data communications design, installation, service, and maintenance. The technical service unit installs, repairs, and tests systems, with a specialty in servicing printing equipment. Parsons' clients have included 3M, Boise Cascade, Iron Mountain, and the Minnesota Timberwolves. The company has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

Cocoon, Inc. provides environmental services to help prevent corrosion in stored parts and equipment, inactive industrial facilities, ships and cargo, and weapons and ammunition. Cocoon's clients include the US military, utility companies, petrochemical firms, and industrial manufacturers. The company operates through partnerships with the likes of GE Energy, humidity control specialists Munters Corporation, and Rubb Building Systems. The late Leo Crotty Sr. and president Leo "Chip" Crotty established the company (then called Protec) in 1977.

C.W. Matthews Contracting during Sherman's march to the sea. The company provides highway and bridge construction and commercial site work. It also provides asphalt paving and is one of the largest plant-mixed asphalt producers in the Southeast. The group operates about 30 asphalt plants in Georgia and manufactures nearly 6 million tons of hot mix each year. Its projects include the transformation of an old steel plant into Atlantic Station -- a 138-acre mixed-use development in Atlanta. In 1946 C.W. Matthews and several partners founded Marietta Construction Company, which became C.W. Matthews Contracting Company in 1954; today it is led by C.W.'s son, CEO Robert Matthews.

Carmeuse was founded in 1860 in Liege, Belgium. Perhaps Carmeuse could amuse you with some lime or lime derivatives? Carmeuse company, a subsidiary of Netherlands-based L.V.I. Holding, produces lime and lime-related products for industrial and commercial customers the world over. Carmeuse handles all forms of limestone and its derivatives, including quicklime (calcium oxide), slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), and dolomite (calcium and magnesium carbonate), and it delivers its products in bulk, in bags or containers, or on pallets. Carmeuse company, which primarily serves Europe and North America, has numerous production facilities with an annual output capacity of more than 13 million tons of lime.

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