FRCH Design Worldwide is like a stylist for the retail industry. The architecture firm specializes in the design of retail spaces, including department stores, big-box stores, and specialty brand retailers. It also designs restaurants, hospitality and leisure properties, and commercial and mixed-use spaces. Services include due diligence assessment, conceptual design, brand development, and exterior signage. The company primarily operates in the US but also provides services internationally, typically for companies entering new markets. FRCH Design Worldwide has served customers including Target, Tiffany & Co., Coldwater Creek, and Hilton Worldwide. The company was founded in 1968.

All Star maintains home and hearth for bronze stars, silver stars, and gold stars. The company started out in 1983 providing and maintaining military housing for the US armed forces, but it has branched out into military base operating support, facility operation and maintenance, family housing maintenance, and minor construction services. It provides services through locations in the US and Guam, Germany, Italy, and Korea. All Star also provides fleet maintenance and logistic services including supply management, transportation, and warehousing. The company's customers include the US Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. President and CEO John Junge owns All Star.

Southeastern Metals has grown into one of the region’s leading manufacturers of metal building products. In 1997, Gibraltar Industries acquired the company, uniting the quality product line of Southeastern Metals with the nationally respected brand name of Gibraltar. As a member of the Gibraltar Industries family, Southeastern Metals is part of a billion dollar network of manufacturers expanding across the globe. With the support and backing of Gibraltar, Southeastern Metals will remain the name you can trust for quality metal building products.

WYG doesn't ask "why?" It asks "why not?" The British engineering company provides a variety of civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and structural engineering consulting services. In addition to its facilities in the UK, it also has operations in Ireland, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. Its services, however, are not confined to its office locations; the company has completed projects as far away as Malaysia and Oman. Subsidiaries include management consultancy DeLeeuw International, consulting engineers Adams Kara Taylor, and construction project manager Trench Farrow. Its work may be spread far and wide but the UK accounts for about two-thirds of sales at WYG, which was formed in 1959.

Zone Mechanical is in the HVAC zone. The company offers heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and other services to customers in the Chicago area and in northwestern Indiana on a 24-hour-a-day basis. The company, which was formed in 2001, distributes, installs, and services products manufactured by Tyler Refrigeration Corporation and other companies. In 2004 Zone Mechanical ranked 57th in Entrepreneur magazine's "Hot 100" list of the fastest-growing new entrepreneurial businesses in America. The firm is owned by co-presidents Dan Palubiak and Frank Petrosino.

Founded in 1929 by Leon F. Driscoll, the company provides construction management, general construction, and design/build services for commercial projects. It has expertise in a wide range of sectors, including corporate, health care, education, sports/entertainment, and residential markets. L.F. Driscoll specializes in construction management at-risk contracts, or projects in which the job is completed within a guaranteed maximum price. The company serves clients throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. International construction group The Structure Tone Organization is buying L.F. Driscoll.

Reliable is not the sexiest thing to be, but when it comes to HVAC controls, it's what you're after. Reliable Controls Corporation manufactures products that monitor and control HVAC equipment and lighting in commercial and industrial buildings. Founded in 1986, the British Columbia, Canada-based company also operates offices in the US and China. Reliable focuses on design and technical support as well as working relationships with independent distributors.

Exact Tool exacts a fair price to get its precision products exactly right to meet its customers' requirements. The company is a contract manufacturer of plastic injection molds, stamping dies, precision stampings, and zinc die castings molds. It produces conventional and four-slide molds and castings alike. Although Exact Tool primarily serves the lock industry, it also produces parts for office products, mailboxes, intercom communications, electrical contacts, and other applications. The company, founded in 1969, stocks more than 30 million stamping parts to provide customers with just-in-time delivery.

Hearth & Home Technologies believes home is where the hearth is. The HNI Corporation subsidiary makes and installs wood, gas, electric, and pellet fireplace and stove products under the Heat & Glo, Heatilator, and Quadra-Fire brands. The company, under the Fireside Furnishings name, also makes indoor hearth products, including mantelpieces, cabinets, shelves, and wall systems. Other products include outdoor fireplaces, barbeque grills, and electric fireplaces. The company sells its products mainly in the East and Midwest US.

International Computer Appliances Corporation (which does business as ICA Corporation) is a contract manufacturer that makes custom metal component parts for analytical instrumentation, aerospace, medical equipment, and other products. The company provides sheet metal fabrication and laser cutting, precision machining, custom enclosures, and chassis assemblies. ICA Corporation also offers value-added services, from assembling medical diagnostic devices with multi-language software to packaging custom kits and inventory management. Its manufacturing facility takes up 60,000 sq. ft. in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis. ICA Corporation, which was founded in 1970, is employee-owned.

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