Founded in 1939 by brothers Roger and Bill Slakey, the company became employee-owned in 1990. Slakey Brothers distributes heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and plumbing products through about 30 locations in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, as well as online. The company also operates three retail plumbing showrooms and three distribution centers. Its fleet of about 100 trucks delivers most of its orders within a 200-mile radius. Slakey Brothers offers brands such as 3M, BrassCraft, Honeywell, Kohler, and Nutone to contractors, the government, industrial users, and retailers. Subsidiary The Plumbery is a kitchen and bath retailer with three showrooms.

Big Y Foods began as a 900-sq.-ft. grocery at a Y intersection in Chicopee,Massachusetts.It now operates some 60 supermarkets throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Most of its stores are Big Y World Class Markets,offering specialty areas such as bakeries and floral shops, as well as banking.The rest consist of Big Y Supermarkets and a single gourmet food and liquor store called Table & Vine in Springfield,Massachusetts.Some Big Y stores provide child care, dry cleaning, photo processing, and even propane sales,and their delis and food courts offer to-go foods.Big Y is owned and run by the D'Amour family and is one of New England's largest independent supermarket chains.

Borders Group runs more than 500 Borders superstores in about 45 states and Puerto Rico, as well as about 175 small-format shops under the Waldenbooks, Borders Express, and Borders Outlet banners. Its bookstores offer up to 170,000 book, music, and movie titles and regularly host live literary events and musician showcases to attract customers. The chain also peddles products via its website. Faced with declining sales due to the ailing book business, Borders sold its Paperchase stationery and gift business in the UK in 2010.

Roth's Food Center caterine and floral departments as well. It also sells its groceries online through a partnership with MyWebGrocer.com. In addition the company operates one gasoline station at its store in Silverton, Oregon. The company was founded in 1962 by chairman Orville Roth, father of president Michael Roth.Roth's Food Center helps you bring home the bacon; frying it up in a pan is your responsibility. The regional grocery store chain operates about 10 Roth's Fresh Market stores in Oregon's mid-Willamette Valley. The stores sell traditional grocery fare, beer and wine, organic produce, and more.

Nepstar Chain Drugstore is China's largest retail drugstore chain based on the number of directly operated stores. The green Nepstar store signage is a familiar sight in many urban neighborhoods across mainland China, which signifies our commitment to bringing health, convenience and a better quality of life to Chinese. Established in 1995, Nepstar has grown from a single shop into a chain of 3,020 directly operated outlets (including 443 stores operated by JZJ) covering 74 cities in China by September 30, 2010.We are proud of our accomplishments. In our early days, we pioneered the concept of chain retailing in pharmacies in China. In 2004, Goldman Sachs joined us as an investor. On November 9, 2007, China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd (NYSE: NPD) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. High quality product offerings, professional service and convenience are among our promises to our customers and the foundation of our drive to be the leader in China's pharmaceutical retailing business.

Zumiez Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear, equipment, and accessories in the United States. It offers apparel, including tops, bottoms, and outerwear, as well as accessories, such as caps, belts, and sunglasses; footwear consisting of athletic shoes and sandals; equipment, such as skateboards, snowboards, and ancillary gear, such as boots and bindings; and other items, such as miscellaneous novelties and DVDs. The company’s stores serve young men and women between the ages of 12 and 24, focusing on skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, bicycle motocross, and motocross activities. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 377 stores under the Zumiez brand name primarily located in shopping malls in 35 states. In addition, the company sells its products directly through its Web site, zumiez.com. Zumiez Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Everett, Washington.

Bevo is the largest supplier of propagated plants in North America, providing greenhouses, field farms, nurseries, and wholesalers across the continent with healthy, vigorous, pest-and-disease-free plants. Plant propagation is a system under which seedlings are nurtured to the ideal level of development for finished growth in greenhouses. Each seedling is cultivated in a specific controlled temperature, nutrient, fertilizer, light and moisture environment to ensure the highest quality plant. Bevo's main products are vegetable plants such as tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and cucumbers, along with other plants such as bedding plants, flowers, trees, berries, and grasses. Bevo markets its products to established greenhouse growers, farms and nurseries throughout North America. Since incorporation in 1989, planned expansions have grown the Bevo propagation greenhouses in Langley, BC to the present 34 acres. As greenhouse growth and consumer demand for quality products continues so does the requirement for new vegetable, flower and other plants. The use of greenhouses to grow vegetables and flowering plants continues to increase.

LiveDeal (formerly YP Corp.) is an Internet yellow pages and local online classifieds provider. The company offers goods and services listed for sale through its online classified marketplace at classifieds.livedeal.com; LiveDeal also publishes about 17 million business listings via its business directory at yellowpages.livedeal.com. Sources of revenue include advertising sales, a pay-per-lead program with major auto dealers, and optional listing upgrade and e-commerce/fraud prevention fees. The company changed its name from YP Corp. after its 2007 purchase of online local classifieds marketplace LiveDeal.

Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD) operates a home shopping television network that reaches some 23 million homes throughout the UK. The company's three channels are: Create and Craft (health and beauty, craft products); Ideal World (general merchandise, including apparel, leisure, craft, home, health and beauty, and jewelry); and Ideal World 2, which runs repeats of selected shows from its sister channels. Paul Wright and Valerie Kaye founded the company in 1999 after a series of failed businesses, seeding the idea for television shopping with a mail-order business and later transferring to TV in 2000.

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