Kum & Go brings convenience to America's heartland. The company's 460-plus stores in about a dozen states throughout the Midwest offer beer, cigarettes, fountain drinks, coffee, snacks, and other items craved by late night shoppers and daytime commuters alike. Kum & Go also sells gasoline at most of its convenience stores and even offers an ethanol blend (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) at several locations in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and South Dakota. Corporate customers can take advantage of Kum & Go's fleet fueling service. Kum & Go, founded in 1959 by W.A. Krause & Tony Gentle, is the nation's third-largest private owner and operator of convenience stores. The company gives 10% of annual profits to charity.

Euro Car Parts is dedicated to an auto's performance once it drives down the road a pace. The company is the largest independent supplier of auto parts for the UK aftermarket. The company has a catalog of more than 100,000 parts for European vehicles, including brands such as Audi, BMW, Citroen, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, and Volvo. Euro Car Parts Limited company operates about 70 branches throughout the UK and offers delivery services to repair shops through its own fleet. Euro Car Parts Limited company's roots date back to 1978.

Costco Wholesale UK Limited operates about 20 members-only warehouse clubs in England and Scotland. The company is owned by the #1 US wholesale club operator Costco Wholesale, which has been gradually adding UK locations. The big-box stores sell appliances, consumer electronics, health and beauty products, groceries, and more. Membership fees are similar to those in the US. The company has been able to grow faster than competitors, including Wal-Mart-owned ASDA and Britain's #1 retailerTesco, because its status as a warehouse-club chain exempts it from zoning rules other retailers face when opening new stores. Costco Wholesale UK ultimately aims to grow to 40 stores and is exploring entering the Irish market.

Cantoni is a tasteful retailer of modern home furnishings, with five stores in California, Georgia, and Texas. The company also offers residential and commercial staging and planning services. It also operates a warehouse and distribution center in Dallas. Michael Wilkov, Cantoni's president and founder, started the business in 1984 with a single showroom in Dallas, featuring furniture and accessories from around the world. Wilkov is the majority owner.

Argos is one of the UK's leading retail outlets with about 745 locations throughout the country and in Ireland. The chain sells a wide variety of products, including consumer electronics, electrical appliances, jewelry, and toys, as well as other household goods and furniture. It also sells gardening supplies, power tools, and sporting equipment. In addition to its stores, Argos sells goods through its catalog and Web site. It is the flagship brand of the Home Retail Group (formerly Argos Retail Group), which was spun-off by GUS and began trading on the London Stock Exchange in 2006. You might not find the Golden Fleece, but this multi-channel, general merchandise retailer offers plenty of other treasures.

Since 1859, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Inc. (A&P) has fulfilled the shopping needs of families throughout North America with freshness, quality, variety and value. In December 2007, Pathmark Supermarkets, with its 141 stores, joined the A&P Family of Supermarkets.With corporate headquarters in Montvale, N.J., A&P operates 395 stores in the United States under 6 retail banners which include conventional supermarkets, food and drug combination stores, discount food stores, and several in-store Health Clinics. A&P employs 40,688 associates. Annualized sales volume is approximately $8.8 billion. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol "GAP." The Company distributes private label product lines sold exclusively throughout its U.S. banners under the trade names America's Choice, Master Choice, Health Pride, Savings Plus, and Pathmark.With pride in its 152-year history, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company today looks forward to a future of continued service to its customers, communities and employees throughout North America.

Homeland still has struggled as a result of stiff competition from Wal-Mart and other rival chains.Shoppers who call Oklahoma home shop at Homeland Stores' supermarkets. The regional grocery chain, a division of grocery distributorAssociated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), operates more than 45 stores throughout Oklahoma and a single store in Kansas. AWG operates Homeland stores through its Associated Retail Grocers subsidiary and supplies the majority of the products sold in Homeland stores. The stores sell groceries and general merchandise; most have delicatessens, pharmacies, and some have specialty departments (ethnic foods, floral services, seafood).

Limited Brands, Inc. operates as a retailer of women’s intimate and other apparel, beauty and personal care products, and accessories in the United States and Canada. It offers lingerie, fragrances, cosmetics, shower gels, lotions, antibacterial soaps, candles, accessories, and spa products under Victoria’s Secret, Pink, La Senza, Bath & Body Works, C. O. Bigelow, The White Barn Candle Company, and Henri Bendel brands. The company sells its merchandise through its specialty retail stores, Web sites, and catalogues. As of March 15, 2010, it operated 2,970 specialty stores. Limited Brands company was formerly known as The Limited, Inc. and changed its name to Limited Brands, Inc. in May 2002. Limited Brands, Inc. was founded in 1963 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Savers depends on thrifty people to make its business a financial success. The resale giant is the largest for-profit thrift store chain in North America. It operates about 225 Savers, Value Village, and Village des Valeurs (in Quebec) stores in more than 20 US states, 10 Canadian provinces, and Australia. The company's retail outlets sell everything from designer and vintage clothing to unique home decor, electronics, hardcover and paperback books, and toys. Savers also partners with 120 charity offices. Founded in 1954 as Salvage Management Corp., Savers is owned by the private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co.

Ho-Chunk, Inc. (HCI) the economic development corporation run by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, manages about 18 subsidiaries in the fields of communications, construction, distribution, gasoline and convenience store retail (under the Heritage Express banner in Iowa and Nebraska), government contracting, lodging (The WinnaVegas Inn), marketing, used-vehicle sales, and more. The profits from these businesses are in turn managed by the Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that directs commercial growth and community infrastructure development for the tribe. "Ho-Chunk" is a modernized form of Hochungra, the Winnebago tribe's traditional name.

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