Fry's Food and Drug Stores is owned by The Kroger Co., the 1 pure grocery chain in the US.Fry's Food and Drug Stores operates about 100 supermarkets under the Fry's Food & Drug banner, mostly in Phoenix but also in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to traditional supermarket fare, many Fry's stores have in-store pharmacies, and a third of its supermarkets offer full-service banking in partnership with Bank One. Fry's also operates about 20 Fry's Marketplace stores, large (up to 120,000 sq. ft.) multi-department stores that offer full-service grocery and pharmacy departments, as well as expanded general merchandise, electronics, home goods, and toy sections.

American Home operates three (down from a dozen in 2007) furniture and housewares stores in New Mexico under the American Home banner. Its products include mostly mid-priced (but some upscale) home furnishings (Kemp, Hillcraft, Natuzzi, DeCoro), lamps, bedding (Sealy, Simmons, Tempur-Pedic), rugs, dinnerware, related accessories, and gift registry and interior design services. Founded in 1936 as American Furniture Company by Emanuel Blaugrund, the company changed its name to American Home in 2000. The furniture retailer emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2010 after closing most of its stores, including all of its locations in Arizona.

Furniture Village Limited operates through about three dozen locations throughout the UK that sell mid-market to high-end upholstered, wooden, and custom furniture for the living room, bedroom, and dining room, as well as occasionals and accessories to complement each suite of furniture. In mid-2009 the firm bought the World of Leather brand name to strenghten its position in high-end leather furniture. Furniture Village's Motion furniture line offers sofas, chairs and beds with massage features. The company was co-founded by managing director Peter Harrison in the early 1990s.

The Hart retail organization took root in Eastern Canada in 1960, founded by company executive chairman Mr. Harry Hart. A single store was established in the then rural Québec community of Rosemère, just north of the Montréal metropolis. By systematically recognizing market opportunities, Mr. Hart gradually built a modest chain of junior department stores catering to the everyday needs of the grass-roots consumer.

Menard is owned by president and CEO John Menard, who founded the company in 1972. If sticks and stones break bones, what can two-by-fours and two-inch nails do? That is what Menard is wondering now that its biggest rivals (#1 home improvement giant The Home Depot and #2 Lowe's) are hammering away at its home turf. One of the largest home improvement chains in the Midwest, Menard has more than 250 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The stores sell home improvement products, such as floor coverings, hardware, millwork, paint, and tools. Unlike competitors, all the company's stores have full-service lumberyards.

Founded in 2000, the fast-growing online retailer attracts more than 5.3 unique visitors each month. Co-founder and CEO Nick Robertson owns about 14% of the company's shares. ASOS aims to become the leader in the UK online fashion world ASAP. The UK-based company is a leading online apparel retailer specializing in discount celebrity-style fashions. ASOS (which stands for "as seen on screen") serves mostly Web-savvy, fashionable 16- to 34-year-old men and women (the company claims to sell clothes in the style of superstars Sienna Miller and Victoria Beckham). It sells T-shirts, denim, dresses, footwear, lingerie, swimwear, sunglasses, purses, personal care products, and jewelry through its retail Web site.

Managing the pain associated with numerous diseases is a challenge – both for the people who live with the pain and for the physicians who treat them. Having a trusted pharmaceutical expert who can provide prescribed specialty medications in an efficient manner can mean the difference between finding relief sooner rather than later. In 2005, QVL Pharmacy was created as a solution to what we saw as significantly unmet needs of patients and physicians working with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pain. Since then, our unique approach and services have expanded into other diagnoses requiring medications that may be hard-to-find, including an expertise in scheduled (controlled) medications. QVL Pharmacy works to meet the unique needs of these patients and their physicians by combining significant expertise in pharmacy care with the latest in technology — and delivering it all with a personal, respectful touch.

E.H. Booth & Co. invests care into each of its products and want its customers to, too. The holding company for Booth's Supermarkets, the upscale retail grocery chain sells groceries and fresh produce from about 25 small community grocer locations across Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumbria in Northwest England. Booth's Supermarkets stock a range of top brand products of all sorts, including wine, but what sets Booth's apart is is dedication to providing a variety of fresh, organically-grown produce, and hormone-free meats and dairy products from local farms. Founded in 1847, Booths is Britain's oldest family-owned and run grocery business.

The Jones Group Inc. engages in the design, marketing, and wholesale of apparel, footwear, and accessories in the United States and Canada. Its products include skirts, blouses, pants, jackets, sweaters, jeanswear, suits, dresses, casual tops, outerwear, shorts, and vests for women’s, juniors, and girls market. The company also sells footwear, handbags, and small leather goods, as well as costume, semiprecious, sterling silver, and marcasite jewelry. It markets its products under various brands, including Jones New York, Nine West, Anne Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, Kasper, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Evan-Picone, l.e.i., Energie, Enzo Angiolini, Joan & David, Mootsies Tootsies, Sam & Libby, Napier, Judith Jack, Albert Nipon, and Le Suit. The Jones Group also markets costume jewelry under the ‘Givenchy’ brand licensed from Givenchy Corporation, and footwear under the Dockers and Dockers brand licensed from Levi Strauss & Co. In addition, Jones Group licenses its brand names to manufacturers and distributors of women’s and men’s apparel and accessories products. The Jones Group sells its products through specialty and department stores, and mass merchandisers, as well as through company-owned network of retail and factory outlet stores, and e-commerce Websites. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 321 specialty retail and 617 outlet stores. The Jones Group was formerly known as Jones Apparel Group, Inc. and changed its name to The Jones Group Inc. on October 18, 2010. The Jones Group Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in New York, New York.

Wolff Bros. Supply keeps the heat and the cold from the door. Through 10 locations in Ohio, Wolff Bros. Supply distributes wholesale cabinets, lighting, tools, and equipment and supplies for telecommunications, electrical power, HVAC, and plumbing. The business gets its tools and equipment from more than 500 vendors and has more than 25,000 products in stock. The family-owned company traces its roots back to the 1950s, when Norman and Harold Wolff began operating an electrical, plumbing, and heating contracting business out of the back of a truck.

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