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.

Keller Supply was founded by Howard Keller in 1945 and is still owned and run by the Keller family, including CEO Nick Keller. If you're building a house in the Pacific Northwest, Keller has the supplies you need. Through about 55 locations in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, Keller Supply distributes residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing, and pool and spa products from more than 1,000 manufacturers including Kohler, Honeywell International, Rheem, Porter-Cable, and Pentair . Customers include contractors and home improvement retailers as well as international customers in Canada and farther afield.

Luckily, Ace has John Madden up its sleeve. Despite the growth of warehouse-style competitors, Ace Hardware has remained a household name, thanks to ads featuring Madden, a former Oakland Raiders football coach and retired TV commentator. By sales the company is the #1 hardware cooperative in the US, ahead of Do It Best. Ace dealer-owners operate about 4,500 Ace Hardware stores, home centers, and lumber and building materials locations in all 50 US states and more than 60 other countries. From about 15 warehouses Ace distributes such products as electrical and plumbing supplies, garden equipment, hand tools, housewares, and power tools. Its paint division is also a major paint manufacturer in the US.

There might be a trip to Best Buy for some CDs or a television in your future. Best Buy Canada operates about 210 consumer electronics superstores under the three brands: Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, and Future Shop. The retail outlets offer televisions, computers, and DVD players, as well as cameras, CDs, DVDs, mobile phones, and software. In addition the Future Shop stores, which average 26,700 square feet and are smaller than Best Buy Canada locations, offer home appliances, office supplies, and maintenance services. Best Buy Canada also offers customers in-home and commercial technical support through its Geek Squad services unit. US-based retail giant Best Buy acquired the Future Shop chain in 2002.

BurnsCascade has been a leading industrial supplier of valves, controls, and instrumentation products for over 60 years. We have achieved great success by putting the needs of customers first and delivering on our promises. The company's focus on complete customer satisfaction and on providing the best long-term solutions to customer's challenges has contributed to its current position as one of the most successful industrial product suppliers in the Northeast. BurnsCascade is not just a valued supplier of industrial and commercial products – we serve as trusted business advisors and partners to our customers. We make product mastery, industry knowledge and exceptional customer service a priority for all of our employees. As a result our customers always know the answers to their questions are just a phone call away.

Founded in 1933, Famous Distribution, Inc. is owned and run by the Blaushild family. Tubing isn't always part of leisure in the water. Sometimes it's a part for waterworks, and one of the many products offered by Famous Distribution. In addition to tubing, Famous Distribution offers building facility and energy management systems, controls, fittings, pipes, valves, and other equipment and supplies for air conditioning, heating, industrial maintenance, plumbing, ventilation, and waterworks. Famous Distribution sells its products through about 20 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia under the banners of Famous Supply, Pittsburgh Plumbing and Heating, and JF Good, among others.

Lands' End has surrounded a number of sales channels. The firm markets casual apparel for men, women, and children through its flagship and specialty catalogs, website, and Sears department stores. It also has more than 290 in-store Lands' End Shops at Sears locations and operates more than a dozen free-standing retail stores in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan. Lands' End also offers home goods, luggage, school uniforms, and logoed business apparel and products. Lands' End with the misplaced apostrophe in its name has been expanding its online presence, but catalogs continue to be its primary sales channel. Lands' End is a subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck, which is itself owned by Sears Holdings.

Bardon Supplies Limited is a division of Groupe Deschenes Inc. , a privately held, family managed corporation. Groupe Deschenes acquired Bardon Supplies Limited in June of 2005, bringing the total number of branch locations in the Deschene network to sixty-nine in Ontario and Quebec. Bardon Supplies was established in Belleville [which remains our head office] in 1969. The original company, with eight branches, was expanded to include twelve wholesale locations with the acquisitions of Peninsula Plumbing and Heating Supplies Limited, Doris Metals Inc. and Bayside Supply. Our commitment to new technologies has been a significant factor in our successful expansion. Bardon Supplies has invested heavily in the most modern computer software systems available to wholesale distributors and has the capability of remote order entry for all customers through our WebOE program. We have now made it easier for customers to do business with us by using our secure WebOE Internet connection to place orders, check stock, get prices or review their Bardon account status. Click WebOE to find out more about this great program. We also can communicate through EDI with our major industrial, institutional and commercial customers and suppliers to make data transfer seamless. Our famous Partners in Progress Customer Loyalty Program is another great benefit of being a Bardon customer. ENROLL now to get the rewards you deserve in this exciting program. Find out how you can Login to Partners in Progress to track your rewards. So whether you call our order desk, talk to your Bardon sales representative, or deal with us on the net, all will lead you to the rewards you choose. Our retail presence in Ontario continues to grow under the Bathworks banner, with five, stand-alone showroom locations. With these locations, Bardon Supplies, within our Bathworks Select Program, continues to offer our trade accounts the facilities to help them show and sell fixtures to their customers.

Sur La Table, Inc sells appliances, bakeware, cookbooks, housewares, specialty foods, and other goodies for professional and home chefs from about 80 stores in some 30 states, a website, and catalogs that make foodies drool. For customers who aren't sure how to best use the Le Creuset casserole dish, Cuisinart food processor, or Chef's Choice waffle maker, the company offers cooking classes and cookbook signing events in many of its stores. Founded in 1972 at Seattle's famous Pike's Place Market, Sur La Table is owned jointly by the Behnke family, including its chairman Carl Behnke, and private investor Freeman Spogli.

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.

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