One of the largest automotive parts distributors in North America, Keystone Automotive Operations keeps a solid logistics plan locked in place. Keystone Automotive Operations provides more than 700 lines of automotive parts and accessories to some 17,000 customers, mostly small specialty retailers and installers, in the US, Canada, and about 40 other countries. It operates four warehouses and about 20 stocking facilities in the US and Canada, as well as a fleet of more than 300 delivery trucks. In addition, Keystone Automotive Operations runs about 25 retail stores in Pennsylvania under the A&A Auto Parts banner. Founded by the Amato family in 1971, Keystone Automotive is controlled by Bain Capital.

Saks Incorporated began as Proffitt’s, Inc. with just five Proffitt’s stores in metropolitan Knoxville, Tennessee. Proffitt's, Inc. became a public company in June 1987. From 1994 to 1998, we added McRae’s, Parisian, Younkers, Herberger's, and Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (which included Bergner's and Boston Store) as well as 32 additional stores from Lovemans, Hess, Parks-Belk, and Brody’s, which were converted into existing store nameplates.

GNC is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Board Plan, its affiliate Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund II, and management. GNC filed to go public in September 2010.What's good for the customer is good for GNC Acquisition Corporation (formerly General Nutrition Centers). GNC operates the world's leading nutritional-supplements retail chain devoted solely to items such as vitamins and dietary products. The company also makes Rite Aid private-label products. It sells its products online, as well, through a partnership with drugstore.com. GNC has 2,800 company-owned retail stores in the US and Canada; 1,900 store-within-a-store sites in Rite Aid's drugstores; and 2,220 franchised stores in 47 countries.

King Soopers customers can also shop online (kingsoopers.com) with home delivery service. Its supermarkets offer online prescription refills. King Soopers is a division of Dillon Companies, which is owned by The Kroger Co., the #1 pure grocery chain in the US.King Soopers operates about 140 combination food and drug stores mostly in Colorado but also in Wyoming. About half of the stores are in the Denver area. In addition to traditional supermarket fare, the regional grocery chain offers bulk and natural and organic foods to compete with Whole Foods, which acquired King Soopers' local rival Wild Oats Markets in 2007. It also sells private-label goods under the King Soopers and other Kroger brand names.

Bellacor retails more than 500,000 lighting products and home furnishings from 700 manufacturers through its Web site and Amazon.com's Home & Garden store. The Web site also offers online customers personal shopping, project portfolio, and price quote services. The company sells lighting fixtures such as chandeliers and sconces, and home accessories from bathroom fixtures to mailboxes. Professional builders and remodelers can use the company's Virtual Lighting Showroom, which allows them to customize an online store front under their brand name. The company was a catalog retailer before beginning to sell its wares online in 2000.

Empire is also party to a joint venture with oil and gas properties in Alberta. Controlled by the Sobey family, Empire also develops and manages commercial and, to a lesser extent, residential real estate.Decline and fall? Not for this Empire of supermarkets, food distribution, movie theaters, and real estate. Empire Company owns Sobeys, Canada's #2 grocery chain (after Loblaw). Sobeys runs some 1,335 food and drug stores across Canada under names such as Sobeys, IGA, Foodland, Price Chopper, and Lawton's Drug; it distributes food to its company-owned stores and other retailers. Wholly-owned Empire Theatres operates about 50 theaters (380 screens) in eight provinces and is the #2 movie exhibitor in Canada.

Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company, founded in 1901, is a successful, family-owned and operated company that conducts business based on a commitment to honesty, hard work, service, quality, and strong values. Our company values have not swayed in over 100 years. We continue to be guided by our core principles of honesty and integrity by thinking “clients first”, being a leading provider of integrated construction solutions, and living a culture of performance excellence. We are one of the nation’s largest professional dealers, earning the distinction of premier vendor partnerships with some of the nation’s leading builders. We invite you to discover the Foxworth-Galbraith difference.

Esselunga is owned by Supermarkets Italiani S.p.A., and controlled by its founder and chairman Bernardo Caprotti and family.Esselunga is a leading Italian grocery store chain, with about 130 supermarkets and superstores, or hypermarkets, throughout northern Italy. The company also had real estate assets which it hived off into a separate company, La Villata S.p.A., in 2005. The Italian grocery chain has long been rumored to be a takeover target of foreign retailers because it operates in some of the richest regions in Italy. The company has been busy opening new stores and remodeling existing locations. Founded in 1957.

As a family owned and operated local business, Douglas Lumber is able to compete with national chain stores on the strength of quality products, top notch service and through our membership in a multi-billion dollar buying group which allows us to buy products as well or better than our competitors. Our 100,000 square foot facility located on a 15 acre lot in Smithfield, Rhode Island makes us one of the largest independent lumber yards in the Northeast. Douglas Lumber, Kitchens and Home Center features a large fleet of delivery trucks which deliver material throughout New England. Our state of the art kitchen design center features 18 fully assembled kitchen displays as well as a free estimating and design service which utilizes a CAD program that will allow you to see a computerized layout of the kitchen of your dreams. Our newly renovated flooring department offers hardwood, carpet, tile, VCT and laminate flooring from major national brands and best of all, we install every flooring product we sell! All of our departments are staffed with experienced and knowledgeable salespeople who are always ready to assist you. Our outside sales staff will even assist you on site.

A.S. Watson (ASW) is the retail and manufacturing arm of the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa. Like its powerful parent company, ASW is a giant in its industries, with operations in some 35 markets throughout Asia and Europe. Its businesses include supermarkets (Park'N Shop), health and beauty stores (Watson's, Drogas, Trekpleister, and Kruidvat), Fortress consumer electronics and appliance stores in Hong Kong and Macau, soft drink and water bottling operations, and wine retailing (Watson's Wine Cellar). In all, ASW operates 20-plus retail chains with more than 8,700 stores including the UK's Superdrug and Savers chains. ASW also has a joint venture with German discount health and beauty chain Rossmann.

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