W.S. Badcock Corporation sells furniture for every room in the house through more than 300 Badcock Home Furnishing Centers and Badcock &more stores in about 10 southeastern states as well as online. Badcock stores also carry appliances, lawn equipment, electronics, mattresses, floor coverings and rugs, bedding, lighting, wall art, and other decorative accessories. Founded in 1904 as a general mercantile store by Henry S. Badcock, the company is in its fourth generation of family management.

Citarella caters to an urban clientele that possesses discerning taste buds. The company operates about half a dozen gourmet supermarkets in New York City and its satellite, the Hamptons. The upscale chain also offers catering and online ordering and home delivery to select ZIP codes. The company's highly-esteemed Manhattan restaurant (renamed Josephs in 2004 -- formerly Citarella -- after the company's owner Joseph "Joe" Gurrera) has shut down. Citarella got its start as a seafood market in 1912 and was bought by Gurrera in 1983.

Walter E. Smithe Furniture, more commonly referred to as Smithe Furniture, sells mid-priced to high-end home furnishings through about a dozen locations in Illinois and Indiana. The company also offers leather and fabric upholstery customization options, as well as furniture reupholstering. Brothers Walt (president and general manager), Tim (VP of sales), and Mark (general counsel) Smithe took the reins of the family-run company from their father, and today (thanks to their TV ad campaigns), the three are the faces of the furniture retailer. Smithe Furniture traces its founding back to 1945.

Hahn Automotive Warehouse, Inc. has a history in the automotive aftermarket dating back to 1958. Since founded by Mike Futerman, Hahn Automotive Warehouse has relied on some timeless principles that transcend the decades. The basic principles include doing whatever it takes to make the customer more successful. Today his son, Eli Futerman and son-in-law, Dan Chessin carry on the family tradition with the same effort and energy as their predecessor. Hahn Automotive Warehouse company is comprised of nine full service warehouses and twenty two pick up warehouses that distribute automotive hard parts within their fifteen state geographical reach from the Midwest through the Northeast and down to the Mid-Atlantic states. In addition, Hahn Automotive Warehouse owns the RAAC accessory warehouse in Batavia, NY to fill in products that compliment the hard parts. On the retail side, the company owns eighty Advantage Auto Stores and Genuine Auto Parts stores that sell parts to the professional service dealer and the do-it-yourselfer. This entire portion of Hahn Automotive Warehouse company belongs to the national Auto Value group for marketing and support to both the part stores and service centers.One additional division of the company is the Nu-Way Auto Parts stores that also deal directly with the professional service dealer and the do-it-yourselfer. This group operates nine locations in Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania and features the ACDelco and Motorcraft brands. Hahn Automotive’s products consist predominately of nationally branded automotive hard parts as well as many maintenance items, accessories and private label products for domestic and foreign cars, vans, and light trucks. The cornerstone of Hahn Automotive Warehouse company is innovation and teamwork, giving customers exemplary service and value. There is a deep sense of loyalty and family throughout Hahn Automotive. This has extended to its relationships with its customers and suppliers, some who have done business with Hahn Automotive Warehouse company for more than forty-five years. The underlying philosophy that guides daily business is trust, cooperation, and respect, and with that Hahn Automotive is able to keep its customers coming back.

Butera acquired three stores in Illinois from bankrupt Eagle Food Centers. Family-owned and -operated from its inception, Butera became an employee-owned company in the early 1990s. Butera Finer Foods, Inc. If you're in the Windy City and you're in the market for foodstuffs, find your way to Butera's. Butera Finer Foods runs about 10 full-service supermarkets under the Butera Market banner in northern Illinois. The stores specialize in produce, deli items, and international foods at low prices. Since its founding in 1968 by Paul Butera Sr. and his brother Joe, some 25 Butera Finer Foods supermarkets have been opened. Butera's twin sons Joseph and Paul Jr. currently run 10 of them.

Huttig Building Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries distribute millwork, building materials, and wood products used in new residential construction, home improvement, remodeling, and repair work in the United States. It offers various millwork products comprising exterior and interior doors, pre-hung door units, windows, patio doors, mouldings, frames, stair parts, and columns under Therma-Tru, Masonite, HB&G, Huttig Windows, Woodgrain, Windsor, and L. J. Smith brand names; and general building products, such as roofing, siding, insulation, flashing, housewrap, connectors and fasteners, decking, drywall, kitchen cabinets, and other miscellaneous building products under Typar, Timbertech, Fiberon, Simpson Strong-Tie, Huttigrip Fasteners, Louisiana Pacific, Owens Corning, and CertainTeed brand names. The company provides various wood products, which include engineered wood products, such as floor systems, as well as lumber and wood panels. The company sells its products to building materials dealers; national buying groups; home centers; and industrial users, including makers of manufactured homes. As of December 31, 2009, Huttig Building Products distributed its products through 27 distribution centers serving 41 states. Huttig Building Products, Inc. was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

From 1946 to 1974, the Skogen family acquired a number of small IGA stores and eventually, in 1979, a Red Owl store in Holmen, Wisconsin. Paul Skogen passed away in 1976 at which point his son Dave, along Dave’s wife Barb, oversaw company operations.In 1990, the Skogen family realized a shifting trend in consumer buying habits and decided a change of store format was best for future growth of the company. On June 28, 1990, they opened their first Festival Foods store in Onalaska. In 1992 Dave’s son Mark joined the company full-time. Together, Dave and Mark lead Festival Foods to experience unprecedented growth by opening additional stores across Wisconsin in Marshfield, Green Bay, Bellevue, De Pere, Suamico, Oshkosh, Eau Claire, and Holmen.Dave transitioned to Chairman of the Board in 2006 and continues to be active in the company. With that change, Mark became CEO and President and has carried on the tradition of success built by his father and grandfather. Since 2006, Festival has opened stores in La Crosse, Appleton Darboy, Appleton Northland, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc and Suamico.

As one of only two national grocery retailers in Canada, Sobeys Inc. serves the food shopping needs of Canadians with more than 1,300 stores in 10 provinces with retail banners that include Sobeys, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Price Chopper and Thrifty Foods. The company also operates Lawtons Drug stores in Atlantic Canada. Our five core retail food formats are designed to ensure that we have the right offering in the right-sized stores for each individual market we serve from our full service format to the convenience format, each tailored to satisfy the unique occasion-based food shopping needs of our customers.A proudly Canadian company with more than 100 years in the food business, Sobeys Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Our 85,000 employees and franchise affiliates are committed to building sustainable worth for each of our customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders through our focus on food, innovation and superior customer service.

Boyles Distinctive Furniture sells home furnishings through five locations, including a clearance outlet, in North Carolina and online. Customers can buy traditional wood, leather, and upholstered pieces from manufacturers such as Bernhardt, Hooker Furniture, Maitland-Smith, and Ralph Lauren. The company offers interior design support and nationwide delivery service. Internet shoppers can chat with store reps and get a quote via the retailer's Web site. Boyles' showrooms are distinctive as well, ranging from glass-fronted modern stores to shaker-style buildings. Founded in 1949, the company is part of the Hendricks Furniture Group, which filed for Chapter 11 in 2009.

Walter Alexander, the company's president, is a grandson of the founder, John Alexander, who ran Alexander Lumber until his death in 1944. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Alexander Lumber can tell you about 100 years of selling wood. More than a century, in fact. The family-owned company was established in 1891. Alexander Lumber conducts wholesale and retail sales of tree products from about 25 retail lumberyards in Illinois and Wisconsin. Alexander Lumber's manufacturing division, Cortland Components, designs and builds wooden trusses and joists for construction at a plant in Cortland, Illinois.

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