C&A targets budget-conscious shoppers from Sao Paulo to Shanghai and all points in between. The company sells moderately priced apparel for men, women, and children through more than 1,600 stores in Brazil, Mexico, China, and about 20 European countries (where the majority of its network is concentrated), as well as online. Its portfolio of a dozen in-house brands include Clockhouse, Westbury, and Your Sixth Sense. The Brenninkmeijer family owns the company through Switzerland-based COFRA Holding. Brenninkmeijer men hold nearly all the top positions within the business, which traces its roots back to 1841, when the brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer opened a textile warehouse in the Netherlands.

Intermountain Orient, Inc. has been a leading and respected marketer of forest products since 1974. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with an additional location in Phoenix, Arizona, Intermountain Orient has created a niche in supplying specialty wood products throughout the United States and abroad. Intermountain Orient promotes the highest level in product quality and customer service while working with many of the nation’s premier suppliers of wood fiber.Intermountain Orient offers a wide range of products, specializing in cedar decking and fencing products, railroad ties and bridge timbers, mining materials, log home timbers and accessories, as well as a full line of low grade material for dunnage and pallet stock.

Harps operated as a family-run chain until 2001 when it became an employee-owned business.It's tough to survive in the face of Arkansas giant Wal-Mart, but Harps Food Stores (founded when Sam Walton was 12 years old) is putting up a fight. The company, which got its start when Floy and Harvard Harp put down $500 cash and opened the first Harp's Cash Grocery in 1930, operates more than 60 grocery stores, mostly in Arkansas but also in Missouri and Oklahoma. Its stores, operating under the Harps Food Stores and Price Cutter Food Warehouse banners, range in size from 13,000 to 63,000 sq. ft. and often feature bakeries, pharmacies, and meat departments

SOK is made up of about 35 independent regional cooperative societies that produce the group's services. Food and grocery account for half of SOK's overall business its market brands include ABC!, Alepa, Prisma, S Market, and Sale. The group was founded in 1904.Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta (SOK Corporation) knows a thing or two (or 1,500) about retail. The Finnish group is active in grocery, combination convenience store/gas station, department store, specialty goods, hotel and restaurant, auto trade, and hardware services via 1,590 locations in its home country, throughout the Baltic nations, and Russia.

Through its websites (Art.com and AllPosters.com), Art.com sells art prints, posters, framed works, and other specialty items. Customers can browse its inventory of more than 700,000 items, ranging from inexpensive wall posters and signed limited-edition works to wall murals and tapestries, as well as order custom framing and mounting services. More than 10 million customers in some 120 countries worldwide have decorated their walls via the company's websites. Formerly named Allwall Technologies, Art.com was founded in 1995 and merged with rival AllPosters.com in 2005.

CVS Caremark Corporation operates as a pharmacy services company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy. The Pharmacy Service segment provides a range of prescription benefit management services, including mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management, and claims processing. This segment primarily serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, managed care organizations and other sponsors of health benefit plans, and individuals. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 49 retail specialty pharmacy stores, 18 specialty mail order pharmacies, and 6 mail service pharmacies located in 25 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. This segment operates business under the Caremark Pharmacy Services, Caremark, CVS Caremark, CarePlus CVS/pharmacy, CarePlus, RxAmerica, AccordantCare, and TheraCom names. The Retail Pharmacy segment sells prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, beauty products and cosmetics, photo finishing, seasonal merchandise, greeting cards, and convenience foods through its pharmacy retail stores and online. It also provides health care services. This segment operated 7,025 retail drugstores located in 41 states and the District of Columbia; and 569 retail health care clinics in 25 states. The company has a strategic alliance with Alere, L.L.C. for the management of disease management program offerings that cover chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and coronary artery disease. CVS Caremark Corporation was founded in 1892 and is based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Reliable Wholesale Lumber has room for plenty of board. Rwl company distributes lumber and other forest products to residential contractors, industrial customers, and retail lumberyards, primarily in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, as well as panels throughout the US. Through about 10 distribution yards in California, the company is able to ship 600 million board feet of lumber, panels, and engineered wood products per year. Product specialties from Reliable Wholesale Lumber include Durawood Douglas fir decking and oriented strand board. Founded in 1971, Reliable Wholesale Lumber is owned by the Higman family, including president Jerry Higman.

ASDA is the UK's second-largest food seller (behind Tesco).It operates about 370 stores (including about 25 ASDA Living stores) that primarily sell groceries and apparel.The stores also sell CDs, books, videos, and housewares. It offers American, Chinese, and Mexican take-away meals.Since being bought by Wal-Mart in 1999, ASDA has set off a price war in the UK by initiating Wal-Mart's aggressive "price-rollback" program and converting stores to Wal-Mart's supercenter format under the ASDA-Wal-Mart banner.ASDA.com sells goods online.

Pathmark's rival in the Northeast, acquired the chain for about $1.4 billion in late 2007. Three years later, A&P filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Pathmark rings up about 45% of A&P's annual sales.Pathmark Stores hopes it's finally on the upward path now that it has become part of the A&P family of grocery chains. Pathmark operates about 140 supermarkets, under the Pathmark and Pathmark Sav-A-Center banners, in densely populated areas in four states: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Many of its stores are Pathmark Super Centers, which offer an expanded selection of general merchandise and foods, nearly all have pharmacies, and more than half have in-store banks

The company sells mattresses, bed bases, and other bedroom furnishings through a number of retail chains in Europe. The company operates some 960 stores located across Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. Beter Bed's retail brands include Matrazen Concord, Beter Bed, DBC, El Gigante del Colchón, and Slaapgenoten/Dormaël Slaapkamers. Each chain maintains its own unique retail concept, from discount furnishings to high-end bedroom accoutrements. The company acquired Spanish retailer El Gigante Del Colchón in 2005.

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