E-Z Mart Stores founder Jim Yates kept his first convenience store in Ashdown, Arkansas, open until 11. The company now boasts 300 outlets across five southern states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas). Rather than build its own stores, the company usually expands through acquisitions. In addition to the standard hot dogs, chips, sodas, and cigarettes, most E-Z Mart locations also offer Shell, Conoco, Phillips 66, or CITGO gasoline. Yates died in late 1998 when the plane he was piloting crashed, leaving his daughter Sonja Hubbard at the company's helm as CEO.

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy wants to offer far more than the prescriptions, over-the-counter aids, and greeting cards peddled by those other pharmacies. Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Inc. operates about two dozen retail pharmacy and health stores in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Although filling prescriptions accounts for a large portion of the firm's revenues, Pharmaca also offers complementary medicines and products and even has herbalists, naturopaths, homeopaths, and other alternative-care advisors in its stores to help customers find what they need to treat what ails them. Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Inc. is expanding its presence in its established markets, most recently by acquiring Bay Pharmacy in California.

N.B. Handy Company is one of the leading wholesale distributors of commercial roofing products, HVAC equipment and supplies, sheet metal and sheet metal fabricating equipment. We’re dedicated to being the preferred choice of our customers, employees and suppliers. Established in 1891 and growing for well over a century, N.B. Handy Company services commercial, residential and mechanical contractors throughout the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States. We are dedicated to developing relationships and creating programs that support the growth of our customers’ businesses. Armed with a staff of approximately 500 employees, we listen to our customers and anticipate their changing product and service needs for the best possible support in the industry. We are a family-owned and professionally managed company. With an expanding sales and distribution network, a growing team of dedicated people, and a commitment to be the preferred choice, N. B. Handy continues to deliver on a legacy of exceptional customer service.

The late Fred Habegger, Sr., founded the company in 1952 after buying a Bryant distribution office in Cincinnati. His family, including Fred Jr. (chairman) and daughter Sue Frey (CFO), still owns Habegger. The founder's other sons, Jim and Tom Habegger, are also involved in the business. Habegger keeps the heat down for Buckeye, Hoosier, and Wildcat fans. Operating some 20 locations in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Ohio, the company distributes residential and commercial heating and air conditioning equipment, parts, and supplies. Habegger counts Bryant, Carlyle, Carrier, Payne, Reznor, and Totaline among the brands it carries.

Sid Harvey Industries was founded in 1931 as an oil industry parts supplier by the grandfather of president and CEO Sid Harvey. Whether you're too chilly in Colorado or roasting in Rhode Island, Sid Harvey Industries might have the answer. Sid Harvey Industries, Inc. makes and wholesales heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration parts and equipment through some 75 locations in about a dozen states. Sid Harvey's also exports worldwide. Sid Harvey Industries, Inc. reconditions more than 1,700 used parts and manufactures more than 750 new products at its plants in South Carolina. Its Web site offers a database connecting HVAC professionals and companies looking for qualified job candidates.

LiveDeal (formerly YP Corp.) is an Internet yellow pages and local online classifieds provider. The company offers goods and services listed for sale through its online classified marketplace at classifieds.livedeal.com; LiveDeal also publishes about 17 million business listings via its business directory at yellowpages.livedeal.com. Sources of revenue include advertising sales, a pay-per-lead program with major auto dealers, and optional listing upgrade and e-commerce/fraud prevention fees. The company changed its name from YP Corp. after its 2007 purchase of online local classifieds marketplace LiveDeal.

Balkamp was formed in 1936 by the NAPA board of directors. Its moniker blends the surnames of the company's first managers, John Baldwin and Bob Leercamp. A majority-owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts, Balkamp distributes parts and accessories for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and farm equipment to repair shops and retail members of the National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA). The company also provides diagnostics equipment, cleaning supplies, chemicals, and other service-related items. Balkamp offers some 45,000 items from about 600 domestic and foreign suppliers. It operates distribution centers in Indianapolis and Plainfield, Indiana and West Jordan, Utah.

Established in 1999, the privately-owned company is headed by Dan Williams. Internet retailer Toolbarn.com has the power to supply tools and tool accessories anywhere they're needed. Toolbarn.com, (which is the main operating company of Tighton Tools & Fasteners, Inc.) sells a variety of power and hand tools and accessories to home owners, contractors, and construction companies. The company provides everything from nails to jackhammers made by major tool and specialty tool manufactures the likes of DeWalt and Makita. Toolbarn.com also offers repair services and operates Toolpartsdirect.com, a separate Web site dedicated to selling parts for tools.

Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings is a marriage made in retail heaven. Isetan brings advanced information technology while Mitsukoshi knows how to attract moneyed customers from Japan's elite. The merged company, one of Japan's leading department store operators, boasts a dozen Mitsukoshi stores and about a half a dozen Isetan locations throughout Japan with Mitsukoshi focusing on the older crowd while Isetan's Tokyo-area shops offer apparel alongside food, housewares, and sundries to appeal to younger generations. Overseas, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings has stores in Asia, Europe, and the US. Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings was formed in 2008 when Isetan bought out its older rival.

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.

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