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.

Dixons Retail plc operates as a specialist electrical and computing retailer. Dixons Retail sells products in the categories of brown goods, white goods, computing products, and mobile phones. The brown goods include vision products, such as televisions and DVD players; audio products comprising stereos, iPods, and MP3 players; imaging products, such as cameras and camcorders; gaming products that include games consoles; and related accessories. The white goods comprise domestic appliances, such as washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, and gas and electric cookers; and small domestic appliances, which include microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, kettles, coffee makers, toasters, irons, and bread makers. The computing products consist of desktop computers, laptop computers, iPads, netbooks, printers, and accessories; and mobile phones include pre-paid and contract mobile phones, mobile broadband modems, and related accessories. Dixons Retail also undertakes business to business sales and services, as well as provides product support services to customers. It operates its retail stores under the Currys, PC World, Dixons Travel, TechGuys, Elkjøp, Lefdal, El Giganten, Gigantti, Kotsovolos, UniEuro, Electro World, PC City, PIXmania, and Dixons.co.uk brands. Dixons Retail sells its products through stores, Internet, and by phone. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Dixons Retail was formerly known as DSG International plc and changed its name to Dixons Retail plc in September 2010. Dixons Retail plc is headquartered in Hemel Hempstead, the United Kingdom.

Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermarkte serves do-it-yourselfers and other practical types. Praktiker (practitioner or enthusiast in English) is Germany's #2 do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement retailer with about 340 Praktiker, Max Bahr, and extra BAU + HOBBY stores in Germany and another 90 Praktiker shops in eight mostly Eastern European countries (it goes by batiself in Luxembourg). Germany accounts for two-thirds of Praktiker's sales but growth comes from international locations. The discount stores sell name brand and private label items and host DIY classes. Praktiker offers bathroom fixtures, building materials, electrical and gardening items, hardware, paint, tools, wallpaper, and wood products.

Bob's Discount Furniture operates about 40 furniture stores (featuring mini-golf courses and complimentary refreshments) in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and four other eastern states. Bob's also offers several in-store "outlets" where customers can buy discounted furniture that has been discontinued, returned, or slightly damaged. Following a 1976 motorcycle accident, company founder and president Bob Kaufman (who's something of a celebrity in the Northeast, thanks to his quirky television commercials) spent months recuperating in a waterbed. Fully recovered and inspired by his experience, Kaufman partnered with cousin Gene Rosenberg and opened up the first Bob's Discount Furniture shop in 1991.

Carter-Jones knows when to yell "timber!" Carter-Jones Lumber company is the flagship store of building supplies retailer Carter Lumber. Its store has served the Akron, Ohio, area for more than 70 years, offering contractors and do-it-yourselfers a range of countertops, doors and windows, flooring, plumbing products, hand and power tools, and lumber, among other items. It sells Douglas fir, spruce, cedar, and redwood lumber; computerized kitchen designs; and fireplace mantels made to order. Brands include Moen, Delta, Jacuzzi, and Stanley Black & Decker. The Carter family, via parent Carter Lumber, owns Carter-Jones.

HOM Furniture, Inc is a middle-market to high-end home furnishings retailer operating more than a dozen stores in Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin. HOM stores offer wooden (cherry, maple, oak, pine), upholstered (including leather), and patio furniture, as well as mattresses, area rugs, and other decorative accessories. Many locations also provide free design consultations to assist customers with buying decisions. In addition to its namesake chain, HOM operates Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furnishings, based in Edina, Minnesota. HOM's retailing roots reach back to 1973, when CEO Wayne Johansen established JC Imports, the chain's forerunner.

Fieldens is an independent tyre and wheel supplier and Honda Power Equipment Dealer based on the outskirts of Stowmarket, Suffolk. With a team of thirty we have built a solid, international reputation as the supplier of specialist tyres and wheels right across agriculture, industry and civil engineering, amenity and quarrying industries.At Fieldens we have tyre specialists with experience across every area of operation. We maintain excellent relationships with tyre and wheel manufacturers of all types from around the world; major brands with an extensive line-up of products for most uses, budget brands with a more limited offering and specialist manufacturers with industry specific ranges. Our warehouse holds stocks ranging from 42” flotation and 54” rowcrop tyres, tyres for ATVs to ride-on garden tractors all the way down to 8” wheelbarrow!

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.

It was M.O. Lee - then president of VF Corporation - who suggested holding a public sale one Saturday morning to clear out excess inventory of Berkshire International. That day, the merchandise completely sold out, even though the only advertising had been word of mouth. The store was so busy that even Lee bagged merchandise and manned the cash register. “You could see his mind working,” said John Jackson, merchandise manager of Intimate Apparel at the time. “He was thinking he could make the store bigger. We just had a drop cloth on the back wall, and we kept moving it back.”Pleased and surprised at the success of the sale, Lee scheduled a bigger one for two weeks later, with merchandise brought in from other VF sources. That sale was even more successful, and the VF Outlet business was launched. Selling Berkshire and Vanity Fair surplus products, the factory store was 5,000 square feet, with only a drop cloth separating it from the manufacturing facility. VF Corporation - which opened the store in 1970 - was one of the earliest outlet operators, and opened the first outlet center in the country, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Founded in Boston in 1909 by Edward Filene, the company in 2009 was acquired out of bankruptcy by rival off-price retailer Syms Corp. Syms has maintained long-held traditions, such as the annual "Running of the Brides," at 100-year-old Filene's Basement, as well as the Filene's name and many of the company's employees. You don't have to go underground to get to Filene's Basement. The retailer operates about 25 stores under the Filene's Basement and fbSY banners in Massachusetts, New York, and half a dozen other states and the District of Columbia. The stores sell off-price men's and women's designer and name-brand apparel and shoes, as well as jewelry and home goods.

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