Storr, which was founded in 1914, offers more than 200 products include brands such as Peter Pepper and Steelcase. Change the way you store your employees with the help of Storr Office Environments. The firm is an office furniture supplier to companies in the southeastern US that also provides professional space planning, facility management, and installation services for its clients. Storr operates a warehouse, showroom, and distribution center in North Carolina. It also boasts offices in Florida to extend its reach there. The company provides the usual desks and seating, as well as interior architecture, office technology, and floor coverings.

YBP Library Services helps academic, community, and research libraries find all kinds of books, including electronic books. The company offers a Web-based tool called GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) that provides its customers with a wide array of acquisitions and collection management services connected to a database some 2 million English-language titles. Founded in 1971, YBP works closely with its parent company, Baker & Taylor Corporation (the top wholesale book distributor in the US), and benefits from B&T's large inventory. YBP's UK-based Lindsay and Croft subsidiary offers similar services to the worldwide academic and research library market.

Hicks may be in the sticks, but it has the supplies sporting goods retailers need. The company distributes marine, fishing, hunting, archery, and other outdoor products to retailers nationwide. Its bi-annual trade shows draw more than 1,500 retailers nationwide to look at boats, guns, fishing tackle, bows, arrows, and other recreational goodies. The company carries more than 30,000 items from 700 vendors and sells through a B2B site, as well. Hicks was founded in the early 1900s and has been family owned and run since. Third- and fourth-generation family members hold the chairman and CFO (John M. Wise) and president and CEO (John M. Wise, Jr.) positions.

Lazy Days' R.V. Center, Inc. was founded in 1976 by Don Wallace and his late father, H. K. Wallace, and brother, Ron Wallace. It's controlled by Minnesota-based Wayzata Investment Partners. After a stint in Chapter 11, Lazy Days' completed its reorganization in late 2009. Plenty of hard work has turned Lazy Days' R.V. Center into one of the largest dealers of recreational vehicles in the US. At its 126-acre site, Lazy Days' sells more than a dozen brands of new and used RVs. The dealership also has some 230 service bays for repair and maintenance. Besides the RV dealership, the Lazy Days' site includes RallyPark, a 300-lot RV campground that includes a Cracker Barrel restaurant, Camping World retail store, and RV gas station.

Christy Sports isn't some girly group of ponytailed cheerleaders. It's the largest specialty ski and snowboard retailer in the Rocky Mountains. With more than 40 retail stores in skiing hot spots like Snowmass, Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, and Vail, the company sells skiing, snowboarding, snow-shoeing, mountain biking, and golf equipment along with shoes, shirts, gloves, and bags to carry it all. Stores also carry patio furniture, grills, hammocks, and other accessories for the outdoor life and rent skiing and snowboarding gear. Christy's staff are all serious skiers and snowboarders who use the equipment they sell. The company was founded in 1958 by avid skiers Ed and Gale Crist.

Founded in 1978, Sierra Office Solutions is an authorized Xerox sales agent and an approved vender for the federal government. While the Sierra Club wants you to save a tree, Sierra Office Solutions (formerly Sierra Office Supply) wants you to buy one. The office products and furniture firm supplies businesses and home offices in Eastern Kern, Inyo, and Mono counties in California, and Nye and Esmeralda counties in Nevada, with the necessities of running a business. Products include office supplies, computer and printer supplies, furniture, janitorial and break room items, Xerox copiers and other business machines, business cards, custom stamps, and signs. It offers an online product catalog and free delivery.

Founded in 1993 with about 60 stores, Calendar Club now operates more than 800 locations in the US and 250-plus outlets in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. The company also sells merchandise year round on its Web sites, including Calendars.com and DogBreedStore.com. Bookseller Barnes & Noble sold its majority stake in Calendar Club to CEO Marc Winkelman and the firm's management in 2009 for $7 million. During the holiday season, Calendar Club transforms empty retail space in Canada and the US into shops under the banners Calendar Club, San Francisco Music Box Company, and Go! Games, and Go! Toys. The company's temporary stores range in size from kiosks to some 6,000 square feet.

HMV Group plc,the entertainment retailer sells recorded music, videos and DVDs, books, and electronic games online and through some 400 HMV stores in five countries and from about 315 Waterstone's bookshops in the UK and Ireland. HMV has been closing stores amid a prolonged slump in sales caused by upheaval in the music business. To compensate for declining retail sales, HMV is going after the live music and ticketing market through the purchase of its former joint venture partner in live music MAMA Group. Sales at the company's Waterstone's bookstore chain are also down as shoppers buy fewer books.

Connolly Music Company, Inc. imports and distributes strings for basses, cellos, guitars, mandolins, violas, and violins. It is the only US importer of Austria-made Thomastik-Infeld strings and rosin. Products include specialty strings for electric, acoustic, classical, and jazz guitars; acoustic and jazz basses; and custom sets as well as various cored strings for orchestral instruments. The company supports the American String Teachers Association, the Suzuki Association of America, and the Perlman Music Program. Connolly Music was founded in 1970 by John Connolly. His son Jake is president and owner.

Austin Business Furniture (ABF) just wants everyone to be comfortable at work. The company sells office furniture manufactured by such companies as HON, Humanscale, and La-Z-Boy to businesses, schools, and government agencies in Central Texas. From its distribution center, ABF delivers chairs, desks, conference tables, filing cabinets and storage units, shelving, and other modular furniture pieces. It also offers ergonomic evaluations, space-planning, and furniture installation services. ABF is owned by president Jay Femal.

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