Farner-Bocken is a full-line wholesale distributor that serves primarily convenience stores in more than a dozen Midwestern and Western states. It supplies more than 14,000 items, including food, candy, tobacco products, and other nationally branded retail grocery goods. It also distributes frozen prepared foods and foodservice equipment and supplies to restaurants and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to food products, Farner-Bocken offers business support services, including accounting, merchandising, and technology support. William Farner and Donald Bocken started the family-owned company in 1939.

Mawdsley-Brooks is one of the UK's largest independent pharmaceutical distributors. The company, operating as Mawdsleys, supplying more than 20,000 lines of branded, generic, and OTC products to pharmacies, hospitals, and other medical facilities. Founded in 1825, the company also offers merchandising and marketing services to independent pharmacists. Its Doncaster Pharmaceuticals subsidiary specializes in generic and imported drugs, while its Positive Solutions unit provides software and services for pharmacy management. Mawdsleys has distribution centers across the UK, as well as global import/export operations.

The Charles C. Parks Company is a grocery distributor that primarily supplies convenience stores in more than half a dozen Southern states. It distributes a variety of food items and dry goods, as well as beverages, cigarettes, candy, and general merchandise. The company also offers support programs for in-store delis and other quick-service food operations. Carl C. Parks, Jr., started the family-run business in 1934.

ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, distributes cable television equipment and hardware to the cable television industry in North America, Central America, and South America. ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc. offers headend products, which include satellite receivers, integrated receivers/decoders, demodulators, modulators, antennas and antenna mounts, amplifiers, equalizers, and processors that are used by a system operator for signal acquisition, processing, and manipulation for further transmission; and fiber products comprising optical transmitters, fiber optic cable, receivers, couplers, splitters, and compatible accessories, which are used to transmit the output of cable system headend to multiple locations using fiber optic cable. It also provides distribution products that comprise transmitters, receivers, line extenders, broadband amplifiers, directional taps, and splitters, which are used to permit signals to travel from the headend to their destination in a home, apartment, hotel room, office, or other terminal location along a distribution network of fiber optic or coaxial cable. In addition, ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc. offers digital converters and modems, which are boxes placed inside the home that receive, record, and transmit video, data, and telephony signals. Further, it provides other hardware, such as test equipment, connector, and cable products, as well as repair services to various cable companies. Additionally, the company purchases and sells surplus and refurbished cable television equipment. ADDvantage Technologies Group markets and sells its products to franchise and private multiple system operators, telephone companies, system contractors, and other resellers. ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Axis-Shield plc is a pioneering organisation focused on the development and manufacturing of important in vitro diagnostic tests for use in clinical laboratories and at the point of care. In the laboratory sector we specialise in proprietary markers for diagnosis and management of critical illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and rheumatoid arthritis. At the point of care our products include the NycoCard® range and the state-of-the-art Afinion™ system. The company's shares are traded on the London and Oslo Stock Exchanges and the group comprises Laboratory Division in Dundee, a Point-of-Care Division in Oslo with a US operation in Norton, Mass., and local distribution subsidiaries in the UK (Axis-Shield UK), in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland (Medinor), Switzerland (Axis-Shield AG) and in Germany (Axis-Shield GmbH).

Watsco, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies in the United States. The company offers equipments, including residential central air conditioners; light commercial air conditioners; gas, electric, and oil furnaces; commercial air conditioning and heating equipment and systems; and other equipments. It also provides parts comprising replacement compressors, evaporator coils, motors, and other component parts. In addition, the company sells supplies, which include thermostats, insulation material, refrigerants, ductwork, grills, registers, sheet metal, tools, copper tubing, concrete pads, tape, adhesives, and other ancillary supplies. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 417 locations in 34 states serving approximately 40,000 contractors and dealers who service the replacement and new construction markets. Watsco, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Coconut Grove, Florida.

Walton & Post is a wholesale distributor of food and related products that serves retail and wholesale customers. The company supplies such products as canned and packaged goods, fresh fruit and produce, and ethnic food items, as well as candies, chocolates, health and beauty products, and paper goods. It primarily serves customers in the southeastern US. Part of Miami-based Garrido Group, Walton & Post is one of several distribution businesses owned by the Garrido family.

Lawson Products, Inc. distributes and markets systems, services, and products to the industrial, commercial, institutional, and governmental maintenance repair and operations marketplace in the United States and Canada. The company also manufactures and distributes components, fasteners, and fittings to the original equipment marketplace, including the automotive, appliance, aerospace, construction, and transportation industries. Its product categories include fastening systems; specialty chemicals; cutting tools and abrasives; fluid power; aftermarket automotive supplies; electrical; and welding and metal repair. Lawson Products, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Omnicare, Inc., a pharmaceutical services company, provides pharmaceuticals and related pharmacy and ancillary services to long-term healthcare institutions. Its Pharmacy Services segment distributes pharmaceuticals and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services, data management services, and medical supplies to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, retirement centers, independent living communities, hospitals, hospice, and other healthcare service providers. It purchases, repackages, and dispenses prescription and non prescription pharmaceuticals; provides computerized medical record-keeping and third-party billing services; and offers consultant pharmacist services. This segment also provides intravenous medications and nutrition products, respiratory therapy services, medical supplies and equipment, clinical care planning and financial software information systems, electronic medical records systems, pharmaceutical informatics services, retail and mail-order pharmacy services, pharmaceutical care management for hospice agencies, and product support and distribution services for specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as offers pharmaceutical case management services for retirees, employees, and dependents who have drug benefits under corporate-sponsored healthcare programs. As of December 31, 2009, it served long-term care facilities, and chronic care and other settings comprising approximately 1,377,000 beds in 47 states in the United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada. The company’s Contract Research Organization Services segment offers product development and research services to client companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries, as well as provides support for the design of regulatory strategy and clinical development of pharmaceuticals for its client’s drug development programs. Omnicare, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

AMCON Distributing Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale distribution of a range of consumer products in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, as well as in the operation of retail health food stores in Florida and the Midwest. The company operates through two segments: Wholesale Distribution and Retail Health Food. The Wholesale Distribution segment has 5 distribution centers that sell approximately 14,000 consumer products, including cigarettes and tobacco products, candy and other confectionery, non-alcoholic beverages, groceries, paper products, health and beauty care products, frozen and chilled products, and institutional food service products. It primarily distributes these products to approximately 4,000 retailers, such as convenience stores, discount and general merchandise stores, grocery stores and supermarkets, drug stores, and gas stations, as well as serves institutional customers, including restaurants and bars, schools, sports complexes and vendors, and other wholesalers. The Retail Health Food segment operates retail health food stores, which carry natural supplements, groceries, health and beauty care products, and other food items. As of September 30, 2008, the company had six retail health food stores in Florida under the name, Chamberlin's Market & Cafe, and seven in the Midwest under the name, Akin's Natural Foods Market. AMCON Distributing Company was founded in 1981 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

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