Global Partners LP, through its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale and commercial distribution of refined petroleum products and natural gas, and provides ancillary services in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Wholesale and Commercial. The Wholesale segment sells gasoline, home heating oil, diesel, kerosene, and residual oil to unbranded retail gasoline stations and other resellers of transportation fuels, home heating oil retailers, and wholesale distributors. The Commercial segment sells unbranded gasoline, home heating oil, diesel, kerosene, and residual oil to the public sector, and commercial and industrial customers. This segment also purchases, custom blends, sells, and delivers bunker fuel and diesel to cruise ships, bulk carriers, and fishing fleets generally by barges. It serves federal and state agencies, municipalities, and industrial companies; autonomous authorities, such as transportation authorities and water resource authorities, colleges, and universities; and a group of small utilities. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned, leased, or maintained storage facilities at 22 refined petroleum product bulk terminals with the capacity of approximately 50,000 barrels. Global GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. Global Partners LP is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Associated Grocers of Florida (AGFL) is a leading wholesale food distributor that serves independent retailers and foodservice operators in the Southeast and in international markets. The group supplies more than 28,000 products, including such brands as IGA, Shurefine, Shurfresh, Valu Time, and Top Care. AGFL operates a pair of distribution facilities in Florida. In addition to wholesale distribution, the member-owned cooperative offers a variety of business-support services, including advertising planning, merchandising, and technology procurement. The company was formed in 1945.

Pharmaceutical distribution company Mediq (formerly OPG Groep) is involved in both commercial wholesaling and consumer retailing of drugs and other health care supplies. In the Netherlands, the company has about 200 retail pharmacies (through Mediq Pharmacy) and operates drug and medical supply wholesalers that serve other pharmacies as well as hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. It also provides related technology and logistics services. Mediq's international operations include wholesale and retail businesses in Poland, as well as other European countries and the US. It entered five new countries and greatly enhanced its medical device offerings with the 2010 buy of Oriola-KD for about $108 million.

Educational Development Corporation operates as a trade publisher of a line of children’s books in the United States. It distributes children’s books published by Usborne Publishing Limited in the United Kingdom. Educational Development Corporation offers various books, including Touchy-Feely board books, jigsaw puzzle books, activity and flashcards, adventure and search books, art books, sticker books, and foreign language books, as well as science and math titles, and chapter books and novels. It sells books through two divisions, Usborne Books and More, and Publishing. The Usborne Books and More division distributes books through independent consultants, who hold book showings in individual homes; and through book fairs, direct sales, and Internet sales. It also distributes these titles to school and public libraries. The Publishing division markets books to bookstores, toy stores, specialty stores, museums, and other retail outlets. It distributes books through commissioned trade representatives who call on book, toy, specialty stores, and other retail outlets; and through in-house marketing by telephone to the trade. Educational Development Corporation was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

McKesson Canada, the largest distributor of pharmaceutical and medical supplies in Canada, is a subsidiary of top US health care supply management company McKesson Corporation. The company serves some 8,000 customers, which include retail pharmacies, hospitals, long-term care centers, clinics, and institutions, from more than 15 facilities throughout Canada. McKesson Canada also offers pharmacy and hospital automation services, including medication management, logistics, information technology, and outsourcing services such as call centers that provide disease management and nurse triage services.

The George J. Falter Company is a leading independent wholesale distributor of food and merchandise serving grocery stores, convienience stores, and other retailers throughout Maryland. It supplies customers with such goods as beverages, dry goods, and frozen foods, as well as health and beauty items, tobacco products, and other merchandise. In addition, George J. Falter distributes candy for fund raising activities. The company has delivery operations as well as a cash & carry outlet in Baltimore. The family-owned business was founded in 1878 as a candy distributor.

Owens & Minor, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes medical and surgical supplies, as well as provides supply chain management services in the United States. It offers a product line of medical and surgical supplies to healthcare providers under the MediChoice private label. The company’s supply chain management services include logistics, supplier management, analytics, inventory, outsourced resource management and consulting, and clinical supply management services to manufacturers of medical and surgical products. It also offers PANDAC, an operating room-focused inventory management program that helps healthcare providers to control suture and endo-mechanical inventory; SurgiTrack, a surgical supply service, which includes the assembly and delivery of surgical supplies in procedure-based totes based on a healthcare provider’s surgical schedule; OMSolutions, a supply chain consulting, customer technology, and resource management service offering; WISDOM Gold, an Internet-based supply spend management, data normalization, and contract management solution; CSS, an inventory and contract management service that enables healthcare providers to track and manage physician-preference products and medical/surgical inventories; and OM Healthcare Logistics, which provides third-party logistics and business process outsourcing services. Owens and Minor offers its products and services to acute-care hospitals, the U.S. Department of Defense, and alternate site providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, physicians’ practices, clinics, home healthcare organizations, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities. Owens & Minor, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

Chindex International, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services; and sale of medical equipment, instrumentation, and products. The company operates in two segments, Healthcare Services and Medical Products. The Healthcare Services segment owns and operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou markets. This segment also operates a managed clinic in the city of Wuxi, south of Shanghai. It offers a range of family healthcare services, including 24/7 emergency rooms, intensive care units, and neonatal intensive care units, operating rooms, clinical laboratory, radiology, and blood banking services for men, women, and children. The Medical Products segment markets, distributes, and sells medical capital equipment, instrumentation, and other medical products for use in hospitals in China and Hong Kong. It offers diagnostic color ultrasound imaging devices, robotic surgical systems and instrumentation, mammography and breast biopsy devices, and lasers for cosmetic surgery. This segment sells its products through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Associated Grocers of the South is a grocery wholesale cooperative serving more than 300 independently-owned supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In addition to supplying more than 16,000 products under the Shurfine brand (from Topco Associates) and other labels, the cooperative provides its members with accounting, advertising, merchandising and other support services. Associated Grocers of the South was formed in Birmingham, Alabama, by a group of a dozen neighborhood stores in 1927.

Diplomat Pharmacy is seeing the fruits of its med peddling labors. Doing business as Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy, it is the largest privately-held specialty pharmacy in the US and is growing fast. It contracts with managed care providers, drugmakers, and pharmacy benefits managers to deliver medications, drug management programs, and services to patients with chronic illnesses, such as arthritis, cancer, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, and multiple sclerosis. It has locations in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. Founded by Dale Hagerman in 1975, the company is today co-owned by son and CEO Phil Hagerman and senior vice presidents Jeff Rowe and Steve Chaffee.

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