Thomas & Howard Company is a broadline wholesale distributor and foodservice supplier that serves convenience stores and restaurants primarily located in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. The company supplies its customers with food and non-food items from two distribution centers in South Carolina. Thomas & Howard was founded in 1897 by C.C. Thomas and C.L. Howard.

Standard Management Corporation does not have significant operations. Previously, Standard Management Corporation was engaged in the acquisition and operation of pharmacies. It intends to manage, lead, and execute a consolidation strategy of acquiring long-term care pharmacies and homecare providers through Universal Healthcare Company, LLC and Newco. Standard Management Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Spartan Stores, Inc. operates as a grocery distributor and grocery retailer principally in Michigan and Indiana. The company operates in two segments, Distribution and Retail. The Distribution segment provides approximately 43,000 stock-keeping units, including dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, deli, bakery, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, pharmacy, and health and beauty care items to approximately 375 independent grocery stores and 96 corporate-owned stores. It also offers approximately 3,200 private label grocery and general merchandise items, as well as provides value-added services, including site identification and market analyses, store planning and development, marketing, promotion, advertising, technology and information, accounting and tax preparation, human resource, coupon redemption, product reclamation, printing, category management, real estate, and construction management services. The Retail segment operates retail supermarkets under the banners comprising Glen's Markets, Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Markets, Felpausch Food Centers, and VG's Food and Pharmacy. It operates approximately 96 retail supermarkets that offer dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty care products, delicatessen items, and bakery goods; and 66 supermarkets that offer pharmacy services. It also offers private label items, including its Spartan brand; Top Care, a health and beauty care brand label; Valu Time, a value brand; and Full Circle, a natural and organic brand. In addition, this segment operates 24 fuel centers under the banners of D&W Quick Stop, Family Fare Quick Stop, Glen's Quick Stop, Felpausch Quick Stop, and V.G.'s Quick Stop that offer refueling facilities, as well as a convenience store providing consumable products. The company was founded in 1917 and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Allion was taken private by H.I.G. Capital in early 2010. Allion Healthcare is a specialty drug distributor focusing on patients with HIV, AIDS, and other chronic conditions. Through subsidiaries MOMS Pharmacy and Biomed America, the company fills prescriptions at more than 15 distribution centers and delivers them to patients, doctors' offices, and clinics nationwide. Allion also provides ancillary drugs and nutritional supplies, and it offers consulting and drug packaging services (such as pre-filled pill boxes) to help patients stick with their medication regimens. Most of Allion's customers rely on Medicaid or state programs such as the AIDS Drug Assistance Program to pay for their prescriptions.

CuraScript, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Express Scripts, Inc., one of the nation’s largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM’s). As an experienced leader in the specialty pharmacy industry, CuraScript specializes in providing specialty medications and support to individuals with chronic illnesses requiring these complex, high-cost therapies. At CuraScript, we maximize healthcare outcomes while managing the growing costs of biotech medications through industry-leading patient care management programs, patient assistance programs and reimbursement services.Office and clinic-based physicians are the primary customers of our distribution services which provide integrated delivery solutions to safely and consistently distribute pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. CuraScript employs over 2,500 team members and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida. In addition to our state-of-the-art dispensing facility in Orlando, we have a network of satellite distribution pharmacies, including a hemophilia center of excellence, and several infusion centers located across the United States.

MIECO's got the power, but it's willing to make a swap. The subsidiary of Marubeni trades in petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity; it also offers transportation and risk management services, as well as marketing and trade financing. The company's customers include utilities, independent power producers, and other energy-related companies. The petroleum products trading group, set up in 1985, has been the cornerstone of MIECO. Other activities include product terminalling and fuel oil marketing. MIECO INC., which has offices in California, New Jersey, and Texas, serves supply and distribution needs in the American and Pacific Rim markets.

Alliance Boots is a leading international pharmacy-led health and beauty group offering a wide range of products and services to our customers. Working in close partnership with manufacturers and pharmacists, our two core business activities are pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing and pharmaceutical wholesaling. Through our daily actions and operations, our teams play a significant role in contributing to the overall improvement of healthcare in the communities we serve. We are proud to work within such a unique sector, helping millions of consumers and patients look and feel their best. Alliance Boots is privately-owned and employs over 115,000* people. Its wholesale and distribution network serves over 150,000* pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hospitals from over 360* pharmaceutical wholesale distribution centres in 16* countries. We operate more than 3,250* health and beauty retail stores in ten* countries, of which just under 3,150* have a pharmacy.

Swiss-American, Inc., which stocks more than 500 products and slices and wraps more than 300, also delivers blue, brie, brick, colby, cheddar, farmers, feta, fontina, gouda and havarti cheeses, among many others. Swiss-American's stable of brands includes Capricorn, Dutch Garden, Epic, Fire Jack, Mr. Sharp, and Saint-Louis. Swiss-American serves supermarkets across the US. Founded in 1938 by Joseph Weil, today the company is run by his sons, Jerry and Ronald.

Associated Grocers of Maine is a member-owned grocery wholesale distributor that serves about 300 independent retail grocers throughout Maine and New Hampshire, and in parts of Massachusetts. It delivers brand name and private label products, including bakery goods, deli and meat products, and a wide range of fresh produce. It also provides services such as advertising, accounting, information systems, insurance, marketing, procurement and warehousing for its customers. Associated Grocers of Maine was founded by a group of retailers in 1953.

Franz Haniel & Cie. is a five-headed hydra. The holding company is comprised of a handful of operating divisions -- Celesio, CWS-boco, ELG, TAKKT, and METRO -- each of which specializes in a different core business. Haniel derives the bulk of its sales from distributing pharmaceuticals to pharmacies worldwide through drug wholesaler Celesio. Its other divisions offer washroom and workwear products and services; stainless steel scrap recycling; mail-order of office and warehouse equipment; and retail store operations. Haniel has operations in some 30 countries. Members of the Haniel family have controlled Franz Haniel and Cie. GmbH company since its founding in 1756.

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