S. Abraham & Sons is a regional wholesale food distributor that serves convenience stores and independent grocers in seven Midwestern states. From its two distribution centers, the company supplies such products as name-brand groceries, health and beauty aids, snacks, store supplies, and tobacco. S. Abraham & Sons also provides a number of business services, including in-store advertising programs and category management. The family-owned company was started in 1927 by Sleyman Abraham.

Welcome to the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA). Headquartered in Roseville, California, NCPA is a not-for-profit joint powers agency that represents and provides support for our 17 member communities and districts in Northern and Central California. NCPA was founded in 1968 as a forum through which community-owned utilities could prevent costly market abuses employed by private utilities at that time, and to make investments to ensure an affordable, reliable and clean future energy supply for the electric ratepayers we serve.NCPA has a longstanding commitment to the generation of electricity from environmentally-responsible sources. We own and operate several power plants that together comprise a 95% emission-free generation portfolio. NCPA’s members collectively reflect a 50% carbon-free resource portfolio thanks in part to the contribution of our owned resource mix of geothermal, hydroelectric, and natural gas facilities. NCPA continues to advance our ethic of environmental leadership with the recent addition of new wind, geothermal, and solar resources to our resource mix to power Northern California communities.

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.

Bartlett Dairy distributes dairy products and other perishable food items to retail and foodservice customers in the northeastern US. The company is the largest fresh milk distributor for Farmland Dairies; other items supplied by Bartlett Dairy include pastries, cakes, juices, frozen fruit, fresh bread, soups, and paper products. Bartlett Dairy serves customers such as schools, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and grocery stores that span Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. The perishable foods firm was formed in 1963 by chairman Thomas Malave and is managed by Thomas' sons.

Beaver Street Fisheries is a leading supplier of fish and other seafood products to wholesalers, retailers, and foodservice operators. The company imports from more than 50 countries a wide variety of fresh and frozen seafood, including such products as octopus, shrimp, and turtle, sold under the Sea Best and Admiral Jacks brands. In addition to seafood, Beaver Street imports lamb products from New Zealand, along with pork and beef though its Florida-New Zealand Lamb & Meat division, which are sold under the Silver Fern brand name. Its warehouse facility covers more than two city blocks. Alfred and Hans Frisch started the family-owned business as a retail fish shop in 1950.

Kokubu & Co. is the shogun of Japan's wholesale food industry. As the largest distributor in the country, it supplies customers with more than 400,000 food items, beverages, and other products. An importer and exporter of foods and alcoholic beverages, Kokubu has warehouses throughout Japan. It owns a majority share of Mitsui & Co.'s grocery and liquor wholesale operations in the Hokkaido region and has a confectionery wholesaling joint venture with Japanese candy company Momose. Kokubu, which also has operations in real estate leasing and breadcrumb manufacturing, is buying an ice cream wholesaler. Founder Kanbei Kokubu started the firm in 1712 as a soy sauce brewery; it is still owned by the Kokubu family.

Wham! Frozen Foods is a wholesale food distributor that specializes in close-out and discontinued products. It acquires goods from manufacturers around the world and distributes the discounted items primarily to dollar stores, food banks, and thrift stores. The company makes it a point that it does not supply traditional retail chains. Company president Jon Auspitz started the business in 1993.

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.

Founded in 1992 as an industrial, oil, and food products supplier, ITERA moved into gas markets in 1994. ITERA had interests in chemicals, construction, finance, insurance, securities, and agriculture, but shed most of these to focus on gas production and marketing. ITERA Group Ltd. company has teamed up with Gazprom to develop infrastructure to deliver gas condensate from production sites. Executives, including CEO Igor Makarov, control ITERA Group Ltd. company. Rags to riches -- Russian style. ITERA Group, Russia's largest private gas trader, delivers natural gas via pipeline to several former Soviet republics. It also produces natural gas in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region in Western Siberia.

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API) has developed into one of Australia’s leading beauty and health retail companies. API was founded in 1910 and became one of Australia’s leading pharmaceutical distributors. Changes within the pharmacy industry propelled API to focus on the needs of consumers and patients thereby developing a retail footprint and retail services that provide growth opportunities for the company today. API is one of the leading service providers to the pharmacy industry in Australia and today has a relationship with more than 4000 independent pharmacies. The services include wholesale product delivery, retail services, marketing programs and business advisory services. API also owns and operates the Priceline retail store brand that is a leading health and beauty brand in Australia. The company has product manufacturing capabilities and it is a niche player in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and toiletries, which supply the Australian and New Zealand markets.API believes that all its service and product offerings must ultimately end with meeting a need of a consumer or patient. As the leading distributor of pharmaceuticals in Australia, API has staff in warehouses across the country that ensure daily deliveries of medicines to pharmacies that aim to improve the life of their patients. API is the leading franchisor in the pharmacy industry, with more than 150 Priceline Pharmacy stores, it provides the pharmacist franchisees a total retail model. Combined with the traditional Priceline stores (no pharmacy service) that the company owns, API provide health and beauty products that meet the needs consumers. Every day staff in these stores are providing advice to consumers to add vitality and wellness to their lives. The manufacture of our products is undertaken to the highest standards so that patients and consumers can benefit from them and improve their lives. API’s story is one of growth and development, and today it continues to pursue growth by supporting its independent pharmacy partners and believes it is best placed to achieve this by focussing on what drives purchasing patterns of health and beauty products.

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