Winkler is an independent wholesale grocery distributor that supplies food and other merchandise to more than 400 grocery stores and convenience retailers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri. It supplies dairy products, frozen food, fresh meat and produce, and tobacco products in addition to general grocery items. Winkler also provides a number of business services for its customers, including advertising support, merchandising, and retail accounting. The family-owned business was started in 1911 by John Winkler and his son Elmer.

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.

GTSI Corp. engages in selling information technology (IT) products and solutions to departments and agencies of the U.S. federal government, as well as to state and local governments, and prime contractors. GTSI Corp. offers mobile evidence capture, unified communications, mobile clinical applications, green IT, virtualization, and cloud computing solutions. It also provides IT infrastructure solutions and services, including technology lifecycle management solutions for managing various phases of IT infrastructure, as well as professional services that include site surveys and assessments, infrastructure design, implementation, and ongoing support services; integration services, which provide engineering, integration, asset management, and logistical support for the assembly of hardware and software; support services; and financial services. The company also markets and sells products, primarily computer hardware and software, and solutions, through its Web site, GTSI.com. GTSI has strategic partnerships principally with Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic, and Network Appliance. GTSI Corp. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Pharmaceutical wholesaler Alfresa Holdings Corporation encompasses Alfresa Corporation, which oversees the wholesale side of the business (the group's bread and butter), and Alfresa Pharma, which takes care of manufacturing, marketing, and importing and exporting. Both deal not only in drug products, but diagnostic reagents and medical equipment, as well. Additional businesses under the aegis of Alfresa Holdings include Ando Co., Daiwa Pharmaceutical Wholesalers, Kowa Pharmaceuticals, and Qingdao Nesco Medical Co. Another example of merger and acquisition activity in the Japanese drug industry, Alfresa was created in 2003 from the combination of wholesalers Azwell and Fukujin.

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.

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.

Avnet, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes electronic components, enterprise computer and storage products, and embedded subsystems worldwide. Avnet company operates in two segments, Electronics Marketing and Technology Solutions. The Electronics Marketing segment markets and sells semiconductors; and interconnect, passive, and electromechanical devices to electronic component manufacturers in various industries, including automotive, communications, computer hardware and peripheral, industrial and manufacturing, medical equipment, military, and aerospace. This segment also offers various value-added services that help customers evaluate, design-in, and procure electronic components of their technology products and systems, including supply-chain management, engineering design, inventory replenishment systems, connector and cable assembly, and semiconductor programming. The Technology Solutions segment markets and sells mid-to high-end servers, data storage, and software products; and offers the services required to implement these products and solutions to the value-added reseller channel, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), independent software vendors, system builders, and system integrators. It also provides logistics, financial, marketing, sales, and technical services, including engineering support, systems integration, and configurations. In addition, this segment offers technical design, integration, and assembly to developers of application-specific computing solutions in the non-PC market, including OEMs targeting the medical, telecommunications, industrial, and digital editing markets. Avnet company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. is a shell of the former Enron Corp. (once the world's #1 energy trader) and is shelling out the remaining assets of the bankrupt Enron to creditors. Once the largest buyer and seller of natural gas and electricity in the US, Enron also traded numerous other commodities. Enron has sold its North American power utility and gas pipeline assets, and its global interests in utilities and power plants. Between 2004 and the end of 2009 Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. paid out about $21.6 billion to Enron's creditors and remains embroiled in litigation stemming from Enron's collapse.

Alex Lee, Inc. is a leading distributor of food and other products to retailers and foodservice operators. Its Merchants Distributors, Inc. (MDI) subsidiary supplies food and general merchandise to more than 850 retailers in 10 states, and MDI's own Consolidation Services business provides warehousing and logistics services. The Institutional Food House unit is a foodservice supplier that serves customers in the hospitality industry. Alex Lee also operates Lowe's Food Stores, a chain of about 110 grocery stores in the Carolinas and Virginia. Alex and Lee George started the company in 1931. The George family continues to control Alex Lee.

Macquarie Energy (formerly Macquarie Cook Energy) is a major regional energy trading company. The firm primarily buys and sells natural gas and electric power on the wholesale market, and it provides storage, transportation, hedging, and asset management services. Macquarie Energy's customers include municipal and regional utilities, power producers, industrial end-users, government and financial institutions, and other energy marketers. Macquarie Energy, which is owned by Australia-based Macquarie Group, operates in Canada, Mexico, and the US. In 2010 Macquarie Energy LLC acquired the wholesale electric marketing and trading portfolio of Integrys Energy Services.

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