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.

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.

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.

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.

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. is one of the largest distributors of residential and non- residential roofing and complementary building products in North America. We currently consist of 12 regional companies in 37 states and 3 Canadian Provinces with 179 locations and more than 2,200 employees. We are known throughout the building supply industry for having quality people, quality service and quality building products. Beacon’s mission is to be the leading North American supplier to commercial and residential roofing and exterior building contractors through a family of long- established regional suppliers and to add value to our contractor customers' businesses, to our employees' careers, to our investors' assets, and to our suppliers' products. Our local branches stock a comprehensive product line that caters to their markets. In addition to roofing, local product offerings can include windows, siding, decking, waterproofing and many other external building products. Our status as a leader in our industry allows us to develop strong partnerships with leading brand manufacturers and to stock an unmatched supply of the professional components necessary for the quality, timely completion of our contractor-customers projects. We provide our customers with a comprehensive array of value-added services which distinguish us from our competition. We have earned a reputation for excellent employees, professionalism and high-quality service. We believe that quality service does not end with the delivery of materials – it ends with the successful completion of the project. As a result, “partnerships” are formed between Beacon branches and our customers that go beyond the industry norm. sex shop isitme cihazi sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop

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.

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.

PharMEDium Healthcare supplies hospitals and pharmacies with sterile, pre-mixed specialty medications (known as admixture compounding). The company's products are primarily intravenous and epidural solutions geared towards pain management and anesthesia. It offers a variety of obstetric labor and delivery admixtures, as well as electrolyte, antibiotic, critical care, and anti-anxiety compounds. It also provides labeling, testing, and quality services, as well as customized drug admixtures. PharMEDium Healthcare Corporation serves more than 1,800 hospitals across the US through its regional pharmacy compounding centers. Venture capital firm Oak Investment Partners owns an interest in PharMEDium.

Associated Food Stores is a leading regional cooperative wholesale distributor that supplies groceries and other products to more than 500 independent supermarkets in about eight Western states. It also offers support services for its member-owners, including market research, real estate analysis, store design, technology procurement, and training. In addition, Associated Food Stores owns a stake in Western Family Foods, a grocery wholesalers' partnership that produces Western Family private-label goods. The co-op was formed in 1940 by Donald Lloyd, then president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association, and 34 other retailers.

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.

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