White Rose Food is a grocery distributor supplying more than 1,800 supermarkets, independent retailers, and cooperatives in New Jersey, Maryland, and the New York City metropolitan area with an assortment of foods, from dairy to frozen vegetables. In addition to its own White Rose label, the company distributes third-party and national brands. Other services include store planning and financing, group property insurance for businesses, and point-of-sale marketing. The company is a unit of food wholesaler Di Giorgio, which was acquired by food distribution co-op Associated Wholesalers in 2006.

Sigma Pharmaceuticals provides medicines and medical supplies to the UK's pharmacies and hospitals. The company offers a wide product line of pharmaceuticals -- focusing on generic and over-the-counter drugs -- to thousands of UK clients. Other products sold include medical mobility equipment (through its Sigmobility unit) and wound care and surgical supplies. Much of Sigma Pharmaceuticals' business involves parallel importing, in which the company buys generic medications abroad, reprocesses them through subsidiary OPD Laboratories, and repackages them for sale in the UK.

Foodtown International is a wholesale distributor of private-label grocery products including juices, canned vegetables and meat, cereal, and condiments. The company supplies products to wholesale buyers and exports items to other regions, including Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Many of Foodtown International's shelf-stable products are sold under the Foodtown label.

McKesson Corporation offers medicines, pharmaceutical supplies, and information and care management products and services for the healthcare industry. It operates through two segments, Distribution Solutions and Technology Solutions. The Distribution Solutions segment distributes ethical and proprietary drugs, medical-surgical supplies and equipment, and health and beauty care products in North America. This segment also provides specialty pharmaceutical solutions for biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturers; and sells financial, operational, and clinical solutions for retail, hospital, and long-term care pharmacies, as well as provides consulting, outsourcing, and other services. The Technology Solutions segment offers enterprise-wide clinical, patient care, financial, supply chain, and strategic management software solutions. It also offers pharmacy automation for hospitals, as well as connectivity, outsourcing and other services, including remote hosting and managed services to healthcare organizations. In addition, this segment provides InterQual claims payment solutions, medical management software, and care management programs. Its customers include hospitals, physicians, homecare providers, retail pharmacies, and payors in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, other European countries, Asia Pacific, and Israel. McKesson Corporation was founded in 1833 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SUZUKEN aims to deliver health. The pharmaceuticals manufacturer and wholesaler also supplies medical equipment and provides inventory management. The company -- one of the largest distributors of health care supplies in Japan -- has a network of 130,000 customers that includes hospitals and health practitioners throughout the country. SUZUKEN makes such products as electrocardiographs and other medical equipment, as well as prescription and veterinary pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tools, monitors, and home health care products. Patient data management services are also available. It is the first in the country to provide coast to coast pharmaceutical distribution with facilities in all 47 Japanese prefectures.

Airgas, Inc.(NYSE: ARG), through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related hardgoods, such as welding supplies. Airgas is also a leading U.S. distributor of safety products, the largest U.S. producer of nitrous oxide and dry ice, the largest liquid carbon dioxide producer in the Southeast, and a leading distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants and ammonia products.Airgas Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter McCausland founded the company in 1982. Through approximately 400 acquisitions and internal growth, Airgas has built the largest national distribution network in the packaged gas industry. More than 14,000 employees work in more than 1,100 locations includes branches, cylinder fill plants, production facilities, specialty gas laboratories, and regional distribution centers to serve a diversified customer base. Airgas markets through multiple channels, including its own branches and outside sales force, a Strategic Accounts Team focused on large customers, distributors and resellers, telesales, catalog and eBusiness channels.

Zuellig Pharma is the pharmaceutical distribution arm of Hong Kong conglomerate Zuellig Group. Zuellig Pharma has a German name, but it serves Asia. Founded in the early 1900s by Dr. Frederick Zuellig, a Swiss immigrant to the Philippines, the company offers a number of pharmaceutical logistics services, including inventory management, warehousing and distribution, packaging and labeling, product marketing, customer order processing, and billing and collections. Zuellig is active in about 15 countries in the Asia/Pacific region, including Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Thailand.

Crystal Rock Holdings, Inc. engages in the production, marketing, and distribution of bottled water, and distribution of coffee, ancillary products, and other office refreshment products in New England, New York, and New Jersey. The company also rents and sells water coolers to customers to dispense bottled water; and sells and rents units to commercial accounts that filter water from the existing source on site. It provides coolers in a range of consumer preferences, such as cold, or hot and cold dispensing units. In addition, the company rents and sells coffee brewing equipment; and distributes various coffee, tea, and other hot beverage products and related supplies, as well as other consumable products used around the office. Further, it offers vending services. The company markets and distributes its water products in three and five gallon bottles to homes and offices. Vermont Pure Holdings markets its products primarily under the Vermont Pure Natural Spring Water, Crystal Rock, Cool Beans, Baronet, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters trade names. The company was formerly known as Vermont Pure Holdings, Ltd. and changed its name to Crystal Rock Holdings, Inc. on May 1, 2010. Crystal Rock Holdings was founded in 1989 and is based in Watertown, Connecticut.

Unidrug Distribution Group actually distributes thousands of drugs. Unidrug Distribution Group (better known as UDG) provides warehousing and distribution of prescription drugs and over-the counter medicines throughout the UK. Principals represented by the company include a host of leading drug manufacturers, such as Abbot Labs, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Schering Plough. UDG is a joint venture of Ireland's United Drug and Switzerland-based Alloga, which is part of UK-based Alliance Boots (formerly Alliance Unichem).

FFF Enterprises really puts the "fff" in pharmaceuticals. The company distributes biopharmaceuticals, plasma products, and vaccines to medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and other medical supply distributors. Already a top distributor of intravenous immune globulin, used to bolster weakened immune systems, FFF Enterprises is also a leading US distributor of influenza vaccines and medicines including Roche's Tamiflu, Sanofi Pasteur's Fluzone, and Novartis' Fluvirin. FFF Enterprises supplies more than 80% of the nation's hospitals with biopharmaceuticals.

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