Kinray, one of the US's top private wholesale drug distributors, won't be independent much longer. The company provides generic, branded, and repackaged drugs, health and beauty products, medical equipment, vitamins, and diabetes-care products to 2,000 independent pharmacies, long-term care facilities, and specialty pharmacies along the Eastern Seaboard. Kinray also offers about 800 private label products under the Preferred Plus Pharmacy brand. The firm was founded in 1944 by sole owner and CEO Stewart Rahr's father, Joseph Rahr. The younger Rahr took over in 1975 and has since turned the company into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. However, in 2010 Kinray agreed to be acquired by Cardinal Health.

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).

The C.D. Hartnett Company,the full-line grocery distributor serves convenience stores and foodservice operators throughout Texas, supplying more than 12,000 items including dry foods, dairy products, frozen foods, candy, tobacco, and other general merchandise. For restaurants, hotels, and other foodservice operators, the company distributes both food and non-food supplies mostly under the Frosty Acre brand. C.D. Hartnett traces its roots to 1880 and operates today as a subsidiary of food distribution giant McLane Company.

Farma International was founded in 1966 and is engaged in the supply and sourcing of bulk pharmaceutical chemicals, laboratory equipment for pharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as precise instrumentation. We are a full scale service organization offering not only products, but also technology and consultation services. Farma International has been family owned and operated ever since George Medina founded the company in 1966. Three generations of family involved in handling the daily operations at FARMA INTERNATIONALFarma is a Hispanic 500 company. In 1998, it was the seventh fastest growing Hispanic company in the United States. In 1983 Farma International, was honored with the Presidents "E" award for EXCELLENCE IN EXPORT and the "E" star award in 1998 for continued excellence in export. This is the highest accolade given in the United States by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Farma International believes that each nation has a unique culture and is accustomed to a certain way of service and treatment. Our experience allows us to not only provide a product, but also to become a cultural cushion in A fast paced world of technological advances. Farma International will continue our commitment to export in emerging markets as our company looks ahead towards the future.

Associated Grocers is a leading grocery wholesale cooperative that distributes broadline grocery products to more than 215 independent retailers in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In addition to supplying its member stores with food and non-food items, it also offers such services as advertising, marketing, and merchandising, as well as back office accounting services and technology support. The wholesaler is also a retailer with some 35 company-owned stores in Louisiana. Associated Grocers was founded in 1950 by 17 member stores.

TESSCO Technologies Incorporated provides integrated product and supply chain solutions to support the construction, operation, and use of mobility and data wireless systems. Its Network Infrastructure segment offers base station antennas, cable and transmission lines, fixed and mobile broadband equipment, wireless local area network products, wireless networking products, filtering systems, small towers, lightning protection devices, connectors, security and surveillance products, power systems, and miscellaneous hardware products. Its products are used to build, repair, and upgrade wireless telecommunications, computing, and Internet networks. This segment also provides services, such as connector installation, custom jumper assembly, filter product tuning, site kitting, logistics integration, and wireless network training services. The company’s Mobile Devices and Accessories segment offers cellular phone and data device accessories, such as replacement batteries, cases, speakers, mobile amplifiers, power supplies, headsets, mounts, car antennas, music accessories, and data and memory cards, as well as two-way radios and related accessories. Its Installation, Test, and Maintenance segment provides products that are used to install, tune, maintain, and repair wireless communications equipment. Its products include analysis equipment and various frequency, voltage, and power measuring devices, as well as an assortment of tools, hardware, GPS, safety and replacement, and component parts and supplies. TESSCO Technologies Incorporated serves public network operators, infrastructure site owners, program managers, contractors and integrators, industrial and enterprise self-maintained users, governments, manufacturers, repair centers, retailers, dealers, and value-added resellers. TESSCO Technologies was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

Taitron Components Incorporated engages in the distribution of brand name electronic components, as well as the supply of original designed and manufactured (ODM) electronic components. It offers various discrete semiconductors, which include rectifiers, diodes, transistors, optoelectronic devices, commodity integrated circuits, and passive components. The company’s ODM products are marketed in wild animal feeders, timers for DC motor, public street light controllers, battery testers, universal remote control devices, and battery chargers industries. It serves electronic distributors, contract electronic manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers. Taitron Components Incorporated sells its products in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, China, and Canada. Taitron has strategic alliances with Princeton Technology Corporation and Teamforce Co. Ltd. Taitron Components Incorporated was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Valencia, California.

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.

AJC International, Inc. is a leading distributor of refrigerated and frozen food products, serving customers in more than 140 countries. It supplies retail and foodservice customers with a variety of products, including beef, poultry, pork, and seafood, as well as fruits and vegetables. It also offers its own branded products under such labels as Early Dawn, Golden Phoenix, and Mity Fresh. In addition to food distribution, AJC offers warehousing and other logistics services. Chairman and CEO Gerald Allison and vice chairman Eric Joiner founded AJC in 1972.

Walton & Post is a wholesale distributor of food and related products that serves retail and wholesale customers. The company supplies such products as canned and packaged goods, fresh fruit and produce, and ethnic food items, as well as candies, chocolates, health and beauty products, and paper goods. It primarily serves customers in the southeastern US. Part of Miami-based Garrido Group, Walton & Post is one of several distribution businesses owned by the Garrido family.

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