Sysco Corporation, through its subsidiaries, markets and distributes a range of food and related products primarily to the foodservice industry in the United States. It distributes a line of frozen foods, such as meats, fully prepared entrees, fruits, vegetables, and desserts; a line of canned and dry foods; fresh meats; dairy products; beverage products; imported specialties; and fresh produce. The company also supplies various non-food items, including paper products, such as disposable napkins, plates, and cups; tableware comprising china and silverware; cookware consisting of pots, pans, and utensils; restaurant and kitchen equipment and supplies; and cleaning supplies. Sysco Corporation offers its products to restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes, schools and colleges, hotels and motels, lodging establishments, and industrial caterers. As of June 27, 2009, it operated 186 distribution facilities serving approximately 400,000 customers. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

J.W. Filshill wholesales and distributes food, beverages and tobacco, including confectionary, snacks, soft drinks, groceries, beer, wine, and liquor to some 2,000 independant retailers. The company was founded in 1875 as a confectionary manufacturer, a business it divested in 1986 to concentrate on distribution. At one time it was a major cash-and-carry wholesaler, but now deliveries account for more than 85% of its business. While a warehouse fire and the loss of a major contract in mid-2005 hurt the company's profits, it intends to rebuild itself into a more efficient operation. Managing director Ronnie Hannah holds a controlling stake in the family firm.

Henry Schein, Inc. distributes healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners. It operates in two segments, Healthcare Distribution and Technology. The Healthcare Distribution segment offers consumable dental products, dental laboratory products, and small equipment, including X-ray products, infection-control products, handpieces, preventatives, impression materials, composites, anesthetics, teeth, dental implants, gypsum, acrylics, articulators, and abrasives; and large dental equipment comprising dental chairs, delivery units and lights, X-ray equipment, equipment repair, and high-tech equipment. It also provides medical products, including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products, X-ray products, equipment, and vitamins; and animal health products, such as branded and generic pharmaceuticals, surgical and consumable products and services, and equipment. The Technology segment offers software and related products, and value-added solutions that primarily include practice management software systems for dental and medical practitioners and animal health clinics. Its services also consist of financial services and continuing education services for practitioners. Henry Schein primarily serves dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices, and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. It operates in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Henry Schein, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

United Drug unites a lot of healthcare services under one roof. The company's Pharma Wholesale arm provides drug wholesaling in the Republic of Ireland (where it operates as United Drug), Northern Ireland (operating as Sanger), and the UK (Craig & Howard) and produces ingredients through Specials. United's Supply Chain group makes drug packaging in Europe and the US, and provides logistics through UniDrug Distribution Group. The Medical & Scientific division provides sales and marketing support to medical equipment manufacturers in the UK and Ireland, while subsidiary Ashfield In2Focus anchors United Drug's Contract Sales and Marketing organization offering healthcare-specific sales reps in the US and Europe.

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.

AMCON Distributing Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale distribution of a range of consumer products in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions, as well as in the operation of retail health food stores in Florida and the Midwest. The company operates through two segments: Wholesale Distribution and Retail Health Food. The Wholesale Distribution segment has 5 distribution centers that sell approximately 14,000 consumer products, including cigarettes and tobacco products, candy and other confectionery, non-alcoholic beverages, groceries, paper products, health and beauty care products, frozen and chilled products, and institutional food service products. It primarily distributes these products to approximately 4,000 retailers, such as convenience stores, discount and general merchandise stores, grocery stores and supermarkets, drug stores, and gas stations, as well as serves institutional customers, including restaurants and bars, schools, sports complexes and vendors, and other wholesalers. The Retail Health Food segment operates retail health food stores, which carry natural supplements, groceries, health and beauty care products, and other food items. As of September 30, 2008, the company had six retail health food stores in Florida under the name, Chamberlin's Market & Cafe, and seven in the Midwest under the name, Akin's Natural Foods Market. AMCON Distributing Company was founded in 1981 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Swiss-American, Inc., which stocks more than 500 products and slices and wraps more than 300, also delivers blue, brie, brick, colby, cheddar, farmers, feta, fontina, gouda and havarti cheeses, among many others. Swiss-American's stable of brands includes Capricorn, Dutch Garden, Epic, Fire Jack, Mr. Sharp, and Saint-Louis. Swiss-American serves supermarkets across the US. Founded in 1938 by Joseph Weil, today the company is run by his sons, Jerry and Ronald.

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a marine fuel logistics company that physically supplies and markets refined marine fuel and lubricants to ships in port and at sea. It offers marine fuel to various customers in the shipping industry, including tankers, container ships, drybulk carriers, cruise ships, reefers, LNG/LPG, car carriers, ferries, and marine fuel traders and brokers, as well as markets and distributes marine lubricants under the Alfa Marine Lubricants brand. The company also provides a range of shipping services, such as technical support and maintenance, insurance arrangement and handling, financial administration, and accounting services. It serves customers in Greece, Gibraltar, the United Arab Emirates, Jamaica, Singapore, northern Europe, Portland, west Africa, Vancouver, Montreal, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Morocco. The company delivers marine petroleum products to its customers primarily through its bunkering tankers. As of March 30, 2010, it owned and operated a fleet of 42 bunkering vessels, of which 37 were double-hull vessels. Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Athens, Greece.

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.

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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