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.

Kokubu & Co. is the shogun of Japan's wholesale food industry. As the largest distributor in the country, it supplies customers with more than 400,000 food items, beverages, and other products. An importer and exporter of foods and alcoholic beverages, Kokubu has warehouses throughout Japan. It owns a majority share of Mitsui & Co.'s grocery and liquor wholesale operations in the Hokkaido region and has a confectionery wholesaling joint venture with Japanese candy company Momose. Kokubu, which also has operations in real estate leasing and breadcrumb manufacturing, is buying an ice cream wholesaler. Founder Kanbei Kokubu started the firm in 1712 as a soy sauce brewery; it is still owned by the Kokubu family.

Quirch Foods is a leading wholesale supplier of meat products and other food items to grocers, foodservice operators, and other customers, primarily in Florida and parts of five other southeastern states. It has three distribution facilities that supply such goods as fresh beef, pork, poultry, and seafood, as well as deli-case meats and frozen foods. The company also distributes food items for the Hispanic market under its own Quirch, Panamei, and Mambo brands. In addition to domestic markets, Quirch Foods distributes goods in Puerto Rico, and it exports refrigerated foods to Central and South America and the Caribbean. The family-owned company was started as E&G Trading by Guillermo Quirch in 1967.

Commerce Energy, Inc. is a leading United States electricity and natural gas marketing company. In 2008, Commerce Energy was acquired by Universal Energy Group. Following that, in 2009, Universal Energy Group was acquired by Just Energy Income Fund. Commerce Energy is run by an experienced and entrepreneurial team of energy marketers who have over 100 years of combined experience in the energy industry. With over 600,000 customers, it's the fastest growing natural gas and electricity marketing company in North America. We focus on helping customers manage their energy costs through aggressive pricing strategies and marketing programs. Our incredible growth is largely the result of the experience, drive and entrepreneurial spirit of our senior management team, combined with the effectiveness of our sales force. We seek ways to work collaboratively and we treat our employees and our customers fairly in every market.

SEC was founded in 1984 by Chairman Matth Toebben and CEO Judith Phillips. Customers include Coors and the Ohio Hospital Association. Stand Energy Corporation (SEC) took a stand in the 1980s when the US government deregulated the natural gas industry. The company markets natural gas to large commercial and industrial customers in nine states (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia. SEC also constructs bypass pipelines for its customers (allowing companies to bypass the local utility) and designs and builds propane backup systems to take advantage of reduced gas rates.

Chindex International, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services; and sale of medical equipment, instrumentation, and products. The company operates in two segments, Healthcare Services and Medical Products. The Healthcare Services segment owns and operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou markets. This segment also operates a managed clinic in the city of Wuxi, south of Shanghai. It offers a range of family healthcare services, including 24/7 emergency rooms, intensive care units, and neonatal intensive care units, operating rooms, clinical laboratory, radiology, and blood banking services for men, women, and children. The Medical Products segment markets, distributes, and sells medical capital equipment, instrumentation, and other medical products for use in hospitals in China and Hong Kong. It offers diagnostic color ultrasound imaging devices, robotic surgical systems and instrumentation, mammography and breast biopsy devices, and lasers for cosmetic surgery. This segment sells its products through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Allion was taken private by H.I.G. Capital in early 2010. Allion Healthcare is a specialty drug distributor focusing on patients with HIV, AIDS, and other chronic conditions. Through subsidiaries MOMS Pharmacy and Biomed America, the company fills prescriptions at more than 15 distribution centers and delivers them to patients, doctors' offices, and clinics nationwide. Allion also provides ancillary drugs and nutritional supplies, and it offers consulting and drug packaging services (such as pre-filled pill boxes) to help patients stick with their medication regimens. Most of Allion's customers rely on Medicaid or state programs such as the AIDS Drug Assistance Program to pay for their prescriptions.

Sledd Co. is a leading wholesale supplier of food and non-food items to convenience stores and other retailers in half a dozen states, including Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company distributes such items as candy, dry groceries, frozen foods, tobacco products, and general merchandise. Formed in 1937, Sledd is owned by president Robert Sincavich.

DPI Specialty Foods West is a regional operating division of wholesale food distributor DPI Specialty Foods. The unit supplies ethnic and specialty food products to supermarkets and other retailers in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of two other Western states. DPI West distributes more than 17,000 products, including baked goods, deli meats and cheeses, kosher foods, and organic products. Illinois-based DPI serves customers in more than 20 states.

Cash-Wa Distributing supplies food, produce, beverages, equipment, cleaning supplies, and more to foodservice operators and convenience stores throughout Nebraska and in parts of nine other Upper Plains states. It operates three distribution centers, and serves more than 3,500 customers. The family owned and operated company was formed in 1934 as a candy and tobacco wholesaler and was purchased by the Henning family in 1957. Cash-Wa Distributing is a member of the UniPro distribution cooperative.

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