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.

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.

Bozzuto's is a leading wholesale grocery distribution company that supplies food and non-food products to independent supermarkets belonging to the IGA network in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and in New England. The company distributes a full line of grocery items, including meat products, produce, and frozen food, as well as household goods and other general merchandise. It carries goods sold under both the IGA and Hy-Top labels, in addition to national brands. Bozzuto's also owns about half a dozen supermarkets in Connecticut and Massachusetts operating under the Adams Super Food Stores banner. The company, founded in 1945, is owned and operated by the Bozzuto family.

The Grocers Supply Co., Inc., supplies food, health and beauty items, household products, and school and office supplies to some 1,850 convenience stores and supermarkets, as well as some 200 schools, within a 350-mile radius of Houston. The company's international division, meanwhile, ships supplies to oil company operations, US embassies, and other customers around the world. Grocer's Supply also owns Fiesta Mart, a chain of ethnic food stores in Texas. Grocers Supply was founded by Joe Levit in 1923; his family, led by president Max Levit, continues to own the company.

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.

Founded as Great Lakes Wholesale Drug in 1967, a steady regimen of acquisitions helped it transform into The Harvard Drug Group in 1997. The company is controlled by investment firm Court Square Capital Partners. Drugs, not scholars, are what come out of this Harvard. The Harvard Drug Group distributes branded and generic prescription and OTC drugs, vitamins, and consumer products to independent pharmacies, retail pharmacy chains, and buying groups through more than 100 sales representatives and through partnerships with about 35 different vendors. The firm also offers manufacturing services through its partnership with Canadian drugmaker Apotex.

Nash Finch Company operates as a food distribution company. Its Food Distribution segment sells and distributes various nationally branded and private label grocery products and perishable food products to approximately 1,700 independent retail locations in 28 states across the United States. It also provides services, including promotional, advertising, and merchandising programs; installation of computerized ordering, receiving, and scanning systems; retail equipment procurement assistance; accounting, budgeting, and payroll services; consumer and market research; remodeling and store development services; and supply chain through Internet services. The company's Military segment distributes grocery products to the United States military commissaries and exchanges in the United States and the District of Columbia, Europe, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Azores, and Egypt. Its Retail segment operates corporate-owned stores primarily in the Upper Midwest, in the states of Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. These corporate-owned stores operate under the Sun Mart, Econofoods, AVANZA, Family Thrift Center, Pickin Save, Family Fresh Market, Prairie Market, and Wholesale Food Outlet banners. This segment's conventional grocery stores offer grocery products and services, such as fresh meat counters, delicatessens, bakeries, eat in cafes, pharmacies, dry cleaners, banks, and floral departments. In addition, these conventional stores provide check cashing, fax services, and money transfer services. This segment also operates a corporate-owned pharmacy and a convenience store. As of January 2, 2010, the company served 115 retail stores under the IGA banner and 75 retail stores under the Food Pride banner. It also operated 47 conventional supermarkets, 5 AVANZA grocery stores, 1 Wholesale Food Outlet grocery store, and 1 other retail store. The company was founded in 1885 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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.

Affiliated Foods is a leading wholesale distribution cooperative that supplies more than 700 member grocery stores and restaurants in half a dozen states, including Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It distributes fresh produce, meat, and non-food products, as well as dairy products and beverages through its Plains Dairy unit. Its Tri State Baking Company supplies bread and other baked goods. In addition, Affiliated Foods owns a stake in private-label products supplier Western Family Foods. The company was founded in 1946 as Panhandle Associated Grocers, which merged with South Plains Associated Grocers to form Affiliated Foods in 1968.

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.

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