Planning, design, and management services are the fruits of The Dewberry Companies' labor. The company provides architectural and engineering services, planning, program management, and surveying services, as well as environmental compliance, and security and homeland defense services. Dewberry serves private and public-sector clients. However, government customers such as FEMA, the Pentagon, and the US Department of Labor make up a big portion of business. Dewberry also serves departments of transportation, as well as universities, real estate developers and other commercial and institutional groups. Dewberry, which was founded in 1956, operates from more than 40 offices in nearly 20 states.

EDGE tries to edge out the competition when bidding on civic and other contracts. Construction company EDGE Development offers general contracting, design/build, engineering, construction management, and lease/buyback services. The company specializes in such projects as public schools, parks, and civic and commercial facilities. Its portfolio includes an athletic center for the City of Highland; a library in Napa Valley; fire stations for Carlsbad and Oceanside; and numerous elementary, middle, and high schools. The company is controlled by Steve Prophet and Dayne Wagoner, who founded EDGE in 1989.

Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects provides architectural design services to customers in California. The company's offerings include planning, implementation, renovation, urban design, site studies, interior design, and program management. The firm operates from offices in Oxnard and San Diego, California; it also has a sister office, Gelfand Partners, in San Francisco. Ralph Roesling founded the firm in 1980; Kotaro Nakamura joined the company shortly thereafter. The firm changed its name from Roesling Nakamura Architects to Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects in 2004.

Babcock Lumber produces hardwood lumber products (dimension lumber, plywood, flooring, logs, and other millwork), custom laminate and solid surface countertops, and floor and roof trusses. Babcock Lumber operates five hardwood manufacturing plants in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It also distributes building materials such as siding, insulation, doors, and windows, as well as kitchen and bath fixtures, sinks, and cabinets, through ten facilities in Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Anhui Conch Cement's products have been used in the construction of a number of large-scale infrastructure projects in Shanghai, including the Oriental Pearl Television Tower and Shanghai Pudong Airport. Outside of China, Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited distributes its products to Europe, the Americas, and Southeast Asia. Put this company to your ear and you can hear the money. Anhui Conch Cement is China's largest cement producer in terms of sales and production volume. Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited has more than 15 clinker plants and 20 cement grinding mills in China. Its products include various grades of portland cement, portland blast furnace slag cement, compound cement, and high-grade commodity clinker sold under the Conch brand.

WYG doesn't ask "why?" It asks "why not?" The British engineering company provides a variety of civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and structural engineering consulting services. In addition to its facilities in the UK, it also has operations in Ireland, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. Its services, however, are not confined to its office locations; the company has completed projects as far away as Malaysia and Oman. Subsidiaries include management consultancy DeLeeuw International, consulting engineers Adams Kara Taylor, and construction project manager Trench Farrow. Its work may be spread far and wide but the UK accounts for about two-thirds of sales at WYG, which was formed in 1959.

American Gypsum has been manufacturing, selling, and distributing gypsum wallboard products for over 50 years. Serving the drywall industry with quality products that are sold throughout the United States. A unique, professional commitment to the highest level of customer service; a strong belief in teamwork; investment in employee training; and state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment create a consistent quality product and a company that surpasses the industry. American Gypsum's mines, located in close proximity to the production plants, contain some of the purest gypsum deposits in North America. This exceptional gypsum, sandwiched between 100% recycled front and back paper, is the key to the optimum workability, light weight, and strength of American Gypsum wallboard products. American Gypsum, a full-line producer of gypsum board products, is better able to serve the needs of all our customers. The most modern production facilities with advanced technology, control equipment, and in-house accredited laboratories enable American Gypsum to ensure quality products that are readily accepted across the country. The production plants located in Albuquerque and Bernalillo, NM; Duke, OK; Gypsum, CO; and Georgetown, SC ship their products via trucks and rail cars to American Gypsum's customer base. A fleet of American Gypsum rail cars and an ever-expanding system of rail-served distribution centers located throughout the country give American Gypsum a widely extended service area. American Gypsum's long term commitment to quality materials; low-cost,up-to-date production facilities; efficient operations; and strategic distribution insures a dynamic and financially strong corporation that excels on a national level. American Gypsum is the fifth largest producer of gypsum wallboard in North America operating five gypsum plants with six production lines with an annual capacity approaching four billion square feet of wallboard. In order to provide same-day service in certain strategic areas, American Gypsum also maintains four reload centers in Arizona, California and Illinois.

North Wood Turnings has bedknobs and broomsticks on the brain, but not in a witchy way. The company manufactures a variety of wood turnings and custom wood pieces. Products include drawer pulls, finials, wooden spindles, dowels, knobs, handles, fishing lures, and commercial pieces such as game parts, candle holders, buttons, and napkin rings. The company saws and kiln-dries its own lumber. North Wood Turnings was established in 1944.

Lafarge Malayan Cement makes and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, and other building materials. Its cement products include masonry, blastfurnace, pulverized-fly ash, and sulphate-resisting Portland cement. Lafarge Malayan Cement is the largest cement producer in Malaysia with a market share of some 45%; it has three cement plants, about a dozen sales offices, one grinding plant, one dry-mix plant, and five terminals throughout the country. Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd began in 1950 as Malayan Cement, a subsidiary of the UK's Blue Circle Industries. In 2001 the French firm Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, purchased Blue Circle.

Thetford is there to lend a helping hand to all sorts of recreational campers on the go, no matter where they are in the world. The company makes and markets a variety of recreational sanitation and RV-care products and supplies them to the trucking, marine, camping, and RV markets. Thetford's products include toilets (both portable and permanent), hand wipes, sanitizers, and RV washing and waxing products. Its Norcold subsidiary, purchased in 1997, offers US-made refrigerators and freezers for mobile industries.

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