Keepmoat Homes (formerly Haslam Homes) specializes in building houses for first- and second-time buyers throughout Yorkshire, The Midlands, North East, and North West England. Staying away from building luxury homes with fancy living rooms and chandeliers, the homebuilder's business strategy, instead, is to work with local councils, regeneration partners, and other local affiliates to build affordable homes that are in line with government policies. Keepmoat constructs about 1,000 houses each year with many developments located in older communities that have seen better days. The company is a part of the Keepmoat plc group of companies and operates from five offices throughout England.

Leucadia National owns stakes in firms involved in manufacturing, auto finance, medical products, gaming, oil and gas drilling, and real estate. The investment firm typically seeks out troubled companies that it believes are undervalued; its largest segment is telecommunications, represented by portfolio company STi Prepaid, a provider of international calling cards that accounts for nearly 40% of sales. Other holdings include Idaho Timber, Conwed Plastics, Keen Energy Services (formerly Goober Drilling), and ResortQuest International, a resort property management firm, which manages US beach and mountain resorts.

Roche Constructors relies on building schools, stores, retail centers, office buildings, and industrial facilities. The company builds primarily in the western US and operates from three offices in Nevada and Colorado. Roche offers feasibility studies, site acquisition, project planning, financing, and other development, preconstruction and construction services. Its projects include the Aurora Processing Center, which is a federal inmate detention facility and Freedom Park, a 68-acre ball field complex in Las Vegas. Roche also has built several stores and distribution centers for clients including Target, Safeway, and Wal-Mart. President and CEO Thomas Roche controls the company.

Founded in 1940 by Gene Winchester, QUIKRETE is still owned and operated by the Winchester family. QUIKRETE is set in its ways. The company makes more than 200 dry-packaged cement and concrete products, including concrete mixes, mortar mixes, and stuccos, as well as sand and aggregates. The products are sold to do-it-yourself consumers and professional contractors. QUIKRETE also makes coatings and concrete repair products, including vinyl patching mixes and tubed crack sealers. the company operates about 95 manufacturing plants throughout North, South, and Central America; it also has a research and development center in Atlanta.

Ultraframe (UK) Ltd., offers custom-designed conservatories for homes and businesses. It constructs conservatories from glass, metal, and wood, in a range of styles, including Victorian, Georgian, Lantern, Orangery, and Mediterranean. Options include glass or polycarbonate roof panels, ceiling fans, decorative cresting and finials, and other features. Although the UK is the company's stronghold, it also operates in North America under the brand Four Seasons Sunrooms. Ultraframe was founded in 1983 and is owned by Latium Holdings.

Joseph Vicat, whose father invented a method of creating artificial cement, founded Vicat in 1853. The Vicat family continues to lead the company. Vicat's objectives are set in stone. The company produces some 21 million tons of cement and aggregates and 10 million cubic meters of concrete per year. Vicat operates about a dozen cement plants and grinding plants, more than 200 concrete plants, and 70 quarries in Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. It also has operations in specialty chemicals and paper manufacturing, transportation, and precast concrete. More than half of Vicat's revenues come from outside of France. In 2010 Vicat expanded into India with plans to acquire 51% of Bharathi Cement.

M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates (Gensler) consistently ranks among the largest architectural firms in the US. Founded as a tenant development company in 1966 by chairman and owner Art Gensler, the company has grown to include offices in more than 30 cities. Gensler offers architecture, interior design, urban design and planning, strategic consulting, and graphic services to almost every industry sector. The group also heads the ranks of interior design companies in the US, where it is a leading designer of government institutions, banks, offices, retail facilities, and schools. Projects include the 18-million sq. ft. CityCenter project in Las Vegas.

HITT Contracting hits the nail on the general contracting head. The group provides turnkey construction services for corporate base building, aviation, legal, hospitality, technology, research, medical, and institutional and governmental facilities. Projects have included construction and design for the Federal Reserve, DirecTV, and Greenpeace. In addition to general contracting, HITT offers design, interior, paint, preconstruction, and construction management services. The firm also handles many eco-friendly projects, historic renovations, and infrastructure refits. HITT operates in more than 30 states. The family-owned and operated firm was founded in 1937 as W.A. Hitt Decorating Co. by Warren and Myrtle Hitt.

Forest Electric focuses on electrifying the concrete jungle, not tracts of timberland. A subsidiary of engineering and construction giant EMCOR, Forest Electric is one of the largest electrical contractors in the New York metropolitan area, where it installs and maintains electrical systems and equipment, including voice and data communications systems. It also constructs on-site power generating and cogeneration plants. Forest Electric's customer list includes The New York Times, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Goldman Sachs. The company also is involved in providing electrical services for several condominium conversions in New York and New Jersey.

Imperial Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of building materials to dealers and others located primarily in Florida, as well as other states in the southeastern United States. It offers exterior and interior finishing wall coatings and mortar products for the construction industry, as well as purchases and resells building materials from other manufacturers. The company produces and distributes pool finish coatings for in-ground swimming pools; roof tile mortar to adhere cement roof tiles to the roof; stucco products that are applied as a finishing coat to exterior surfaces; and plaster products to finish interiors of structures.

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