Mattress Giant Corporation sells mattresses, bed frames, headboards, futons, daybeds, pillows, and other sleep-related products through its website and some 360 stores in about more than a dozen states. Most Mattress Giant locations are in or around big cities, including Boston, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Philadelphia. The firm offers more than 40 mattress brands, including Simmons, Serta, Sealy, Tempur-Pedic, and AirSprung. Founded in 1992, Mattress Giant is owned by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which acquired the business in 2006.

JLP has several manufacturing subsidiaries that make wooden furniture, and bedding; its 4,000-acre Leckford Estate in Hampshire grows apples, pears, mushrooms, and produces milk, poultry, and eggs for sale in Waitrose supermarkets. JLP has an online shopping service, John Lewis Direct, and its employee pension plan owns about 24% of Internet grocer Ocado, which delivers Waitrose products.What began as a London drapery shop is today one of the UK's largest retailers -- and arguably its most oddly organized. John Lewis Partnership (JLP) runs about 30 John Lewis department stores and some 235 Waitrose supermarkets, primarily in London and southern England, but also in Scotland and Wales.

Butera acquired three stores in Illinois from bankrupt Eagle Food Centers. Family-owned and -operated from its inception, Butera became an employee-owned company in the early 1990s. Butera Finer Foods, Inc. If you're in the Windy City and you're in the market for foodstuffs, find your way to Butera's. Butera Finer Foods runs about 10 full-service supermarkets under the Butera Market banner in northern Illinois. The stores specialize in produce, deli items, and international foods at low prices. Since its founding in 1968 by Paul Butera Sr. and his brother Joe, some 25 Butera Finer Foods supermarkets have been opened. Butera's twin sons Joseph and Paul Jr. currently run 10 of them.

Independent Pipe and Supply Corp. (IP&S) has risen over the last four generations to become one of the largest family owned industrial pvf houses in New England. As the premier distributor of industrial pipe, we represent the top suppliers in providing a comprehensive product range: pipe, strainers, backflow preventers, steam traps, commercial equipment, valves, instrumentation, fittings & flanges, fire protection and specialties such as gaskets, pipe tools and machines, expansion joints and more. For your convenience, we offer state-of-the-art computerized inventory and search technology directly from the home page of our web site. Our continued growth and success stems from long-term relationships with customers, vendors and employees alike. During nearly six decades in the piping industry, IP&S, which is headquartered in Canton, MA, has expanded into five states. Today, we serve the contractor and distributor markets in the New England area and beyond.IP&S may be an acronym for Independent Pipe & Supply, but it also stands for the three pillars of our business success: Inventory, Price and Service. Our financial leverage allows us to negotiate, purchase and warehouse extensive merchandise - a strategy that has enabled us to supply our customers' needs on time, anytime and at highly competitive prices since the early seventies. In the name of superior service we've nurtured relationships for decades with both vendors and customers, without whom we would not be what we are today: an evolving and expanding family business with a major distribution facility in Canton and branches in five states serviced by over 100 employees. Although IP&S has grown and changed with the times, we believe wholeheartedly in the human method of doing business - in personal attention that provides the best customer service in the industry. No account is too small or too large - we have the trucking capacity, inventory, staff and knowledge to service any account for a lifetime.

Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furnishings offers high-end furnishings in a variety of styles -- ranging from traditional to contemporary and from casual to refined -- for your living room, dining room, family room, bedroom, and home office. Gabberts' 63,000-square-foot store in Edina, Minnesota employs in-house interior designers, which it considers a competitive advantage. Founded in 1946 by Don Gabbert as a tire and appliance store, the company was owned and run by the Gabbert family until it was acquired by HOM Furniture in 2008. Gabberts' new owner continues to operate the business under the Gabberts banner.

Euro Car Parts is dedicated to an auto's performance once it drives down the road a pace. The company is the largest independent supplier of auto parts for the UK aftermarket. The company has a catalog of more than 100,000 parts for European vehicles, including brands such as Audi, BMW, Citroen, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, and Volvo. Euro Car Parts Limited company operates about 70 branches throughout the UK and offers delivery services to repair shops through its own fleet. Euro Car Parts Limited company's roots date back to 1978.

Chairman Max Gondon founded AMS in 1969. The company was acquired in 2007 by CRH, an Ireland-based building materials maker. Acoustical Material Services (AMS) sells the materials builders need to put a roof over your head -- not to mention hold your whole house together. The company provides acoustical ceiling products, lath and plaster, drywall, doors, and frames, as well as other construction supplies. Customers include large and small contractors, subcontractors, building owners, and dealers. AMS distributes products from about 20 locations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah, as well as Mexico (via AMS De Mexico). It also exports to markets in Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

Brice keeps men looking sharp in and out of the office without going over budget. The company operates about 220 stores, which are mostly located in shopping malls across France, and has clothing outlets in Belgium and Poland. The stores market contemporary business and casual wear to men between the ages of 25 and 45. Brice International, a subsidiary of French supermarket operator Auchan, acquired the company from the founding Marcade family. The company began as a trouser shop, opening its first store in 1985, and eventually expanded into the design and sale of full lines of menswear.

Groupe Samse (formerly Society Samse SA) is helping build France. Samse is one of the country's top wholesale distributors of building and do-it-yourself materials, with about 250 outlets, serving some 260,000 customers across two dozen French provinces. It operates two commercial business segments: multi-specialists (supplying technical solutions to building professionals) and specialists (targeting building and public works professionals). Its third segment, do-it-yourself, caters to individual rather than commercial clients. Through La Boite a Outils and and Entrepot du Bricolage retail stores, Samse sells a variety of home building and improvement products similar to The Home Depot and Lowe's in the US.

Interstate Companies, Inc., provides a broad range of automotive products and services through its group of businesses. Its Interstate PowerSystems unit distributes engines, transmissions, heater systems, mobile refrigeration products, generators, and other products manufactured by Detroit Diesel, Deutz, Dresser Waukesha, Espar, Allison, Carrier, and others. Its AssemblySystems division offers parts, kits, and assemblies to bus and coach OEMs throughout North America. The BearingsSytems unit provides bearing, power transmission, and conveyor services. Founded in 1957, Interstate Companies has more than 15 locations throughout Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.

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