Medical Pharmacies Group operates about 25 pharmacies in medical buildings throughout Ontario. It is the province's leading provider of pharmacy services to long term care facilities, including nursing and retirement homes. Pharmacies do not include the usual sundries, just medicaments and medical supplies; customers are therefore clinic-oriented. Medical Pharmacies Group Inc. was the first in Canada to utilize an automated prescription refilling system. Erast Huculak, a pharmacist and the company's president, founded Medical Pharmacies Group in 1957. The firm is still owned and operated by pharmacists.

The business was spun off by Limited Brands in 1999 and changed its name to Tween Brands from Too, Inc. in 2006. Dress Barn bought Tween Brands to extend its retail reach to young girls. Justice serves up apparel and accessories to girls ages 7 to 14 from some 890 stores throughout the US and Puerto Rico. A division of The Dress Barn, which bought the chain when it purchased Tween Brands in 2009, Justice stores sell value-priced apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, toys, and even electronics and furnishings to trendy "tweens." Outside the US, the chain has about 35 franchised locations in the Middle East and Europe. It also sells via its website and through "catazines" (catalogs with editorial content).

American TV even makes house calls to fix large appliances, regardless of where it was purchased. Ferd Mattioli founded American TV & Appliance of Madison, Inc. in 1954. American TV & Appliance of Madison is happy to outfit your entire house, including your upscale kitchen. American TV & Appliance of Madison, Inc. sells appliances, electronics, and furniture in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. Its 15 retail outlets generate annual sales of about $500 million and offer such products as recliners, dining room sets, mattresses, car stereos, CD players, dishwashers, refrigerators, personal computers, digital cameras, plasma and LCD TVs, and DVD players. American TV & Appliance of Madison, Inc. also has two distribution centers and a service center offering parts and repairs.

Habitat UK Limited offers furniture, kitchenware, textiles, and decorative accessories from more than 30 countries. It vends its wares through some 70 stores in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain, as well as online and via catalog. In addition to these outlets, Habitat has retail distribution partners in about 15 other countries in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. The company also sells ready-to-hang artwork through its Art on Demand Web site. Habitat was founded in 1964 by British designer Sir Terence Conran. Former owner The Ikano Group, a holding company owned by IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad and his family, sold the chain to an affiliate of Hilco in December 2009.

Since 1963 Fast Retailing has been working to fill the gap in Japan's casual wear market. The company operates about 815 Uniqlo (a combination of the words unique and clothing) stores in Japan and another 145 Uniqlo shops in foreign markets, including China, France, South Korea, the UK and the US. The first Uniqlo store opened New York City in 2005. Fast Retailing -- often described as the "Gap of Japan" -- sells "cheap chic" basics (similar to US-based Old Navy or Spain's Zara, but undercutting its competitors more drastically) for men, women, and children. It buys most of its clothes from 60 factories in China. Founder and chairman Tadashi Yanai and his family own nearly half of Fast Retailing.

Ports International was founded in 1961 by Luke Tanabe and sold to the family of current chief executive Alfred Chan in 1989. Ports Design has carved out a place in China's collective fashion consciousness. Ports Design Limited company designs, manufactures, and sells upscale clothing and accessories under the Ports International and BMW Lifestyle brands. Primarily serving China and Hong Kong, the company's Ports International retail chain sell menswear and womenswear through 300 stores in 55 Chinese cities. Ports Design Limited company also sells sporty casual wear through almost 30 BMW Lifestyle stores (BMW licensed Ports Design Limited company to make and sell branded products in China).

Wireless Toyz was founded in 1995 by CEO Joe Barbat, who set up a kiosk selling pagers in his father's video store when he was 17. The first Wireless Toyz opened in 1998; Wireless Toyz Franchise company now has about 200 stores in 22 states. Girlz and boyz love their wireless toyz. Wireless Toyz sells mobile phones and service plans from almost every cell phone provider, including the big ones -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile -- and smaller carriers such as Boost, Cricket, and Virgin Mobile. Wireless Toyz also sells satellite TV and radio equipment and services from DIRECTV, DISH Network, and SIRIUS XM Radio. Wireless Toyz Franchise company's smaller stores offer an alternative to other electronics chain retailers.

E.H. Booth & Co. invests care into each of its products and want its customers to, too. The holding company for Booth's Supermarkets, the upscale retail grocery chain sells groceries and fresh produce from about 25 small community grocer locations across Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumbria in Northwest England. Booth's Supermarkets stock a range of top brand products of all sorts, including wine, but what sets Booth's apart is is dedication to providing a variety of fresh, organically-grown produce, and hormone-free meats and dairy products from local farms. Founded in 1847, Booths is Britain's oldest family-owned and run grocery business.

Pro & Sons also operates a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix and a gas station in El Paso. Founded in 1982 by Mike Provenzano, Pro & Sons began catering to Latinos in the 1990s.Pro & Sons may sound Italian in name, but its business is strictly Hispanic. The company owns and operates about a dozen Ranch Market grocery stores in Southern California, Phoenix, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas that cater to the Hispanic population. Ranch Market's store departments, which capitalize on the company's Mexican heritage, include tortilla factories, bakeries, hot foods, meat, and produce. The supermarkets also house in-store La Cocina prepared-foods departments, which serve up Mexican fare, and Aguas Frescas refreshment bars

Big Lots, Inc. is the nation's #1 broadline closeout retailer, with some 1,360 Big Lots stores (down from a high of 1,500 at the start of 2005) in 47 states. (More than one-third of its stores are located in California, Florida, Ohio, and Texas.) It sells a variety of brand-name products that have been overproduced, returned, discontinued, or result from liquidations, typically at 20%-40% below discounters' prices, as well as private-label items and furniture. Its wholesale division, Big Lots Wholesale, sells its discounted merchandise to a variety of retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and other wholesalers.

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