Raymours Furniture Company operates more than 90 retail stores, including about 10 clearance centers, in half a dozen states. It sells furniture for just about every room in the house (bedroom, dining room, home office, living room), offering such pieces as bookcases, entertainment centers, headboards, mattresses, nightstands, recliners, sofas, and tables. Brands such as Broyhill, Hooker, Klaussner, La-Z-Boy, Natuzzi, and Tempur-Pedic are represented. Founded in 1947 by brothers Arnold and Bernard Goldberg, Raymour & Flanigan is run by next-generation Goldbergs, president and CEO Neil and EVPs Michael and Steven.

Dixons Retail plc operates as a specialist electrical and computing retailer. Dixons Retail sells products in the categories of brown goods, white goods, computing products, and mobile phones. The brown goods include vision products, such as televisions and DVD players; audio products comprising stereos, iPods, and MP3 players; imaging products, such as cameras and camcorders; gaming products that include games consoles; and related accessories. The white goods comprise domestic appliances, such as washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, and gas and electric cookers; and small domestic appliances, which include microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, kettles, coffee makers, toasters, irons, and bread makers. The computing products consist of desktop computers, laptop computers, iPads, netbooks, printers, and accessories; and mobile phones include pre-paid and contract mobile phones, mobile broadband modems, and related accessories. Dixons Retail also undertakes business to business sales and services, as well as provides product support services to customers. It operates its retail stores under the Currys, PC World, Dixons Travel, TechGuys, Elkjøp, Lefdal, El Giganten, Gigantti, Kotsovolos, UniEuro, Electro World, PC City, PIXmania, and Dixons.co.uk brands. Dixons Retail sells its products through stores, Internet, and by phone. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Dixons Retail was formerly known as DSG International plc and changed its name to Dixons Retail plc in September 2010. Dixons Retail plc is headquartered in Hemel Hempstead, the United Kingdom.

The only soft rock you'll find at Southwest Boulder & Stone is on the radio. Southwest Boulder & Stone Inc. provides natural stone, manufactured stone, and masonry products to the building trade in Southern California. Its products include boulders (real and manufactured), stones, bricks, pebbles, and assorted other sized rocks. Paving stones, crushed sand, and decomposed granite are available for paths between the boulders. Southwest Boulder & Stone Inc. also supplies a range of big equipment for transporting and placing large rocks and offers landscaping seminars. Operating from three locations in California, Southwest Boulder & Stone was founded in 1989.

Trying to catalog all the things this superstore carries could fry your brain. Fry's Electronics is a leading big-box retailer of computers, consumer electronics, and appliances with some 35 stores in about 10 states. The retail chain's extensive inventory includes computer software and components, industry magazines, movies and music, refrigerators, washers and dryers, small appliances, stereo equipment, and televisions. Each store also typically stocks a variety of snacks and other impulse items. The technogeek's dream store began in 1985 as the brainchild of CEO John Fry (with brothers Randy and Dave) and VP Kathy Kolder. The Fry brothers, who got their start at Fry's Food Stores, still own Fry's Electronics company.

BIM wants to make grocery shopping as easy as bim, bam, boom. With more than 2,700 stores, the company is Turkey's largest supermarket chain.Known as "the Turkish ALDI,"BIM operates a similar warehouse-style discount store model and only offers about 600 products per store, mostly under its private-label brands Dost St,Homemaxx,and Yuva.BIM stores also offer toys, housewares, and home appliances.Stores range in size from 2,000 to 6,000 sq. ft.,and the company also operates its own trucking and logistics service to cut costs.BIM was founded in 1995.Together, Chairman Mustafa Latif Topbas and Saudi Arabian industrialist Abdulrahman El Khereiji own more than 30% of the company

American Signature operates about 130 stores in 20 states under the American Signature Furniture and Value City Furniture banners. Stores feature wood and upholstered home furnishing collections, as well as bedding. In addition to its retail operations, American Signature designs and manufactures its own pieces and operates its own warehouses and distribution centers. The American Signature Furniture concept was introduced by parent Schottenstein Stores in 2002, in an effort to expand the company's higher-end offerings.

James Halstead was founded in 1915. The Halstead family still retains control of more than half of James Halstead plc company's ownership, while company employees account for more than 10% of ownership. James Halstead wants to give the floor over to its customers. James Halstead manufactures, markets, and distributes products that include commercial flooring, industrial trailers and trailer tents, and motorcycle accessories. Customers include hospitals, pubs, prisons and schools. James Halstead plc operates mainly in the UK and Germany, but also in Australia and New Zealand.

Southern Co-operatives originally dipped its toe into the co-operative market in 1873. The regional consumer co- operative society operates about 120 convenience stores under The Co-op banner in mid-southern England. The co-op added the David's chain of convenience stores on the Isle of Wight during the past few years. Its other lines of business include funeral services and property investment. The co-op exited the milk delivery business -- Southern Co-operative Dairies by selling it to the Co-operative Group (CWS). Established as the Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society by dockyard workers in Portsmouth, the group changed its name to Southern Co-operatives Limited in 1998.

Trendy Zara is the flagship brand for Europe's fastest-growing apparel retailer Industria de Diseno Textil (commonly know as Inditex). Zara, the cheap-chic subsidiary of the Spanish fashion giant, runs about 1,520 stores, including some 230 Zara Kids shops, in more than 75 countries worldwide. Zara has about 40 shops in the US and 60 in Mexico. The chain sells women's, men's, and children's apparel and also offers plus-size and maternity lines to clothe its larger customers. Zara Home, which sells home fashions, has about 250 stores, in about 25 countries. Zara is Inditex's principal chain and accounts for about two-thirds of its parent company's sales.

Robert Weed Plywood was founded in 1966 by Robert Weed. David Weed is the company's president and CEO. Robert Weed Plywood does business across the board. The company makes and distributes wood products, moldings, and laminated products for a variety of uses. Among the items distributed from the company's facilities in Indiana and Idaho are fir and pine plywood, fiberboard, hardboard, melamine and laminate panels, oriented strand board, particle board, and veneer and edge bandings. Customers include manufacturers of boats, furniture, kitchen and bath cabinets, recreational vehicles, and store fixtures.

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