Atlantic Plywood Corporation was founded in 1974 by by Nick Cucci and Dave Larson and is owned by its employees. Atlantic Plywood - the name says it all. The company is a wholesale distributor of hardwoods and other mill products along the Atlantic seaboard. It supplies hardwood, softwood, and imported plywood products; medium density fiberboard; cabinet hardware; high-pressure laminates; hardboard; and other items to customers in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions. It also supplies architectural panels and doors along with veneers. Atlantic Plywood has nine branches in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

Rooms To Go, with 120 stores in about 10 southern states and Puerto Rico -- has transformed itself into one of the top-selling furniture retailers in the US by taking the package approach to retailing. Rooms To Go (RTG) markets its limited selection of furniture to brand-conscious, time-pressed customers. It packages low- to moderately priced furniture and accessories and offers discounts for those willing to buy a roomful. The chain also operates the Rooms to Go Kids chain that sells furniture for kids and teens from more than 45 stores. CEO and owner Jeffrey Seaman and his father, Morty, founded RTG in 1990 after selling Seaman Furniture Company.

Kesa Electricals was formed in 2003 when Kingfisher cast off its electricals business. Kesa Electricals is Europe's third-largest seller (behind METRO AG's MediaMarkt and Dixons) of consumer electronics with some 700 stores in 10 countries. Its stores sell a range of home appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, vacuum cleaners), consumer electronics (TVs, DVD players, stereo systems, gaming consoles, camcorders), and even computers and cell phones. Kesa's banners include BCC in the Netherlands; Comet in the UK; Darty in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey; Datart in the Czech Republic and Slovakia; and Vanden Borre in Belgium. Kesa also sells high-speed Internet and high-definition TV service.

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy wants to offer far more than the prescriptions, over-the-counter aids, and greeting cards peddled by those other pharmacies. Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Inc. operates about two dozen retail pharmacy and health stores in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Although filling prescriptions accounts for a large portion of the firm's revenues, Pharmaca also offers complementary medicines and products and even has herbalists, naturopaths, homeopaths, and other alternative-care advisors in its stores to help customers find what they need to treat what ails them. Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Inc. is expanding its presence in its established markets, most recently by acquiring Bay Pharmacy in California.

Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes, and licenses lifestyle collections of apparel and accessories for men, women, and children. It offers collections of denim and cotton clothing, including jeans, pants, overalls, skirts, dresses, shorts, blouses, shirts, jackets, and knitwear. The company also grants licenses to manufacture and distribute a range of products that include eyewear, watches, handbags, footwear, kids' and infants' apparel, leather apparel, swimwear, fragrance, jewelry, intimate apparel, and other fashion accessories. Guess?, Inc. markets its apparel under various trademarks, including GUESS, GUESS?, GUESS U.S.A., GUESS Jeans, GUESS? and Triangle Design, MARCIANO, Question Mark and Triangle Design, a stylized G and a stylized M, GUESS Kids, Baby GUESS, YES, G by GUESS, GUESS by MARCIANO, and Gc. The company sells its products through retail, wholesale, e-commerce, and licensing distribution channels. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 432 stores in the United States and Canada comprising 191 GUESS? retail stores, 107 GUESS? factory outlet stores, 52 GUESS by MARCIANO stores, 44 G by GUESS stores, and 38 GUESS? Accessories stores. Guess?, Inc. also operated 84 stores in Europe and 13 stores in Mexico. Guess?, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Fred Meyer Stores went out for groceries and wound up in Kroger's cart. Freddy's -- as the chain is known -- is a supercenter pioneer providing food and general merchandise to cost-conscious consumers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. One of the largest supercenter operators in the US (along with Wal-Mart and Costco Wholesale), Fred Meyer's more than 125 multidepartment stores (averaging 155,000 sq. ft.) offer everything from apparel and home goods to groceries, consumer electronics, fuel, and jewelry. Its Web store delivers to the Alaska Bush. Kroger has leveraged Fred Meyer's general merchandising expertise as defense against Wal-Mart, which has overtaken Kroger as the #1 seller of groceries in the US.

Cache, Inc. operates as a mall-based specialty retailer of women’s lifestyle sportswear and dresses primarily in the United States. The company offers eveningwear; casual and daytime sportswear, including tops, bottoms, and dresses; and accessories, such as jewelry, belts, and handbags under the Cache brand. It also offers its products online through its Web site, cache.com. As of May 12, 2010, the company operated 285 Cache and Cache Luxe stores in 43 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Cache, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Bison, a Stock Building Supply company, based in Houston, Texas, began modestly in 1962 as Roy W. Bierschwale's small retail store and lumber shed. Over the past four decades, Bison has grown into Texas' single largest independent supplier of lumber, full service millwork and other added value products. The city of Houston grew rapidly during the sixties, and much of this growth occurred to the north of town. Bison saw this as an opportunity to grow, also, and in 1967 the company opened its first facility seven miles south of Conroe, Texas. Bison broadened its offerings with the acquisition of Custom Craft Millwork Company in 1973.Today, Bison operates fourteen divisions in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Florida providing construction packages ranging from form lumber to roof decking, as well as a wide range of commodity and custom doors, columns, cabinet doors, molding, plywood and stair parts, all delivered directly to our clients' jobsites. Proud of our past. Committed to our present. Excited about our future. Our innovation and vision enable us to remain the preeminent resource within the residential construction field, and the model that every competitor strives to emulate.

Fry's Food and Drug Stores is owned by The Kroger Co., the 1 pure grocery chain in the US.Fry's Food and Drug Stores operates about 100 supermarkets under the Fry's Food & Drug banner, mostly in Phoenix but also in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to traditional supermarket fare, many Fry's stores have in-store pharmacies, and a third of its supermarkets offer full-service banking in partnership with Bank One. Fry's also operates about 20 Fry's Marketplace stores, large (up to 120,000 sq. ft.) multi-department stores that offer full-service grocery and pharmacy departments, as well as expanded general merchandise, electronics, home goods, and toy sections.

Kowalski's Markets is struggling to expand while it straps on its leather boxing mitts. The company, which operates about 10 supermarkets in the St. Paul and Minneapolis area of Minnesota, wants to be a heavyweight contender among high-end grocery stores there. However, stiff competition from other grocery chains and discounters have limited Kowalski's share of the Twin Cities market to just under 2%: an eighth-place ranking in the market. Indeed competition led the grocer to close a one-year-old store several years ago. Founded by husband and wife team James and Mary Anne Kowalski as a single supermarket in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1983, the regional grocery chain is still owned and run by the Kowalski family.

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