Arnold Clark Automobiles Scotland's biggest auto dealer and one of its largest private companies, operates more than 145 retail new- and used-car franchises that sell more than 200,000 cars a year. The company also runs auto parts and accessories stores throughout the UK. Arnold Clark Automobiles additionally offers maintenance and repair services, car and van rental, and auto insurance. Founded in 1954 as a single dealership, Arnold Clark began in Glasgow shortly after Sir Arnold Clark (he was knighted in 2004) the man retired from his position as a motor mechanics instructor in the Royal Air Force.

Founded as Galpin Ford in 1946, Galpin Motors is owned and run by the Boeckmann family.Galpin Motors will do just about anything to get you to buy a car, even jolt you with joe at the full-service Starbucks shops attached to its luxury car dealerships. Claiming to have sold the first Saturn and ranking as the top Ford dealer in the world, it also sells Aston Martin, Jaguar, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury, and Volvo models, as well as used cars, from four dealerships and a Web site. It also rents and customizes -- or "Galpinizes" -- vehicles, such as the Tailgate Party Truck with a built-in stainless steel barbecue, blender, DVD/TV combo, and refrigerated beer kegs.

Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated,the bookstore chain sells used and new books, magazines, videos, DVDs, and music. Only about half of the merchandise it sells is new. Its roughly 110 stores are located in more than 15 states, primarily Texas. Its wholesale catalog division, Texas Bookman, reprints classics and other public domain works. Half Price Books has grown slowly but steadily; its stores keep a small-company look with secondhand and employee-made furnishings. The company was started by Ken Gjemre and Pat Anderson (late mom of president and CEO Sharon Anderson Wright) in 1972 to save trees by recycling unwanted books. The Anderson family owns most of the company.

Every season is Halloween season for Internet-only retailer Buyseasons. The company operates BuyCostumes.com, a leading seller of costumes, accessories, and seasonal decor and party supplies on the Web. In addition to costumes for kids and adults, Buycostumes.com offers a large selection of masks, makeup, props, mascot costumes, and costumes for pets. Buyseasons also operates the Celebrate Express portfolio of Web sites, which includes BirthdayExpress.com, 1stWishes.com, and CostumesExpress.com. Founded in 1999, Buyseasons was acquired by holding company Liberty Media in 2006 and joined the Liberty Interactive Group of Internet companies.

Sport Chalet, Inc. operates specialty sporting goods stores in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Its stores offer traditional sporting goods merchandise, including footwear, apparel, and other general athletic products; and core specialty merchandise, such as snowboarding, skateboarding, mountaineering, and SCUBA. The company’s stores also offer various services for the sports enthusiast, including backpacking, canyoneering, kayaking instruction, custom golf club fitting and repair, snowboard and ski rental and repair, SCUBA training and certification, SCUBA boat charters, team sales, racquet stringing, and bicycle tune-up and repair. As of March 28, 2010, it operated 55 store locations comprising 34 in Southern California, 9 in Northern California, 3 in Nevada, 8 in Arizona and 1 in Utah; and a retail e-commerce store, sportchalet.com. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in La Canada, California.

Hunter's Truck Sales & Service provides collision repair and other body work for commercial trucks at a facility that includes a DeVilbiss downdraft paint-baking booth able to accommodate 60-foot trucks. As its name implies, Hunter's Truck Sales & Service has some 150 service bays and offers 24-hour towing and emergency service.

UK holding company office2office (o2o) can sell the paper, print the document, and then shred it when the time comes. The business services group includes a pair of office-supply companies (contract stationer Banner Business Services and mid-market supplier Accord), a printing company (AccessPlus), and an onsite document shredding service (Banner Document Services). Customers are medium to large private companies and government organizations including Barclays Bank, UK's Ministry of Justice, and UK health care products supplier NHS Supply Chain. Banner Business Services (BBS), which focuses on long-term contracts with large entities, accounts for about 80% of the company's revenue.

Tangram Interiors keeps it all on the inside. Tangram Interiors company is an office furniture manufacturer and dealer specializing in Steelcase products. Other brands include Brayton, Vecta, Metro, and Lightolier. Tangram Interiors, with two showrooms in southern California, offers asset management, furniture rental, network installation, remanufacturing, and moving and relocation assistance. Tangram sells an "acoustic privacy system" that allows workplace conversations to remain private by broadcasting a signal that scrambles speech patterns into white noise. The company's Tangram Studio provides design services, project management, and custom architectural elements. Tangram Interiors is part of Steelcase family of companies.

Emerging Vision, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail optical stores and franchises optical chains in the United States and Canada. Its stores offer eye care products and services, such as prescription and non-prescription eyeglasses, eyeglass frames, ophthalmic lenses, contact lenses, sunglasses, and a range of ancillary items, as well as provide professional eye examinations to the public. The company and its franchisees operate retail optical stores under the trade names of Sterling Optical, Site for Sore Eyes, Kindy Optical, and Singer Specs. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated 135 Sterling stores, including 6 company-owned stores and 129 franchised stores located in 14 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, the company engages in the optical purchasing group business that offers its members with vendor discounts on optical products for resale. Further, it provides eye care benefits to covered participants under the Insight Managed Vision Care name; and operates a specialized health care maintenance organization, which employs licensed optometrists to provide services in offices located in Sterling stores situated in California. Emerging Vision, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Edwin Watts Golf is a leading golf specialty retail chain in the US. The company operates about 70 golf specialty stores in 10 mostly southeastern states and Texas. Its stores sell clubs, golf balls, bags, training aids, and more. The company also sells golf equipment by catalog and online, and it operates a club leasing program for novices and golfers who like to try out state-of-the-art gear. Edwin Watts Golf was founded in 1968 as a small pro shop at the municipal golf course in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, by brothers Edwin and Ronnie Watts. It is owned by an affiliate of investment firm Sun Capital Partners.

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