Blackwell UK (known as Blackwell's) operates about 50 bookshops throughout the UK under the Blackwell's and Heffers names, as well as Blackwell's Online Bookshop. Blackwell's Book Services (headquartered in the US, with offices in the UK) supplies books and bibliographic products to some 3,500 research, academic, and specialty libraries around the world. The original B.H. Blackwell's store was opened in Oxford on New Year's Day 1879, and today it is one of the company's flagship locations. The Blackwell family still owns and runs Blackwell's. The family also owns academic publisher Blackwell Publishing.

Leif Johnson Ford sells, you guessed it, Ford vehicles. The company's inventory includes new Ford cars, trucks, and SUVs, as well as used vehicles of all makes. Leif Johnson Ford lets customers shop for, customize, and order vehicles as well as apply for financing online. Customers can schedule service appointments or order parts on its site, too. Leif Johnson Ford's AJ Rent-A-Car allow temporary use of a variety of vehicles from a Ford Focus to a 15-passenger van. The company, with a pair of locations in Austin, Texas, was founded in 1957 by Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong. Leif Johnson, father of CEO Robert Johnson, purchased it in 1967 after being the manager for many years.

The Booksource Inc. company sells new hardcover and paperback books to school libraries and classrooms across the US. It's part of a growing trend to place small libraries in classrooms to encourage kids to pick up a book and read. Booksource also owns San Val, which operates two binderies that turn paperback books into hardcovers for use in schools and public libraries. Its Peaceable Kingdom Press makes cards, calendars, posters, and other paper products for kids that are sold in book and toy stores worldwide. The firm is owned by founder Sandy Jaffe and his children Neil (president), Gary (COO), and Donna (head of Peaceable Kingdom).

Ryman is owned by chairman Theo Paphitis, who purchased the company in 1995. Ryman thinks that if you really want to inject something inspired and clever into your love letters, you'd better sit down and write them using the proper equipment. Ryman Limited, better known by its retail brand, Ryman the stationer, sells office supplies through about 100 stores throughout the UK. Its products include paper and envelopes, writing instruments and desk accessories, and filing and storage items. Ryman also sells office equipment that will help you with your earlier letter drafts, such as printers, fax machines, shredders, and laminating equipment, as well as calculators, typewriters, and mobile phones.

AFFLINK Inc. was founded in 1977. AFFLINK knows that packing products, cleaning items, and office supplies aren't sexy, but just about everyone uses them. The company distributes products for industrial and food packaging (tape, stand-up pouches), janitorial services (tissue paper, cleaners), and offices (business cards, lighting). It also supplies the food service (bowls, cutlery), safety (protective apparel, head gear), and medical (exam supplies, disinfectants) industries. Customers include building maintenance providers, hospitals, and restaurants. AFFLINK is a subsidiary of Performance Food Group.

Mac Papers is the largest distributor of printing papers in the Southeast. We’re proud of the tradition of excellence we’ve built, serving customers through local facilities with local inventories and local sales representatives. Since our founding in 1965, we have continued to institute programs that allow us to offer the industry’s finest products and most responsive services — first, fast and accurate. The customers we serve include commercial printers, graphic arts professionals, corporate marketing departments, in–house printing-and-reproduction departments, tax–supported businesses, end user publishing and the laser and inkjet markets. Our 20 branch office/warehouse locations and 19 Mini Macs are strategically located in an eight-state region. This positions our vast inventory where it’s needed — close to our customers. Mac Papers has always been a company of people helping people, one to one, with an uncompromising focus on meeting the needs of our customers. This is the Mac Papers tradition.

LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention helps to spread the teachings of Jesus. The company is a not-for-profit Christian publisher; it also sells Bibles and other good books, CDs, gifts, software, church furniture, signs, and other supplies through more than 150 LifeWay Christian Stores in about 25 US states, online, and through its catalog. In addition, LifeWay operates two of the nation's largest Christian conference facilities (and summer camps). LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina and LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center in New Mexico together welcome about 2,000 conference and overnight guests per year. LifeWay was founded in 1891 by Dr. J.M. Frost.

Copytronics, Inc. was established in 1972 by Paul Shields and grew from one Jacksonville shop with a single employee to seven locations in the Sunshine State. The Shields family continues to own Copytronics. Ten-four, copy that. For copiers, fax machines, multifunction units, and related supplies, you may want to check out Copytronics Information Systems, good buddy. The company, which boasts more than 10,000 customers, carries office equipment from technology giants Hewlett Packard, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita. Copytronics also provides document management services, transferring paper documents to digital imaging, and computer network services using Microsoft products.

Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Company was established in 1904 as Mitchell & Ness Sporting Goods, then specializing in stringing tennis rackets and making custom golf clubs. It was acquired by the Adidas Sports Licensed Division, part of adidas AG, in late 2007. Mitchell & Ness would like to take you by the hand and guide you down that path fondly known as Memory Lane. The company is a manufacturer of authentic vintage sports apparel and accessories including vintage jerseys from MLB, the NBA, NFL, and NHL. It licenses the CLC College Vault label for apparel that spotlights school such as Notre Dame, Michigan, and Colorado. Mitchell & Ness creates detailed reproductions of jerseys from certain years and those worn by particular athletes.

Proftech was founded in 1980, but it was first conceived the company in a college paper Montiel wrote about recession-proof industries. No matter what the economic outlook, people will always need office supplies. That was president Jose Montiel's theory when he started Proftech, a major distributor of office products and supplies to customers throughout the US. The company offers next-day delivery with no minimum order. Aside from the customary pens and notepads, Proftech supplies innovative products such as SMART Technologies' "smart board" and its own oil clean-up material, HTP. The company's products are distributed through about 50 facilities nationwide and can be ordered over the phone or online.

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