Sweetwater Sound helps musicians and recording engineers make sweet music. The music technology retailer sells professional recording and live sound equipment, musical instruments (guitars, basses, keyboards, and drums), computers and software, and accessories through its website and catalogs. Manufacturers include Roland, Yamaha, and Kurzweil. The company was founded in 1979 by Chuck Surack as a four-track recording studio. The retail division grew out of Surack's need for a source for affordable, high-quality gear. Sweetwater Sound moved into its new corporate headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2006. The following year, it acquired music retailer Lentine's Music from GE Capital for $4.5 million.

OfficeMax Incorporated (NYSE: OMX) is a leader in both business-to-business office products solutions and retail office products. The OfficeMax mission is simple. We help our customers do their best work. OfficeMax company provides office supplies and paper, in-store print and document services through OfficeMax ImPress™, technology products and solutions, and furniture to consumers and to large, medium and small businesses. OfficeMax customers are served by approximately 35,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs, e-commerce and more than 900 stores. To find the nearest OfficeMax, call 1-877-OFFICEMAX. Here you'll find information about our businesses, board of directors, executive leadership, awards and recognition—and the customers we serve.

In 1959, William Jacobs started Columbus Fair Auto Auction based on excellent customer service and fairness. He recognized that auctions offered a solution to automobile dealers' needs for a source and marketplace for used motor vehicles.Obviously, the financial risk of leasing space at the Ohio State Fairgrounds to run a one-lane auction in 1959 was small, but significant for this startup entrepreneurial endeavor. It, however, pales in comparison to the present multi-million dollar investment in today's 85-acre facility in Obetz. However, the original strategy of offering a marketplace for used vehicles where buyers and sellers would congregate for the benefit of both continues today.

Founded in 1947, Perez Trading is today one of the most experienced and recognized international marketers of paper, paperboard, and graphic arts equipment to Latin America, the Caribbean and southeastern United States.Our traditional values and commitment to the region offer our customers an open door to the industry with a trading partner who truly understands and respects their needs. We consistently support our customers by helping them navigate through the changing market conditions of an industry in continuous transformation. Our enduring responsiveness and expertise has established us as one of the most sophisticated and reliable suppliers in our region. We have the resources and solutions that benefit our customers whether they are starting a new business or expanding an existing one. We know the value of integrity, hard work and perseverance, and welcome the continuing challenges and opportunities that inspire our business every day. Our mission is to ensure our customers’ commercial growth and success by providing the most suitable products and most efficient commercial services available in the industry today.

Brown & Brown Chevrolet became part of AutoNation in 1998, but retained the Brown & Brown Chevrolet local market brand.Customers hope air conditioning comes standard on Brown & Brown Chevrolet's vehicles. Located in Mesa, Arizona, the company is part of the AutoNation family and markets new and used cars and trucks. Brown & Brown Chevrolet offers customers a chance to research (through a link to Kelley Blue Book), search, and get a free quote using its brownandbrownchevy.com Web site. The auto retailer peddles some 30 Chevrolet models, including SUVs, coupes, hatchbacks, vans, wagons, trucks, convertibles, and others.

HMV Group plc,the entertainment retailer sells recorded music, videos and DVDs, books, and electronic games online and through some 400 HMV stores in five countries and from about 315 Waterstone's bookshops in the UK and Ireland. HMV has been closing stores amid a prolonged slump in sales caused by upheaval in the music business. To compensate for declining retail sales, HMV is going after the live music and ticketing market through the purchase of its former joint venture partner in live music MAMA Group. Sales at the company's Waterstone's bookstore chain are also down as shoppers buy fewer books.

Cole's was founded in 1986. Cole Office Products challenges the idea that big-box stores have the lowest prices. The independent retailer distributes about 3,000 workplace essentials, including business cards, forms, filler paper, writing implements, computer peripherals, office furniture, and maintenance and break room supplies. It features products from such makers as Avery, Safco, and Xerox. Orders can be placed by phone, fax, or through Cole's e-commerce site. As a veteran-owned small business, Cole Office Products, Inc. is an authorized supplier for the government.

Sports Endeavors gets a kick out of more than just soccer. Through its catalogs and websites, the company offers equipment and apparel for soccer, lacrosse, and rugby players. Its Eurosport unit operates SOCCER.com, which receives more than 2 million visitors a month, and its Eurosport catalog has the widest circulation of any US soccer publication. Sports Endeavors also operates the Great Atlantic Lacrosse Company, which sells through its eponymous catalog and LACROSSE.com, and the World Rugby Shop, which sells through its website and catalog of the same name. Sports Endeavors was founded in 1984 by brothers Mike (CEO) and Brendan (COO) Moylan.

The Hudiburg Auto Group sells new Chevrolets, GMCs, Pontiacs, Buicks, and Toyotas in Midwest City, Oklahoma. It also sells used cars, trucks, and SUVs as well as fleet vehicles for government agencies and business. The company's various Web sites allow customers to search new and used vehicle inventory, order parts, schedule service appointments, and apply for financing. In addition to regular maintenance work, Hudiburg Auto also performs body work and appointments can be scheduled online as well. Paul Hudiburg founded the company, which is owned by his children, in 1957. His son David (president) has been running it since 1987.

Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) can prepare you for a life of climb. EMS sells a wide range of outdoor gear, apparel, footwear, and accessories from about 65 stores in a dozen East Coast states from Maine to Virginia and on its website. Outdoor enthusiasts can purchase or rent tents, sleeping bags, and other equipment -- choosing from brands such as Patagonia, Columbia, The North Face, and Teva. The retailer's own EMS branded products account for more than a third of sales. EMS offers outdoor skills clinics, provides guides for hire, and arranges day and overnight trips. It also operates climbing and kayaking schools. EMS was founded in 1967 by two New England rock climbers.

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