Kinray, one of the US's top private wholesale drug distributors, won't be independent much longer. The company provides generic, branded, and repackaged drugs, health and beauty products, medical equipment, vitamins, and diabetes-care products to 2,000 independent pharmacies, long-term care facilities, and specialty pharmacies along the Eastern Seaboard. Kinray also offers about 800 private label products under the Preferred Plus Pharmacy brand. The firm was founded in 1944 by sole owner and CEO Stewart Rahr's father, Joseph Rahr. The younger Rahr took over in 1975 and has since turned the company into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. However, in 2010 Kinray agreed to be acquired by Cardinal Health.

Wakefern Food is the largest member-owned wholesale distribution cooperative in the US, supplying groceries and other merchandise to a chain of more than 200 ShopRite supermarkets in five eastern states, including parts of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The company supplies both national brands and private-label products (ShopRite, Chef's Express, Readington Farms) to its member stores; Wakefern also offers advertising, merchandising, and other business support services. The co-op, which boasts more than 40 members, was founded by seven grocers in 1946.

Owens & Minor, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes medical and surgical supplies, as well as provides supply chain management services in the United States. It offers a product line of medical and surgical supplies to healthcare providers under the MediChoice private label. The company’s supply chain management services include logistics, supplier management, analytics, inventory, outsourced resource management and consulting, and clinical supply management services to manufacturers of medical and surgical products. It also offers PANDAC, an operating room-focused inventory management program that helps healthcare providers to control suture and endo-mechanical inventory; SurgiTrack, a surgical supply service, which includes the assembly and delivery of surgical supplies in procedure-based totes based on a healthcare provider’s surgical schedule; OMSolutions, a supply chain consulting, customer technology, and resource management service offering; WISDOM Gold, an Internet-based supply spend management, data normalization, and contract management solution; CSS, an inventory and contract management service that enables healthcare providers to track and manage physician-preference products and medical/surgical inventories; and OM Healthcare Logistics, which provides third-party logistics and business process outsourcing services. Owens and Minor offers its products and services to acute-care hospitals, the U.S. Department of Defense, and alternate site providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, physicians’ practices, clinics, home healthcare organizations, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities. Owens & Minor, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

The George J. Falter Company is a leading independent wholesale distributor of food and merchandise serving grocery stores, convienience stores, and other retailers throughout Maryland. It supplies customers with such goods as beverages, dry goods, and frozen foods, as well as health and beauty items, tobacco products, and other merchandise. In addition, George J. Falter distributes candy for fund raising activities. The company has delivery operations as well as a cash & carry outlet in Baltimore. The family-owned business was founded in 1878 as a candy distributor.

BlueLinx Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary, BlueLinx Corporation, distributes building products in North America. BlueLinx Holdings Inc. distributes approximately 10,000 products to 11,500 customers through its network of 70 warehouses and third-party operated warehouses. It distributes products in two principal categories, structural products and specialty products. BlueLinx Holdings’ structural products include plywood, oriented strand board, rebar and remesh, lumber, and other wood products primarily used for structural support, walls, and flooring in construction projects. Its specialty products comprise roofing, insulation, specialty panels, moulding, engineered wood products, vinyl products (used primarily in siding), composite decking, and metal products (excluding rebar and remesh). The company’s customers include building materials dealers, industrial users of building products, manufactured housing builders, and home improvement centers. It sells its products through three distribution channels consisting of warehouse sales, reload sales, and direct sales. BlueLinx Holdings Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BlueLinx Holdings Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cerberus ABP Investor LLC.

Tech Data Corporation distributes information technology products, as well as offers logistics management and other value-added services in North America, Latin America, and Europe. It sells microcomputer hardware and software products to value added resellers, direct marketers, retailers, and corporate resellers. The company also provides a range of services, including training and technical support, external financing options, configuration, outbound telemarketing, marketing, and product integration services, as well as a suite of electronic commerce solutions comprising on-line order entry and electronic data interchange services. Tech Data Corporation was founded in 1974 and is based in Clearwater, Florida.

Krasdale Foods is a leading independent grocery wholesaler that supplies more than 7,000 products to food retailers, mostly in the New York metropolitan area. From its distribution center in the Bronx, the company offers Krasdale-labeled, private-label, and regional brands, as well as ethnic and specialty food items. Krasdale also provides merchandising and marketing services to its customers. Abraham Krasne founded the company as A. Krasne Inc. in 1908. The company adopted its current moniker in 1972 and today is led by Abraham's son, chief executive Charles Krasne. Krasdale remains family owned.

Affiliated Foods is a leading wholesale distribution cooperative that supplies more than 700 member grocery stores and restaurants in half a dozen states, including Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It distributes fresh produce, meat, and non-food products, as well as dairy products and beverages through its Plains Dairy unit. Its Tri State Baking Company supplies bread and other baked goods. In addition, Affiliated Foods owns a stake in private-label products supplier Western Family Foods. The company was founded in 1946 as Panhandle Associated Grocers, which merged with South Plains Associated Grocers to form Affiliated Foods in 1968.

PBA Health injects the pharmacy industry with the right kind of medicine. Pharmacy Buying Association, operating as PBA Health, is a bit of a "one-stop" provider to pharmacies, including community-based pharmacies, as well as hospitals, clinics, and select pharmaceutical chains. The company provides group purchasing, inventory management, and cost-efficiency services, bringing competitive prices and fair reimbursements to pharmacies on more than 5,500 branded prescription, generic, and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. PBA Health also offers its customers in-store operating systems that use proprietary software to track inventory, fill prescriptions, and follow third-party claims.

TESSCO Technologies Incorporated provides integrated product and supply chain solutions to support the construction, operation, and use of mobility and data wireless systems. Its Network Infrastructure segment offers base station antennas, cable and transmission lines, fixed and mobile broadband equipment, wireless local area network products, wireless networking products, filtering systems, small towers, lightning protection devices, connectors, security and surveillance products, power systems, and miscellaneous hardware products. Its products are used to build, repair, and upgrade wireless telecommunications, computing, and Internet networks. This segment also provides services, such as connector installation, custom jumper assembly, filter product tuning, site kitting, logistics integration, and wireless network training services. The company’s Mobile Devices and Accessories segment offers cellular phone and data device accessories, such as replacement batteries, cases, speakers, mobile amplifiers, power supplies, headsets, mounts, car antennas, music accessories, and data and memory cards, as well as two-way radios and related accessories. Its Installation, Test, and Maintenance segment provides products that are used to install, tune, maintain, and repair wireless communications equipment. Its products include analysis equipment and various frequency, voltage, and power measuring devices, as well as an assortment of tools, hardware, GPS, safety and replacement, and component parts and supplies. TESSCO Technologies Incorporated serves public network operators, infrastructure site owners, program managers, contractors and integrators, industrial and enterprise self-maintained users, governments, manufacturers, repair centers, retailers, dealers, and value-added resellers. TESSCO Technologies was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

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