Associated Grocers is a leading grocery wholesale cooperative that distributes broadline grocery products to more than 215 independent retailers in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In addition to supplying its member stores with food and non-food items, it also offers such services as advertising, marketing, and merchandising, as well as back office accounting services and technology support. The wholesaler is also a retailer with some 35 company-owned stores in Louisiana. Associated Grocers was founded in 1950 by 17 member stores.

FFF Enterprises really puts the "fff" in pharmaceuticals. The company distributes biopharmaceuticals, plasma products, and vaccines to medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and other medical supply distributors. Already a top distributor of intravenous immune globulin, used to bolster weakened immune systems, FFF Enterprises is also a leading US distributor of influenza vaccines and medicines including Roche's Tamiflu, Sanofi Pasteur's Fluzone, and Novartis' Fluvirin. FFF Enterprises supplies more than 80% of the nation's hospitals with biopharmaceuticals.

Senomyx, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of flavor ingredients in the savory, sweet, salt, bitter, and cooling areas using proprietary taste receptor technologies. The company has product discovery, development, and commercialization collaborations with seven food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies: Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Cadbury plc, Campbell Soup Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Firmenich SA, Nestle SA, and Solae. Nestle is marketing products that contain one of Senomyx’s flavor ingredients. Senomyx, Inc. licenses flavor ingredients to its collaborators on an exclusive or co-exclusive basis. It also has a collaborative research and license agreement with Campbell Soup Co. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in San Diego, California.

AAH is more than just the utterance of a sigh of relief to pharmacies in the UK. AAH Pharmaceuticals is a top provider of distribution and marketing services to independent pharmacies and public and private hospitals throughout the country. Its AAH Hospital Service distributes pharmaceuticals to hospital pharmacies around the UK. Wilkinson Healthcare is its surgical services division that supports independent pharmacies with off-time emergency supplies. Meanwhile, the Enterprise division offers OTC drugs and beauty supplies, while Trident delivers on generics. AAH is a subsidiary of German pharmacy wholesaler Celesio AG.

GSC Enterprises, Inc.,doing business as Grocery Supply Company (not to be confused with Grocers Supply Co.), the wholesale distributor supplies more than 4,500 independent convenience stores, grocers, discounters, and other retailers and wholesalers with some 12,000 items. It distributes such goods as beverages, dry goods, and prepared foods to customers in about 15 states, mostly in the South and Southeast. In addition, GSC's Fidelity Express division supplies equipment and services that allow smaller retailers to process money orders and bill payments. Ken McKenzie, Curtis McKenzie, and Woodrow Brittain started the family-owned business in 1947.

Interline Brands, Inc. was created when Wilmar, Barnett and Sexauer — sharing a common set of goals — merged into one organization. Each of these former companies managed different catalog titles or “brands” that market a wide range of MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) products to many different types of customers in the U.S. and abroad.Because our customers trust these brand names, Interline allows each brand to maintain its identity and loyal customer base. At the same time, each of Interline’s brands can now make significant improvements in sales, efficiency, technology, and customer satisfaction by being part of the Interline family. For example, we can now offer same-day or next-day delivery of the products in all of our catalogs to customers across North and Central America via our many distribution centers. Today, Interline Brands is a clear leader in the distribution of MRO products, and each of our brands can take advantage of our many resources.

Founded as Southern Engine and Pump Company in 1908, DXP was re-chartered in 1979 as Sepco Industries and renamed DXP Enterprises, Inc. in 1986. Over the years, we have strengthened our ability to support our customers by acquiring a diverse group of companies with a powerful corporate focus on product expertise, technical services and MROP supply chain management. Today, DXP is a publicly traded professional distribution management company that provides products and services to a variety of industries through its Innovative Pumping Solutions (IPS), Supply Chain Services and MROP Products and Services. DXP continues to stay on the leading edge of technology, training and products while attracting and retaining the best employees. Our corporate strategy is simply to be the best solution for the industrial customer.

Educational Development Corporation operates as a trade publisher of a line of children’s books in the United States. It distributes children’s books published by Usborne Publishing Limited in the United Kingdom. Educational Development Corporation offers various books, including Touchy-Feely board books, jigsaw puzzle books, activity and flashcards, adventure and search books, art books, sticker books, and foreign language books, as well as science and math titles, and chapter books and novels. It sells books through two divisions, Usborne Books and More, and Publishing. The Usborne Books and More division distributes books through independent consultants, who hold book showings in individual homes; and through book fairs, direct sales, and Internet sales. It also distributes these titles to school and public libraries. The Publishing division markets books to bookstores, toy stores, specialty stores, museums, and other retail outlets. It distributes books through commissioned trade representatives who call on book, toy, specialty stores, and other retail outlets; and through in-house marketing by telephone to the trade. Educational Development Corporation was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Value Drug Company was formed in 1934 as a cooperative by 19 local Independent Pharmacists to consolidate their purchasing power. Rated as one of the top independent wholesale drug distributors in the United States, we have continually been able to meet our goal to offer our customers the very best value in products and services that can be obtained. The mission of Value Drug Company is to serve as a support system for all aspects of Independent Pharmacy. Our Board of Directors and Management are committed to this mission. Combining our strength with yours, we form a powerful distribution channel to help you service the Independent Pharmacy's customer needs.

Genus Pharmaceuticals is owned by German drug maker STADA Arzneimittel. This is the company that put the genius into affordable medicine. Genus Pharmaceuticals supplies more than 40 generic and brand-name medicines in more than 100 forms, which it then sells wholesale to NHS hospitals and retail pharmacies all over the UK. The company's three main focuses are treatments for tuberculosis, pain management, and dermatology. It acquired several brands in the past few years and is looking to expand its portfolio.

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