Northwestern Meat is a leading importer and exporter of meat products, specifically beef, pork, poultry, and seafood. In addition to traditional meat and seafood, the company distributes more exotic foods such as cuttlefish, frog legs, octopus, ostrich, pheasant, and sea cucumber. Northwestern Meat serves customers throughout the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean through facilities in Florida and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1961 by president Elpidio Nunez Ojeda, who emigrated to the US from Cuba in 1960.

Associated Grocers of Florida (AGFL) is a leading wholesale food distributor that serves independent retailers and foodservice operators in the Southeast and in international markets. The group supplies more than 28,000 products, including such brands as IGA, Shurefine, Shurfresh, Valu Time, and Top Care. AGFL operates a pair of distribution facilities in Florida. In addition to wholesale distribution, the member-owned cooperative offers a variety of business-support services, including advertising planning, merchandising, and technology procurement. The company was formed in 1945.

Macquarie Energy (formerly Macquarie Cook Energy) is a major regional energy trading company. The firm primarily buys and sells natural gas and electric power on the wholesale market, and it provides storage, transportation, hedging, and asset management services. Macquarie Energy's customers include municipal and regional utilities, power producers, industrial end-users, government and financial institutions, and other energy marketers. Macquarie Energy, which is owned by Australia-based Macquarie Group, operates in Canada, Mexico, and the US. In 2010 Macquarie Energy LLC acquired the wholesale electric marketing and trading portfolio of Integrys Energy Services.

Franz Haniel & Cie. is a five-headed hydra. The holding company is comprised of a handful of operating divisions -- Celesio, CWS-boco, ELG, TAKKT, and METRO -- each of which specializes in a different core business. Haniel derives the bulk of its sales from distributing pharmaceuticals to pharmacies worldwide through drug wholesaler Celesio. Its other divisions offer washroom and workwear products and services; stainless steel scrap recycling; mail-order of office and warehouse equipment; and retail store operations. Haniel has operations in some 30 countries. Members of the Haniel family have controlled Franz Haniel and Cie. GmbH company since its founding in 1756.

L. B. Foster Company engages in the manufacture, fabrication, and distribution of products and services for the rail, construction, energy, and utility markets in the United States. It operates in three segments: Rail Products, Construction Products, and Tubular Products. The Rail Products segment provides heavy and light rail, relay rail, concrete ties, insulated rail joints, rail accessories, and transit products to industrial plants, contractors, railroads, mines, and mass transit systems. This segment also offers rail accessories, including trackwork, ties, track spikes, bolts, angle bars, and other products to install or maintain rail lines; rail products comprising insulated rail joints and related accessories for the railroad and mass transit industries; and transit products consisting of power rail, direct fixation fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories primarily for mass transit systems. In addition, it provides new and relay trackwork, and engineered concrete railroad ties for the railroad and transit industries. The Construction Products segment offers sheet, pipe, and bearing piling products; fabricated highway products, such as fabricated structural steel, bridge decking, aluminum and steel bridge rail, and other bridge products to the contractors of state, municipal, and other governmental projects; and precast concrete buildings for national, state, and municipal parks. The Tubular Products segment provides fusion bond and other coatings for corrosion protection on oil, gas, and other pipelines; supplies special pipe products, such as water well casings, column pipes, couplings, and related products for agricultural, municipal, and industrial water wells; and sells micropiles for construction foundation repair and slope stabilization. L. B. Foster company sells its products through outside sales, inside sales, and customer service representatives. L. B. Foster Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Universal Power Group, Inc. supplies and distributes batteries and related power accessories; and provides third-party logistics and supply chain management services. It offers sealed or maintenance-free lead-acid batteries, such as batteries of various chemistries, battery chargers, and related accessories; portable battery-powered products, including jump starters and 12-volt DC power accessories; and security system components, which include alarm panels, perimeter access controls, horns, sirens, speakers, transformers, cables, and wires. The company also provides UPG-branded and private-label batteries of various chemistries, such as nickel-cadmium, lithium, lithium polymer, nickel metal hydride, alkaline, and carbon-zinc batteries. Its brands include Adventure Power, All in One, Batteries & Beyond, Charge N’ Start, Starter-Up, UB Scootin, UNILOK, Let Us Power You, and UPG. The company’s logistics and supply chain management services comprise inventory sourcing and procurement, warehousing and distribution, graphic design and marketing, and recycling, as well as engineering design assistance, custom assembly, and kitting. It also provides value-added services, including custom battery pack assembly, custom kitting, private-labeling, and product development and engineering services. Universal Power Group, Inc. offers its batteries and related power accessories under manufacturer brands and private labels, as well as under its own proprietary brands. It serves OEMs, distributors, and online and traditional retailers in automotive, medical mobility, medical, consumer goods, electronics, marine, hunting, security and surveillance, telecommunications, uninterruptible power supply, power sports, solar, and portable power industries. Universal Power Group sells its products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Ireland, and Australia. Universal Power Group, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Carrollton, Texas. Universal Power Group, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Carrollton, Texas.

Global Export Marketing markets and exports US food and foodservice products to customers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle and Near East. It distributes products under its own American Garden brand, as well as such popular brands as Keebler crackers (from Kellogg Snacks), Sue Bee honey, French's mustard (Reckitt Benckiser), and Reynolds foils and wraps. In addition to distribution, Global Export Marketing offers merchandising and supply chain management services, as well as private-label services. It has offices in New York City; Amman, Jordan; and Dubai, U.A.E. Global Export Marketing was founded in the 1980s.

The Grocers Supply Co., Inc., supplies food, health and beauty items, household products, and school and office supplies to some 1,850 convenience stores and supermarkets, as well as some 200 schools, within a 350-mile radius of Houston. The company's international division, meanwhile, ships supplies to oil company operations, US embassies, and other customers around the world. Grocer's Supply also owns Fiesta Mart, a chain of ethnic food stores in Texas. Grocers Supply was founded by Joe Levit in 1923; his family, led by president Max Levit, continues to own the company.

GasTerra was formed in 2005 when Nederlandse Gasunie split off the gas trading arm from its main gas transport business. In 2009 GasTerra B.V. signed a long term gas supply (until 2030) with Distrigas ensuring the continous flow of low-calorific gas to Belgium. The Dutch government owns half of GasTerra (10% directly and 40% indirectly through state-owned gas and mineral producer Energie Beheer Nederland), while Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell each indirectly hold 25% of the company. Psst! Wanna buy some natural gas? GasTerra (formerly Gasunie Trade & Supply) can hook you up. GasTerra B.V. buys wholesale natural gas, primarily from Dutch fields, then wholesales it throughout Western Europe.

Welcome to the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA). Headquartered in Roseville, California, NCPA is a not-for-profit joint powers agency that represents and provides support for our 17 member communities and districts in Northern and Central California. NCPA was founded in 1968 as a forum through which community-owned utilities could prevent costly market abuses employed by private utilities at that time, and to make investments to ensure an affordable, reliable and clean future energy supply for the electric ratepayers we serve.NCPA has a longstanding commitment to the generation of electricity from environmentally-responsible sources. We own and operate several power plants that together comprise a 95% emission-free generation portfolio. NCPA’s members collectively reflect a 50% carbon-free resource portfolio thanks in part to the contribution of our owned resource mix of geothermal, hydroelectric, and natural gas facilities. NCPA continues to advance our ethic of environmental leadership with the recent addition of new wind, geothermal, and solar resources to our resource mix to power Northern California communities.

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