Associated Wholesalers is a retailer-owned cooperative that supplies an array of food and nonfood products to independent grocers and convenience stores along the eastern seaboard. From distribution centers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, it offers broadline grocery products, bakery goods, meat and dairy items, fresh produce, and frozen foods, as well as a full line of general merchandise products. The company's White Rose Foods unit serves supermarkets and grocers in the New York City area, New Jersey, and throughout New England. Associated Wholesalers also operates about 15 supermarkets, mostly under the Shurfine Markets banner.

Omnicare, Inc., a pharmaceutical services company, provides pharmaceuticals and related pharmacy and ancillary services to long-term healthcare institutions. Its Pharmacy Services segment distributes pharmaceuticals and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services, data management services, and medical supplies to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, retirement centers, independent living communities, hospitals, hospice, and other healthcare service providers. It purchases, repackages, and dispenses prescription and non prescription pharmaceuticals; provides computerized medical record-keeping and third-party billing services; and offers consultant pharmacist services. This segment also provides intravenous medications and nutrition products, respiratory therapy services, medical supplies and equipment, clinical care planning and financial software information systems, electronic medical records systems, pharmaceutical informatics services, retail and mail-order pharmacy services, pharmaceutical care management for hospice agencies, and product support and distribution services for specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as offers pharmaceutical case management services for retirees, employees, and dependents who have drug benefits under corporate-sponsored healthcare programs. As of December 31, 2009, it served long-term care facilities, and chronic care and other settings comprising approximately 1,377,000 beds in 47 states in the United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada. The company’s Contract Research Organization Services segment offers product development and research services to client companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries, as well as provides support for the design of regulatory strategy and clinical development of pharmaceuticals for its client’s drug development programs. Omnicare, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

Airgas, Inc.(NYSE: ARG), through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related hardgoods, such as welding supplies. Airgas is also a leading U.S. distributor of safety products, the largest U.S. producer of nitrous oxide and dry ice, the largest liquid carbon dioxide producer in the Southeast, and a leading distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants and ammonia products.Airgas Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter McCausland founded the company in 1982. Through approximately 400 acquisitions and internal growth, Airgas has built the largest national distribution network in the packaged gas industry. More than 14,000 employees work in more than 1,100 locations includes branches, cylinder fill plants, production facilities, specialty gas laboratories, and regional distribution centers to serve a diversified customer base. Airgas markets through multiple channels, including its own branches and outside sales force, a Strategic Accounts Team focused on large customers, distributors and resellers, telesales, catalog and eBusiness channels.

Independent natural gas producers looking for a good return on their investment need search no further than Enserco Energy, which purchases natural gas from wholesale producers and then trades the energy on the wholesale market. It provides procurement, storage, transportation, and operations management services. It has access to more than 260 billion Btu/day of interstate pipeline capacity and storage in excess of 7 billion cu. ft. Denver-based Enserco, which sees itself as the "marketing arm down the hall" for the independent producer, is a subsidiary of the Black Hills Corporation and operates primarily in the western US. Enserco Energy, Inc. conducts business annually with more than 600 energy firms.

The Skor Food Group Inc., warehouses and distributes more than 7,000 private-label and branded food and grocery products to retailers and foodservice customers in Ontario, Canada. The company's Pizza Professionals unit supplies independent and chain pizza restaurants with ingredients and supplies. Its Aroma Foods and AMT Fine Foods businesses import and distribute specialty foods to Italian and Greek restaurants. Its Nicklen Central unit distributes ingredients and supplies to commercial bakeries and donut shops.

Palmer & Harvey McLane (P&H) is the leading retail food wholesaler in the UK, serving supermarkets, independent shops, convenience stores, and pubs through its 10 distribution centers. The company supplies retailers with with a full menu of broadline grocery products, fresh produce, canned goods, meats, and frozen foods. It also distributes beer, sprits, and wine, as well as tobacco products and general merchandise. In addition to its wholesale distribution business, P&H offers commercial printing services, electronic point-of-sale systems, and store-design services.

Lawson Products, Inc. distributes and markets systems, services, and products to the industrial, commercial, institutional, and governmental maintenance repair and operations marketplace in the United States and Canada. The company also manufactures and distributes components, fasteners, and fittings to the original equipment marketplace, including the automotive, appliance, aerospace, construction, and transportation industries. Its product categories include fastening systems; specialty chemicals; cutting tools and abrasives; fluid power; aftermarket automotive supplies; electrical; and welding and metal repair. Lawson Products, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois.

PharMEDium Healthcare supplies hospitals and pharmacies with sterile, pre-mixed specialty medications (known as admixture compounding). The company's products are primarily intravenous and epidural solutions geared towards pain management and anesthesia. It offers a variety of obstetric labor and delivery admixtures, as well as electrolyte, antibiotic, critical care, and anti-anxiety compounds. It also provides labeling, testing, and quality services, as well as customized drug admixtures. PharMEDium Healthcare Corporation serves more than 1,800 hospitals across the US through its regional pharmacy compounding centers. Venture capital firm Oak Investment Partners owns an interest in PharMEDium.

Founded as Great Lakes Wholesale Drug in 1967, a steady regimen of acquisitions helped it transform into The Harvard Drug Group in 1997. The company is controlled by investment firm Court Square Capital Partners. Drugs, not scholars, are what come out of this Harvard. The Harvard Drug Group distributes branded and generic prescription and OTC drugs, vitamins, and consumer products to independent pharmacies, retail pharmacy chains, and buying groups through more than 100 sales representatives and through partnerships with about 35 different vendors. The firm also offers manufacturing services through its partnership with Canadian drugmaker Apotex.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.,the second-largest retailer-owned cooperative in the US (behind Wakefern Food Corporation), AWG supplies more than 1,900 member-stores in about 25 states with a wide array of grocery items from its eight distribution facilities. In addition to its wholesale operation, AWG offers a variety of business services to its members, including marketing and merchandising programs, shelf management, insurance, and store design. The firm also operates about 10 grocery store brands, including Country Mart and Homeland; it also owns a small number of supermarkets. AWG was founded by a group of independent grocers in 1924.

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