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.

Certco is a food distribution cooperative that serves independent grocers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and in parts of Iowa and Illinois. It distributes an inventory of more than 45,000 items, including bakery goods, frozen foods, meat products, and produce, as well as general merchandise under the Surefine, Surefresh, and Top Care labels. In addition, Certco offers its member-operators such services as advertising, merchandising, and other business support services. The cooperative was formed in 1930 as Central Wisconsin Cooperative Food Stores.

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.

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.

Associated Grocers of the South is a grocery wholesale cooperative serving more than 300 independently-owned supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In addition to supplying more than 16,000 products under the Shurfine brand (from Topco Associates) and other labels, the cooperative provides its members with accounting, advertising, merchandising and other support services. Associated Grocers of the South was formed in Birmingham, Alabama, by a group of a dozen neighborhood stores in 1927.

United Drug unites a lot of healthcare services under one roof. The company's Pharma Wholesale arm provides drug wholesaling in the Republic of Ireland (where it operates as United Drug), Northern Ireland (operating as Sanger), and the UK (Craig & Howard) and produces ingredients through Specials. United's Supply Chain group makes drug packaging in Europe and the US, and provides logistics through UniDrug Distribution Group. The Medical & Scientific division provides sales and marketing support to medical equipment manufacturers in the UK and Ireland, while subsidiary Ashfield In2Focus anchors United Drug's Contract Sales and Marketing organization offering healthcare-specific sales reps in the US and Europe.

Diaz Wholesale & Manufacturing, which does business as Diaz Foods, is a leading wholesale distributor of Hispanic food products serving more than 3,500 retail and foodservice customers in about 25 states. Its inventory of 6,000 items includes refrigerated and frozen foods imported from Central and South America and from the Caribbean; Diaz Foods also supplies some Asian ingredients as well. CEO Rene Diaz started the family-owned business in 1980 as an outgrowth of his family's Atlanta grocery chain.

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API) has developed into one of Australia’s leading beauty and health retail companies. API was founded in 1910 and became one of Australia’s leading pharmaceutical distributors. Changes within the pharmacy industry propelled API to focus on the needs of consumers and patients thereby developing a retail footprint and retail services that provide growth opportunities for the company today. API is one of the leading service providers to the pharmacy industry in Australia and today has a relationship with more than 4000 independent pharmacies. The services include wholesale product delivery, retail services, marketing programs and business advisory services. API also owns and operates the Priceline retail store brand that is a leading health and beauty brand in Australia. The company has product manufacturing capabilities and it is a niche player in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and toiletries, which supply the Australian and New Zealand markets.API believes that all its service and product offerings must ultimately end with meeting a need of a consumer or patient. As the leading distributor of pharmaceuticals in Australia, API has staff in warehouses across the country that ensure daily deliveries of medicines to pharmacies that aim to improve the life of their patients. API is the leading franchisor in the pharmacy industry, with more than 150 Priceline Pharmacy stores, it provides the pharmacist franchisees a total retail model. Combined with the traditional Priceline stores (no pharmacy service) that the company owns, API provide health and beauty products that meet the needs consumers. Every day staff in these stores are providing advice to consumers to add vitality and wellness to their lives. The manufacture of our products is undertaken to the highest standards so that patients and consumers can benefit from them and improve their lives. API’s story is one of growth and development, and today it continues to pursue growth by supporting its independent pharmacy partners and believes it is best placed to achieve this by focussing on what drives purchasing patterns of health and beauty products.

Thomas & Howard Company is a broadline wholesale distributor and foodservice supplier that serves convenience stores and restaurants primarily located in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. The company supplies its customers with food and non-food items from two distribution centers in South Carolina. Thomas & Howard was founded in 1897 by C.C. Thomas and C.L. Howard.

Grupo Corvi, S.A. de C.V., once traded on the Mexican stock exchange, had subsidiaries in chocolate candy manufacturing (Empresas Chocolates La Corona), grocery stores (Superpack and Despensa del Hogar), and grain sales (Empacamex). Unable to compete with the likes of Wal-Mart de Mexico, by 2009 Grupo Corvi sold off everything but its food and consumer products distribution company, Sahuayo Abarrotes. Sahuayo Abarrotes operates a trucking fleet from 26 distribution centers, supplying more than 3,500 products to almost 40,000 wholesalers and retailers throughout Mexico.

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