Kokubu & Co. is the shogun of Japan's wholesale food industry. As the largest distributor in the country, it supplies customers with more than 400,000 food items, beverages, and other products. An importer and exporter of foods and alcoholic beverages, Kokubu has warehouses throughout Japan. It owns a majority share of Mitsui & Co.'s grocery and liquor wholesale operations in the Hokkaido region and has a confectionery wholesaling joint venture with Japanese candy company Momose. Kokubu, which also has operations in real estate leasing and breadcrumb manufacturing, is buying an ice cream wholesaler. Founder Kanbei Kokubu started the firm in 1712 as a soy sauce brewery; it is still owned by the Kokubu family.

Bozzuto's is a leading wholesale grocery distribution company that supplies food and non-food products to independent supermarkets belonging to the IGA network in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and in New England. The company distributes a full line of grocery items, including meat products, produce, and frozen food, as well as household goods and other general merchandise. It carries goods sold under both the IGA and Hy-Top labels, in addition to national brands. Bozzuto's also owns about half a dozen supermarkets in Connecticut and Massachusetts operating under the Adams Super Food Stores banner. The company, founded in 1945, is owned and operated by the Bozzuto family.

Chindex International, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services; and sale of medical equipment, instrumentation, and products. The company operates in two segments, Healthcare Services and Medical Products. The Healthcare Services segment owns and operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou markets. This segment also operates a managed clinic in the city of Wuxi, south of Shanghai. It offers a range of family healthcare services, including 24/7 emergency rooms, intensive care units, and neonatal intensive care units, operating rooms, clinical laboratory, radiology, and blood banking services for men, women, and children. The Medical Products segment markets, distributes, and sells medical capital equipment, instrumentation, and other medical products for use in hospitals in China and Hong Kong. It offers diagnostic color ultrasound imaging devices, robotic surgical systems and instrumentation, mammography and breast biopsy devices, and lasers for cosmetic surgery. This segment sells its products through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Alex Lee, Inc. is a leading distributor of food and other products to retailers and foodservice operators. Its Merchants Distributors, Inc. (MDI) subsidiary supplies food and general merchandise to more than 850 retailers in 10 states, and MDI's own Consolidation Services business provides warehousing and logistics services. The Institutional Food House unit is a foodservice supplier that serves customers in the hospitality industry. Alex Lee also operates Lowe's Food Stores, a chain of about 110 grocery stores in the Carolinas and Virginia. Alex and Lee George started the company in 1931. The George family continues to control Alex Lee.

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.

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.

Forrest City Grocery Co. distributes grocery items (food and tobacco products) to some 2,000 retail food and convenience and dollar stores in Arkansas and portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. It offers private-label brands such as Better Valu and Parade. In 2009 it acquired Memphis-based Galler Wholesale, adding 150 stores to its service area. Dating back to 1911, the company operates out of a 200,00-square-foot distribution center located in Forrest City, Arkansas. It us owned and operated by the third generation of the founding Cohn family.

AJC International, Inc. is a leading distributor of refrigerated and frozen food products, serving customers in more than 140 countries. It supplies retail and foodservice customers with a variety of products, including beef, poultry, pork, and seafood, as well as fruits and vegetables. It also offers its own branded products under such labels as Early Dawn, Golden Phoenix, and Mity Fresh. In addition to food distribution, AJC offers warehousing and other logistics services. Chairman and CEO Gerald Allison and vice chairman Eric Joiner founded AJC in 1972.

PHOENIX Pharmahandel Aktiengesellschaft & Co KG is owned by Germany-based Merckle Group, a conglomerate controlled by the Merckle family. PHOENIX Pharmahandel plans to rise in Europe. The company is one of the largest pharmaceutical wholesalers in Germany and in Europe, with a presence in about two dozen countries. It delivers some 100,000 products to pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes, and other retail and health care outlets through some 160 offices across the continent. PHOENIX also provides pharmacy management services and runs an online ordering system, and it operates the Rowlands and Newmark pharmacy chain in the UK.

Unidrug Distribution Group actually distributes thousands of drugs. Unidrug Distribution Group (better known as UDG) provides warehousing and distribution of prescription drugs and over-the counter medicines throughout the UK. Principals represented by the company include a host of leading drug manufacturers, such as Abbot Labs, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Schering Plough. UDG is a joint venture of Ireland's United Drug and Switzerland-based Alloga, which is part of UK-based Alliance Boots (formerly Alliance Unichem).

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