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.

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.

Coastal Pacific Food Distributors (CPF) is a leading wholesale food distributor serving the US armed forces in the western US and in the Far East. The company delivers a full line of groceries from three distribution centers in California and Washington to military bases, including US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine facilities. CPF also offers information system programming services for its customers to track sales and shipping. The company was founded in 1986.

Wham! Frozen Foods is a wholesale food distributor that specializes in close-out and discontinued products. It acquires goods from manufacturers around the world and distributes the discounted items primarily to dollar stores, food banks, and thrift stores. The company makes it a point that it does not supply traditional retail chains. Company president Jon Auspitz started the business in 1993.

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services Power Marketing LLC is owned by 17 power supply cooperatives which collectively have 35,000 MW of generating capacity. It also provides marketing and risk management services to utilities, power producers, and other end-users (such as public water agencies, municipalities, and industrial companies). A power lobby in its own right, Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services Power Marketing (or ACES Power Marketing), provides wholesale electricity and natural gas trading services to its member/owners, which operate in the eastern, southern, and Midwestern US. Its risk management services include portfolio analysis, transaction administration, consulting, training, and policy development.

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.

Colonial Commercial Corp., through its subsidiaries, distributes heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment, climate control products, appliances, and plumbing and electrical fixtures and supplies to building contractors and other users primarily in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, eastern Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Vermont. It also supplies indoor air components and systems, and parts and accessories; and distributes appliances, such as washers and dryers to appliance dealers. In addition, the company engages in the design and sale of energy conservation control systems; and the fabrication of customized UL listed control panels, as well as provides technical assistance and training to customers. Colonial Commercial Corp. sells its products primarily to contractors who purchase and install equipment and systems for residential, commercial, and industrial users. Colonial Commercial Corp. was founded in 1964 and is based in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

Nadro, formerly Nacional de Drogas, is a top distributor (along with Grupo Casa Saba) of pharmaceuticals and hygiene and beauty products throughout Mexico. From deodorant to body spray, the company peddles its wares through more than a dozen distribution centers to about a quarter of the Mexican market, including thousands of pharmacies and some of Mexico's largest other retailers such as Wal-Mart de Mexico, Organizacion Soriana, and Grupo Gigante. Nadro also contracts to provide specialty pharmaceuticals to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico's state-owned oil company. McKesson, a distributor of pharmaceuticals and health care products in the US, owns about half of Nadro.

Standard Management Corporation does not have significant operations. Previously, Standard Management Corporation was engaged in the acquisition and operation of pharmacies. It intends to manage, lead, and execute a consolidation strategy of acquiring long-term care pharmacies and homecare providers through Universal Healthcare Company, LLC and Newco. Standard Management Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Crystal Rock Holdings, Inc. engages in the production, marketing, and distribution of bottled water, and distribution of coffee, ancillary products, and other office refreshment products in New England, New York, and New Jersey. The company also rents and sells water coolers to customers to dispense bottled water; and sells and rents units to commercial accounts that filter water from the existing source on site. It provides coolers in a range of consumer preferences, such as cold, or hot and cold dispensing units. In addition, the company rents and sells coffee brewing equipment; and distributes various coffee, tea, and other hot beverage products and related supplies, as well as other consumable products used around the office. Further, it offers vending services. The company markets and distributes its water products in three and five gallon bottles to homes and offices. Vermont Pure Holdings markets its products primarily under the Vermont Pure Natural Spring Water, Crystal Rock, Cool Beans, Baronet, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters trade names. The company was formerly known as Vermont Pure Holdings, Ltd. and changed its name to Crystal Rock Holdings, Inc. on May 1, 2010. Crystal Rock Holdings was founded in 1989 and is based in Watertown, Connecticut.

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