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.

Akeena Solar, Inc., doing business as Westinghouse Solar, engages in the design, manufacture, integration, and installation of solar power systems under the Westinghouse name. It offers its solar power systems for residential and commercial customers. Akeena Solar, Inc. also designs and distributes solar panels with integrated micro inverters (called as AC solar panels). Westinghouse Solar sells its AC solar panels to solar installers, trade workers, and do-it-yourself customers through distribution partnerships, dealer network, and retail outlets. It has a strategic partnership with Real Goods Solar, whereby Real Goods Solar operates as an authorized dealer for westinghouse solar power systems for sale to its customers in California and Colorado markets. Akeena Solar, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

Dole & Bailey, Inc. distributes wholesale food and grocery supplies, with a focus on sustainable produce, locally raised meat, and recyclable packaging. Its fleet of refrigerated trucks deliver products to restaurants, hotels, and institutions throughout New England and locations in northern New York and the Caribbean. Focusing on quality meats (beef, poultry, pork, lamb, and veal), Dole & Bailey also offers specialty game, kosher and halal meat, deli meats, fresh or frozen seafood, cheese and dairy products, produce, gourmet items such as foie gras and pate, and frozen convenience foods. The family owned company was founded in 1868.

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.

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.

Blitz Ventures, Inc., which does business as BottomLine Foods, procures and sells a variety of closeout food and grocery products to institutions, manufacturers, brokers, hunger relief organizations, government agencies, and others. BottomLine products include frozen and fresh foods, dry goods, health and beauty products, and general merchandise.

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.

Value Drug Company was formed in 1934 as a cooperative by 19 local Independent Pharmacists to consolidate their purchasing power. Rated as one of the top independent wholesale drug distributors in the United States, we have continually been able to meet our goal to offer our customers the very best value in products and services that can be obtained. The mission of Value Drug Company is to serve as a support system for all aspects of Independent Pharmacy. Our Board of Directors and Management are committed to this mission. Combining our strength with yours, we form a powerful distribution channel to help you service the Independent Pharmacy's customer needs.

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.

Genus Pharmaceuticals is owned by German drug maker STADA Arzneimittel. This is the company that put the genius into affordable medicine. Genus Pharmaceuticals supplies more than 40 generic and brand-name medicines in more than 100 forms, which it then sells wholesale to NHS hospitals and retail pharmacies all over the UK. The company's three main focuses are treatments for tuberculosis, pain management, and dermatology. It acquired several brands in the past few years and is looking to expand its portfolio.

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