Dakota Supply Group (DSG) distributes electrical, communications, and mechanical equipment to customers through more than a dozen branch locations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The company stocks approximately 25,000 products. DSG carries products from 3Com, 3M, A. O. Smith, Buckingham Manufacturing, Corning, Emerson Electric, Ferraz Shawmut, General Electric, Honeywell, Hubbell, Moen, Schneider Electric, and Zurn Industries, among other manufacturers.

Charles is a privately held, diversified manufacturing and high-technology company with corporate headquarters in Rolling Meadows, Illinois and five U.S. manufacturing centers. Charles sells quality products, services and innovative solutions to telecommunications, municipality, utility, marine, and industrial markets worldwide.Charles has successfully balanced growth through innovative engineering and manufacturing, as well as strategic acquisitions. A significant addition to Charles’ Telecommunications Group was the acquisition of Rockwell International’s Wescom division in 1991. In 1998, Charles acquired Alcatel’s T1 and channel bank product lines to complement its existing Access & Transmission and Outside Plant products. One year later, Charles acquired Lucent’s Flexterm® terminal housing equipment line.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Maxim) designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits, referred to as analog circuits, for a large number of customers in diverse geographical locations. The Company also provides a range of high-frequency process technologies and capabilities for use in custom designs. The major end markets in which the Company sells its products are the industrial, communications, consumer and computing markets. On October 27, 2008, the Company acquired Mobilygen Corporation (Mobilygen). On December 29, 2008, the Company acquired Innova Card (Innova Card), fabless semiconductor company focusing on advanced secure microcontroller technology for financial terminals. In February 2009, the Company acquired Zilog, Inc.'s universal remote control hardware and secures transaction businesses.

Curtis Instruments makes timers, counters, solid-state gages, voltage converters, and motor speed controllers for battery-powered vehicles and equipment. The company was founded in 1960 by Edward Marwell and Curtis Beusman. Curtis supplied elapsed-time indicators for the Lunar Modules that landed on the moon in the Apollo spacecraft missions and gages for the Lunar Roving Vehicles. Using expertise gained from going to the moon, the company developed a solid-state battery gage with circuitry to prevent deep discharge in 1975.

Border States Industries (also known as Border States Electric Supply, or BSE) distributes electrical and electronic products for such industries as automation, communications, construction, plumbing, and utilities. The company has a distribution partnership with OSRAM SYLVANIA. Border States carries data networking equipment in its product catalog. The company operates about 57 branches serving customers in over 10 states, primarily along the northern and southern borders of the nation.

Leadtek Research is a designer and manufacturer of electronic computing and communications products. The company makes such products as data storage devices (including USB disk drives), GPS navigation devices, graphics cards, PC motherboards, TV tuners, video surveillance equipment, video telephony devices, and webcams. Customers include Philips and NTT DoCoMo.

Wintegra, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor and software company that enables communications companies to build access networks. It engages in the design, development, and marketing of single-chip solutions. The company provides silicon and software solutions focused on the access infrastructure. It offers WinPath access packet processor solutions, which are used by various telecom and networking equipment manufacturers in a range of communications equipment that allows service providers to deploy the voice, video, data, and wireless services to their end customers. These include WIN777, an access packet processor that includes a MIPS 64-bit 5Kc core for control path operations and proprietary RISC engines for data path operations; WIN770, which rely on an external PowerPC for control plane operations; WIN737, a device for DSLAMs; and WIN787, which integrates dual Gigabit Ethernet MACs.Wintegra company also offers a reference board, known as Wintegra Development System, which has a PowerPC daughtercard for PPC-based control plane development. Wintegra targets access infrastructure equipment used in markets, such as wireless infrastructure, digital subscriber line, optical access, multiservice access, and voice over Internet protocol. The company markets and sells its access processor solutions to OEMs, ODMs, and subsystem manufacturers worldwide. It has partnerships with Altera Corporation; Corelis, Inc.; Green Hills Software, Inc.; SBS Technologies, Inc.; The Telecommunications Industry Association; Tundra Semiconductor Corporation; Abatron AG; Asidua, Ltd.; DSL Forum; Enea; Future Software Limited; Flextronics Software Systems; picoChip Designs Limited; Motorola, Inc.; MontaVista Software, Inc.; and Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Plexus isn't perplexed by even complex contract electronics manufacturing. The company develops and manufactures electronic products for companies in the telecommunications, medical, industrial, and defense markets. Plexus provides product design, engineering, and assembly of printed circuit boards (PCBs), test equipment, and other electronic components. The company also offers prototyping, materials procurement, warehousing and distribution, and other support services. Its customers include networking equipment maker Juniper Networks and General Electric. While Plexus manufactures in China, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania, and the UK, the company gets more than half of its sales from operations in the US.

Elpida Memory, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Elpida Memory, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and sells dynamic random access memory (DRAM) integrated circuits in Japan and internationally. The company provides DRAM solutions for various applications, including personal computers, servers, mobile phones, digital consumer electronics, and other information communication and electronic equipment. The company was formerly known as NEC-Hitachi Memory, Inc. and changed its name to Elpida Memory, Inc. in May 2000.

Bay City Electric Works company distributes new and used generator systems, electric motors, switches, and welding equipment, specializing in Kohler generators and engines. BCEW also rents and leases generators. The company was established in 1932 by Bob and Leola Norris. Tom Claycomb, Wally Dier, and Wilmer Spitzer purchased the assets of BCEW in 1984 and renamed the company CDS Electric, after the initials of their last names.

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