About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Electronic component distributors, SuperValu, Rexel, Avnet, Dick Smith, Bunzl, Shaw National Distribution Centre, FORCE America, Inc., Patterson Companies, Corporate Express, Arrow Electronics, Maplin Electronics, Premier Farnell, Heilind Electronics, Allied Radio, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Pamir Electronics, Hagemeyer, MCM, TTI, Inc., Avnet Abacus, SparkFun Electronics, RS Components, Synergy Health, Rapid Electronics, Future Electronics, Total Logistic Control, Anglia Components, Jaico Publishing House, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Brewers' Distributor, Digi-Key, MSC Industrial Direct, Ingram Entertainment Holdings Inc., Techni-tool, Inc., Fischer Connectors, Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, Mouser Electronics, Zane's Cycles, Kellyco Metal Detectors, Altronics Australia, Newark Corporation, Neuron Robotics, Gizmo For You, All American Semiconductor, Jameco Electronics, Associated Grocers of Florida, Hachette Distribution Services. Excerpt: SuperValu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list. On June 2, 2006, Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, Inc. and 1,124 of its stores were sold to SuperValu. The sale was approved by the shareholders of both SuperValu and Albertsons on May 30, 2006. Supermarket News ranked SuperValu #1 in the 2008 "Top Wholesalers for 2008." In 1870, Hugh G. Harrison provided the money for B.S. Bull and Company, a dry goods wholesaler serving Minneapolis, Minnesota. Though B.S. Bull and Company was short lived, its founders went on to create a similar company. In 1926, SuperValu's direct ancestor, Winston and Newell Company, was founded from the merger of Winston, ...
