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Core-Mark Distributors is a subsidiary of Core-Mark International, one of the largest broad-line, full-service distributors of packaged consumer products to the convenience retail industry in North America. Founded in 1888, the company provides distribution and logistics services, as well as marketing programs to more than 20,000 retail locations in 46 states and five Canadian provinces through its 25 distribution centers. It services traditional convenience retailers; grocers; mass merchandisers; drug, liquor and specialty stores; and other stores that carry consumer packaged goods. Its facilities include consolidated warehouses called Artic Cascade and Allied Merchandising Industry. These two divisions buy products from suppliers in bulk quantities and then redistribute the products to the majority of other United States Core-Mark centers. Artic Cascade performs consolidation buying of frozen products. AMI performs consolidated buying functions of many non-food products, specifically general merchandise, and health and beauty care products. Core-Mark Distributors is located in Los Angeles.

The Pepsi Bottling Group is a manufacturer, seller and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages. With nearly $11 billion in annual sales, the company delivers nearly 200 million eight-ounce servings of Pepsi-Cola beverages each day. In addition to carbonated beverages, the company also has a portfolio of noncarbonated drinks, including Aquafina, Tropicana juice drinks, Lipton Iced Tea, Starbucks Frappuccino and Doubleshot, the SoBe line of beverages and Dole single-serve juices and blends. Beginning in March 1999, The Pepsi Bottling Group became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PBG. It operates in the United States, Canada, Greece, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Turkey.

Unified Grocers is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent retailers throughout the western United States. Headquartered in Commerce, Calif., UG provides a variety of products, including bag sales and store supplies, bakery products, corporate brands, dairy products, health and beauty products, grocery, frozen food, ice cream, specialty food, delicatessen and thaw and serve bakery products. The company also offers marketing programs including truck billboards, sales tools, product demonstration, data analysis, co-op promotions, merchandising programs and in-store advertising products. Unified Grocers was created in September 1999 as the result of a merger of Certified Grocers of Los Angeles, Calif., and United Grocers of Portland, Ore.