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School Specialty is an education company serving the prekindergarten to high school market with supplemental learning products, school furniture, children's publishing and specialized buying services. It is based in Greenville, Wis. The company focuses on designing, developing and marketing products, services and ideas that help teachers engage students of all ages and abilities, and offers more than 80,000 items. It mails over 40 million catalogs annually, and has developed both an online education portal and an e-commerce Web site, to approach its customers, and has partnered with various schools in the United States and Canada. School Specialty also approaches school districts and school administrators through its sales force of more than 300 professionals.

Heartland Business Systems has become one of Wisconsin's leading providers of value-added integration services and networking technologies. Since its establishment in 1990, the company has developed services and support programs for commercial, industrial, government and education clients throughout Wisconsin. Its core offering involves products from Cisco, 3Com, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Compaq, Microsoft, Citrix, Novell, Extreme Networks and other tier one technology manufacturers and publishers. The variety of services the company provides its customers with include cabling/phone installation, software design and development, software packages, Web development, technology planning, tech support, software support and contract renewals, Internet services/remote access, health care software, enterprise business solutions and label printing. The company s products include hardware, such as personal computers, laptops and notebooks; phone systems; printed forms, including statements, invoices, checks, envelopes, filing systems, medical claims, electronic invoicing and direct mail service; and medical software. Heartland Business Systems is headquartered in Little Chute, Wis.