Lori J. Schafer

A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Inc. retails arts, crafts, and floral merchandise. It offers painting crafts, fashion crafts, scrapbooking, seasonal and holiday decor, and floral crafts. The company was founded by John E. Parker and William Kaplan in 1985 and is headquartered in Berlin, NJ.

Crystal Rock Holdings, Inc. provides home and office refreshment products. It markets and distributes water and coffee service, office supplies, refreshment beverages and other break room items to the commercial office and at home markets. The firm’s brands include Vermont Pure, Crystal Rock and Cool Beans. The company was founded by Henry Baker Sr. in 1917 and is headquartered in Watertown, CT.

eFashion Solutions LLC operates online fashion stores. The firm is a provider of online flagship stores to the branded fashion apparel, accessories, entertainment and specialty retail industries. The company was founded by Bernard F. Brennan, Edward P. Foy, Jr. and Jennifer Silano Foy in 2000 and is headquartered in Secaucus, NJ.

SAS Institute, Inc. provides business analytics software and services. It offers solutions in the areas of business intelligence, customer intelligence, financial intelligence, foundation tools, fraud and security intelligence, high-performance analytics, human capital intelligence, information management and information technology. The firm offers services to automotive, banking, defense, security, communications and health care industries. The company was founded by James Goodnight and John P. Sall in 1976 and is headquartered in Cary, NC.

MarketMAX, Inc. provides advanced retail planning and merchandise intelligence software solutions. It offers merchandise planning and analytics software solutions for retailers and suppliers to analyze data and create strategic plans. The company was founded in 1986 and is located in Wakefield, MA.

National Retail Federation operates membership organizations. Its channels of distribution include department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet and independent stores. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

geoVue, Inc. develops and distributes mapping & demographics software for the commercial real estate industry. It offers capital planning suite that provides asset vitality evaluates, market ranking, and capital allocation services; and targeted marketing services, including direct mail scoring and iTARGET, a targeted marketing software. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.