Portfolio Companies
Calvert Wholesale Florists
Calvert imports and distributes fresh cut flowers, bouquets, seasonal greens, blooming and green rooted plants, and floral supplies to retail florists, grocery stores, garden centers, independent floral designers and event planners. From its 45,000 square foot facility in Baltimore, Calvert services approximately 2,000 customers in southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, eastern West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and northern Virginia. Calvert imports products on a daily basis from South America, Central America, Europe, Asia and Canada. Calvert runs its own fleet of refrigerated trucks and supplements its delivered coverage area through the use of two independent trucking companies. Calvert’s selling model is primarily phone-based sales with a 15 member sales team supporting the customer base on a daily basis.
www.calvertwholesaleflorists.com
AKJ Books
AKJ sources and sells books and related educational materials to two primary customer verticals: K-12 schools and national literacy programs (e.g. Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), Reading Recovery, etc.) From its warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, the company services customers throughout the entire country and numerous U.S. Protectorates. AKJ has a mixed sales model including direct account management, catalogs and web-based sales. Through its heavy catalog circulation, AKJ reaches hundreds of thousands of educators, administrators, librarians, and volunteers throughout the U.S. annually. AKJ maintains active relationships with all of the large global publishing houses, numerous boutique publishers, and remainder resellers. Distribution is handled using third-party logistics providers as well as local market courier services.
Chesapeake Ceramics
Chesapeake is a multi-line distributor of unique, unfinished bisque forms, color products, glazes, brushes, molds, kilns and ceramic tools. The company primarily supplies retail ceramic studios, Paint Your Own Pottery studios, schools, government agencies and other customers. Chesapeake currently services customers in North America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East from its distribution facility in Baltimore. Chesapeake sources its ceramic products from China, Thailand and Italy as well as several U.S.-based suppliers. Chesapeake has a mixed sales model including catalog, web and phone-based sales. Distribution is primarily executed through relationships with third-party logistics providers, but the company currently services many of its mid-Atlantic customers with its own distribution vehicles.
Best Fence
BEST Fence, LLC designs and installs high-grade, commercial fencing solutions for state and local governments, large property owners and individual businesses. BEST Fence, founded in 1993, has developed a reputation as a high-quality, fairly-priced provider of fencing solutions and is the primary supplier of these services to several counties, government agencies and commercial real estate management companies. Its service lines include right of way highway fencing, bridge work, security fencing and parks and recreation fencing. The company is strategically located in Anne Arundel County and currently serves the greater Baltimore and Washington DC markets.