Archie Dykes

Fleming Cos., Inc. distributes groceries and related products. Its products include food, general merchandise, and health & beauty care. The firm's customers include convenience stores, super centers, discount stores, concessions, limited assortment, drug, specialty, casinos, gift shops, and military commissaries & exchanges. The company was founded by Ned Fleming and is headquartered in Lewisville, TX.

Raytech Corp. manufactured wet and dry clutch, power transmission and brake systems. It also provided engineered polymer matrix composite products and related services for vehicular applications, including automotive OEM, heavy duty on-and-off highway vehicles and aftermarket vehicular power transmission systems. The company was headquartered in Shelton, CT.

Midas, Inc. is engaged in the business of automotive repair franchises. The company operates in a single segment with retail, real estate, supply chain and point-of-sale technology operations in support of the franchising of Midas and SpeeDee automotive service shops in North America. The company's retail operations consist of company-operated Midas and SpeeDee shops. Its real estate activities include the development, ownership and leasing of Midas and SpeeDee shops in the U.S. and Canada. The firm's supply chain activities include providing value-added merchandising services to franchisees in which the company establishes relationships with vendors who distribute products and equipment directly to Midas and SpeeDee shops. Its point-of-sale technology operations consist of the ownership, development, sale and leasing of automotive shop management software to Midas franchisees and other third-party automotive service providers. Outside of North America, the company operates on a master-franchise basis whereby the Midas and SpeeDee trademarks are licensed to master franchisees that sub-franchise Midas and SpeeDee shops in its respective territories. Midas was founded by Nate H. Sherman in 1956 and is headquartered in Itasca, IL.

PepsiAmericas, Inc. makes sells and delivers a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in U.S. locations as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. PepsiCo, Inc. holds a 57 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

The Security Benefit Group of Cos. provides financial and investment advisory services. It also provides a range of variable & fixed annuities, security funds and retirement products. The company is headquartered in Topeka, KS.

Raytech Corp. manufactures and distributes power transmission and brake system components. The firm markets its products to automotive, heavy duty truck, and farm and construction machinery. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Shelton, CT.

Kansas University Endowment Association operates fundraising foundation for the University of Kansas, KU Endowment partners with donors in providing philanthropic support to build a greater KU. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Lawrence, KS.