Begun in 1917 as a newsstand in Florence, Alabama, the Anderson Companies now do business in several areas. Anderson Media Corporation is the largest U.S. distributor and merchandiser of consumer magazines, pre-recorded music, and books. TNT Fireworks is the country's largest importer and distributor of consumer fireworks. Anderson Press publishes children's books and houses Anderson units, Whitman Publishing and H.E. Harris, which sells books and supplies for coin and stamp collecting. C.R. Gibson also sells collecting books, such as photo and scrap albums. For the purposes of its estimate, Forbes excludes Books-A-Million (nasdaq: BAMM), a publicly held company in which the Anderson family is the majority stockholder.