Emily and David Broom founded Broom & Broom, Inc. in 1980. The independent creative design firm offers its services for a variety of products, including annual reports, marketing collateral, packaging, Web sites, corporate signage, events, and multimedia presentations. It has worked for such clients as 24 Hour Fitness, Bank of America, McKesson, National Semiconductor, and Williams-Sonoma.

Brown & Bigelow was founded in 1896. Brown & Bigelow designs, manufactures, and sells corporate promotional products, primarily calendars of several sizes and formats. It also offers pens, USB flash drives, apparel, and other items. The firm is known for having commissioned works by renowned artists such as Norman Rockwell and Cassius Coolidge (who created the paintings of those poker-playing, cigar-smoking dogs). It sold its Hoyle playing card division to U.S. Playing Card in 2001.

Brunswick was founded in 1987 by Alan Parker. The Brunswick Group is neither Canadian nor concerned with bowling. It is an international public relations and corporate communications agency with about three offices in the US and another dozen in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The company provides communication services in such disciplines as media and investor relations, regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, employee communications, crisis management, and corporate campaigns. The firm's clients have included BT, Marks and Spencer, the Bank of Scotland, and Shell Oil.

Buchanan Communications company, one of many subsidiaries of global advertising bigwig WPP, offers a variety of financial communications services. Clients use Buchanan's help to get their financial message across to current and prospective investors. The firm, which operates from offices in London and Edinburgh, has teams dedicated to investor relations, initial public offerings, and mergers-and-acquisition communications. Its client list includes soft drink maker A.G. Barr, the London Stock Exchange, Majestic Wine, and Oxford BioMedica.

Bulldog Solutions company helps salespeople looking to generate revenue by creating custom marketing campaigns, including Webinars, podcasts, white papers, e-mail blasts, and Web site ads. Bulldog tracks, analyzes, and breaks down benchmarking data into easy-to-read language and graphs for clients in the financial services, health care, insurance, publishing, and telecom industries. Among its major clients are IBM, Bank of America, and Intel. The firm was founded by CEO Rob Solomon and President Todd Davison.

Burson-Marsteller was established in 1953 by Harold Burson and Bill Marsteller and joined the Young & Rubicam group of companies in 1979. Young & Rubicam is a subsidiary of media services conglomerate WPP Group. Burson-Marsteller is a one-stop shop for public relations services. It offers a range of related services, including advertising, brand building, investor and media relations, crisis management, and Internet strategy and Web development. Serving such clients as SmithKline Beecham, American Airlines, and Champion Enterprises, the company operates through nearly 130 offices (including affiliates) in more than 90 countries.

Burst Media Corporation sells advertising on its network of more than 5,900 websites, which cater to surfers seeking specialized content. It offers advertising packages that cover the whole network and smaller packages focusing on a specific category or a few selected sites. Burst Media's AdConductor software automates a variety of services, including inventory management, ad performance reporting, and ad delivery. Burst Media company also operates a targeted e-mail delivery service. Clients have included Ask.com, General Mills, and T-Mobile USA.

BtB Marketing Communications is a full-service business-to-business marketing communications firm. BtB is not your typical ad agency or design studio. Our integrated Identity Marketing™ approach analyzes your needs to develop the right mix of public relations, online, direct marketing or advertising to generate leads for your company. BtB provides media planning and buying, excellent creative, tradeshow design, website development, and interactive marketing.

Butler, Shine, Stern, and Partners (BSSP) offers disciplined services that make brands shine. The mid-size agency provides a large range of advertising and marketing services offering clients expertise in marketing and web development, brand identity and design, and strategic brand consulting. Butler, Shine, Stern, and Partners LLC was founded in 1993 and as a member of Worldwide Partners Inc., a global network of independent agencies, can serve the needs of clients from around the world. One of the largest independent agencies on the West Coast, BSSP's list of clients has included Columbia Sportswear, LucasArts, Greyhound, and VeriSign.

C.A. Short Company plans and manages employee recognition and safety awareness programs to its clients, which have included Fiserv and Knoll. Its service recognition programs provide packages acknowledging employees' performance and longevity. Its Safety Awareness/Incentive segment provides customized safety instructions and rewards for safety practices. Other reward programs include attendance, sales, and birthdays. C.A. Short's prizes have included brand-name items from RCA, Sony, and Waterford. Chairman Robert Davis and his son, CEO Charles Davis, took the company private in 2002 and became its majority shareholders.

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