P. Murphy & Associates is an information technology staffing firm, filling positions in database administration, software development, Web development, project management, and quality assurance, among others areas. Founded in 1981, P. Murphy & Associates, Inc. provides staff on a contract, contract-to-hire, or direct placement basis. Its southern California client base has included Universal Studios and Kaiser Permanente, as well as various government agencies.

Simon & Simon were PIs; Simpson & Simpson are CPAs. The accounting firm, which has offices in Los Angeles and Alabama, provides accounting, auditing, tax, and management consulting services to such clients as government and not-for-profit organizations, as well as transportation agencies, construction companies, health care providers, and churches and other religious organizations. Simpson & Simpson was founded in 1976 by Brainard and Carl Simpson.

Defender Direct is the little dealer that could. From its humble homegrown beginnings, the former local security systems distributor has blossomed into the #1 authorized dealer of ADT Security Services and one of the top five DISH Network and GE Security dealers in the US. It sells and installs home security and satellite TV services in 40 states, with plans to add more home technology offerings, such as DSL and Internet, to its distributorship. Defender Direct was founded by president and CEO Dave Lindsey and wife Jessica in 1998.

Diversified Restaurant Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, owns, and operates restaurants in the United States. As of December 31, 2008,it owned and operated 15 franchised Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants located in Florida and Michigan, as well as 2 Bagger Dave's restaurants. Diversified Restaurant Holdings Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Southfield, Michigan.

The organization now known as Berlitz International, Inc. was founded in 1878 by Maximilian D. Berlitz in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Descended from a long line of teachers and mathematicians, Maximilian Berlitz grew up in the Black Forest region of Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1870 and arrived prepared to teach Greek, Latin, and six other European languages according to the strict traditionalist grammar-translation approach. After building a successful career as a private teacher, Berlitz joined the Warner Polytechnic College as a professor of French and German language instruction. The college, however, was less imposing than its name, and Berlitz found himself at once owner, dean, principal, and only faculty member. Needing an assistant to teach French, Berlitz hired a young Frenchman who appeared to be the most promising candidate, possibly because of the impeccable French in his letter of application. The applicant, Nicholas Joly, arrived in Providence to find his new employer ill and feverish from overwork, a condition that only worsened when Berlitz learned that Joly spoke no English! Desperate to keep the school running with Joly at the helm, Berlitz instructed his new assistant to point at objects and act out verbs as best he could. He then took to his bed. Berlitz emerged anxiously six weeks later prepared to face the wrath of his neglected students. Instead, he found them engaging in lively question-and-answer exchanges with their teacher, in elegantly accented French! The seriousness of the formal classroom was gone, and most importantly, the students had progressed further than any ever had under six weeks of his own tutelage. Berlitz quickly concluded that his emergency measure held the seed of an innovative teaching technique. By replacing rote learning with a discovery process that kept students active and interested, it solved many of the problems that had plagued language instruction in the past.

Allied Security Innovations (formerly Digital Descriptor Systems) sells computer-based image capture devices and management systems. Its Compu-Capture system incorporates such features as fingerprint matching and description text identifying aliases, hair color, facial scars, or physical deformities to law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities worldwide. Its Compu-Sketch product allows a person with no artistic ability to create composite sketches of potential suspects. The company's CGM Security Solutions subsidiary makes security seals, tapes, and related packaging security systems.

MarketBridge Corp. provides sales and marketing services. It offers strategy services, such as diagnostic assessment, strategy development, organizational change, and operational implementation; analytics; digital marketing services, including digital media, direct marketing, channel enablement, and distributed content; and sales services, which include hybrid sales channels, integrated telesales teams, and integrated Web sales. The company also provides DemandStream, a B2B marketing solution that generates demand through integrated marketing tactics; SalesStream, a multi-channel sales and marketing solution; DemandAnalytics, an application of predictive analytics to improve ROI, share-of-wallet, and customer loyalty; and SalesAnalytics for deploying sales resources across multiple channels. Its clients include financial services, technology, communications and media, and life sciences industries. MarketBridge Corp. was formerly known as Oxford Associates, Inc. and changed its name to MarketBridge Corp. in September 2000. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Toronto, Canada; London, the United Kingdom; and Singapore, Singapore.

Stradley Ronon has helped private and public companies – from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations – achieve their goals. With six offices and more than 195 attorneys located throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Stradley Ronon is proud to have helped companies manage their legal challenges so they can focus on growing their businesses. Stradley Ronon serves clients’ needs across the country and around the world through our unique relationship with Meritas – the world’s largest association of independent business and commercial litigation firms. As the only law firm in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania with access to a network of more than 5,800 lawyers in nearly 200 cities and 66 countries, we are in the position to provide our clients with access to information about local laws and business practices in all major markets.

Avis Rent A Car System maintains more than 2,260 locations, primarily in the US and Canada but also in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company owns about 1,300 of its locations; franchisees operate the rest. A separate company with rights to the Avis name, UK-based Avis Europe, operates in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. Together with sister company Budget Rent A Car System, Avis Rent A Car System has a fleet of more than 380,000 rental cars. The premium Avis fleet averages about 217,500 vehicles. The company is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, the remaining unit of the former Cendant conglomerate.

Financial Dynamics, Ltd. provides communications consultancy services. The company’s services include business and management consulting services, capital market communications, brand and marketing communications, internal communications, issues management, crisis management, public affairs, creative design, and media and presentation training. It serves business services, consumer industries, financial services, industrials, life sciences and healthcare, media, professional services, public sector, real estate, technology and telecom, and travel sectors. Financial Dynamics, Ltd. was formerly a subsidiary of Cordiant Communications Group plc. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom, with a network of additional offices across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. As of October 3, 2006, Financial Dynamics, Ltd. Is a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.

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