Management Compensation Group, Northwest, LLC, doing business as M Benefit Solutions, provides executive benefits and compensation services to various companies in the United States. It designs, implements, administers, and structures funding for executive benefit plans. The company specializes in various types of executive benefit plans, including deferred compensation plans, supplemental executive retirement plans, executive life insurance, long-term disability, and long-term care. It provides consulting services in the areas of nonqualified benefit plan mechanics, competitive analysis, current trends, plan design, communication to corporate management and executives, legislative issues, and industry-specific issues. The company also offers client administration services, such as benefit projections and reconciliations, statements, annual reviews/revaluations, compliance monitoring, asset accounting, and plan documents. In addition, it provides actuarial services, such as annual quantifications and projections of corporate liabilities, cash flow requirements, and earnings impact associated with plans; updates of benefit projections and funding asset values based on current data; calculations for proxy disclosure; and calculation and certification of benefits. The company was founded in 1962 and is based in Portland, Oregon. Management Compensation Group, Northwest, LLC is a subsidiary of M Financial Holdings Incorporated.

International Scholarship and Tuition Services (ISTS), formerly Scholarship Program Administrators, is betting on businesses' generosity and interest in higher education. ISTS is an independent, for-profit administrator of sponsored scholarships and tuition reimbursement programs for businesses, associations, unions, foundations, and other organizations. Some of ISTS's services include application preparation, winner selection and notification, and academic tracking. ISTS' clients have included McDonald's, Home Depot, QUALCOMM, and Wal-Mart. ISTS was started in 1985 and is owned by President Becky Sharpe. ISTS has quickly embraced many of the advances in technology taking advantage of both the logistical and environmental benefits. A leader in the application of green principles to the scholarship and tuition program industry, ISTS offers clients the opportunity to join this movement with our Green Certification program for clients.

U.S. Vision, Inc. operates as a retailer of optical products and services through retail optical departments. Its retail optical departments are full-service retail vision care stores that offer a wide selection of designer brands and private label prescription eyewear, contact lenses, sunglasses, ready made readers and accessories. Also, an on-premises, independent doctor of optometry performs complete eye examinations and prescribes eyeglasses and contact lenses. The company offers a full selection of men's, women's, and children's eyeglass frames, a complete line of contact lenses, sunglasses, ready-made readers, and ancillary products for eyeglasses and contact lenses. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Glendora, New Jersey. As of March 6, 2006, U.S. Vision, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Refac Optical Group, Inc.

Detector Electronics Corporation, a UTC Fire and Security Company, is a global leader in industrial hazard safety solutions, providing flame detection, gas detection, and hazard mitigation systems for critical industrial applications. We design, build, test, and commission SIL-2 flame and gas safety systems that range from conventional panels to fault-tolerant, addressable systems. Our flame and gas detectors are globally certified to the latest product approval standards. When the pipes are about to blow, Detector Electronics sounds the alarm. The company, also called Det-Tronics, makes electrical detection products used to monitor industrial facilities for fire and gas leaks. Using UV, MIR, and fiber optics technology, sensors are designed to detect hazardous heat variations, radiation, and combustible and toxic gases. Its products, sold through more than 70 offices worldwide, are used to protect applications including offshore oil platforms, gas pipelines, subway systems, and aerospace and defense projects. Det-Tronics is part of UTC Fire & Security, a division of United Technologies.

BDO is an award-winning, UK Member Firm of BDO International, the world's fifth largest accountancy network with more than 1,000 offices in over 100 countries, including affiliates.We specialise in helping businesses, whether start-ups or multinationals, to achieve their goals. Through our own professional expertise and by working directly with organisations, we've developed a robust understanding of the factors that govern business growth. Our objective is to use this to help our clients maximise their potential. bdo have a partner-led approach, which delivers the highest quality of service by using short, functional chains of communications to aid decision-making. Clients benefit from our fresh thinking, constructive challenge and practical understanding of the issues they face. Developing strong, personal relationships with our clients is at the forefront of our service approach.

ChildFund International (CFI) serves the little ones. The worldwide non-profit organization provides education, medical care, food, and safe water to more than 13 million children -- of all faiths -- in about 30 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the US. ChildFund International, USA works in areas of early childhood development, education, family income generation, nutrition, and sanitation. ChildFund International, USA also tries to get child soldiers away from the military and reintegrated into daily life. Founded in 1938 as China's Children Fund, ChildFund International, USA changed its name to Christian Children's Fund in 1951. In 2009 it again renamed itself ChildFund International.

The Datamonitor Group is a world-leading provider of premium global business information, delivering independent data, analysis and opinion across the Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics & Express, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Retail, Sourcing, Technology and Telecoms industries.Datamonitor have established a strong reputation for providing clients with the information they need to make better business decisions in their competitive environments.

Acabo Recruiting Services provides executive search services, specializing in the financial and accounting professions. The company manages the entire search process, including developing candidate criteria, researching and recruiting possible employees, facilitating interviews, background checking, and assisting with final offers. Acabo works on a retained or contingency basis. Managing director Abby Castellanos founded the firm, which serves companies primarily in Florida, in 2002. The company gets its name from Acabo, the Spanish word for "I finish; I complete."

Ident-A-Kid is a name that has become synonymous with child safety. Nationally recognized, the Ident-A-Kid brand is respected for leading the child safety industry with innovative products, the latest technology, and community focused training and services. Our products are used in over 250 locations across the country and have been praised by business and academic leaders for over 20 years. Over those years, the Ident-A-Kid program has produced millions more ID cards than all other programs combined! But more importantly, as the needs of parents have changed and technology continues to evolve, Ident-A-Kid has remained committed to providing the very latest in products, services and systems to keep kids safe. It’s these principles that guide our management team at our headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, and our national network of Ident-A-Kid franchisees.

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) has a lot to bark, meow, and crow about. The group is a not-for-profit trade organization that comprises more than 1,000 pet products manufacturers and importers. The APPA promotes pet ownership and pet products and monitors legislation and regulation and responds to both. It also provides its members with services such as market and scientific research. The group's annual Pet Products Trade Show is the largest of its kind. In 2009 APPA teamed up with Pet Industry Distributors Association to host the first annual Global Pet Expo. The group was founded in 1958 as the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.

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