West Nippon Expressway (NEXCO-West) helps move Hondas along Hiroshima Highway, Toyotas up Tokushima Highway and Subarus around Sanyo Expressway. It manages a network of toll roads in Western Japan, including the Meishin Expressway, the Kyushu Expressway, and the Chugku Expressway. NEXCO-West handles toll collection, traffic control, and the inspection, maintenance, and repair of expressways and related facilities. To diversify, it added the Kansai International Airport Access Bridge and a hotel business to its portfolio. One of three regional companies (along with East Nippon Expressway and Central Nippon Expressway), it was established in 2005 when the Japan Highway Public Corp. was divided and privatized. NEXCO-West is ready to expand its business field overseas using its knowledge and technology obtained in Japan. Contributing to the economic growth of developing countries through road construction and operations. Working on information exchange for the future R&D of road engineering and technology. Joining in PPP projects using its highway management experiences.

The National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) provides health and social services to abused or neglected children, disabled individuals, and the elderly. The not-for-profit and its Disciples Benevolent Services unit offer residential programs, day care centers, counseling services, and other programs to about 20,000 people annually. National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church boasts facilities in Alabama, California, and Missouri after a Chapter 11 restructuring spurred it to shutter its nursing homes. NBA was founded in 1887 by a women's prayer circle to "extend the hand of Christ to those who cannot care for themselves."

Visa Canada is a subsidiary of the leading credit card company in the world, Visa Inc. (formerly Visa International). With approximately 30 million cards in circulation, about two of every three credit card-carrying Canadians have a Visa card. Its cards are accepted at more than 550,000 locations and some 20,000 automated teller machines (ATMs) throughout the country and Canadians make more than $250 billion worth of purchases and withdrawals on their Visa cards annually. Although Visa Canada does not issue cards or credit, it does provide transaction authorization and marketing support services to its member banks.

Haynes and Boone is a relatively young law firm, but one with an impressive and respected history. We began from the efforts and dreams of one lawyer, Richard Haynes, who was soon joined by his colleague and former student Mike Boone. Together they and many other talented individuals built an organization around collaboration and mutual respect, and on absolute dedication to providing clients with value. Richard D. Haynes opened his solo law office in Dallas. The son of an Ada, Oklahoma hardware merchant, he had practiced as both an in-house counsel and a member of a larger firm before following his entrepreneurial instincts. While he was teaching a securities law seminar, he met Michael M. Boone, a student at the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University. Upon graduating in 1967, Boone joined Haynes in practice.

Southern Research Institute performs contract research in areas such as drug development and discovery, engineering, and environmental and energy issues. The not-for-profit organization launched a life science R&D consulting firm, BioSafety Solutions, in 2008. Southern Research Institute's clients have included government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Defense, and NASA as well as corporate clients Mercedes-Benz and Southern Company. Southern Research Institute tests anti-influenza and anti-HIV drugs for NanoViricides Inc. Founded in 1941, Southern Research Institute has been affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1999.

The Call Center Network (known as The Call Center Group) helps recruit the people who call you during dinnertime. The firm provides worldwide, professional recruiting services exclusively for the call center market. Serving an array of industries, the group recruits call center managers, trainers, and operations staff, along with other personnel, for new locations and existing centers undergoing expansion; it specializes in recruiting middle and upper-middle managers. Customers have included Cox Communications, MBNA, and Starwood Hotels and Resorts.

Extraordinary events are business as usual for Andrea Michaels. Andrea Michaels, doing business as Extraordinary Events, provides a variety of trade show, corporate, and consumer event services. The company's offerings encompass planning, logistics, entertainment booking, production, and all the other minute details necessary to pull off a successful event. Clients have included BCBG Max Azria, Daimler, Mary Kay, Mattel, Procter & Gamble, and United Space Alliance. Founded in 1988 by president Andrea Michaels, the company has offices in the US and Mexico.

Marriott Consulting brings results, not a better night's sleep. The firm provides coaching and business consulting to the senior management teams of corporations, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. It assists clients with strategy development, financial planning, and productivity improvement, through retreats, workshops, Web conferences, and executive coaching. The firm also offers assessment services including customer and employee satisfaction surveys and stakeholder (such as investors, vendors, or regulatory agencies) feedback surveys.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded to ensure that the promises of the civil rights movement became a reality for all. The civil rights movement had ushered in the promise of racial equality as new laws ended legal apartheid in the United States. But the new laws had not yet brought the fundamental changes needed in the South. Blacks were still excluded from good jobs, decent housing, elective office, a quality education and a range of other opportunities. There were few places for the disenfranchised and the poor to turn for justice. Enthusiasm for the civil rights movement had waned and few lawyers in the South were willing to take controversial cases to test new civil rights laws.

Pencom Systems Incorporated was founded in 1973. Pencom Systems Incorporated provides recruitment services for high-technology and scientific professionals to the financial services industry in the United States. The company focuses on recruiting quantitative analysts, strategists, and developers for investment banking, traditional fund management, and alternative investment management companies for their teams in derivatives research, as well as in systematic, algorithmic, and proprietary trading. Its services include full-time recruitment; contracting/consulting for short-term recruiting; onsite engagements; executive placements; and online recruiting.

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