Pearle Europe is one of the region's largest optical retailers. Pearle Europe company owns or franchises about 2,600 optical outlets in nearly 20 European countries, as well as in the Middle East, South Asia, and South America. It operates under multiple banners, including Apollo Optik in Germany, Fotoptica in Brazil, Instru Optiikka in Finland, Ottica Avanzi in Italy, and Vision Express in India. Pearle Europe company was formed in 1996 after its operations were acquired from US-based Pearle Vision. The retailer is owned by investment firm HAL Holding of the Netherlands.

Nationwide Maintenance works to keep other businesses working. A contractor in building maintenance, the company provides a variety of services, including air conditioning and refrigeration, heating and ventilation, lighting and other electrical work, plumbing, ventilation cleaning, and water treatment. Nationwide Maintenance also installs control, fire-alarm, and sprinkler systems and generators. Clients include British Land, Lloyds Bank, Benetton Formula One, and Close Brothers. Nationwide Maintenance operates about a half dozen offices serving most of the UK.

The World Cup of Hockey was first introduced to the world in 1996 as the only ‘best on best’ hockey tournament of its kind. A joint effort by the NHLPA and the NHL, the World Cup has become a premiere event on the international hockey calendar. Using North American sized rinks, the tournament is made up of teams from around the globe and features only the best players in the world, many of whom are NHLPA members. NHL players participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, following the successful participation of NHL players at the ’98 Olympics in Nagano, Japan and the ’02 Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA. In all, 150 NHLers took part in the ice hockey competition in Turin, representing 11 of the 12 competing countries (Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States). In a thrilling gold medal game, Sweden beat Finland to take home the gold.

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."

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.

Dowd Associates is a Boutique and unique executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of senior level financial professionals.The firm is Boutique in that its experienced professionals offer highly personalized service in their efforts to meet and exceed clients’ expectations. Dowd Associates’ professionals are unique in their extraordinary accessibility, nimbleness and results in meeting business objectives within a rapidly changing business environment. If every firm's most valuable asset is its people - and it is - then an executive search firm becomes invaluable when it delivers superior results in its research and recruitment of the best and brightest candidates for clients. Senior executives place an indelible stamp on a company's values and help direct its growth. Successful searches, then, are crucial to companies and their investors. Dowd Associates has built a reputation on identifying executives who are not only outstanding, but whose values fit snuggly within a client's corporate culture.An executive search firm's success depends not only on its state-of-the-art research tools and technologies, though these are important, but also on its relationships nurtured over time with clients and candidates alike.

Founded in 1998 by chairman John Cronin, ipCapital Group provides intellectual property consulting. The company's services help clients identify intellectual capital, turn ideas into assets, and protect their intellectual property. It addresses such issues as business strategy, licensing, competitive intelligence, and research and development costs. ipCapital serves industries including aerospace/defense, biotechnology, chemical, energy, semiconductors, and telecommunications. Clients have included Zettacore, Aristos Logic Corporation, and Boston Scientific.

Copyright Clearance Center represent tens of thousands of authors, publishers and creators from nearly every country in the world, and we license the rights to millions of books, journals, newspapers, websites, ebooks, images, blogs and more. CCC works with other thought leaders, government agencies and policy makers to streamline copyright licensing across the globe. We are a founding member of IFRRO, an international network of reproduction rights organizations (RROs); we have mutual agreements with sister RROs worldwide; and we license individuals in more than 180 countries.

E-xact is a leading provider of fast, secure, and accountable online transaction solutions. Since 1998, we’ve been at the forefront of the emerging world of online exchange with solid and secure transaction processing systems and superb customer service. E-xact Transactions full range of payment processing gateway solutions give everyone a way to get into the e-commerce marketplace; software and website developers, merchants, and financial institutions all have something to gain without incurring high up-front costs or frustration.

FB Johnston Graphics opened for business more than 70 years ago as a friendly, family-run company providing graphic solutions to companies in the Chicago area. FB Johnston Graphics is one of several companies under the ITW BIGG (Branding, Identification and Graphics Group) umbrella. The ITW BIGG family of companies is focused on providing innovative Branding, Identification and Graphic solutions to Point of Purchase (POP) markets and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). FB Johnston Graphics has supplied superior graphic solutions and services to thousands of customers in the U.S. and worldwide. We have earned a first-class reputation for innovation, responsiveness, dependability and a level of service that has consistently led the industry.

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