California girls, bi-coastal business model, global reach. L.A. Models is a full-service modeling agency focusing on clients on the West Coast. Its sister company, New York Model Management, does business in the traditional fashion hub of Manhattan. Founded by Heinz Holba in the mid-1980s, L.A. Models is the largest international modeling agency on the West Coast. The company is a leading sponsor of the annual L.A. Looks Model Search Contest, a professional talent contest that provides the winner and runner-up with modeling contracts. Holba also runs sister agency L.A. Talent, which seeks commercial and theatrical opportunities for its modeling clients.

OPD Group plc provides recruitment services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company offers senior executive and board level appointments for specialist practices, including life sciences; business and professional services; consumer goods; retail and leisure; education; financial services; health and social care; industrial products and services; local government; natural resources, energy and utilities; sports; technology; and not-for-profit. It also provides executive and management recruitment services for specialist markets, such as technology, information technology (IT), finance and banking, marketing and sales, property and construction, customer contact, law, human resources, and leisure and hospitality. In addition, the company provides executive search and selection services for a range of senior management disciplines, including consumer goods and services, industry, healthcare, financial services, finance and IT, interim, and technology and communications. Further, it specializes in executive and management recruitment for the leisure and hospitality industries in various specialist divisions, including hotels, restaurants, leisure, facilities and contract management, bars and retail catering, sales and marketing, chefs, and sports.

The McFadden Group does its best to help Kansan businesses stay on the right path. The certified public accounting firm offers a range of accounting, tax, technology, and management consulting services to area organizations. Its business services include start-up consulting, bookkeeping, payroll services, and tax planning. The McFadden Group also prepares tax returns and offers other services to individuals. President Brenda McFadden bought the firm in 1998.

LMS is a non-asset-based, third party logistics firm that empowers manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to gain competitive advantages through optimal transportation management. Through its transportation management software and services, LMS helps shippers significantly improve their safety, customer service and financial performance. Emerging from a transportation logistics division at Monsanto in 1996, LMS has quickly become a formidable contender within the highly competitive third party logistics (3PL) industry. Boasting an enviable client roster and exceptional growth, LMS earned a spot on Inc. magazine's 2006 ranking of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the country. Today, LMS brings freight management solutions and millions of dollars in savings to some of the world's best-known companies, including BASF and Monsanto.

Common Sense Advisory is an independent Massachusetts-based market research company. We help companies profitably grow their international businesses and gain access to new markets and new customers. Our focus is on assisting our clients to operationalize, benchmark, optimize, and innovate industry best practices in translation, localization, interpreting, globalization, and internationalization.

Staff force, Inc. (dba Staff force personnel Services) is the largest privately held temporary staffing company in Texas. Formed in 1989, Staff Force has grown organically and through acquisition to 15 branch locations concentrated in major metropolitan markets as well as the Rio Grande Valley. The corporate office is located in Houston. The core business is light industrial temporary staffing with additional emphasis on clerical, technical, hospitality, skills and trades, and payrolling. The key to your success has been to offer a quality product at a reasonable price while providing out client base with benefits, which include worker’s compensation insurance, medical insurance, training, payroll through debit cards or direct deposit, and some vacation and holiday benefits.

Smart Move provides a better way of moving and storage solutions, compared to other self moving companies with the fastest, most secure method in the industry. Offering residential and commercial moving and storage solutions, Smart Move is committed to protecting your most important personal and professional assets. Led by a professional team with expertise in moving and storage, logistics and asset management, Smart Move is making self moving easier for homeowners and business professionals nationwide. Unlike traditional self moving companies that plan your move when it’s convenient for them, Smart Move allows you to control the timing and pace of your move on your schedule and within your budget.

BKD understands clients want an advisor who provides more than just accounting solutions. Our CPAs and advisors offer specialized skills and expertise, as well as the winning attitude, character, communication skills and behavior necessary to help clients achieve their objectives. Accounting for numbers—accurately, objectively and with integrity—is at the heart of our business. But we are also professional, prepared, attentive and ready to deliver our services with PRIDE (passion, respect, integrity, discipline and excellence). BKD you get a trusted, top-tier accounting firm that understands your business and provides unmatched client service. That’s what we mean when we say Experience BKD.

4th Wave helps IT and high-tech companies ride the currents of the communications and computing technology markets. The consulting firm provides such services as customized market research, competitive assessment, product planning, and economic modeling. It offers advice on investment strategy and mergers and acquisitions. 4th Wave produces an e-mail newsletter called the WAVE Report. Customers include large and small companies in the e-commerce, multimedia, semiconductor, and computer hardware and software markets. The company also offers digital photography that can be licensed or purchased. 4th Wave was started by president John Latta in 1989.

BPP Professional Education is about developing careers. BPP Holdings plc trains people for the qualifications they need to become business professionals. Thousands of accountants, tax practitioners, lawyers, insolvency practitioners, actuaries, financial services professionals, and marketing practitioners have gained their qualifications studying with BPP. Business professionals face an ever-tougher working environment: increasing regulation, nationally and internationally, and ever-higher standards demanded from government and customers. BPP’s mission in the developing professional economy is to train people starting out on their careers, and to support them with continuing professional development once they are qualified. BPP leads the field, not only in client-friendly, time-efficient course design, but also in their unsurpassed investment in course materials and targeted publications. BPP aim is to empower students to succeed, whatever learning environment they choose – classroom learning, supported distance learning, e-learning, blended learning and published products for self study.

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