The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo puts on one of North America's largest festivals. Since the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was established, it has made an impressive footprint on the livestock and entertainment industries and in the sport of rodeo. Proceeds from the not-for-profit group's annual show support scholarship programs. The show also is designed to promote better breeding and improved marketing of livestock. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Inc. draws thousands of entries, including both animals and works of art. Show winners are sold at auction for prices that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo events are held at Reliant Stadium, home to the NFL's Houston Texans, and surrounding venues. The first show was held in 1932.

Costamar Travel Cruise & Tours wants to take you coast to coast con clase. The agency, which caters to Spanish-speaking vacationers, provides travel services to customers through more than 65 offices in the US and about 15 offices in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The company books air, car, cruise, hotel, and vacation packages for travel throughout Central, North, and South America as well as Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The Costamar Club offers members discounts on air fare and other travel arrangements. Costamar was founded in 1980.

Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE Enterprises), a not-for-profit corporation, enables inmates in some 20 Florida prisons to learn job skills. PRIDE operates in about 40 industries, employing inmates in activities such as furniture making, license plate embossing, meat processing, and eyewear production. Customers such as schools, local governments, and nonprofits buy the products made by the inmates. PRIDE also offers labor outsourcing to private businesses. Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises revenue is dedicated to inmate room and board, inmate wages and transition services, and victim restitution. PRIDE was founded in 1981.

Unionization in baseball goes back almost as far as the professional game itself. Opposed to baseball’s reserve clause and a growing movement led by Albert Spalding to cap players’ salaries, John Montgomery Ward and eight other players in 1885 formed the first players union in baseball -- the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players. That was nine years after the creation of the National League and six years before the American League came into existence. Other attempts to organize players included the creation of the Players' Protective Association in 1900, the Fraternity of Professional Baseball Players of America in 1912, and the American Baseball Guild in 1946.

As the premier provider of anti-terrorist and crash-rated perimeter protection products, B&B ARMR designs, manufactures and distributes the most extensive line of security gates and operators, crash-rated bollards, barriers, wedges and crash beams to critical DOS standards. For facilities and environments requiring the highest level of protection, B&B ARMR is well positioned to act as the first line of defense for the nation’s critical infrastructures vital to our national security, economy, public health and safety.Since its beginning in 1925, B&B ARMR equipment has been installed in thousands of locations worldwide. Our road and bridge division has been a crucial component in the evolution of our nation’s transportation infrastructure, and for the past five years, B&B ARMR has placed an intensive focus on engineering superior crash-rated, perimeter protection products. B&B ARMR makes traffic control products such as crash barriers and perimeter security gates, as well as railroad crossing safety barriers and warning gates. It also offers software that can be used to manage multiple security systems. The company's barriers are used at government and commercial facilities, including the Pentagon, the San Diego Naval Station, the headquarters of General Electric, and several overseas embassies. B&B ARMR has combined its road and bridge barrier division with a unit of Causey Lyon Enterprises to form a joint venture, B&B Roadway. The company traces its roots to 1925; it is now a subsidiary of Integrated Security Systems, a provider of homeland security products and services.

RDA Advantage Marketing Associates is an international alliance of wholesalers providing a wide range of the janitorial, safety and industrial maintenance products. RDA Advantage Marketing Associates, Inc. are strictly wholesale, and do not sell our products to end-user accounts of any kind. Advantage provides over 5,000 items to distributors through our own specially designed programs and those of our suppliers. Most of our products are available on a just in time basis through a network of more than 31 regional distribution centers in the United States and across Canada.

Since 1992, SDI International Corp. (SDI) has continued to push our competition and the marketplace in relation to best practices within the business and workforce solutions industries. We strive to provide responsive, quality-driven supply chain management programs and technical and professional talent acquisition services.

PiR Group has a stable of senior executives ready to help run your pharmaceutical company or research project. Established in 1990, the management recruiting company offers executive search, advertising, and interim position recruitment services for medical and life sciences companies. Established clients include major pharmas and contract research organizations such as Roche Diagnostics, Abbott Laboratories, and Evotec. PiR also works with emerging pharma firms that are building staffs from scratch.

Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world. Points of Light Institute have the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges. Bush as the Points of Light Foundation, the group promotes US volunteerism. It became the Points of Light Institute in August 2007 when it merged with the HandsOn Network. It operates through a trio of businesses that include HandsOn Network, MissionFish, and the Civic Incubator. HandsOn tackles projects, such as building wheel chair ramps, through its more than 250 affiliates. MissionFish, which allows sellers on eBay to donate some of their earnings to not-for-profits, has raised more than $125 million to assist some 15,000 nonprofits worldwide.

The Sheridan Group is comprised of six printing companies focused on journal, magazine, catalog and book markets. The Sheridan Group are a leading provider of a full range of printing and publishing services to associations, publishers, university presses, and catalog merchants. Collectively, The Sheridan Group companies have over 425 combined years of experience in printing. Management responsibility for the individual TSG companies is decentralized to enable a high level of responsiveness to customer needs while still benefiting from large-company resources. Synergies among our companies include: reapplication of best practices, financial resources, purchasing power, management and technology development, shared specialized services, and backup capacity which enhance our ability to provide superior service, high quality products, and reliable schedules.

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