Maid Brigade provides residential cleaning services through nearly 400 franchise locations in the US and Canada. The company offers one-time and recurring housecleaning services, including oven, bath tub, floor, and window cleaning. Maid Brigade is "green clean" certified -- which means it exclusively uses health and environmentally friendly cleaning products. Don Hay, who founded the company in Toronto in 1979, owns Maid Brigade. When its headquarters were moved to Atlanta in 1985, the company began franchising.

Kroll is the world’s leading risk consulting company. For more than 30 years, Kroll has helped companies, government agencies and individuals reduce their exposure to risk and capitalize on business opportunities. Kroll is an operating unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., the global professional services firm. Kroll could tell you what it does, but then, of course, it would have to charge you. The risk consulting company is made up of business units such as Background Screening (pre-employment background checking, drug testing, surveillance services); Litigation Support and Data Recovery (trial consulting, electronic surveillance, computer forensics and other technology services); and Consulting Services (business intelligence, investigations, crisis emergency management, security consulting). The firm has offices in about 65 cities in more than 30 countries. Kroll was founded in 1972 by Jules Kroll. It is a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Companies.

From its beginnings in a schoolhouse in lower Manhattan, Columbia University has grown to encompass two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and the modern Medical Center further uptown, in Washington Heights. Today, Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting pathbreaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

Academy Bus was founded in 1968. Academy Bus Tours offers charter bus services in the eastern US. Academy Bus Tours company operates throughout New Jersey and in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, as well as in New England and in the mid-Atlantic states. Customers have included school and tour groups, including those bound for Atlantic City's casinos; in addition, Academy Bus has provided transportation services under contract with state-owned New Jersey Transit. Academy Bus Tours company operates a fleet of about 600 buses.

Securitas is the most locally-focused security company in the United States, with over 450 local branch managers and more than 100,000 security officers who provide unmatched security solutions to meet the specific needs of thousands of businesses. Securitas USA’s services include guarding services, patrols and inspections, access control, concierge and receptionist services, security console operators, alarm response, and specialized client requested services. In 1999, Securitas developed a platform in North America with Pinkerton’s, Inc., the company’s largest acquisition to date. During the next year, Securitas purchased several more U.S. security companies, and acquired Burns International in August 2000. In July 2003, the combined American acquisitions became Securitas Security Services USA, Inc., a leading security company that works with more than 80 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies and has annual revenues in excess of $2.5 billion. Today, Securitas has operations in over 30 countries worldwide.

Elwyn is a unique organization. Founded in 1852, Elwyn has been providing services to people with special needs for over 155 years. Today, Elwyn is nationally recognized as a pioneer in developing groundbreaking programs for children and adults with disabilities and disadvantages. Elwyn a not-for-profit organization that serves some 12,000 disabled and disadvantaged people of all ages at multiple sites through education, rehabilitation, and vocational counseling. Elwyn also operates residential communities, including more than 80 group homes and apartments, and provides a variety of health care services for persons with developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities. Elwyn also publishes training materials and hosts conferences and seminars for human services professionals. Founded in 1852 as a school for children with mental retardation, Elwyn is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the US.

Connecting Singapore and the UK by bus or taxi would pose considerable logistical difficulties, but ComfortDelGro's mix of businesses bridges the gap. The transportation holding company controls Singapore-based bus and rail operator SBS Transit and taxi companies Comfort Transportation and CityCab, along with interests in diesel fuel sales and automobile inspection, leasing, repair, and sales businesses. Singapore accounts for the majority of the company's sales, but ComfortDelGro also has significant bus and taxi operations in several markets in the UK and Ireland, as well as in China and Australia. The company was formed in 2003 from the merger of Comfort Group and DelGro Corporation.

Oliver Wyman, Inc. (OWI) offers management consulting services. The firm provides strategic planning, organizational redesign, risk management, leadership development, pricing optimization, and sales and distributions model transformation services. It also offers product, service portfolio, operations, and customer management consulting services. Additionally, OWI provides information technology organization design and economics management, lean six sigma enterprise transformation, sourcing, and actuarial consulting services. The company caters to aerospace, aviation, chemicals, communications, consumer goods, energy, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, retailing, telecommunications, and transportation industries.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services. With annual revenues of nearly $11 billion, we offer full-spectrum support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets. Services include scientific and specialty consulting as well as all aspects of engineering and construction, and operations and maintenance. Our fundamental business strategy is building long-term client relationships. With more than 60 years in the industry, we have attracted and retained clients by providing superior customer value—in fact, over 90 percent of our work is repeat business from loyal clients. This strategy yields cost advantages, profits, and growth, which allows us to attract and retain investors, and thus fuel further growth. The combination of a loyal client base and steady growth enables us to attract and retain the industry’s top talent. As a result of this sound business strategy we are prospering in diverse markets worldwide. Our global network includes more than 160 offices in more than 20 countries. We have operations in North America, the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, India, Australia, and Asia. Our headquarters are in Pasadena, California.

DLA Piper became one of the largest legal service providers in the world in 2005 through a merger of unprecedented scope in the legal sector. While large in scale, the merger strategy was simple – to create an international legal practice capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. We wanted our clients to rely on receiving the right service for their particular matter, whether requiring seamless coordination across multiple jurisdictions or delivery in a single location. Building strong and substantial client relationships was and remains the compass for DLA Piper's business strategy and future development. With Frank Burch as Chairman of our Global Board, DLA Piper today has 3,500 lawyers in more than 65 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

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