ValleyCrest Companies hits pay dirt with plant care. The company uses its green thumb to provide landscape construction and maintenance, irrigation, golf course construction, lawn care, nurseries, and site engineering. ValleyCrest grows more than 2 million trees (for relocation), maintains indoor and outdoor gardens, and restores wetlands. It also franchises landscape maintenance services. Michael Dell, founder of Dell, controls ValleyCrest with a 51% stake. Founded in 1949 as a small neighborhood landscape retail nursery, ValleyCrest now has more than 100 offices worldwide. Notable clients have included the Nixon Presidential Library, Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Chulabhorn Mahidol (herself a scientist), CRI engages in research, training, and scientific exchange. The institute focuses on natural products, medicinal chemistry and organic synthesis, environmental toxicology, biomedical research, and biotechnology. CRI researches antimalarials and cancer antibodies, and provides a range of educational programs to scientists, academics, and government officials, among others.

Anderson Performance Improvement provides consulting services with a focus on employees. Its programs identify the behaviors of high performers within its client companies and strive to reproduce those behaviors across the entire organization. Areas of expertise include sales acceleration, employee productivity, customer satisfaction, compliance, and employee recognition. Anderson Performance Improvement was founded by president Louise Anderson in 1994.

udd Van Lines consistently delivers Corporate America's Greatest Move. Our unique approach of assigning an entire team to handle each move from start to finish consistently propels us to the highest rated carrier for our customers and offers significantly more control than the typical van line system. Budd Van Lines moves the household goods of employees who are relocating at the behest of their employers, about 6,000 annually. It offers packing and moving services to all 48 contiguous states from branch offices in New Jersey, California, Wisconsin, Georgia, Kansas, and Texas; most of its moves are in the Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast. Companies that have called upon Budd Van Lines to help employees move include Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, Johnson & Johnson, and Texas Instruments.

Tom Maupin had a dream... to help others experience the wonders of our world and the delights of traveling. From what began in the late 1940s as a glimmer in his eye, today is Maupintour, one of the best known and respected names in the travel industry. In 1951, Tom Maupin took a big step in realizing his dream -- he purchased a small travel company in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas, where he had attended college. Soon after, he began creating escorted vacations. Early tour business placed emphasis on the Holy Land. Then in 1956 he seized a golden opportunity. Maupintour became the first company to send tourists into the Soviet Union after World War II. These escorted tours were unprecedented in tourism and received wide national press coverage that instantly established Maupintour as an innovative, forward-thinking company, a reputation that it still maintains. Today, we are still the leader in innovative itineraries. Today, Maupintour is still guided by the traditions and principles instilled by the late Tom Maupin, leadership, quality, variety, value, service and the fulfillment of client's travel dreams.

Ace Relocation Systems is a founding shareholder of Atlas Van Lines. The founder, Reg Lammers, held a seat on the board of directors for Atlas Van Lines from 1994 -2007. Larry Lammers has recently taken position as the Ace representative on the Atlas board; elected to this position in April 2007. Hoping to trump the kings and queens of the moving industry, Ace Relocation Systems provides corporate and household relocation services. The family owned company operates from more than half a dozen offices spread throughout the US. Ace Relocation Systems is an agent of Atlas Van Lines; as an agent, Ace Relocation Systems operates within its assigned geographic territories and cooperates with other Atlas agents on interstate moves. In addition, the company can arrange international moves and provide transportation of items such as trade show exhibits through the Atlas network.

Angel City Designs specializes in making events simply divine. The company designs and produces corporate events, trade shows, parties, and conventions. Angel City Designs work includes custom theme creation, staging concepts, set design and construction, providing unique entertainment concepts, as well as multimedia production services and venue selection. Other services include mobile marketing planning, implementing unique catering concepts, and custom trade show booth design. Clients have included such companies as Fox Broadcasting and Weber Shandwick, as well as such brands as Jose Cuervo and Oakley.

Orion Group UK Ltd. company places more than 4,000 contractors around the globe. Accountants, engineers, geologists, receptionists, laborers, and librarians are but a few of the positions Orion fills. Job categories include oil and gas; power and utilities; construction; information technology; aerospace; rail; office and commercial; and mining. Orion's clients have included AMEC, Taylor Wimpey, TOTAL S.A., and Tyco. The group made its start in 1987 as Orion Engineering Services to provide personnel to rig construction yards in Scotland. The Orion Group operates internationally with some 25 offices and has placed workers in more than 25 countries.

NetSpend Corporation provides reloadable prepaid debit cards and prepaid debit card services to low-to moderate-income consumers in the United States. It offers general purpose reloadable cards, gift cards, TravelMoney cards, and payroll cards. The company’s debit cards enable people to make purchases, pay bills, secure reservations, and shop online without the need for a bank account or credit history. It manages various aspects of the debit card lifecycle ranging from managing the card design and approval processes with partners and associations to production, packaging, distribution, and personalization. The company also oversees inventory and security controls, renewals, and lost and stolen card management and replacement. NetSpend Corporation has a strategic partnership with Capital One. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Austin, Texas.

From RNs in Rhode Island to psychiatrists in St. Croix, Worldwide Travel Staffing (WTS) provides nurses, psychiatrists, and other medical personnel to hospitals in the US, the Caribbean, and about a dozen other international locations. Its 30,000 personnel, in 20 different specialties, staff hospitals and clinics for short- and long-term assignments. Traveling nurses typically make more than their stay-at-home counterparts; WTS also pays standard benefits and referral bonuses. In addition to traditional hospital duty, its staff often volunteers for disaster relief in places like post-Katrina Louisiana, and in South America and Africa. The company, which was formed in 1993, is owned by its employees.

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