Gold Medal Travel Group thinks its travel packages and services take first prize. As a travel consolidator, the company offers a variety of online travel services and products (airfares, hotel reservations, auto rental) to travel agents throughout the UK. Gold Medal Travel customers can choose from 1,500 destinations and 30,000 hotels in countries around the world. The company concentrates on cruises and on packages to such destinations as Dubai, the Indian Ocean, and South Africa; Canada and the US; the Far East; and Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. In April 2009, European travel giant Thomas Cook Group bought Gold Medal Travel's parent company, holding company Gold Medal International.

Forbes Worldwide is one of the oldest and largest privately-held consulting firms in the world. We are only one of a handful of non-franchised, full-service consulting firms providing global solutions. We have over 30 years experience working with companies ranging in size from start-up to multi-billion dollar international conglomerates. Forbes Worldwide has been a leader in the global services industry for some of the world's most prestigious and successful companies, including the majority of the Global 1000, Euro Top 500, Fortune 500 and Inc. 500 elite. We are frequently a resource for The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, Fortune, Financial Times, and many others, regarding executive trends, market predictions, corporate structure and industry-specific activity.

U.S. Vision, Inc. operates as a retailer of optical products and services through retail optical departments. Its retail optical departments are full-service retail vision care stores that offer a wide selection of designer brands and private label prescription eyewear, contact lenses, sunglasses, ready made readers and accessories. Also, an on-premises, independent doctor of optometry performs complete eye examinations and prescribes eyeglasses and contact lenses. The company offers a full selection of men's, women's, and children's eyeglass frames, a complete line of contact lenses, sunglasses, ready-made readers, and ancillary products for eyeglasses and contact lenses. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Glendora, New Jersey. As of March 6, 2006, U.S. Vision, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Refac Optical Group, Inc.

Shoplifters and crooked retail employees, beware: LP Network is onto you. The company, doing business as Security Source, provides asset protection services to retailers, helping them manage their inventories and prevent "inventory shrinkage" -- losses due to thefts by customers and employees. The firm promotes loss prevention through the use of closed-circuit cameras connected to digital video recording systems and other surveillance tools. The company traces its roots back to 1995; The Staten Group, a consulting and investment firm, acquired the Core Loss Prevention unit of Security Source in 2005 to form LP Network.

The Jameson Group is devoted to the placement of partners, shareholders and groups of lawyers in law firms and to law firm mergers and acquisitions. Throughout our many years of experience, we have placed a multitude of partners, shareholders and partner-level lawyers and have moved millions of dollars in portable business. We are intimately familiar with the complex issues these experienced lawyers face in evaluating their strategic options and exit strategies and are particularly sensitive to their needs. We have successfully consulted with and placed partners, shareholders and partner-level lawyers for over 20 years, through boom times as well as recessionary times.Since the day we opened our doors initially as Charles Bradley Professionals in 1987, we have measured our performance by one standard—client satisfaction. With our determination to provide the best service possible, John Jameson and The Jameson Group quickly rose to national prominence. In April 1988, The American Lawyer in its survey “Report Card on Recruiters,” ranked our firm the best attorney search firm in the United States based upon overall client satisfaction and service. Ten years later, in 1998, The Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Recorder, through their California Law Business periodical, reported on the same level of client satisfaction, listing The Jameson Group as one of the handful of headhunting firms that stand above the rest and receiving the highest praise in both Northern California and Southern California.Today, The Jameson Group continues to be one of the most highly respected and successful attorney recruitment firms in California. And we believe the reason for our success is very simple—client satisfaction.

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants provides management and strategy consulting services through more than 35 offices across 25 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The firm focuses on corporate development, information management, marketing and sales, operations strategy, and restructuring and corporate finance. It operates through competence centers with expertise in sectors including automotive, chemicals and oil, consumer goods, financial services, media, transportation, and telecommunications. Chairman Roland Berger founded the firm in 1967. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants is an independent partnership owned by its 180 partners.

Arrk helps companies develop their information technology infrastructure. Its services include analysis, project management, and training. Arrk also develops much of the software used by its customers, including specialized products to help companies work and communicate with foreign markets. Other services include partial and managed Web-hosting and online-based educational support. Arrk serves the financial services, telecommunications, technology, and government sectors. Clients have included SurfControl, GE Capital, Lex Vehicle Leasing, Bertelsmann and Rochdale Borough Council. Arrk was founded in 1998.

President and CEO George Rogers founded Pridestaff, Inc. in 1978. PrideStaff provides businesses with temporary and permanent staffing in the areas of office support, finance and accounting, light industrial, legal support, telemarketing, and customer service. Pridestaff company's franchise offices serve small and midsized companies, as well as large multi-national enterprises and US government agencies. PrideStaff has about 30 offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

Action for Employment (A4e) gets an "A" for effort. As a personnel and organizational consulting company, A4e delivers a broad range of consulting and management services focused on programs that benefit individuals, organizations, and communities. Action for Employment Limited helps public sector clients design, develop, and manage job placement services and employment training as well as supporting educators through information and training. The company also assists organizations with research, bid writing, and other services to help secure public funding for development initiatives. A4e also serves the private sector offering business and management advice and employee training. Chairman Emma Harrison founded A4e in 1991.

International Research & Recovery Corporation puts your sparkling personality to work -- albeit postmortem. The company, which primarily does business as LifeGem, creates diamonds from the cremated remains of humans and animals. LifeGem sells memorial diamonds, which cost $3,000 and up. When a LifeGem is ordered, the company sends a specially made carbon collection machine to the funeral home to capture the soon-to-be diamond material. The created diamonds are inspected and graded by trained gemologists. The Herro and VandenBiesen brothers formed the company in 2001 after three years of R&D looking for a unique way to memorialize a loved one or pet.

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