Miller Zell are a leader in strategic retail design and consulting. Comprised of experienced industry experts, the Miller Zell team represents all disciplines of retail, including Design, Store Implementation, Shopper Marketing, Consumer Insights and Retail Research and Analysis. For nearly four decades, Miller Zell have been designing and delivering world-class retail environments. For us, it’s all about Making The World A Better Place To Shop.

Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves. The organization was founded in 1936 when advertising first flooded the mass media. Consumers lacked a reliable source of information they could depend on to help them distinguish hype from fact and good products from bad ones. Since then CU has filled that vacuum with a broad range of consumer information. To maintain its independence and impartiality, CU accepts no outside advertising and no free samples and employs several hundred mystery shoppers and technical experts to buy and test the products it evaluates. CU publishes Consumer Reports, one of the top-ten-circulation magazines in the country, and ConsumerReports.org, which has the most subscribers of any Web site of its kind, in addition to two newsletters, Consumer Reports on Health and Consumer Reports Money Adviser. They have combined subscriptions of more than 8 million. All of CU’s work is informed by the more than 1 million readers who respond to our Annual Ballot & Questionnaire, among the largest and most comprehensive consumer studies in the world. In 2008, CU also launched several initiatives, including ConsumerReportsHealth.org and the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, which serve to educate and empower consumers to make more informed health-care decisions and to help change the market.

Since 1988, our focus and strength have been to build retail stores into retail chains, and retail chains into bigger retail chains. We accomplish this by utilizing two proven methodologies. The first focuses on sales overnight/brand over time, and the second is through our conserve and dominate approach. Ask us how these approaches have netted up to 1,300% increases in customer awareness and 150% increases in share of dollars, and you’ll also gain insights into why the average tenure of a Barber Martin account is seven years, or three times the industry average of 22 months.

Eric Mower and Associates offers a broad range of advertising and marketing services, including brand promotion and development, consumer advertising, digital relationship marketing, public relations, and public affairs services. The agency has counted such companies as Dresser-Rand, FedEx, and Motorola among its customers. It provides its services through offices in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, New York; as well as in Charlotte, North Carolina; Torrance, California; Sarasota, Florida; and Atlanta. Eric Mower expanded its operations in 2008 by acquiring agencies Mark Russell and Associates and Sawchuk Brown Associates.

The agency's spectrum of services includes corporate and product logo placement, direct mail advertising, investor communications, market research, search engine optimization, tradeshow support, and Web development. Businesses geared towards some of life's bigger concerns -- home, health, and finances -- hire IMRE to turn prospective customers into paying customers. The integrated communications firm offers branding, marketing, public relations, and strategic planning services to leading US companies in the home products, health care, and financial services industries, such as The Home Depot, American National Red Cross, and MetLife.

TIG Global is known for its hospitality. The marketing firm specializes in Internet marketing and interactive services for clients in the hospitality and leisure industries. Services include custom Web site design and development as well as campaign development utilizing search engine optimization, paid search, e-mail marketing, and reputation management services. The company also offers market research, and business consulting services to help clients take advantage of Web 2.0 thinking. TIG serves more than 800 clients located around the world and is headquartered in Washington, DC; it also has a satellite office in London. In early 2010, TIG Global was acquired by computer services firm MICROS Systems.

Detroit Free Press (owned by Gannett), The Detroit News is one of Detroit's two major daily newspapers. (The two papers' business operations are managed by the Detroit Media Partnership, which oversees business, marketing, and manufacturing operations while the newspapers keep separate editorial staffs.) The Detroit News boasts a daily circulation of about 180,000, and also operates on the Web through Detroit News Online. The paper was founded in 1873 and was acquired by Gannett in 1986. It was sold to MediaNews Group in 2005.

NEP Broadcasting has taken its professional teleproduction services on the road. The company specializes in production services for the delivery of live sports and entertainment events serving broadcast networks and other production companies. NEP Broadcasting provides state-of-the-art facilities and engineering expertise to support telecasts of events around the world. The company serves clients through five divisions: NEP Supershooters, NEP Denali, NEP Visions, NEP Screenworks, New Century Productions, and NEP Studios. Supershooters, Denali, Visions, New Century, and Studios all provide production equipment and services focused on various geographic areas and media sectors.

The Chicago Reader is Chicago's largest free weekly newspaper, nationally recognized as a leader in the alternative press. Since 1971, the Reader has served as Chicago's political conscience, cultural guide, and music authority. With a highly targeted-circulation of 100,000 and a consistent return rate of less than 2%, the Chicago Reader is the city's most essential alternative media resource. Known for its in-depth coverage of Chicago politics and culture, the Reader explores and exposes news, events and issues that affect city living. The paper has won numerous journalistic awards and honors, both local and national, and is well-known as a showcase for Chicago's most talented writers, critics, photographers, and illustrators. With a readership of 450,000 and some of the industry's lowest advertising rates, the Chicago Reader is one the largest and most successful alternative weeklies in the country.

Fairfax Media Limited [ASX:FXJ] is Australasia's leading media company. In May, 2007, Fairfax Media and Rural Press Limited completed their merger, creating the largest integrated metropolitan, rural and regional, print and online digital media company in Australasia, with publications and websites in every State and the ACT in Australia, and throughout New Zealand.In Australia, mastheads include The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times, BRW, The Sun-Herald, and The Land.Its New Zealand mastheads include The Dominion Post, The Press, The Sunday Star-Times, TV Guide, NZ House and Garden, and Cuisine. In addition, Fairfax Media publishes regional and community newspapers, financial and consumer magazines, radio licenses in metro and regional Australia and several agricultural publications in New Zealand and the United States.Fairfax Media has leading online businesses Fairfax Digital in Australia (including the #1 online news sites smh.com.au and theage.com.au, and leading classified and transaction websites) and Trade Me and stuff.co.nz in New Zealand.

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