Artsmarketing was founded in 1982. Artsmarketing Services manages telemarketing and telefundraising campaigns in Canada and the US. It specializes in selling subscriptions for its clients' performing arts campaigns. The company serves not-for-profit organizations such as community health organizations, museums, zoos, dance companies, symphonies, educational institutions, opera companies, and public broadcasting. Clients have included the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Washington National Opera, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Palm Pictures is an entertainment company with operations devoted to film and music. The company releases about ten movies theatrically per year in genres such as drama, documentary, and musical film. It also acquires and distributes projects for DVD, such as The Basketball Diaries, Sex and Lucia, and the 15th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense. Other holdings include Blue Mountain Music (music publishing) and Arthouse Films (specialty film library). The company additionally operates Palm Pictures UK through an office in London. Palm Pictures was founded in 1998 by influential music industry exec Chris Blackwell, who helped further the careers of Steve Winwood, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, and U2.

It was in 1973 when we developed the industry's first dealer locator database that allowed customers to locate their nearest dealer or service center using a toll-free telephone number. A pioneer in the customer service support industry, the Company was the first to provide inbound toll-free customer service. Then Ruppman Marketing Services, the Company continued to shape an ever-growing customer service outsourcing industry with innovative service offerings and technologies, leading the evolution of the call center to the contact center. In 1998, the Company acquired AFFINA, a database management and marketing research company, to help position AFFINA as a one-stop-shop solution for customer relationship management.Today, with the benefit of a 37-year history, we focus on delivering measurable results to our clients through a comprehensive suite of customer interaction solutions, which include: inbound customer care, inbound sales and order taking, analytics and market research, product and literature fulfillment, and business process outsourcing. Our clients are among the largest and most well known brand names in the world, that are served by AFFINA CSRs from our locations in five countries worldwide.

APCO, a majority woman-owned business, was established in 1984. APCO company's specialized services include corporate, investor, employee communication, crisis management, litigation communication, and government relations. It serves governments, industry associations, nonprofit organizations, and FORTUNE 500 companies; clients have included Johnson Controls, Dow Corning, Microsoft, The European Express Association, and The China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO). APCO company has offices in North America, Europe, and Africa and has been aggressively expanding into Asia.

PennWell Corporation is a highly diversified, business-to-business media company providing authoritative print and online publications, conferences and exhibitions, research, databases, online exchanges and information products to strategic global markets. Since 1910 PennWell has been known for providing comprehensive coverage of several strategic markets. In those early days, PennWell was a pioneer in the emerging oil industry with Oil & Gas Journal magazine, founded in 1902. Today PennWell publishes 45 business-to-business magazines and newsletters, conducts over 60 conferences and exhibitions on six continents, and has an extensive offering of books, maps, directories and database services. PennWell's products serve as a lens for the world, focusing diffuse information into practical business intelligence. We aim to be where decision-makers worldwide look first to see what happens next in their markets. This has been our mission since PennWell's founding in 1910. The ownership of our privately-held company has remained constant during the ensuing decades, as has our commitment to integrity, excellence and innovation in all we do.

Hill & Knowlton has ridden its reputation as a straight-shooter straight to the top. Hill & Knowlton (whose founder John W. Hill emphasized the importance of dealing honestly and openly with the press) is one of the largest PR firms in the US and a part of advertising conglomerate WPP Group. Hill & Knowlton's services range from marketing communications to corporate reputation management to political lobbying. With almost 80 offices spanning some 45 countries, it caters to the technology and health industries; clients have included Microsoft and Intel. Lobbying firm Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates and Finnish unit Hill and Knowlton Finland Oy act as subsidiaries for Hill & Knowlton.

Platts has about 15 offices worldwide, and is owned by publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Platts has been monitoring the energy industry for more than 75 years. The company offers energy and commodities information and analysis on the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets. The company sells subscriptions to its content, which is offered through Web sites, newsletters, and magazines, to traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry executives. Other product offerings include maps and software. It also produces conferences for the energy industry.

Mediagistic offers such marketing services as media planning and buying, web development, and creative development services. The agency's media buying expertise covers print, radio, TV, and direct marketing. Mediagistic's creative services include ad creation, logo design, Web design, and collateral materials creation. For small businesses, Mediagistic engages in what it calls group co-op advertising, a system in which it works closely with clients in all steps of the marketing process, from design and market research to tracking marketing performance and selecting alternative types of media. Clients have included Carrier, Bryant Heating & Cooling Systems, and Gulf Coast Tractor.

Founded in 1937, Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. is a successful, growing business privately owned by the Swank family and led by Tim Swank, Chairman. Headquartered in St. Louis, Swank also maintains sales offices in New York, Berlin and Paris, with an international shipping and distribution facility located near Chicago. Swank is the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures for public performance and the acknowledged leader in the field. Major Hollywood and independent movie studios have appointed Swank as their exclusive licensing and distribution partner to offer their box-office hits for public performance in non-theatrical markets (markets outside theaters). Swank represents Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, New Line Cinema, Lionsgate, MGM, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Tri Star Pictures, The Weinstien Company, Focus Features, Miramax Films, Overture Films, Warner Independent, Paramount Classics, Paramount Vantage, Fine Line Features, HBO, Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions, United Artists, National Geographic, ThinkFilm, Magnolia Pictures, Newmarket Films, First Look Studios, First Independent Pictures, Monterey Media and many other independent studios. Swank Motion Pictures provides both public performance licensing rights and licensed movies to numerous non-theatrical markets, including worldwide cruise lines, U.S. colleges and universities, K-12 public schools and libraries, American civilian and military hospitals, motor coaches, Amtrak trains, correctional facilities and other markets such as parks, art museums and businesses.

The agency has developed advertisements for Credit Suisse, Lufthansa, and IMS Health. The Interpublic Group established Gotham in 1994, and it continues to operate as an independent agency of the global marketing services holding company. The residents of this Gotham are mad about marketing. One of New York City's leading advertising agencies, The Gotham Group -- known better as Gotham -- provides creative development and campaign management services aimed at building and promoting consumer brands. In addition to traditional ad work, the firm offers targeted retail marketing and allied communications services, as well as product and packaging design services.

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