Founded in 1987, Pierpont Communications, Inc. maintains offices in Austin and Dallas in addition to its Houston headquarters. Pierpont Communications is a public relations firm whose clients have included ARAMARK, Baylor College of Medicine, and Shell. Serving Texas and the Southwest, Pierpont provides investor relations, public affairs, creative marketing, and interactive services. Other specialties include crisis communications, media and government relations, market research, shareholder communications, marketing collateral creation, and trade show support.

Farm Journal Media includes its 133-year-old flagship magazine, FARM JOURNAL, along with TOP PRODUCER, BEEF TODAY, DAIRY TODAY and IMPLEMENT & TRACTOR. Farm Journal TV includes the “AgDay” and “U.S. Farm Report” television programs. The company’s Internet sites include www.AgWeb.com and www.MyMachinery.com. Farm Journal Media also publishes the Pro Farmer family of newsletters, produces numerous live events, offers custom publishing services and provides extensive database services. Farm Journal Media corporate headquarters are located in Philadelphia, PA, where the company was founded in 1877. The Magazine and Database Strategies divisions also are headquartered there.

Feral House has been publishing innovative and celebrated non-fiction books since 1989. Movies have been made, cultural trends influenced and political crimes exposed by our small, independent press. Headquartered in Port Townsend, WA, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey has also co-founded the new imprint, Process Media, with Jodi Wille, formerly of Dilettante Press.

Hemmings Motor News was founded by Ernest Hemmings in Quincy, Illinois, in 1954. The first issue consisted of four pages, and 500 copies were sold at 50 cents per copy. Today, Hemmings has over 180,000 subscribers, paying $31.95 per one-year, 12-issue subscription. An additional 45,000 copies are sold each month at newsstands and bookstores throughout the United States for $6.00 per copy. In 1970, Hemmings introduced a "companion" magazine, Special Interest Autos, to meet the growing needs of car-collecting enthusiasts. As the only publication in the car-collecting field which regularly road tested cars from the 1920s to the 1980s and accurately examined all aspects of their history and development, SIA entertained and informed its loyal following of automotive enthusiasts and historians while expanding its content to reach a broader audience.

As the third-largest comics publisher in the US, Dark Horse Comics has become a safe bet. Dark Horse publishes a number of original titles, but most of the publisher's revenue comes from comics based on licensed entertainment properties including Alien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Conan, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. Dark Horse company also publishes books and sells collectibles such as action figures and lithographs. In addition, the firm even its own film production studio, Dark Horse Entertainment, which made the big-screen adaptation of Hellboy and its sequel, Hellboy 2.

Upromise doesn't promise to pay for your kid's education -- but it might help. By joining Upromise, customers receive rebates on purchases from thousands of retailers, restaurants, grocery stores, and companies -- ranging from Exxon Mobil (1 cent per gallon) to Bed Bath & Beyond (1% on purchases) -- that are credited to a college savings account. Upromise manages about $19 billion in 529 college savings plans (tax-advantaged investment programs for future higher education expenses). Upromise is owned by education financier SLM Corporation (known as Sallie Mae).

Robinson Kurtin Communications! provides corporate communications, Web design, and annual report design and production services. Founded in 1993, Robinson Kurtin Communications! Inc. works with businesses in many different industries, including consumer products, hospitality, retail, and technology. The agency specializes in corporate communications literature and has worked for such companies as American Express and Pfizer.

OPTS Ideas has grandiose ideas for promoting your next big marketing event. OPTS Ideas company specializes in conceiving and planning marketing events and outsourcing the production services to its national network of contractors. OPTS Ideas company's events have promoted brand awareness for such clients and major brands as Apple, Hallmark, Microsoft, and Washington Mutual. The size of events ranges from gatherings of 100 to 40,000 people. OPTS Ideas operates from offices in California and Idaho.

Zodiak Media Group is one of the largest independent producers of television programming in Europe. It owns 45 production companies with a presence spanning 17 countries. Some of its most notable titles include Location, Location for Channel Four and Holiday Showdown for ITV. In the US, Zodiak USA produces Wife Swap for broadcast network ABC and Don't Forget the Lyrics for FOX. Other units make children's shows, scripted programming, and documentaries. Zodiak Media Group was formed in mid-2010 when the former RDF Media was acquired by Paris-based Zodiak Entertainment (majority-owned by Italy's De Agostini). After the buyout, RDF Media rebranded itself as Zodiak Media Group.

Stein Rogan + Partners is an independent full-service marketing agency that specializes in interactive communication and branding. The firm helps clients design or redesign their corporate brand, and it designs digital media campaigns to help promote those brands. In addition to traditional branding and Web site design, Stein Rogan offers social media consulting, search engine marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO) services. Clients have included AvalonBay Communities, McGraw-Hill, and Syniverse. CEO and founding partner Tom Stein started the agency with Mark Rogan in 1986.

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