Since 1999, The Deal LLC has covered the dealmaking across all its many mutations along with the ups and downs of economic cycles and business leaders. Through print, electronic media and events, we provide original content that serves the news, information and idea generation needs of corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers, intermediaries and investors. "Imagine a world without deals. Transactions are agents of change. The surge of dealmaking is not just the result of deregulation or advisers' incentives, rather it is fueled by accelerating technology, geopolitical change and innovative capital markets. Without dealmaking, corporations would be locked in stasis, like sleeping giants, unable to sustain the macro-economy. For all its chaos, we need a deal economy."

Welcome to the American Express Publishing website! As you navigate theses pages, you will see that our obsession with the luxury lifestyle goes way beyond our well-known magazine brands Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures, Travel + Leisure Family, Executive Travel, and Black Ink. We offer a diversified content portfolio of magazines, websites, international editions, custom publications, consumer and business-to-business events, affinity clubs, books, products, and services that celebrate life's greatest pleasures. Our readers and advertisers alike share our passion for bringing our content to life.

Lead Dog Marketing Group knows how to wag its tail in order to market, promote, and produce a wide assortment of events. Lead Dog company, doing business as LeadDog, specializes in sports marketing and has produced promotions and events for the NBA, MLB, and 1996 Olympic Games. Services include creative development, design, production, and management of promotions and events targeting varied consumer segments. LeadDog's bag of tricks includes such promotional services as sweepstakes and sponsorships. HBO, the NHL, and the American Cancer Society have also engaged Lead Dog company in their marketing efforts.

Baker Publishing Group company was founded in 1939 by Herman Baker. Baker Publishing Group has a spirit in its step. The Christian publisher publishes books through seven market-focused divisions: Baker Books, Baker Academic, Bethany House Publishers, Brazos Press, Cambridge University Press, Chosen Books, and Revell. Its Baker Books division includes titles for pastors and church leaders, featuring books on worship, preaching, counseling, and leadership. Its Cambridge division focuses on bible publishing. Other imprints publish Christian fiction and self-help titles, as well as books on subjects such as theology, discipleship, and Christian living.

Central and Eastern Europe are the domain of Central European Media Enterprises (CME).Central European Media interests in about 20 national commercial TV stations in such countries as the Czech Republic, Romania, and Ukraine. Its holdings include POP TV (Slovenia), PRO TV (Romania), TV Mark�za (Slovak Republic), and TV Nova (Czech Republic). The stations reach more than 85 million viewers. CME generates almost all of its revenue from TV advertising. An investment group that includes Apax Partners and chairman Ronald Lauder (heir to the Est�e Lauder fortune) has more than 80% control of the company.

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.

Ultra 16 goes beyond typical advertising. Ultra 16 company is an advertising and design agency specializing in interactive advertising and branding. With offices in New York and San Francisco, Ultra 16 has created "webisodes" called Engine Room for MTV and Hewlett-Packard in which digital artists share their work; developed a long-term online strategy for L'Or�al's Redken for Men brand; designed Connections, a Web site about the characters on ABC's Lost; and redesigned American Express's Travel + Leisure Web site. The agency's strong grounding in visual design permeates all its broadcast, print, and online work. Ultra 16 was founded in 1999.

PrimeVest Financial Services is sort of a big-box store of investment products for community banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions. One of the largest third-party marketers of financial services in the US, the firm allows its clients to expand their range of services by affording access to a menu of stocks, bonds, annuities, mutual funds, retirement plans, insurance, and other products from third-party financial services firms. It also provides broker-dealer, trust, and clearing services. PrimeVest serves approximately 600 financial institutions throughout the US and in Guam. Investment firm Lightyear Capital purchased the company from ING in 2010.

Freud Communications company provides public relations, crisis management, brand development, and event-planning services to such big name clients as PepsiCo International, Paramount, Prada, Time Warner, and Pizza Hut. In addition, its consultancy unit helps businesses to understand regulatory issues, define strategic objectives, and align themselves with the media channel or channels best suited to their needs. Freud Communications is a unit of global media conglomerate Publicis Groupe and has offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles.

Founded in 1994, The Leatherbury Group, Inc. has counted AutoNation, BellSouth, Chick-fil-A, and Georgia-Pacific among its client list. The Leatherbury Group provides public relations and communications services for not-for-profit organizations and businesses large and small primarily serving clients in the Atlanta region. The firm's services include message development, media relations, collateral materials creation, cause-related marketing, speech writing, and online communications.

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