Quarto was established in London in 1976, and listed on the London Stock Exchange ten years later. Since then, Quarto has grown substantially, both organically and through selective acquisitions around the world. The Group now has 500 employees in 20 separate business units based in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. It produces books under a number of Quarto-owned imprints, as well as in co-edition, licensing its product to household-name publishers in every corner of the globe. Each year 600 new books for adults and children emerge from the Quarto ideas factory, to be sold in 35 countries and in 25 languages. Subjects range from Art and Craft 'How to', Graphic Design, and Home Improvement, to Cookbooks, Motoring, and Popular Reference – anything, in fact, that can be better explained with photographs, artwork, or illustrations.Quarto is also involved in related areas of display marketing (franchise retailing of books in Australia and New Zealand) and publishing services (print broking in Hong Kong and Singapore, and large format point-of-sales printing in the UK). The enduring quality of Quarto's publishing ensures that over 60% of the Group's income comes from a backlist of more than 9,000 titles, providing a stable revenue stream year after year after year. Quarto's proven business model has underpinned the Group's success and it remains poised to take advantage of new opportunities as they appear.

Maddock Douglas was founded by CEO G. Michael Maddock in 1991. The firm specializes in creative development and marketing to help both start-ups and large companies conceive and commercialize new products and services. It offers market and trend analysis, modeling and prototype testing, and branding and packaging services to customers in the automotive, consumer products, financial services, publishing, retail, and telecommunications industries. Clients have included such big wigs as Allstate, ESPN, Johnson & Johnson, and McDonald's.

Horizon Motion Pictures develops, produces, and distributes international independent feature films, documentaries, and television programming. The company has a library of Canadian, US, and Japanese films, which are actively marketed at film festivals and other venues, including AFM, Cannes, MIP, MIFED, and the London Screenings. Among the films distributed by Horizon is the Japanese movie upon which the US horror hit The Ring was based. Horizon Motion Pictures was founded in 1989 by president Rob Straight, who also owns the company.

Informa plc is the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 43 countries and employs 8,500 staff around the world. Informa is the largest publicly-owned organiser of conferences and courses in the world with an output of over 8,500 events annually. Informa publishes over 2,500 subscription-based information services including academic journals, real-time news and structured databases of commercial intelligence. Informa's book business has more than 50,000 academic and business titles in print. Informa's products are founded on high value content in a wide variety of subject areas. These range from the arts and humanities through social sciences to physical science and technology; from the professional domains of finance and the law through to commercial fields such as telecommunications, maritime trade, energy, commodities, and agriculture.

First Look Studios provides film development, production and distribution, and foreign sales of its extensive film and television library, which has more than 700 titles, including Waking Ned Devine and Baywatch. More recent films include Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and Paris, je t'aime. The company operates in the home entertainment market through its First Look Home Entertainment subsidiary. It is owned by a group that includes the management team of independent studio Nu Image (Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, and Danny Dimbort).

The agency serves clients that have included Zippo Manufacturing Company, H.J. Heinz Company, DeVry University, and GlaxoSmithKline. Chairman and CEO Michael Brunner, who helped found the agency in 1989, has been its controlling shareholder since 2003. Independent ad agency Brunner, formerly known as Blattner Brunner, provides advertising, design, marketing, and public relations services. Its Brunner Digital unit (formerly bbdigital) offers services such as Web site design and development, digital marketing, and media planning.

Jameson Publishing, formerly Corry Publishing, produces national trade magazines focused on information technology. Its titles include Business Solutions Magazine (growth strategies for the IT channel), Integrated Solutions Magazine (capturing and accessing data at all points of work), and Integrated Solutions for Retailers (for retail executives). Jameson Publishing also partners with other companies to promote and produce conferences and trade shows. The company was founded in 1980 by James Peterson; it is currently owned by his sons, Rick and Terry Peterson.

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.

Podesta Group (formerly PodestaMattoon) offers governmental relations and strategic consulting services for those with interests within the Beltway. It assists with branding, crisis management, strategies involving legislation, and message development. Clients have included associations such as the National Association of Broadcasters and corporations such as The Washington Post Company and Clear Channel Communications. Podesta Group, Inc. was initially founded in 1998 by former Republican strategist Dan Mattoon and Tony Podesta, legendary lobbyist and brother of former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta. In 2006, however, Mattoon left to create his own public relations firm.

Jim Ball and Steve Rockwood founded Alpine Access, Inc. in 1998. Alpine Access provides outsourced in-bound call services to consumer retail clients, but don't call it a call center. Instead of a centralized call center, Alpine Access routs calls and caller information over the Internet to thousands of its customer service agents who work from their homes. Alpine Access company handles sales, customer service, tech support, and help desk calls for its growing list of clients that has included such notable names as Office Depot, J. Crew, and the Internal Revenue Service. Alpine Access' customers include multichannel catalogs, national mass market retailers, financial services providers, and government agencies.

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