Meridian Enterprises Corporation was established in 1978. Meridian Enterprises is a relationship marketing company that increases sales by creating customer loyalty and improving employee performance. Meridian company's programs integrate database marketing, tracking, and measurement tools with rewards, incentives, and professional marketing communications customized to fit client needs. Meridian company's reward and incentives programs include travel, merchandise, and gift cards. Its specialized corporate divisions include Meridian Incentive, Meridian Group Travel, Meridian eComm, Meridian Loyalty Group, Capitol Marketing Concepts, Fennell Promotions, and Gravtec (which offers sales improvement tools and technology).

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.

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.

RadiantBrands (formerly BGDi) specializes in helping build brands that convey luminescent a message. The integrated communications firm combines such disciplines as branding, strategic design, integrated marketing, and new media development to create a brand that is more than the sum of its parts. Its expertise includes such marketing services as identity and naming, packaging, direct mail, Web development, and public relations. It changed its name from BGDi (which stood for Brand Guidance/Design intelligence) to RadiantBrands in late 2008.

President Todd Holson founded SureSource LLC in 1989; the original business model involved giving consumers access to manufacturers via toll-free phone lines. SureSource operates online stores that allow its partners -- companies from the brand licensing, manufacturing, and nutritional products industries -- to offer their goods directly to consumers. To support its online businesses, SureSource maintains a contact center, a data center, and a distribution facility at its headquarters.

Future plc is an international special-interest media group that is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FUTR). Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 180 special-interest publications, websites and events for people who are passionate about their interests. We hold market-leading positions in games, film, music, technology, cycling, automotive and crafts. Future sells more than 3 million magazines each month; we attract more than 20 million unique visitors to our websites; and we host 27 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. In addition, Future exports or syndicates publications to 90 countries internationally, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of monthly magazines.

GKM provides graphic design and marketing communications for clients in such areas as life sciences, technology, financial services, education, and the not-for-profit sector. The agency offers collateral material design, fundraising communications, identity services, interactive communications, and media relations. The firm specializes in helping a variety of companies and organizations communicate with their various stakeholders including stockholders, alumni, or employees. GKM serves clients in the Southern California region.

Mandalay Sports Entertainment company produces, finances, and distributes movies through its Mandalay Motion Pictures unit. The company has a distribution deal with Universal Pictures, and has produced such films as Sleepy Hollow and Enemy at the Gates. Mandalay Entertainment also has a division devoted to baseball, Mandalay Baseball Properties, which has ownership stakes in Minor League Baseball franchises. Teams include the Hagerstown Suns, the Dayton Dragons, and the Frisco RoughRiders. Sister company Mandalay Media produces mobile digital content. Mandalay Entertainment was founded in 1995 by former Columbia Pictures head Peter Guber, who serves as chairman and CEO.

Lonely Planet employs some 300 writers to update its publications, which include walking guides ("Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya"), phrasebooks, and guides for the budget traveler ("Europe on a Shoestring"). In 2007 the British Broadcasting Corp. bought a 75% stake in the firm; the Wheelers retain a 25% stake. Want to explore in Ecuador? Travel on the cheap in Chile? You're not alone. Lonely Planet Publications sells guidebooks aimed at the more independent traveler (its books once offered tips on buying good pot). Maureen and Tony Wheeler founded Lonely Planet in 1973 in a kitchen in Melbourne as they wrote a guide based on their trek across Asia. They now publish more than 500 titles covering every continent.

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions is a leading producer of documentary films and news programs, including its flagship show PBS NewsHour, which has aired on PBS since 1975 (when it was called The MacNeil/Lehrer Report). In addition to its nightly newscast, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions produces documentary films, provides multimedia production services, and produces community outreach forums for special interest groups. Journalists Robert MacNeil (who retired from the show in 1995) and Jim Lehrer formed the company in 1981; Liberty Media owns two-thirds of the business through its Liberty Capital tracking stock.

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