The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association is a leading public broadcaster serving the Washington, DC, area with a television station and a radio station operating under the call letters WETA. It is also a leading producer of content for the Public Broadcasting Service, including PBS NewsHour (created in partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions) and Washington Week. WETA has also co-produced several documentaries by Ken Burns, including The Civil War and Baseball. The not-for-profit organization was formed in 1953 and received a TV broadcast license in 1961.

C.A. Short Company plans and manages employee recognition and safety awareness programs to its clients, which have included Fiserv and Knoll. Its service recognition programs provide packages acknowledging employees' performance and longevity. Its Safety Awareness/Incentive segment provides customized safety instructions and rewards for safety practices. Other reward programs include attendance, sales, and birthdays. C.A. Short's prizes have included brand-name items from RCA, Sony, and Waterford. Chairman Robert Davis and his son, CEO Charles Davis, took the company private in 2002 and became its majority shareholders.

HarperCollins Publishers has a real page-turner on its hands. The book-publishing subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., HarperCollins is the publisher of best-sellers including Coraline by Neil Gaiman, SuperFreakanomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and Scott Adams' "Dilbert" books. The company's publishing groups include HarperCollins General Books (imprints such as Avon and Eos), HarperCollins Children's Book Group, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, and HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand. Its Zondervan unit publishes Bibles and Christian books. HarperCollins Publishers company also sells e-books from its website and through other online retailers. HarperCollins provides about 5% of parent News Corp.'s sales.

Detroit Free Press (owned by Gannett), The Detroit News is one of Detroit's two major daily newspapers. (The two papers' business operations are managed by the Detroit Media Partnership, which oversees business, marketing, and manufacturing operations while the newspapers keep separate editorial staffs.) The Detroit News boasts a daily circulation of about 180,000, and also operates on the Web through Detroit News Online. The paper was founded in 1873 and was acquired by Gannett in 1986. It was sold to MediaNews Group in 2005.

Entravision Communications is the #2 Spanish-language media company in the country (behind Univision Communications) with about 50 television stations and 50 radio stations located mostly in the Southwest. It is the largest affiliate of Univision's two Spanish-language television networks, Univision and TeleFutura; Entravision's TV portfolio also includes a small number of stations affiliated with The CW Network, FOX, and MyNetworkTV. On the radio, the company offers a variety of programming formats, including music, news, sports, and talk radio.

Sony Digital Production (formerly Sony Pictures Digital) is responsible for the studio's digital content creation, and includes subsidiaries Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation. Imageworks produces Academy Award-winning movie visual effects, while Sony Pictures Animation is active in CGI feature film production. The first two titles for Sony Pictures Animation were Open Season (2006) and the Academy Award-nominated Surf's Up! (2007). The studio also has a deal to produce animated films for Aardman Animation.

Food Export USA Northeast, a not-for-profit organization, helps promote the exportation of agricultural and food products from companies located in the northeastern US. The organization facilitates trade between the region's food companies and importers around the world, offering information and networking opportunities to interested businesses. The organization also offers export promotion, customized export assistance, and a cost-share funding program.

Loomis Group provides integrated marketing services through offices in San Francisco and Boston and internationally through offices in Europe and Asia. The agency melds all combinations of advertising, design, identity, direct response, and interactive services as well as event planning, media buying, and public relations with each other to create campaigns that get results. Clients have included such notable names as eBay, Nokia, Pfizer, StubHub, and Merrill Lynch.

Penton Media, Inc. company was founded by John Penton in 1892. Today it is owned by London-based private equity firm MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co. Penton Media hopes to regain its foothold as a trade magazine publishing powerhouse. The business-to-business information provider has operations that include more than 110 magazines, nearly 150 websites, and about 150 industry trade shows and conferences. Penton Media company publishes titles such as Air Transport World, Electronic Design, and Broadcast Engineering. All total, Penton covers more than 15 industries, such as Agriculture, Commercial Aviation, Food, and Electronics.

Thomson Local has been operating for over 25 years and has established itself as the leading local directory publisher in the UK. Today, the directory is available both in print and online following the launch of Thomson Local in 2003. 174 editions of the Thomson Local are produced and delivered free of charge to over 22 million homes and businesses throughout the UK. Each week Thomson Local directories are used by 4 million people (source: NRS) and generate 11 million referrals (source: BMRB). Following the partnership formed in 2006, Thomson Local is the only classified directory that rewards people with Nectar points for calling businesses listed in either its online or printed directory.ThomsonLocal.com is powered by the most comprehensive database of its kind in the UK with over 1.8 million businesses listed and additional content provided. With a variety of online advertising options, as well as being a Google™ Qualified Company, Thomson Local’s tailor made packages help promote businesses to an online audience that makes over 235 million searches a month across its partner network, which includes major search engines, portals and local websites. Through its Direct Marketing Services division, Thomson Local help business ‘Find, Talk to and Win’ new customers through its range of highly accurate and effective B2B data products and services for direct mail, telemarketing and opt-in email marketing campaigns. Thomson Local’s range of data products and services ensure the best possible lead generation and it is widely recognised as the market leader within the industry. With its head office in Farnborough, Hampshire, Thomson Local is an Investors in People Champion, employs over 500 head office staff and a further 500 employees at 10 regional sales offices throughout the UK.

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