A table saw, his life savings, a little frustration, and a dream. That’s what it took for Donald Peschke to publish the first issue of Woodsmith magazine in 1979. Within ten years his entrepreneurial efforts paid off, as the publishing company he founded landed twice on Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing privately owned companies in America. Today, August Home Publishing Company publishes five national, award winning magazines: Woodsmith, ShopNotes, Garden Gate, Cuisine at home, and My Home My Style. In addition, it has expanded in many ways to meet its mission of “surrounding our customers with service.” August Home provides home centers and woodworking stores around the country with Woodsmith Tools, plans, and hardware kits through its wholesale division, operates The Woodsmith Store in Clive, Iowa (a dream store for woodworkers), has a mail-order business that supplies woodworking and gardening products, and has a new media group devoted to producing an active commerce and information site on the Web (www.AugustHome.com). Of course, it didn’t all start out this way.

Warner Music Group Corp., a music content company, provides recorded music and music publishing services worldwide. The company’s Recorded Music segment involves in the discovery and development of artists; and related marketing, distribution, and licensing of recorded music produced by such artists. This segment also markets its music catalog through compilations and reissuances of previously released music and video titles, as well as licenses recordings to and from third parties for various uses, including film and television soundtracks. In addition, this segment markets, sells, and licenses recorded music in various physical formats, such as compact discs, cassettes, LPs, and digital versatile discs (DVDs); and various digital formats, such as downloads and ringtones. The company’s collection of music record labels include Asylum, Atlantic, Bad Boy, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros., and Word. Its Music Publishing segment owns and acquires rights to musical compositions, markets these compositions, and receives royalties or fees for their use. This segment owns or controls rights to approximately one million musical compositions, including various pop hits, American standards, folk songs, and motion picture and theatrical compositions. In addition, its music catalog includes approximately 65,000 songwriters and composers; and a range of genres, including pop, rock, jazz, country, R&B, hip-hop, rap, reggae, Latin, folk, blues, symphonic, soul, Broadway, techno, alternative, gospel, and other Christian music. Further, this segment administers the music and soundtracks of various third-party television and film producers and studios. Warner Music Group Corp. company markets and sells its music and DVD products to retailers and wholesale distributors. Warner Music Group Corp. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Aardman Animations is the studio that created the film Chicken Run (in partnership with DreamWorks) and the BBC animated series Wallace and Gromit. Other projects have include "Flushed Away," the studio's first CG film, another collaboration with DreamWorks, and "Crood Awakening", a prehistoric comedy co-written by actor John Cleese. The studio has received seven Oscar nominations, and has been awarded four. Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by animators David Sproxton and Peter Lord. (The duo is also known for its work on the ground-breaking Peter Gabriel video "Sledgehammer".)

The Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a family of companies that work together to reach people who share a similar lifestyle. Cooperatively, they create a unique atmosphere for our readers. Our company reflects a commitment to new ideas rooted in a solid and broadly cooperative business model. Put simply, we think this is the way new media works.

Altogether Digital brings together digital advertising agencies DC Interact, Eyefall, and Meme. The firm specializes in interactive marketing campaigns for clients in such industries as auto, travel, food and beverage, financial services, and technology. It offers services in Web design and development, online branding campaigns, viral marketing, search marketing, and e-mail and social media marketing. Clients have included Sony, Absolut Vodka, Superdrug, and Brylcreem. Altogether Digital is part of communications company The Engine Group.

Napster's business is downloading music the legitimate way. Formerly Roxio, the firm operates an online music service that allows users to download audio files to PCs and portable music players. Some 700,000 subscribers to Napster, which is compatible with MP3 players and mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPod. Service plans can access the company's music library of some 10 million songs licensed from major record companies and independent labels. Napster also offers audio files for individual download. The service is available in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany. Napster is a subsidiary of retail giant Best Buy.

Musicnotes.com is the leading Internet-based sheet music store offering nearly 110,000 pieces of digital sheet music and guitar tablature from Alfred Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Disney Music Publishing, Bourne Music, EMI Music Publishing, Mel Bay Publications, Universal Music Publishing, Brentwood-Benson, Peermusic Publishing, BUG Music, Famous Music Publishing, Word Music, Shapiro Bernstein, ICG, The Loving Company, Manna Music, Spirit Music, Faber Music LTD and EMI Christian Music Publishing with many titles from other publishers continually added to our online catalog. In addition to the instant delivery of digital sheet music, the site also offers music books & more, a catalog of over 260,000 traditional music titles, CDs and videos from Alfred Music Publishing, Hal Leonard, Mel Bay, Word Music, Music Sales Corporation and others. GuitarTabs LLC and MXTabs.net, the first legitimately licensed site designed to provide musicians with advertising-supported access to free tabs, while also compensating music publishers and songwriters for their intellectual property are also members of the growing Musicnotes family.

Established by celebrated ad man Hal Riney in 1977, it was acquired by Paris-based advertising and media services conglomerate Publicis Groupe in 1998. It operates today as the flagship San Francisco outpost of Publicis Worldwide. This Bay Area firm brings together Hollywood style and Madison Avenue savvy. Publicis & Hal Riney is a leading creative advertising agencies in the US, known for its visually stunning and sometimes edgy campaigns. It has provided creative development and campaign planning services for such clients as 24 Hour Fitness, Jamba Juice, SanDisk, and Sprint.

Putman Media, Inc. company was founded in 1938 by Colonel Russell L. Putman with the launch of Chemical Processing magazine that year. John Cappelletti and about 15 other employees purchased the company after Colonel Putman died in 1973; the Cappelletti family continues to control the business. Process is important to Putman Media. The company publishes nine B2B trade magazines focusing on manufacturing communities. Its titles include Chemical Processing, Control Design, Food Processing, and Plant Services. Putman Media also creates newsletters and Web content, offers custom publishing, and organizes conferences and trade shows.

Henry Holt is one of the oldest publishers in the United States. Henry Holt company was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt, who had emigrated to the United States from his home in Stuttgart eleven years earlier. Holt has always been known for publishing high quality books, including works by such internationally renowned authors as Erich Fromm, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev and H.G. Wells. Today the publication program focuses on American and international fiction; biography, history and politics; science, psychology and health; and books for children. In addition to the Henry Holt imprint, Henry Holt company publishes books under five other imprints. Metropolitan Books, established in 1995, publishes fiction and non-fiction, concentrating particularly on provocative and original American and international authors. Times Books, launched in 2001, is the result of an innovative co-publishing agreement between Holt and The New York Times; its list focuses on science, business and current events. Holt Paperback publishes much of the company’s non-fiction in paperback; Picador USA publishes much of the company’s fiction in paperback. Finally, Books for Young Readers publishes a wide range of children’s books, from picture books for pre-schoolers to fiction for young adults.

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