Alfred Music Publishing is the world’s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational, reference, pop, and performance materials for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Alfred’s home office is located in Los Angeles with domestic offices in Miami and New York as well as offices around the world, including Australia, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. In addition to its own titles, Alfred distributes products from over 50 companies, including Belwin, Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, Dover Publications, DW Drums, Faber Music, Highland/Etling, Kalmus, National Guitar Workshop, Penguin, TASCAM, Ultimate Support, and WEA.

Ascend Integrated Media was formed by seasoned media veterans who recognized that companies and event owners today need outside experts to develop and manage content more than ever and that social networking only dramatically increases that need.The Ascend Integrated Media event and custom media business, originally Atwood Convention Publishing, was the founding acquisition for the company and still represents the backbone and core strength of the business today. The company today is owned by Kansas City-based TGP Investments and founding CEO, Cameron Bishop. Ascend Integrated Media management team is focused on helping decision-makers do their jobs better, faster and more strategically with the added benefit of reducing costs and often serving as an additional revenue stream.

MPL Music Publishing is not home to just any old band on the run. The music publishing company founded and owned by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The firm controls the rights to thousands of songs, including classics by Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Frank Loesser, and, of course, Sir McCartney himself. (The Beatles catalogue, however, is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing.) MPL was formed following the breakup of The Beatles in 1970.

Founded in 1992, Thomas Rankin Associates is a full service marketing public relations firm specializing in business-to-business, technical/industrial communications. We offer a full range of promotional services, including advertising, public relations, website and literature development, direct and e-marketing programs.Because every company, regardless of size, must work with limited resources, TRA focuses on helping clients establish workable, cost-effective communications programs that reach intended audiences and achieve definable marketing objectives. Our efforts have successfully launched new enterprises, established unknowns as market leaders, and helped others achieve steady, sustainable growth.

The firm offers digital and interactive marketing services. Working from offices a dozen countries, it is a unit of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group. This firm helps market its clients through all the senses. Not to be confused with the credit rating agency, Fitch, is a leading brand development and communications agency that specializes in creating unique consumer experiences for its mostly retail clients. It offers creative services for corporate identity and communications collateral, as well as product and packaging design. Fitch also provides architectural services for interior and exterior store designs, and it develops events and displays that allow customers to experience brands first hand.

Sinclair Broadcast Group is a leading television operator with about 60 stations serving 35 midsized markets around the country. Its portfolio reaches more than 20% of US households and includes affiliates of all four major broadcast networks, as well as several affiliates of The CW Network and MyNetworkTV. (Most of the stations are affiliated with FOX.) More than 45 of SBG's stations are owned and operated, while the rest are operated under local market agreements; the company has duopolies (more than one station) in about 20 of markets. The family of founder Julian Sinclair Smith, led by CEO David Smith, controls the company.

De Facto Communications provides public relations services to the healthcare, life science, and clinical trials sectors. The firm offers a comprehensive range of marketing communications and design services for corporate literature, annual reports, newsletters, product launches, peer-to-peer communications, and consumer-directed PR. De Facto also offers e-marketing, Web site design and hosting, and flash presentations. Clients, which range from small start-ups to large pharmaceutical companies, include Agfa Healthcare, Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, and Smiths Medical.

Reese Communications Companies which does business as RTC Relationship Marketing provides customer relationship management (CRM) services that help companies retain existing customers and acquire new ones. It develops campaigns that use direct mail, telephone, and other direct response channels, as well as such interactive marketing strategies that use e-mail and websites. In addition, the firm offers analytical services to measure campaign effectiveness. RTC is a unit of Young & Rubicam Brands, one of the flagship agency networks of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group. RTC works within the Wunderman advertising network, which operates from about 120 offices across 50 countries.

RBB was founded in 1975 as Bruce Rubin & Associates. The firm was sold to industry giant Weber Shandwick Worldwide (a unit of Interpublic Group) in 1997, then reacquired by CEO Christine Barney in 2001. In 2010, RBB expanded through the acquisition of fellow Florida PR agency Thorp & Company. RBB Public Relations' work encompasses not only media relations, but also crisis communications, community relations, interactive services, marketing to Hispanic and Latin American communities, and public affairs. Clients have included the Florida Marlins baseball team, Florida Power & Light, and Verizon Wireless.

Roska Direct Advertising was founded in 1981 by CEO Jon Roska. Roska Direct Marketing is a full-service direct response advertising agency that offers campaign design and implementation services. Doing business as Roska Direct Advertising, it provides strategic planning and creative development for direct marketing campaigns for clients in a variety of industries. It also offers database marketing and interactive media services. Its clients have included Pfizer, Yellow Book USA, and Weight Watchers.

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