Founded in 1789, The United Methodist Publishing House is the oldest and largest general agency of the United Methodist Church, and it contributes a portion of its annual revenues to the church's clergy pension fund. The United Methodist Publishing House keeps Christian clergy from running out of reading material. Operated by a board of directors selected by the United Methodist Church's jurisdictional conferences and Council of Bishops, the company publishes and distributes content for Christian clergy and laity. The company develops and produces official denominational church school curriculum materials, books, software, and multimedia resources for homes, churches, and church offices.

HMP Communications, LLC (HMP) is a leader in healthcare communications and education. The company publishes some of the nation's most well respected medical journals across a wide spectrum of medical specialties. Additional core competencies within HMP include more than 20 years of meeting management/production expertise and over a decade producing cutting edge, online educational programs. HMP Communications is divided into four specialty areas - the Wound Care/Podiatry Division, the Cardiovascular Division, the Managed Care/Long-Term Care Division and the Dermatology Division. Within each of these specialties, HMP provides physicians, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals valuable scientific research and product information through medical journals, customized reports, conferences, expositions, symposiums, advisory boards, websites, podcasts, webcasts, and teleconferences.HMP is dedicated to delivering vital information to clinicians that assist them in providing better outcomes to their patients. HMP works closely with thought leaders who are at the forefront of the latest evidence-based treatments, research and therapies in each specialty area it serves.

Front Porch, Inc. founded in 1998, provides advertising and content delivery systems for Internet services providers, annually serving millions of users in more than 30 countries. It offers products and services that ISPs use to insert and manage content and advertising into their offerings. ISPs use the company's products to redirect traffic and serve a variety of ads, including interstitials, pop-ups, and pop-under advertising. Front Porch also offers services for managing online advertising, customer service messaging, bill collection, and network reporting.

Chairman Bill Hay and his wife, Denise DuBarry-Hay, founded Thane International, Inc. in 1990. Thane is owned by H.I.G. Capital, LLC, an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital Management. Thane International can help. It sells fitness, health and beauty, and houseware products through direct response television, traditional mass-market retailers, home shopping channels, telemarketing, and the Web. Brands sold include the Ab Revolutionizer, California Beauty Cosmetics, and FlavorWave Oven. Thane also writes promotional scripts, and shoots and edits commercial video footage in-house. The firm has operations in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.

McCann Erickson Advertising is one of the leading ad agencies in the UK, with six offices in England and Ireland. It offers creative ad development services for broadcast, print, and outdoor advertising, as well as campaign planning and management services. Clients have include such noteworthy names as American Airlines, Pfizer, Microsoft, and UPS. McCann Erickson Advertising is part of McCann Worldgroup, the flagship agency network of US-based media conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Rentrak provides videocassettes, DVDs, and video games to more than 10,000 video rental outlets in the US and Canada via its Pay-Per-Transaction (PPT) system. This system enables retailers to lease movies and games at lower than standard distribution costs in return for a cut of the rental revenue. The PPT system accounts for most of the company's revenues. Rentrak also provides business intelligence services to the entertainment industry, principally reporting domestic and foreign box-office receipts for motion pictures on a nearly real-time basis.

GlobalFluency is a worldwide communications services firm offering its clients a distinctive combination of capabilities for shaping perceptions, developing and growing markets, expanding customer relationships, and building valued brands. With offices in over 40 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia, we provide the right resources to deliver effective, standout marketing campaigns anywhere in the world.GlobalFluency has proven invention processes, innovative ideation practices and global media and influencer relationships to put our clients in overdrive. Our proprietary methodologies are designed to take clients to market faster with the most compelling and sustainable value proposition…one that separates and differentiates them in a complex and ever-changing global economy. We have a history of taking innovative, breakthrough technologies, companies and ideas to market in an intrusive and arresting way.

Berkman Communications Inc. (which does business as BERKMAN) helps businesses and organizations get the word out. The public relations firm offers advertising, special event planning, and marketing services, catering to the consumer products, hospitality, financial, real estate, technology, and professional services industries. Clients have included SANYO North America, CB Holding Corp., and Cohn Restaurant Group. Industry veteran President and CEO Jack Berkman leads the company, which he established as Berkman Marketing Group in 1993.

Trozzolo Communications Group is an agency that specializes in advertising, public relations, and publishing. Its services include branding, event planning, internal communications, market research, print publishing, public affairs, strategic marketing, and Web design. Those services are offered to both national and regional clients particularly with a Midwestern presence in Kansas and Missouri. Industries it serves include construction, education, financial services, and health care; government and not-for-profit agencies also call upon Trozzolo for communications consulting.

The Ardell Group provides public relations services to start-up and mid-cap companies in the communications infrastructure, wireless technology, software, and medical technology sectors, including AMCC, Cisco Systems, National Semiconductor, and United Plastics Group. It assesses no retainer fees; clients pay for what they get. The Ardell Group launched a consumer-oriented public relations subsidiary, The Domino Group, in 2005.

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