Harlequin Enterprises Limited is the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of books for women. The Toronto-based company publishes over 110 titles a month in 28 languages in 114 international markets on six continents. These books are written by over 1,100 talented authors worldwide, offering women a broad range of reading from romance to psychological thrillers to relationship novels. With 130 million books sold in 2008–half overseas and a tremendous 95% outside Canada–it is both the country's most successful publisher and one of its most international businesses. Harlequin promotes its global presence through principal offices in Toronto, New York, London, Tokyo, Milan, Sydney, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Athens, Budapest, Granges-Paccot, Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai. Harlequin Enterprises Limited company also has licensing agreements with businesses in another nine countries. Harlequin's worldwide level of recognition and appeal provides the publisher with the unique opportunity of promoting and selling its authors around the world, wherever and whenever women shop.Harlequin's success in 2008 confirms that Harlequin Enterprises Limited company is moving toward its stated goal of being the world's leading publisher of books for women. Harlequin titles enjoyed a total of 252 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in 2008, up from the 230 weeks achieved in 2007. Since its inception, Harlequin has sold approximately 5.8 billion books. Harlequin Enterprises is unique in the women's fiction market, combining highly recognizable imprints–Harlequin, Silhouette, MIRA Books, LUNA Books, HQN Books, Steeple Hill Books, Harlequin Teen, Kimani Press, Spice, Harlequin Nonfiction, Gold Eagle; a global reach, a highly successful reader service and an innovative Web site (eHarlequin.com) and forward-looking technology (eBooks, downloadable audio, mobile phone applications) that not only allows Harlequin Enterprises Limited company to move further and further into the forefront of women's fiction but continues to position Harlequin for growth. In 2009 Harlequin celebrates 60 years of providing women with pure reading pleasure. New programs and initiatives recommit Harlequin to intensifying the breadth and reach of books for women for the next 60 years.

AKQA, an independent Web design and interactive marketing agency, offers online and digital media development for branding, marketing, and e-commerce, as well as consulting services to help its customers use interactive technologies to their advantage. One such project was AKQA's design for the user interface for Microsoft's Xbox 360. AKQA's clients range from small companies to big names such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's. The agency has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, DC and was founded in 1995. Private equity firm General Atlantic owns a majority stake in AKQA.

Oversee.net was founded by 21 year-old entrepreneurs Lawrence Ng (CEO) and Fred Hsu (Board member) in 2000. The technology company provides online marketing tools for publishers, advertisers, and consumers. Oversee operates two primary business segments: domain services and marketing services. The company manages over 2.5 million domains. Oversee is a leader in direct navigation, redirecting Internet users from Web sites typed directly into their browser's address bar to related advertiser websites. Key brands include DomainSponsor, Low.com, and Revenue.net. In addition to California, Oversee has offices in Oregon and Florida.

2929 Entertainment is owned by business partners Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks) and Todd Wagner, who struck gold when they sold their Broadcast.com business to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion at the height of the dot-com boom. (2929 Entertainment is named after Broadcast.com's address at 2929 Elm St.) The company has ownership stakes in movie distribution firms (Magnolia Pictures), high-definition television networks (HDNet and HDNet Movies), and movie exhibition (Landmark Theatres). 2929 Entertainment also partners with movie studios such as Warner Bros. to release various film and TV projects.

Stephens Media LLC company is the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, boasting a circulation of more than 167,000 in and around the Sin City, as well as several neighborhood and specialty papers serving the Vegas market. Outside Nevada, Stephens Media publishes more than 40 newspapers in eight states and operates news bureaus in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, DC. The company also runs websites for many of its publications, as well as portal sites such as LasVegas.com, Hawaii.com, and CasinoGaming.com. Founded by the late Donald Reynolds in 1940, Stephens Media Group is owned by the Stephens Group, an Arkansas-based investment firm.

TV Guide Magazine is glued to the tube. The company publishes the weekly TV-focused print publication TV Guide. Formerly a digest, the publication was re-formatted to a full-sized, full-color magazine in 2005. TV Guide earns money through subscriptions and advertising, and has a circulation of about 2 million readers. TV Guide Magazine is owned by private-equity firm OpenGate Capital, who purchased the company from Macrovision Solutions Corporation (which later became Rovi Corporation) for $1 in 2008. Macrovision agreed to lend OpenGate $9.5 million to finance the magazine. (Other TV Guide holdings, including Internet and cable TV assets, were sold to Lionsgate.)

Marketing firm OgilvyAction (formerly 141 Worldwide) offers services in sales promotion, digital and direct marketing, retail design, and customer relationship management, shopper and trade marketing, as well as other areas of specialized marketing. Primarily it analyzes shoppers and how and why they make their purchases. The company, a division of creative advertising network Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, works with businesses all over the world through more than 60 offices in nearly 50 countries. The agency was founded as 141 Worldwide in 1992; it restructured into OgilvyAction in early 2007. Some offices in international markets continue to operate under the 141 Worldwide banner.

HLB Communications was formed in 1977. The communications consulting firm specializes in providing the financial services, software, engineering, legal, professional services, and healthcare industries a variety of solutions to their corporate marketing and internal communications needs. The firm's services include crisis communications, media and presentation skills training, investor relations' communications, and internal branding program creation for such clients as Cardinal Health, Harris Bank, and Winston & Strawn.

MOD helps clients fashion new identities, and it is completely legal. MOD/Michael Osborne Design provides collateral and package design, branding, and naming services. The agency has helped create and build such brands as Asera, Handspring's Visor Edge, Gymboree, and EA Sports for Electronic Arts. MOD also serves clients in such industries as beverages (it lists a multitude of wineries among its clients), high tech, food, and financial services.

Founded in 1972 Woodend, Nessel & Friends serves clients in a variety of sectors including real estate, financial services, sports and entertainment, hospitality, and technology. Take advertising to the end, my friend. Woodend, Nessel & Friends provides advertising, graphic design, marketing, and public relations services primarily to clients in the San Diego region. The agency's expertise includes ad work in broadcast and print, direct mail, and the Internet.

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