StarToplin (formerly Toplin & Associates) brings communications up to a new level. StarToplin provides marketing communications, advertising, and public relations services for clients in such industries as health care, financial services, education, and communications. Services include interactive marketing, crisis management, advertising, event marketing, and strategic planning. StarToplin was formed when advertisement agency Star Group Communications acquired Toplin & Associates in late 2007.

Simmons Media Group is a leading regional broadcaster with more than 30 radio stations serving more than 10 markets in more than half a dozen states. Its portfolio is anchored by a cluster of stations in Salt Lake City. Other markets include Austin, Texas; Missoula, Montana; and St. Louis. The company also operates billboard displays in about 10 mostly Western states through Simmons Outdoor Media. Other operations include Simmons Interactive Media and Morris Murdoch Travel, a travel agency with offices in Idaho, Montana, and Utah. The family-owned company was started in 1977.

CEO Sabrina Horn started Horn Group, Inc. in 1991. Horn Group is a public relations firm that provides strategic communications services primarily to companies in the technology industry. the agency specializes in digital communications for branding and marketing, as well as corporate identity and crisis management. Services include website design, interactive multimedia, and social media marketing, as well as communications consulting and traditional marketing content. Horn Group has offices in San Francisco and New York City.

Moore Consulting Group Inc. was founded in 1992 by president Karen B. Moore. Moore Consulting provides advertising, marketing, public relations, and graphic design services for businesses large and small. The Florida-based agency's expertise extends to print and broadcast advertising, public affairs services, and photography, image development and design.

Dick Grove, whose background includes top posts for such companies as Burson-Marsteller, ITT and Itel, formed his own agency in 1997. His experience and frustrations with traditional firms drove him to start INK inc., with the idea that firms should share the financial risk of the client by providing a more accountable method of compensation based on actual media results. Companies from all variety of industries have signed on for this unique agency model, which says that clients should pay first and foremost for actual results — not for the hours spent "trying" for those elusive hits.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) has a knack for publishing prize winners. FSG has published Pulitzer prize winners Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), and Paul Muldoon (Moy Sand and Gravel). In addition, the firm boasts more than 20 Nobel Prize recipients and more than 20 National Book Award winners. FSG also publishes audio books, and operates imprints Drawn and Quarterly (art and literary comics), Hill and Wang (non-fiction titles), Enchanted Lion (books for children and young adults), and Faber and Faber (arts and culture-related publications). FSG was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus. (Straus died in 2004 at age 87.) The firm is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings.

Alcone Marketing Group, Inc. was established in 1976 by chairman Matt Alcone. The group provides a wide variety of services across marketing disciplines such as promotional marketing, field marketing, event marketing, telemarketing, incentive programs, and fulfillment services. Campaigns have centered around sponsored television shows, concert tours, and sweepstakes. Clients have included such big names as eBay, the California Lottery, Mercedes-Benz USA, and Sara Lee. Alcone Marketing has office locations in San Francisco; Irvine, California; and Darien, Connecticut.

Tesser is a marketing agency that provides services including branding, corporate identity, retail design, advertising, packaging design, space planning and design, and Web site design. Founded in 1993, the agency specializes in integrated branding and identity services for restaurants, packaged food, and consumers goods, but is also comfortable working in other industries such as technology. An example of the agency's work is its overhaul of store design for Domino's Pizza. Tesser redesigned the stores so pick-up customers could see pizzas being made -- dovetailing with Domino's branding of fresh-made pizzas. Tesser also has worked with KFC, Gap, Cost Plus , and Quiznos Subs.

HDNet is an all-high definition national television broadcast network. The company televises series, movies, news, and sports programming (its content is produced both in-house and provided by third parties). Its two networks, HDNet and HDNet Movies, are available on such systems as DIRECTV, DISH Network, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Comcast, and other cable companies affiliated with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). HDNet was launched in 2001 by co-founders Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Philip Garvin of Colorado Studios. It is a subsidiary of Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.

HeadQuarters Advertising was founded in 1987 by Horacio Gomes (president and CEO). It has served such clients as AARP, Quixtar, Pacific Gas & Electric, and the San Francisco Giants. HeadQuarters Advertising specializes in making advertising that is relevant and meaningful to the Hispanic market. The agency provides such services as branding, media buying and planning, direct marketing, Web design, and event marketing in addition to its creative services. HeadQuarters Advertising company also promotes social marketing issues pertaining to the Hispanic community.

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