Platts has about 15 offices worldwide, and is owned by publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Platts has been monitoring the energy industry for more than 75 years. The company offers energy and commodities information and analysis on the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets. The company sells subscriptions to its content, which is offered through Web sites, newsletters, and magazines, to traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry executives. Other product offerings include maps and software. It also produces conferences for the energy industry.

Founded in 1994, Brainerd specializes in investor relations, media relations, crisis communications, and transaction communications. Brainerd Communicators helps companies bridge the communications divide between corporate America and the throngs of investors, employees, customers, and media. The agency serves the media, entertainment, and communications industries; its client portfolio spans broadcasting, cable, publishing, filmed entertainment, broadband content, video games, music, new media, and advertising/marketing services.

Lead Dog Marketing Group knows how to wag its tail in order to market, promote, and produce a wide assortment of events. Lead Dog company, doing business as LeadDog, specializes in sports marketing and has produced promotions and events for the NBA, MLB, and 1996 Olympic Games. Services include creative development, design, production, and management of promotions and events targeting varied consumer segments. LeadDog's bag of tricks includes such promotional services as sweepstakes and sponsorships. HBO, the NHL, and the American Cancer Society have also engaged Lead Dog company in their marketing efforts.

Creative Group provides a variety of marketing services specializing in building and managing incentive programs, and planning corporate meetings and events. Creative Group incentive programs target sales, reseller, and employees, offering travel, merchandise, and gift certificates as rewards for good performance. Creative Group also offers personal travel services including travel planning and emergency services that benefit from the company's large corporate travel business. Clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Mutual of Omaha, and Johnson Controls.

APCO, a majority woman-owned business, was established in 1984. APCO company's specialized services include corporate, investor, employee communication, crisis management, litigation communication, and government relations. It serves governments, industry associations, nonprofit organizations, and FORTUNE 500 companies; clients have included Johnson Controls, Dow Corning, Microsoft, The European Express Association, and The China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO). APCO company has offices in North America, Europe, and Africa and has been aggressively expanding into Asia.

Sourcebooks, Inc. company was founded in 1987 by former advertising executive Dominique Raccah who left Leo Burnett, cashed in $17,000 from her 401K plan, and launched a publishing house from her upstairs bedroom Sourcebooks is an independent publisher of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles through imprints such as Sourcebooks Casablanca, Sourcebooks Hysteria, Sourcebooks Landmark, Sourcebooks MediaFusion, and Sphinx Publishing. Sourcebooks authors include college expert Edward B. Fiske (The Fiske Guide to Colleges), NPR commentator and Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford (An American Summer), and CBS Early Show host Hannah Storm (Go Girl!).

Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.Bauer Media joined the Bauer Media Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Group employs some 6,400 people and has a 2008 turnover of 2.08 billion Euros. Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators.Bauer Consumer Media Ltd.business is built on influential media brands with millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. Our strategy is to connect audiences with excellent content through our broad multi-touch point brand platforms, wherever and whenever and however they want. Our wide portfolio of influential brands gives us advantages over pure play magazine or radio competitors.

Entrepreneur Media has some reading material for the self- employed. Targeting small-business owners and those thinking about taking the leap, Entrepreneur Media publishes "Entrepreneur" magazine, a monthly publication with a paid circulation of more than 600,000. The company also operates the corresponding Web site, Entrepreneur.com. In addition, Entrepreneur Media publishes books (titles such as Start Your Own Business and Master of Success) through its Entrepreneur Press unit.

MDC Partners, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides marketing communications and consulting services primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Jamaica. MDC Partners's Strategic Marketing Services segment provides a suite of integrated marketing communication and consulting services, including advertising and media, interactive and direct marketing, public relations, corporate communications, market research, corporate identity and branding, and sales promotion services. Its Performance Marketing Services segment provides services, including the design, development, and implementation of customer service and direct marketing initiative. MDC Partners also provides retail and event marketing, consumer promotions, database and customer relationship management, design and branding, and related services.

Coastal Training Technologies is a publisher of employee training products. The company publishes materials covering more than 300 training topics in the fields of healthcare, human resources, industrial skills, and safety and environmental issues. Formats include videotape, handbooks, posters, leader guides, CD-ROMs, DVDs, Web-based e-learning, digital video files, and instructor-led courses. Coastal also provides school safety training programs for grades K-12, as well as training programs for US government employees. A global operation, Coastal has production and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, India, and Australia. The name of this company's game is training employees from coast to coast.

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