The employee-owned agency was co-founded by Don Padilla and Dave Speer in 1961 and has offices in Minneapolis and New York City. It is an member of WORLDCOM Public Relations Group, a network of independent PR firms. Padilla Speer Beardsley (PSB) is an independent public relations and media relations firm that offers a variety of communications services to corporate clients. It provides both consumer and business marketing services, as well as employee communications, investor relations, and public affairs services. In addition, Padilla Speer Beardsley offers a crisis management practice that helps companies deal with challenging issues.

School Zone Publishing Company began as The School Zone Learning Center in 1972. The Learning Center was a retail teachers supply outlet, specializing in sales to teachers, with two stores in Grand Rapids, Michigan. About 1974, schools instituted changes in educational methods that affected the home and schools. Changes included introducing new teaching methods in math and English and eliminating workbooks provided on a shared basis for home use. With these changes, parents experienced difficulty finding educational material for use at home. Local parents turned to the Learning Centers, requesting workbooks and other at-home teaching aids. In response, the Centers formulated six workbooks and printed 1,000 copies of each. The books sold out in six months. An expanded workbook series was developed and received equally enthusiastic acceptance. School Zone Publishing Company was incorporated in 1979. A new line of workbooks had been written and illustrated by late 1979. In January 1980, the line was printed and School Zone began operations. Market response was extremely favorable. The product line has expanded yearly and currently includes almost two hundred educational products.

Dentsu is one monster that doesn't leave Japan in ruins. One of the largest advertising conglomerates in the world, Dentsu is the #1 ad firm in Japan. Its numerous agencies operate in about 25 countries and provide creative services for more than 6,000 clients, although sales outside Japan only account for a small percentage of revenue. Dentsu also offers a host of other services, including public relations, media and event planning, and market research. The company has expanded its operations in Asia through a partnership with US-based Young & Rubicam and owns a 15% stake in ad conglomerate Publicis Groupe. Dentsu has offices in 30 cities in Japan and about 40 cities internationally.

This Upper Deck is open to all sports fans. The Upper Deck company is one of the nation's leading sellers of sports collectibles, including trading cards and autographed memorabilia. Upper Deck's products represent baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and stock car racing. Its patented Upper Deck Authenticated system combats forgery through a five-step process for ensuring genuine autographs. The Upper Deck company has agreements to produce memorabilia with such sports superstars as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James. Upper Deck was founded in 1988 by CEO Richard McWilliam.

Leon Henry helps clients implement and manage package insert campaigns and also serves as a broker of mailing lists for the direct marketing industry. Leon Henry Incorporated company's insert management services help clients distribute their printed ads (inserts) in magazines, bills, catalogs, and other mailed materials.

Targetbase was established in 1979. Targetbase is a leading direct marketing agency providing creative development campaign planning services. It helps design effective communications for direct mail, response television, and interactive marketing efforts and coordinates the execution of each campaign. The agency has worked with such brands as Acura, Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble, and Southwest Airlines. Headquartered in Dallas, and owning an additional office in North Carolina, Targetbase operates as part of the Diversified Agency Services division of advertising conglomerate Omnicom Group.

Founded in 1984 by President James G. Elliott, the independent agency has offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. James G. Elliott pitches magazines but not subscriptions. James G. Elliott company provides ad sales and outsourcing services for newspapers, electronic media, and a variety of magazines. Its marketing and advertising services have assisted such media clients as the American Bar Association, Hearst Corporation, and the National Geographic Society.

DM (formerly Hawthorne Holdings) became a shell company in 2003 when it sold its Poptone Group record label and film operations in a management buyout. DM then was acquired by Strike Lucky Games in a reverse acquisition and acquired Purely Creative. Strike Lucky Games creates and promotes skill and chance games distributed in newspapers and magazines; Purely Creative produces marketing competitions and promotions that are carried out over the Internet (as well as by mail and phone). To strengthen its database management services, in 2008 DM bought Data Locator Group, a UK consumer lifestyle data provider, and in 2009 bought PDV, a lead generating company.

Sanoma history stretches back to 1860 when Gustaf Soderstrom founded his book printing business. Total media saturation is all in a day's work for Sanoma Corporation. The group is a leading media company in Finland and the Nordic region; it also operates in other European regions (a total of some 20 countries). While its bread and butter is magazine publishing (Sanoma Magazines), the company also has subsidiaries devoted to newspaper publishing (Sanoma News); TV, radio, and Internet (Sanoma Entertainment); bookstores, movie theaters, and distribution (Sanoma Trade); and education materials (Sanoma Learning and Literature). The company's Helsingin Sanomat is the largest daily newspaper in the Nordic region.

First established in 1977, AP Information Services has grown to become one of the most highly respected and renowned providers of business-to-business information in the UK. In the spring of 2008 AP Information Services was acquired by Waterlow Legal & Regulatory Ltd. We continue to provide our customers with the most accurate, up-to-date and easily accessible business information, either through our portfolio of award winning annual directories, bespoke direct mailing lists or our range of business information websites. AP Information Services is a trading name of Waterlow Legal & Regulatory Ltd. a division of the Wilmington Group PLC , a dynamic and expanding company providing information and training to professional business markets. At AP Information Services Ltd. we understand your need for targeted and accurate new business contact information. Over almost 3 decades we have helped thousands of companies build business by supplying up-to-date and essential contact information in key business sectors including, Marketing, Personnel, Training, Corporate Finance and Pension Funds.

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