Welcome to the American Express Publishing website! As you navigate theses pages, you will see that our obsession with the luxury lifestyle goes way beyond our well-known magazine brands Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures, Travel + Leisure Family, Executive Travel, and Black Ink. We offer a diversified content portfolio of magazines, websites, international editions, custom publications, consumer and business-to-business events, affinity clubs, books, products, and services that celebrate life's greatest pleasures. Our readers and advertisers alike share our passion for bringing our content to life.

Active Interest Media (AIM) was formed in October 2003 by Wind Point Partners and Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III. AIM is a rapidly growing media company focusing on enthusiast magazines and related consumer shows, Internet sites, and books.In conjunction with our magazines, we produce and market more than 75 martial arts videos and books, including several by the legendary Bruce Lee. We also produce a dozen three-day log-home show seminars that attract thousands of consumers from around the United States. Show Management produces major in-water boat shows in Florida, including the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS), the largest boat show in the world. FLIBS, owned by the Marine Industry Association of South Florida, attracts more than 100,000 attendees who can view and purchase yachts of up to 200 feet in length, many with prices well in excess of $25 million. In addition to FLIBS, we produce the Yacht and Brokerage Show in Miami, the Palm Beach Boat Show, the Suncoast Boat Show in Sarasota, and the St. Petersburg Boat Show. In addition to the boats themselves, each event showcases equipment and accessories for the operation and enjoyment of boats.

Ascent Media Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCMA; OTC: ASCMB) is a holding company whose primary subsidiary is Ascent Media Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Ascent Media"), which provides creative and technical services to the media and entertainment industries. Through more than 40 facilities in regions of Southern California, New York, Atlanta, London and Singapore, Ascent Media provides effective solutions for the creation, management and distribution of content to major motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own and/or distribute entertainment, news, sports, corporate, educational, industrial and advertising content.

Cowley Associates provides advertising, public relations, and marketing services for regional, national, and international clients. The agency balances its workload with about half of its clients on the consumer advertising side and the other half falling on the business-to-business side. Cowley Associates offers creative services in print, broadcast, and interactive media, as well as media relations, crisis communications, and media buying services. Customers have included Dermoody, Burke & Brown, Ellis, and Stickley Furniture.

Strategic marketing director Anthony Souza founded The Souza Agency in 1982. The Souza Agency has clients from business, government, and not-for-profit sectors marching to its doors. The Integrated marketing communications firm blends marketing, advertising, and public relations services with expertise in strategic planning, branding, campaign design, trade show, and Web-based marketing services. Clients have included the Baltimore Orioles, Sunburst Hospitality, Southern Maryland Travel & Tourism Committee, and the US Naval Academy Foundation.

Rogue Arts is a film production and distribution company. The firm, formerly called FilmKitchen, has produced six feature films and handles the North American distribution of more than twenty movies. Titles include My Brother's War, Intoxicating, Hard Luck, and 3 Days of Rain. Founder Kirk Harris is also an actor and filmmaker and stars in five of the films Rogue Arts has produced.

The agency is part of global advertising and marketing services conglomerate Interpublic Group. This company helps some famous brands lasso new customers with compelling ads. Carmichael Lynch is an advertising agency offering creative development and campaign management services for both national and regional marketing efforts. The firm also provides public relations and corporate communications services through its Carmichael Lynch Spong consultancy. In addition, Carmichael Lynch's creative design unit, The Thorburn Group (formerly Carmichael Lynch Thorburn), offers services for brand identity and interactive marketing efforts.

Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO (AMV BBDO) is one of the leading advertising agencies in the UK. It provides creative development and strategic planning services for television, radio, digital, and print campaigns. Working with dozens of brands, the agency's clients have included the British Broadcasting Corporation, GE, Pepsi, and Wrigley. AMV BBDO operates as the London outpost of global advertising network BBDO Worldwide, one of the flagship agency networks of advertising and marketing services conglomerate Omnicom Group.

This company brings a little Madison Avenue savvy to the Midwest. Campbell Mithun is one of the leading advertising agencies in the US, offering creative development and campaign services for both print and broadcast marketing efforts, especially for clients in such industries as food, health care, and consumer products. It also provides insight into youth marketing through its Boing consultancy, as well as general brand marketing services. In addition, its Compass Point Media unit offers media planning and buying for spot TV, print, and radio time. Campbell Mithun is part of global advertising and marketing services conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Adstar, Inc. provides classified advertising technology services to publishers, primarily in the newspaper industry in the United States. AdStar company offers services using its proprietary software that electronically connects advertisers with newspaper publishing systems, as well as online advertising formats. Its software applications enable professional advertising agencies, businesses, and individuals to electronically send ads to publishers, for insertion in newspapers, Web sites, and other media. AdStar's services are provided on an application service provider (ASP) basis, enabling publishers to expand their relationships with advertising customers using a single integrated platform. Its professional software applications accept transmissions from classified advertising agencies and corporations using desktop software and Web-based communications. AdStar's ASP Web site technology enables visitors to a newspapers Web site, giving the opportunity to buy classified ads, for both the print and/or online editions of the newspaper on a 24/7 basis.

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