COFIDE - Compagnia Finanziaria De Benedetti -- COFIDE for short -- isn't short on activities; the holding company sports businesses as diverse as Italy's regional cuisines. The company, controlled by Italian businessman Carlo De Benedetti, operates subsidiaries active in media (Editoriale L'Espresso group); utlities (Energia); and automotive components (the SOGEFI group). COFIDE additionally includes healthcare (The HSS Group) and financial services (Jupiter Finance and The Oakwood Group) operations. Its main subsidiary is 48%-owned CIR, which is a holding company for most of the above businesses. The De Benedetti family owns more than 45% of COFIDE.

Dex One Corporation is a leading marketing services company that helps local businesses reach, win, and keep ready-to-buy customers.Through access to a vast collection of highly valuable, proprietary local market intelligence, as well as the personal, hands-on service from our more than 1,400 dedicated marketing consultants, Dex One helps about 500,000 local businesses create custom-tailored marketing programs that effectively reach potential customers – wherever, whenever, and however they search. Dex One delivers a broad range of products and services to help local businesses grow – from identifying target audiences and developing messaging, to optimizing marketing programs and leveraging appropriate products such as online and mobile search solutions, print yellow pages directories, voice based search platforms, and one of the largest pay-per-click ad networks in the U.S. The company also drives value through its Business.com subsidiary, the nation’s leading business search engine and online directory.

Hilite Direct Marketing Services is one of the UK's leading independent List Managers and Brokers. We target approximately 50 million pieces of direct mail every year – one in every 200 pieces of mail carried by the Royal Mail is targeted by us. We pride ourselves in our unique formula of industry expertise coupled with a friendly professional service.Since 1986, Hilite has grown to become the exclusive List Managers of 130 mailing lists and with over 25 million names under management, we can give you access to some of your best prospects. Our list portfolio is made up of the customer databases of almost 100 UK mail order companies. Six out of ten of the UK's top mailing companies rent our managed files, for example; Barclays, Book Club Associates and Royal Bank of Scotland. All the names and addresses we exclusively manage are known mail order buyers and responders.

KnowledgeBase Marketing, Inc. offers data, tools, and direct marketing solutions for direct marketers. KnowledgeBase Marketing offers database marketing services, such as development of an analytical framework, monthly key performance indicator reporting and analysis, semi-annual opportunity assessment, best practices consultation, and access to subject matter experts; analytics and consulting platforms; list processing solutions; and demographic, lifestyle/specialty, hotline, attitudinal, and response databases on consumers. It serves financial services, retail, healthcare, telecommunications, B2B2C/B2B2B channel optimization, insurance, consumer products, consumer services, and pharmaceutical industries.

Sister agencies include design and brand consultancy The Nest, online content and digital agency Ramp Industry, and marketing firm TomTom Nation. The work by St. Luke's Communications doesn't quite have the same gravitas as that of another St. Luke; after all, St. Luke's Communications specializes in advertising. The firm produces television, radio, and print campaigns for clients such as BT, Clarks shoes, and IKEA. Its reputation as a progressive shop extends beyond its work; the agency is owned by its employees, espouses social responsibility, and maintains a unique corporate culture.

Founded by Guy Williams and CEO Peter Labadie in 1990, Williams-Labadie is a unit of Paris-based advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe. You might say this company practices medicinal marketing. Williams-Labadie Advertising is a leading provider of advertising and marketing services to clients in the health care and pharmaceutical industries. The midsized agency offers creative ad development and campaign management services, as well as branding and corporate identity services. It also offers services for direct marketing and multimedia communications. Clients have included Abraxis, Advanced Medical Optics, Oscient Pharmaceuticals, and Prometheus Laboratories.

PRC (formerly Precision Response Corporation) provides telephone-based customer relationship management services, typically for big companies, from about 15 or so locations. PRC's business-to-consumer unit specializes in handling inbound sales orders, service requests, and customer questions and complaints. Its business-to-business unit helps clients acquire and keep customers and supports their sales and marketing efforts. PRC customers have included such big names as AT&T, DirecTV, eBay, Expedia.com and US Airways. In mid-2010, PRC was acquired by California-based call center operator Alorica.

Candlewick Press shines a light in the children's book world. Candlewick Press company has published more than 3,000 children's books. Its catalog is comprised of picture books, easy readers, middle grade and young adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry collections, and novelty and activity books. Candlewick titles include Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?, Guess How Much I Love You, My Very First Mother Goose, and It's Perfectly Normal. Its books are distributed in the US by Random House. The company is 100%-owned by its employees.

At Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S.), editorial experts create trusted content with beautiful photography on platforms that serve consumers’ lifestyles.Originating as a publisher of well established magazines, our expert editorial content is now widely distributed on other platforms including online, mobile and books. Our extraordinary brands help guide enthusiasts and in-market buyers from inspiration to action. Reaching over 40 million magazine readers -- and millions more on digital platforms and through integrated marketing programs -- HFM U.S. is committed to providing the highest standards of editorial integrity and independent product testing.

Shaw Communications Inc. company provides cable television in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, and Saskatchewan. Shaw has about 3.4 million basic cable subscribers, including about 1.7 million Internet customers and 900,000 digital telephone users. Its Business Solutions group offers data and video transport and Internet connectivity for corporate clients, while Shaw Direct provides direct-to-home satellite programming to more than 800,000 subscribers through the Star Choice brand. Its other operations include such satellite services as signal redistribution and wireless vehicle fleet management. Chairman J. R. Shaw and his family control the company.

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