Question: Can you name a provider of outsourced contact services with more than 50 contact centers located across the US and Canada? The correct response is AnswerNet. Services include telephone answering and messaging services, voicemail and interactive voice response, as well as inbound and outbound lead generation and qualification, customer acquisition, and customer support. It manages more than 60 million calls and Internet messages each year. The company, which has been expanding through a slew of acquisitions and partnerships, provides its services under various names including Cerida, Signius, MRC, TelePartners, and Unicall.

Barrington Broadcasting tunes in where big city TV stations tune out. Serving small to midsized markets, the broadcasting company operates more than 20 television stations serving 15 markets in 10 states, including Michigan, New York, and Texas. Most of its stations are affiliated with broadcast networks ABC, NBC, and The CW, while a small number are affiliated with CBS and FOX. Barrington operates duopolies (two or more stations) in four of its broadcast markets. CEO K. James Yager and other company executives founded Barrington in 2003. The company is owned and managed by private equity firm Pilot Group.

Founded by branding pioneer Walter Landor in 1941, the firm is part of Young & Rubicam Brands, a division of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group. Once housed on a boat, this company aims to send brands sailing. Landor Associates International is a leading brand consultancy with about 20 offices spanning 15 countries across the US, Europe, and Asia. The agency offers design and consulting services to help create, establish, and in some cases re-establish consumer and corporate brands. It also provides its customers with brand value research and analysis. Landor has performed work for such brands as Altoids, France Telecom, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, and the Olympics.

Valassis Communications, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and marketing services company primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Shared Mail; Neighborhood Targeted; Free-standing Inserts; and International, Digital Media, and Services. The Shared Mail segment combines the individual print advertisements of various clients into a single shared mail package and delivers principally through the United States postal service (USPS). It also offers solo mail and other products and services, such as list procurement, addressing, processing, and the distribution of brochures and circulars for individual clients through the USPS. The Neighborhood Targeted segment provides the clients with print and media placement of traditional free-standing solo insert formats. Its products include Newspaper Inserts, which are print promotion programs in various formats for single advertisers; Newspaper-delivered Product Sampling that are client product samples inserted into newspapers; and Newspaper Polybag Advertising, an advertising message on a newspaper polybag without a sample; Door Hangers, which are product samples and advertisements delivered to the consumer's door; and Run of Press that involves brokering of advertising printed on pages of newspapers. The Free-standing Inserts segment offers promotional booklets containing the coupons of multiple advertisers that are distributed to approximately 59 million households through newspapers and shared mail. The International, Digital Media, and Services segment provides coupon clearing, promotion information management products, and marketing services.

Hyde Park Communications understands that how you say something can be as important as what you say. Hyde Park Communications provides public affairs, public relations, and marketing services with expertise in health, litigation communications, workplace and labor communications, and public policy. Founded in 2000 by CEO Jeffrey Sandman, the firm has offices in Washington, DC and New York. Hyde Park Communications also provides investor relations, media relations, corporate and crisis communications services through its financial communications division. Clients include Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

MediaTec Publishing Inc. is an award-winning publisher of magazines and interactive media that focus on workforce development and talent management. Its Chief Learning Officer magazine was named “Best New Magazine” by the American Society of Publication Editors and has been nominated for several Neal Awards, presented by American Business Media. Diversity Executive magazine is the newest title in the MediaTec family, which includes Talent Management magazine, Certification Magazine, CertMag’s StudyGuides, CLO SourceBook and supporting electronic newsletters, special supplements, online e-Seminars and interactive Web sites for each publication. MediaTec also produces the CLO Symposium and Talent Management Strategies events, which bring together international audiences to discuss best practices in corporate learning and talent management. All MediaTec publications, Web sites and events share a similar focus, an emphasis on providing readers, attendees and Web visitors with clearly presented information to help them succeed in new and changing markets.

Cumulus Media is America’s second largest owner of radio stations and the premier local marketing company in 68 cities across the US. Our radio and digital brands target numerous large and demographically-distinct audiences in each of these markets. In aggregate, our local media brands typically reach more consumers than the newspaper or dozens of combined cable channels. And unlike those other media, our properties can deliver a message to the same consumers with unparalleled frequency. Cumulus strives to create the next generation radio broadcasting enterprise, based on great people and technological excellence, that will provide high quality, local programming choices for our listeners; targeted audiences with disposable income and buying preferences for our advertisers; challenging career environments for our employees; and wealth generation opportunities for our shareholders.

Levenson & Brinker Public Relations provides creative communications services for firms including Frito-Lay, HP Enterprise Services, and American Airlines. It specializes in services such as media relations, crisis communications, corporate image development, employee relations, recognition and loyalty programs, and event marketing support as well as collateral materials creation. Formerly Levenson Public Relations, the company merged with Brinker Public Relations in 2004.

Founded in 1990, Arena BLM provides media buying and planning through its subsidiaries and business units -- BLM Local (UK regional focus), BLM Azure (toys and games), BLM Red (luxury retail), and BLM Quantum (digital marketing). The groups' clients have included Bose, Domino's Pizza, Suzuki, L'Occitane, Nikon, and Thomas Cook. French advertising conglomerate Havas bought out the staunchly independent BLM Group in 2008, changed its name, and made it the stand-alone, UK arm of its media planning group.

Capitol Broadcasting Company is a diversified media company that operates five television stations serving the North Carolina markets of Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. The portfolio of TV stations includes affiliates of CBS, FOX, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. It also has about 10 radio stations. In addition to TV and radio, Capitol Broadcasting owns Microspace Communications, a satellite data services provider, and technology developer CBC New Media Group. The company also has interests in real estate and it owns the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team. The family-owned company was started by A.J. Fletcher in 1937.

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