Design solutions by Jeffrey Alec have nothing to do with redecorating. Jeffrey Alec Communications provides such advertising and design services as creative development for print or broadcast, direct mail, event marketing, and branding, as well as Web site design, logo design and annual report creation. Market research, public relations, and media planning services round out the boutique agency's repertoire. Clients have included J.D. Power and Associates, Weyco Group, and Johnson & Johnson..

Beacon Press is a non-profit publisher of nonfiction and fiction books, many of which have a focus on subjects such as diversity, independence, and religion. The company has published titles that include James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Sun and Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Its books are distributed in the US by Houghton Mifflin Company. The publisher is a division of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Beacon Press was established in 1854.

Advanstar Communications Inc. (www.advanstar.com) is a leading worldwide media company providing integrated marketing solutions for the Fashion, Life Sciences and Powersports industries. Advanstar serves business professionals and consumers in these industries with its portfolio of 147 events, 68 publications and directories, 267 electronic products and Web sites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services. Market leading brands and a commitment to delivering innovative, quality products and services enables Advanstar to “Connect Our Customers With Theirs.” Advanstar has approximately 1,000 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America and Europe.

Daniel J. Edelman, Inc. was founded in 1952 by chairman and owner Daniel Edelman. Daniel J. Edelman, which does business simply as Edelman, is the largest independent agency in the industry, conducting work for heavy hitters such as Wal-Mart and Microsoft. With more than 50 offices worldwide, the company provides its services to five industries through about 20 practice areas (including financial communications and investor relations, corporate affairs, marketing, litigation, and public affairs). Edelman has fiercely guarded its independent status, despite the business world's ever-increasing trend toward consolidation.

The Russ Reid Company, Incorporated was founded in 1964. Russ Reid Company offers public relations and direct response fundraising services to not-for-profits. The firm has helped organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, procuring donors and government funding for them and providing marketing services to them. Other services include federal government relations and lobbying and database management and analysis.

Founded in 1980, Leagas Delaney likes to get creative. Leagas Delaney company provides advertising services through its offices in London; Paris; Rome; Prague; Shanghai; Milan, Italy; and Hamburg, Germany. Specializing mainly in proving creative services, the independent agency's work has included print, television, and corporate campaigns for such highbrow brands and luxury goods makers as watch maker Patek Phille, Dom Perignon, Wempe Jewellery, Ferrero. Once noted for its branding work on luxury goods, Leagas Delaney has expanded it portfolio of clients to include Goodyear, Nationwide, and Prudential.

Media Storm provides media planning and buying services for television, radio, print, and interactive channels. Media Storm creates showers of customers primarily for clients in the entertainment industry; it specializes in audience acquisition for broadcasters, cable networks, pay-per-view companies, and television program syndicators. Customers have included such big names as HBO, NBC Universal, Food Network, Twentieth Century Fox, and the NFL. The company also drives traffic and memberships for e-commerce client Shopzilla. Managing partners Tim Williams and Craig Woerz created Media Storm in 2001.

The Touch Group keeps the UK in high-tech touch. Through its primary subsidiary, Touch Briefings, Touch Group plc company provides print and online journals and marketing services targeted to the biotech, medical, and pharmaceutical industries. The publications are also matched up with a related Web site (such as touchcardiology.com or touchneurology.com), which features additional online content such as articles, schedules for events, and news. Touch Briefings provides published content for 1,400 clients. In 2006, Touch Group sold off its Touch Local operations, which provided online business search directories for cities throughout the UK, due to the segment's high operating cost.

Ground Zero Advertising is a Los Angeles advertising agency serving clients nationwide. The agency's expertise include such disciplines as media planning and buying, market research, creative development and production for TV, print, and radio, merchandising, identity, and package design. Clients have included ESPN, The History Channel, and ditech. Chairman Jim Smith co-founded Ground Zero Advertising with Creative Partner Court Crandall, whose other creative business ventures include writing the screenplay for DreamWorks' Old School as well as Hugville, a children's book published by Random House.

Founded in 1938 as Selvage & Lee, the public relations firm merged with Farley Manning Associates in 1972. Manning, Selvage & Lee caters to blue chips. The public relations firm focuses on global corporations, providing services in strategic planning, product branding, corporate reputation, and crisis management. A subsidiary of advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe, the company targets four industry groupings: technology, health care, consumer marketing, and corporate and finance. It owns about 55 offices across the globe. Clients have included such heavy hitters as IBM, Eli Lilly and Company, Procter & Gamble, and General Motors.

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